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MUTUEL BETTING IN THE ARGENTINE Information supplied Mr. Edward Moorhouse. ono of the directors of the English Rloodstock Breeders Review, by M. Miguel Martinez de Hoz, president of the Argentine Jockey Club, relative to the working of the totalizator in the Argentine, contained a lot that was interesting. Tickets cost two Argentine dollars about S4 cents in American money each, and the turnover at the 1alermo race course Ruenos Aires last year was 1,0fi5.570. The expense of working the machine was 04,035. Of the 10 per cent commission, half goes to the club, one-fourth to the city of Ruenos Aires, and one-fourth to the .government. Last year the government received 30,385, and of that sum 00,000 was placed at the disposal of a commission intrusted with the purchase of remounts for the army.
