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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Communications without names and addresses will not Ixs noticed nor answered No answers will be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply pre ¬ payment is made at time of wiring query Billy G Chicago You cannot win a place bet on a horse that only finishes third Placw bets went to the two dead heaters heatersH H W Chicago The return to the backer of a dollar straight and place parlay on High Hat and Force last Saturday was 330 straight and 285 place placeJoe Joe n Chicago The place parlay on Hoffman and Colonel Holloway won as a single place bet on Hoffman being void as to Colonel Holloway because there was no separate place price against him himA A C Louisville Ky A bet being a matter of agreement one can make any bet that another accepts Two or three horses can be parlayed to show in the same race if any layer chooses to accept the bet betJ J C B South Bend Ind Where a bookmaker has a declared limit on single bets and parlays well known to his patrons the limit applies to and gov ¬ erns all bets else it would be futile to declare a limit A direction to put enough money on a parlay bet to win 500 would necessarily call for 10 at the limit and more if the prices did not make the limit limitA A J W Chicago and others elsewhere When two horses run a dead heat and the purse is divided money bet on the dead heaters is added together and divided equally between the backer and layer Thus 5 on Force at 2 to 1 called for 15 of which each party to the bet takes 750 Five dollars on Silicic at the average price of SO to 1 called for 105 of which each party to the bet takes 20250 Place prices were not affected by the dead heat for first place and are payable at their quotations
