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MUTUELS WILL BE INSTALLED LATER ON. Bookmakers to Be Permitted to Operate at Havre do Grace Next Month, ___ i Havre do Grace, Md., March IV Thai there will he raring on the Harford Agriculture ami Breeders Associations track here, as per schedule from April IS to May 1. and that -uhslilioii of the pari inutiici method for bookniakins will not be insisted upon bj the Harford County Racing Commission for this meeting, now seem assured. Edward Barke, of Philadelphia, manager of ihe track and said lo be one of its heaviest stockhold ei-. spent ihe week end here supposedly in tie- in teres! of having the Racing Commission rescind ii-aeliou iu ordering the installation of the betting machines on all Harford County track-. Mr. Barke -aid positively that if the commission insists upon the use of betting machines, there would be no spring meeting. ii i- understood thai a plea against the Installa- li f these machines on the local tracks has been I presented to the racing commission. When asked to verify this statement, Michael II. I-ahev. of Havre de Grace, said Ihat while he had heard much talk on the subject, the matter had not come otlieially before the commission. Persons close to Ihe commission believe that if the racing association can show the commission last it i- Impossible to secure and install the machines in time for tlie spring meeting, the board will relent sufficiently to permit the use of former methods l betting, a- most of the arrangements and entries for the coming meeting have already been made, but that Ihe pari-mutuel edict of the board will most certainly be enforced "t all future meetings. The resignation of I. Alexis Rhriver, who has been sent abroad on business for the government, wa-a. copied and Howard S. ONeill wa- appointed to succeed him as a member of the commission. New York. March 1s. -Ccncral Manager Edward Barke of the Harford County Agriculture and Breed els Association, has retained from Philadelphia, where he had ansa! in the intetest of the spring race meeting at Havre de Grace. IU announced positively that there would hi- raciag a- advertised and thai lie would retarn to Havre ih Grace and make arrangements for the nmetiag. II had been said that tl leeting would be declared off if the Rae in:. Commission of Harford County Insisted on Ihe Installation of pari-mutuel machines.
