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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 pre ¬ payment is made at time of wiring query J R Elgin HI As the result of the dead heat Force paid his backers at the rate of 1 to 2 2Billy Billy B Chicago Anna L Daley liaving been scratched the parlay became a single place bet on Grenida in race 191S at his track price of to 1 1N N R Chicago You should have bceu paid 305 The bookmaker having a limit of oO to 1 and that being less than the split of Sillcics average price of SO to 1 resulting from the dead heat you was entitled to payment at his limit Had it not been for that limit he would have been forced to nay you405 you405P P F S Louisville Ky Correct Mutucls were sold on the Chicago tracks in the early days of rac ¬ ing here Furthermore mutuels were sold regularly on the New York tracks long before Iwokmakin was introduced Mutuels were sold at Churchill Downs when Aristides won the first Kentucky Derbv in 187o and for years subsequently In fact at that time auction pools and mutuels were the oiilr methods of betting in general use on the tracks of the United States
