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BOOKMAKER BAINS 1600000 TAKE San Francisco Cal June 10 Bookmaker Frank Bain who laid the odds every day of the 180 which the Oakland Cal meeting embraced handled the colossal sum of 1600000 an average a little in excess of 9000 a day These figures would not be considered remarkable for a meeting of thirty days duration witli not more than Tlf teen or twenty books to divide but for a season of six times that duration with an average of more than thirty books in line they are remarkable Few of the layers made as big a book as Bain it is true but there were several other big stores in operati6n most of the season Tdrid an1 idea of themagnitude of ttoe give may be bf d from wbaf Bain has done
