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MAYOR GAYN0RS SENSIBLE VIEWS. New York, May 27. -Distinction between pool rrooius and ordinary places where b.-ts are placed oa Burse races .is drawn resterdaj by Maya Gaynar in a letter which he sent to Police Commissioner Baker, giving Instructions that hereafter the police ■re io nse more care in giving sack resorts their proper names. Careless us.- of the term "poolroom" has res ill,-, 1 In giving New York Cit I bad name. the mayor says, inasmuch as the public in general is led to believe thai the old-fashioned pool selling is still flourishing here. This i* denied by the mayor, who states, however, thai no doubt there are still betting rooms. n. • sn poolrooms and pool selling wt re forbidden by the constitution M iv»4. and there have been none la this city rlnrr th.-n. Betting on horses, he says, is quite different from DOOl sellinjr,
