Football pool firms are breaking no law, but their activities
are plainly anti-social, and the more that gets impressed on the public mind the better. On the methods of pool-touts the paragraph I published last week has produced more information. One smooth- tongued young man in a hotel in a golfing-centre made the natural approach by a transition from one game to another. In the wilds of the Highlands two luminaries of the great profession were encoun- tered, who volunteered the information that they were " working " the farms of that remote region. Meanwhile, Messrs. Littlewoods, of Liverpool, one of the chief firms in the business, are evicting some thirty firms from a block of buildings, which Littlewoods purchased in 194o, in the centre of Glasgow—which suggests lat the pools' rake-off is not inconsiderable. Glasgow, it appears, does not take a good view of English firms which evict Scotsmen. * *
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