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MUST USE PARI-MUTUELS HARFORD COUNTY RACING COMMISSION SO NOTIFIES HAVRE DE GRACE MANAGERS. Rival Assentation at Havre dc Grate Applies to Commission for Dates for Fifteen-day Meeting Beginning June 1. and So Docs Older Track, llslllmiiu . Mil.. Team art St.- Following upon the heel- "l the annoum ■1-iin-iit Hint the Baltimore fount J Racing Commission would insist upon the I.n i mutuel method of netting tliis feat at tracka under its jurisdiction, coin a statement from the Harford County Racing Commission, under whoae tin i-diciion racing hi conducted at the Havre de Grace track, that it. too. would insist iiibpii the installation of tin- pari mutuel machines tliis yea:-ami tin abolition of i pokmaking. The promoters of racing in this state expect that tin ellminati f bookmaking aud the adoption of the pari-mutuel system of betting will result in the cessation of hostility to the iport that was recently manifested ami will avert legislative action looking to its abolition, which it has been tboaght might be attempted nrhen tin Legislature meets next year. A liron-o has just been granted to the Harford Igricnlrure and Breeders Association at Havre ie Crace by tin Harford County Racing Commission to liohl a spline meeting from April is to .May 1. inclusive, ihc same association has applied lot- sanction for a sic, .n,i meeting of Ifteen days- duration to begin June 1 II. B. Wolf and A. V Klrod, both of Baltimore. representing the Havre de- Grace Fair Association. have also applied to the Harford County Racing Com mission in permission to conduct a race meeting of fifteen days beginning June 1. This association has a tract of land adjoining the Havre if- Grace track that is already in operation. Only a small lane separates the two corporations teal estate. Last vcai work in- begun on tie construction of a track on Hie HoM property, hut when dates were refuse I bj ihe llai lord County Racing Commission, the work was abandoned. I! il.o i mission grants the dates now asked for. L. Work trm fcrfUl a: "ii v .mil the buildings and track p will be rushed to completion in time for the promised meeting. Ihe racing commissioners are considering both ap plications lir hnkling meetings beginning; June 1 tut further consideration.
