[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] have no desire
to take any side in the controversy respecting the publication of betting news in daily papers, but I wish to correct a statement on a matter of fact made by your correspondent, " A Man in the Street." He says " the late Mr. Passmore Edwards took all risks when, on obtaining possession of the Echo, he eliminated all betting news." This statement is so incomplete as to be very misleading. In the prosperous days of the Echo—while Mr. Edwards was its sole proprietor—it freely published betting news and tips ; in fact it was in the Echo that " Captain Coe " first made his reputa- tion as a sporting tipster. When he left the Echo for the Star he was succeeded by a sporting tipster who called himself "The Baron.". It was not until many years afterwards, when the Echo had almost ceased to be a profitable enterprise, that for a brief period betting news and tips were eliminated. Shortly afterwards Mr. Passmore Edwards sold the paper, and in a very few more years it was dead.—I am, Sir, &c., C. S. C. [We cannot, for the present, find room for any more letters on this subject.—ED. Spectator.]
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