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JUDICIAL VIEW OF PARI-MUTUELS. Judge Morgan decided at Toronto. Ont.. a day or two ago that there is nothing unlawful in the use of the pari-mutiiel betting machines on Canadian race tracks. In the course of his remarks ho said: "There Is nothing to be disposed of here by lottery. There is nothing to be disposed of by chance, nor by any process by which the winners of the fund created is determined by chance. The person using these machines sees the horse on which ho desires to register a bet. He has to form his own conclusion from his own sources of information, as to whether or not in his own judgment that horse is going to win. He makes a bet on that horse and the machine takes tile bet. A ticket is given to the man showing the bet made, the horse and the number of the horse. If that horse wins, the man gets his mutual proiHir-tion of the bets made. If he happens to be the onlv bettor, he gets the whole pool, or pot." John Scully, who Initiated the action, explained to the jury that after the rnnulng of the race "It was a question of long division, but it never came out even, and the association kept the odd monev." Judge Morgan here Interrupted to say that he did not care who got the odd money. Scully contended that the man betting with the "machine" never knew exactly what he was to get if his horse won, and therefore there was some "chance." A. E. Dynient, director of the club, said that if a man was alert, he knew what he would get from the machines. He contended that the machines had uplifted the standard of the attendance at race tracks
