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FINALE TO THE LIBERTYVILLE RACING Threat of Sheriff to Said the Track if Betting Continued Results in Declaring Off Meeting MeetingLIBERTYVILLE LIBERTYVILLE 111 July 10 Following an announcement by sheriff Elmer Green of Lake County that further betting would result in he and his deputies raiding the Libertyville race track the races were called off today and all plans for con ¬ tinuing the proposed twenty days meeting were abandoned James OLeary the promoter Was vis ¬ ited in person by the sheriff who told him that he had observed numerous violations of the law on Wednesday when the Hot Springs system of wager ¬ ing was used With the ban on every kind of betting where money had to be passed OLeary said that there was nothing else he could do but sus ¬ pend operations operationsAbout About three hundred persons went to Libertyville today none knowing that the meeting had so sud ¬ denly terminated until they arrived at the track Most of them were turf followers and they left for various parts of the country as soon as they saw that everything was off offThe The horses which were running at Libertyville will In all probability be sent to Kentucky where they will take part in a number of fairs to be conducted throughout the rest of Oils month and next Out of Oie sixtyfive horses here only about forty five were available for racing as the others were suffering from some ailment or another anotherPromoter Promoter OLeary said that his racing venture had cost him and his associates in the vicinity of 120000 All of the purse money was paid as fast as it was won
