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COMMISSION BOOMS LEGAL LEGALJEFFERSON JEFFERSON CITY Mo December 15 The Su ¬ preme premed Court of Missouri handed down an opin opine ¬ ion reversing the decision of the lower court in the case of Texas Tom Walsh the bookmaker who was fined 1000 and sentenced to six months in the St Louis workhouse for accepting a 500 commission to be bet on a horse nnmed nonmed Nicolini Nicotinic at New Orleans one day last winter The deci dec ¬ sion scion makes commission betting legal under it and all a bookmaker is required to prove to do a legal business is that he is really a commis commies
