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CLAIMS TO HAVE COMPLETE TOTALIZER. George H. Browne Has Mammoth Board Which Shows Total Betting on Each Horse. Toronto. Out.. April 20. — C.eorge II. Brow ne of this city, has experimented with and .hums to have made practical a device for totalizing the letting on horse races. He claims his new machine to be the most complete and up-to-date totalizer, which will automatically register the amounts. With the assistance of the different racing authorities, it has been designed to overcome objectionable features of the present mutuel ■salens. With the amounts against each horse, the machine also presents the total of the whole booth. With a view of giving a nmr ■■ general iuti rest la the betting, the machine presents aa a large board, twenty feet square, together witii the entries, weights and riders, the actual amount in units of 0.00 in figures six by eight inches, vi.-ible with glasses to all patrons of a track in paddock, lawn or stand. This feature. Mr. Browne says, would eliminate all crowding at the selling 1 ths. which is mostly occasioned by information seekers. AH need for indicators at the booths would be unnecessary, as the beard would afford all information possible. With Hi constant change in the market, it would give tii • buyer an interest in his ticket after it had been purchased: in fact, give all the knowledge of the old bookmaking method. Three Seconds to Record Price of Ticket. The price at the time of the purchase of the ticket is determined by a simple arithmetical problem, and as the amounts follow the sale of the tick"ts within three seconds of their purchase, the ad interest during the whole period of betting would W be general. The accuracy of the registration of tickets would depend upon the absolute co-ordination of the sale and the operation of a button to record it. and as these operations are numbered, the seller would have a constant check on his record. Mr. Browne points out that the blindness of the pools, even under tic most up-to-date equipment, constitutes a serious defect ia the present nintael system. As price is an inducement for wavering bettors to back their choices, the betting would be mor» general, and prices on the favorites not disappointingly short. And. finally, as the earnings from tic- real as I taruorer form a large part of the racing crgaiiizalio.i . reveaae, and these exist 011 tic- patronage of the pahUc, the adsptjen ol the mechanieal totalfamtnr would afford lie- public an accounting at a time when it would be useful to them of their money, which the tracks hold 111 trust for thirty minutes.
