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NO BOOEMAKING AT LAKESIDE. When the horses wore at the post for the fifth race at the Lakeside racetrack yesterday aftor-noon Chief of Police Cox, of Hammond, Ind., served notice on John Condon and his business manager, C. J. Miers, and Superintendent Wells that all bookmaking boxes in the Lakeside ring must be removed and that they must not allow further public bookmaking. Condon accepted the edict gracefully and said all the booths would be removed as soon as the next race, which was the last on the card, had been run. He gave the Chief of Police his word that the booths would not be put back in their old places on Monday and he undertook to stop public bookmaking, but he stated the Sellers law allows fifteen days race meetings in Indiana, and that he would have to keep faith with the large number of horse owners "at tho track by running through tho program book issued for the meeting, and that if people should indulge in speculation among themselves he could not well prevent it. ifcsiand After Chief Cox had fulfilled his mission Condon said Mondays races would be run off and that all special trains to the track would be run as usual. He gave orders for all the bookmaking booths to be removed as soon as the crowd departed from tho track.
