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BETTING ARRANGEMENT AT 1 ELM0NT PARK. The New Jerk Sim aayi of tin bettiag thai t.n.k place at Bf banal Park, .1 open ig day: • •lln-i .- was inn. h 1 iii-iii- iv to ee how the apeea lata ii. which i reganlei lis a accessary adjunct t.i borne racing, would ■ earn ictcd. ihe situa ii.iii had been fairij autiiacd I receat ...nil de .1 iom ami the tracts m lagcm nt was more than willing iii 1-. 1 ... 1 1 1..- lews l»i tii.t Attoroej I ui J. Siiihh ..r Mas m Co at as t.i comply im: villi the law. Thi .lisiii- attorney was en a . .| in trying ■ cast ;u MineoJa, bal he s.-m ■ niiinl..r nt 1 nnty ileti iics ,, see that the law was i.i..-.-.l. Sheriff I.nii ai . seat over a force of 1 wen i.« live deputies i, i-ii.-n ,. of Deputy SlierlP it i. ii.-i-. Mil 1 in- pr .inurs w M, orderly throughout tin .lav that net .1 inl an-.-si was made. • 1 tieie was p.. i ganised bo kauklng, bat at the w • urn. time there a- an al. ii.i.-iii.e ..f wagering : m friends, wh. were so well acquainted thai there wa- no im.i-ii: iii |ia nnimy. All siil.1.1 Iiili-s :i 1 1 ■ 1 conceal 1 was 1 ,n,. away with, such .. whispering of mis and then recording u-ts by a clerk writ in:; ii.wn Hie wagers mi paper concealed in his pocket. i it wh" bad 1 wtd a.-.|ii.-iiiitaii. •■ mi the in- tra U. aoaae "f wlmni bad been known a iM.nkiiniei-s in the old days, were reaily and willing to aaepl the wagers of those ii.uii to Hi. in. All ih.t was necessary was for the man who wished t. R|iecnJate t. write the n mi.- of the horse he whin-.i to suppotl on a slip of paper with the size lit the Wager ami his n. line ami hand it I., a I an who was will tog to la tin- mills. The slip then was tacked awaj and a general aettlemeal nude after the lat ra.e h.ni h.-t-n run."
