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ASK STATE WIDE CONTROL MARYLAND RACING FOLK SEEK APPOINT MENTQF COMMISSION TO GOVERN SPORT AVould Have Legislature Take Action to This End EndNext Next Year and Also Hestrict Betting to the PariMutuel System Baltimore Mil April 12 Tlie Baltimore News fitdares that it is practically certain that i liill to fruit i n statewide racing commission will be in ¬ troduced at tlie next session r the Maryland Legis ¬ lature in 1114 anil that at the same time there is likely tulte a bill offered to alMilish race track betting entirely Last session Senator K M Ilainmond of Howard County introduced such a bill but he did not push it after the Baltimore County Kacing Commission bill was passed Tlie News goes on to uy uyBut But now that there are so many race tracks in the state there Is On the part of the racing people themselves a disposition to ask for a state ¬ wide bill and further to make the condition that the parlmntncl system of betting be exclusively tuftd On the iiart of many racegoers there is a liellof that unless the parimutnel machines are adopted at all the tracks all betting will he pro ¬ hibited by the Legislature LegislatureTills Tills spring Havre de Grace is to run witli the oldtime hookuiukiug system Marllxiro is running on that system and it is not yet positively known what Curly Brown will do at his Laurel track though it has been given out that lie will put in the inn eh lues luesSome Some of the race track people look upon the two loral race track bills enacted by the last Legislature sis giving the states assent to a system of county1 option On the racing question but it will hardly workiout that wiiy It is true that years ago some of tlie couuties liad bills passed absolutely wiping iit tracks within tlreir borders In other words racing has been limited to certain seasons of the year But the stand taken by the Harford County Ilaclng Com mission in permitting the bookmajclng system of iKtting to continue when the Baltimore liollty COimnlsiion has alwlished it is calculated ttTereate a demand tor it statewide1 commission to ihnt there mar be uniformity as to the whole ijtiiWtioiij Naturally tlie racing associations except Iini llco object to the parinmtuel system lxth because It increases their revenue and also because they IIHVO to lay out considerahle money for the pari nliitllel machines It is stated for instance that Ilulllco has had to expend 50 X for an outfit of triachliics for the coining meeting in order to com ¬ ply with the requirements of the Kacing Commission Some of tlie smaller tracks not being able to nut up the money for the machines are not expected to operate at nil this year While some have thought that the Baltimore County Kacing Commission would take the stand that the earnings of racing associations must be nlade public it has not done so iougli the Mary Idltd Jockey Club which owns the 1imlico track lias already pledged itself to publish its earnings mid expenses to limit its own slfdrc of the profits on the capital it employs to six per cent and to give tho surplus profits to charittt It remains to be seen whether the Harford County race track people will tilke the advanced fitnnd jpf the Pimlieo people jjiiilion seems to be tliatithey will not unless tlie Legislature through ft Htntewide racing commission forces them to do so
