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TTNPUBLIC BETTING AT LAKESIDE Chicago bettors on racing had a queer experi expert ¬ ence fence at Lakeside yesterday The meeting at the track opened with a good card The gen ¬ eral feral weather was damp the air raw and the attendance far from good The racing was liealthy liberality of aspect too But the ring did not fit into the public view of things The club has sold its betting to the Kentucky combination which controls the KentuckyOhio Kentucky race tracks tracksThe tracks The privileges were sold for a stated daily sum The betting with two or three excep except ¬ tions ions in the main ring was handled by the com ¬ binations inactions own men The field books were inde index ¬ pendent They are operated outside the com ¬ bination inaction There was an unpublic unpublicized angle to the odds offered and a trust aspect to the shifting of prices The folly lof loaf contention or a losing book on percentage to get in the money was not committed committedThere committed There did not seem to be any competition in the ring At first the public marveled and then it growled It grew angry toward the end There were twelve books in the ring ringHere ringer Here are two sample books fairly estimated when the prices had settled with their per ¬ centages entangles centagesThird entangles Third Race O Per C Per 12 123 123Robinson Robinson 600 100 40 10 10Imp Imp 6 14 7 12 85 710 Wanga Wang 710Wanga 60 60 15 6 6Macy Macy Marcy 71084 71084 LadyCallahan 15 6 15 6 5 45 45Cheswold Cheswold Chewed 50 200 50 15 15MayW MayW MaW 3240 3240 Harbinger 100 138 40 12 Total percentage 144 Fifth Race O Per C Per 12 123 Presbyterian 1 50 1 50 Bannock burn 1 50 111047 Joe Shelby 40 2 75 1 15 5 Early Bird 12 7 50 102 4 Our Lizzie Tizzies j 30 3 50 11 12 4 St Alfonses Alfonso D 8 11 8 11 2 12 Elsie Bramble 10 9 15 65 75 Total percentage 133 118 The closing book on the fifth race was not far out of lino limo The prices against all the winners throughout were fair But the unanimous cut ¬ ting of prices and the general swing of move ¬ ment meant in one way was the source of complaint This complaint was natural naturalMacys naturalness Macys Mays clever win was the afternoons racing feature The heavy track was in his favor He was a 7 to 10 chance over May W Burns rode the Schorr Scorer colt He was sharply interfered with at the start but did not lose his head and made up what ground lie lost by degrees Meanwhile May W and Lady Callahan raced their heads off in front with a quarter in 241 and a half in 49 Of course both hung at the end and Macy Marcy beat them quite handily handilyMr handily Mr Schorr Scorer won another race with Presby Presbyter ¬ terian tertian who disposed of Bannockburn Bannock as he pleased Mr Schorr Scorer bet heavily on Charley Christy to win the fourth race but Garland Bar Tom Ryans Ryan more than useful horse won the race with ease from Swordsman Mr Eastin Easton Pinar Pindaric del Rio and Strathrol Stretcher all outsiders won the other events
