1838 14 Sept. After boasting and bragging at a round rate, in the presence of an anti-betting Loco Foco, [he] bantered for a bet of Twenty Dollars, that [etc.].
1905 13 July 5/5 (headline) Anti-betting campaign.
2000 33 590 Most anti-betting pamphlets of the 1860s claimed that betting ‘victims’ tended to be the ‘inexperienced youths of all classes’.