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FATE OF BOWIE IN BALANCE. Owners May Have to Make a Fight in the Courts to Continue Betting Operations. Baltimore, Md., May 7. — Owners of the Rowie race track are "up in the air" because of the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Montgomery county race track betting case. Inder this decision it is held that under the general law betting is illegal unless the track has a license granted by the Circuit Court. Bowie has been operating without such a license because the court has refused to grant one. So, unless a license can be obtained before the projected fall meeting, there can be no betting there without subjecting the bettors to arrest and punishment by a heavy fine. The race track people, who, by the Court of Appeals decision, were required to go before the court for a license for the next meeting, can ask for a hearing before the full bench. Then if one judge is overruled by his associates and the betting goes on. any one interested can cause an indictment to lie found. Then the Court of Api»eals would be given a new opportunity to say whether or not judges can be required to pass on race track licenses. The tracks in Anne Arundel. Baltimore and Harford are not effected by the opinion, because each of these operate under a special act passed for their protection.
