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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Communications without names and addresses will not be noticed nor answered. No answers will be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply prepayment is made at time of wiring query. C. S., Chicago. It was void as to Baron Dieskau. T. E. It.. Toronto, Ont. The bet should be paid. See reply to E. G. J. T. S., Chicago. The parlay was a draw so far as Baron Dieskau was concerned. Floyd A.. Chicago. No match race was run between The Picket and Africander. Gi-o. B.. Covington, Ky. The reply to E. G. In this issue probably covers your case. Ed. R. Chicago. The fall meeting at Windsor begins October 12 and ends October 23. Tl F. R., Ogdeu, Utah. Apparently the two meetings are to clash unless some arraugement is made. Sidney C. K., St. Louis, Mo. Otis won a number of purse races over Chicago tracks in 1902, but nothing more important. J. S.. Cincinnati, 0. Unless otherwise stipulated, the Procla bet would ordiuarily be taken to be 0 straight and 0 place. Inquirer. Toronto. Out. Because S. Davis lias not won a sufficient number of races this year to give him a place in that table. A. L. H.. Helena, Mont. Myrtle Harkness, not Hawkins, is a bay mare, foaled in 1S93, by Strath-more Pappoose, by Leamington. W. J. It.. Chicago. A bet being illegal cannot be collected by law. Cannot suggest anything in the matter, but if the man was an agent you should take the case to his employer. M. and S.. Hamilton. O. E. J. K. had no right to enforce that rule against you without having notified you of its existence and should pay that wager. Your method is the correct one. W. A., St. Louis, Mo. From the fact that you did not bet on Woodlane by name, as you would have done had that been the horse you wished to back, but bet on the Schorr entry instead. It Is plain that your bet was on Paul Davis andBan!ves. Jas. McG., Chicago. Time limit bets are matters of private stipulation between the backer and layer and should be so clearly understood that there would be no ground for controversy. According to your statement the bet was undoubtedly made while the horses were running. E. C... Newport. Ky. It is not the backers place to "specify" anything about added starters. It Is the liookmakcrs duty to notify a patron if he onlv takes liets subject to the rule that added starters run for his book. If he has not done so he should pay at such reduced odds as would result from deducting the udded starters price.
