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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Communications without names and addresses of senders will not be answered or noticed nor will any answers be sent by mail mailMax Max G St Louis Mo The wager on Separator lost lostJ J W O Cleveland Ohio Your bet on Ilawks Uight was a draw drawS S W E Chicago Do not know present location of Thompson or Hemingway N NT T C T Chicago Do not know whether It can be copyrighted Write to the Librarian of Congress Washington D C for Information InformationBen Ben Chicago The wager on Anna L Daley was a draw as was the bet contingent on her winning The bet on Missouri Lad separately won wonRandolph Randolph S Brandon Can Rusk ran many fast races at threequarters but none so fast as 112 His fastest was 112 at Jamaica in 1905 1905A A R C Newport Ky It Is evident the iiittn tiou was to bet on the coupled entry of Sir Martin and Fayette and the wager should be paid paidD D A T Detroit Mich By his own carelessness the bettor seems to have given himself a draw al ¬ though a bookmaker not disposed to stand on tech ¬ nical points would pay payW W L Chicago When one backs a single horse of a coupled entry his wager is decided by the run ¬ ning of that horse If it chances to lie scratched the bet is a draw regardless of where thu other horse or horses may linisli linisliGallagher Gallagher Toronto Ont J F is wrong and loses The rule coming from England has always been that the money bet Is added together and divided equally between the backer and layer Tims 5 bet at 2 to 1 would be 15 of which each would take 70 and so on of any amount amountP P J R Goldfleld Nev 1 Posted rules of the room govern the subjects they name 2 A com ¬ bination is a bet that two or more horses will win oc rim to iiuuiud places with a price laid when the bet is made Combinations are play or pay unless otherwise agreed 3 Strictly speaking the so called combination on Hal and Lee Rose was not a combination but a parlay this because of the rulo of the room quoted 4 The declaration of the bet after the discovery of the error was at th option of the room but the better course would have been to let it stand as a single bet on Lee Rose The fact that Hal was not entered made It in effect a scratch KO far as he was concerned and under tlm rooms rule the best course would have been to pay off on Leu Rose
