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ATTACKING THE WALKER-OTIS LAW. Attorney Cook Outlines Grounds on Which He Expects to Upset Recent California Legislation. San Francisco. But. June 14. Former Superior Judge Carroll Cook, who will represent the defend ant. George Adams, al the furtbjeomiBg test of the Walker-Otis anti betting law in the District Court of A| als. makes the statement thai lie will make his tight against the validity of the Walker-Otis act from three standpoints. "I have lieen retained by the poolroom men and counting men." said Judge Cook, "to make this test. There have been Other arrests for violation of the anti gambling act hut none of them has suited my purpose. This one docs. I shall attack the act on the ground tii.u the title is defective: that the act is snjptelllglb!" an account of certain qualifying clauses and that the penalty Imposed is unconstitutional." Oakland. a!.. June 14. —The passage of the Walker Mis law may nave the effect of setting fre» poolsollers who were tried for violating municipal ordinances that prohibit selling ihhiIs on the races, and whose eases are now on appeal Attorney Philip M. Walsh argued before Judge Brown that his two clients. Charles R. Pritchard and M. Paul, who were convicted in the Oakland police court of selling pools iu spite of the municipal ordinance, were en titled to their freedoni. Walshs contention was that the municipal ordinance, under which tlie two men were tried and convicted, was repealed by the state law. llidor siieh conditions, he said, their convict nai- and the subsequent fines of mjfjn, each were illegal.
