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IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE The pricemaker at the halfmile bullrings has nothing to learn from Lloyds In the line of rapacity if the cables are correct Ifiey quote these as the market prices of the great insurance institution alxnit the presidential election in the United States 1 to 3 Wilson 75 per cent 3 to 2 Taft 40 per cent 3 to 1 Itoosevelt 25 per cent This fig urcs out as a 140 per cent book As they pay on only one of the starters they have taken in 140 of the publics money with which to pay each 100 a safe enough rate in the insurance business On the turf where people expect some sort of au even break such a percentage Is known as the strangle hold and would not be tolerated on a reputable race course Toronto Globe
