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WAR TIME RACING IN GERMANY A visitor to the Grunewald Berlin race track last summer while the great war was at its height thus describes what lie saw sawProbably Probably 20000 persons were at Grunewald that Sunday afternoon This was just an average Sun ¬ day attendance attendanceThe The crowds hugged the betting sheds in a mad endeavor to place anywhere from 10 to 100 marks oh a race Probably few of them saw the start or finish of a race The lines of frenzied bettors inert and women young and old prosperous looking and otherwise who crowded each other in to buy tickets presonteda spectacle far more interesting than the race Itself ItselfThe The parimntiiel system of betting obtains at Gninewald as at all German tracks The state takes 15 per cent of the money paid in inI I was told that as much as 435000 went into the mutuel machines each Sunday In peace years it was declared the betting record was about 175 000 on a single race such as the German Derby at Hamburg Long shots rarely won
