19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

September 24, 1962

BY THE BOOKSSirs:This writer noted with interest your article The Bookies Close Up Shop (Sept. 3), and close up they have, throughout the country. But the net results of Bobby Kennedy's crusade against interstate gambling will be that many states and cities will realize that a whole lot of people like to gamble, not only at the racetrack but off the track and in various and many ways. Just as millions drank during Prohibition because they believed it was an unjust and unpopular law, these same people are going to gamble come hell, high water, stringent laws, the police, the FBI and what have you.