The Football Pool Fight A revolt of the Football League
clubs, who found that, refusal to announce their fixtures beforehand decreased their gates, has put an end to the League Management. Committee's first action against the Pools, and the now famous resolution of February 20th has been rescinded: The Committee once boasted that it had many weapons at its disposal, and it may draw further upon its armoury now that its first attack has been repulsed. But its campaign has already justified itself. It has given great publicity to the evils of pool betting, and it has shown decisively the Committee's aversion to them. The same purpose has been served by the support given by the Football Association to Mr. R. J. Russell's Bill to prohibit pool betting which will shortly be introduced in the House of Commons. It will be interesting to see what con- siderations will weigh with Parliament, and whether members will be more influenced by a powerful vested interest and passionate defences of the poor man's right to gamble or by the social evils inherent in this form of betting. * *
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