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HAVANA BETTING RING AN OPEN ONE Havana Cuba January 15 Manager II I Brown of the CubaAmerican Jockey Club is highly elated over the successful opening of the inaugural 7davs winter meeting at Oriental Park yesterday The sport has made a great hit with the local amusement loving public and the success of the meeting seems assured Kacing is the allabsorbing topic among all classes today Manager Brown wants it dis ¬ tinctly understood that the betting ring at Oriental Park is being run on an absolutely open basis Each bookmaker is charged a fee of 150 per day There were eleven bookmakers doing business yes ¬ terday including Tom Shaw Willie Applegate and Jake Sanders