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IfrARYLPS MODEST BETS Mutuel Machines Said to Have Clicked Off 0,000,000 During 1 920" Season. Much display is being made in these dull days about Maryland betting during its two racing seasons of "1920. It is declared that the "stupendous sum of 0,000,000" it was probably some millions more passed through the mutuel machnes in the one hundred and ten days of racing at Iimlico, Laurel, Havre de Grace and Bowie. The "stupendous sum" isnt so "stupendous" divided by 110 . 50,450 each day and again by seven 4, 330 each race. Then the. .stupendousness of jt all is further reduced by the fact that such race sums are bet over and over. A reasonable average amount in use daily is probably about 0,000. Maryland betting i really reasonable and mild. Far larger sums are machined per race and per day at Louisville, Cincinnati, Windsor, Toronto, Fort Erie and Hamilton. : It is proba"ble that on some days at P.imlico and Laurel a million .dollars or more passed through the .machines. Some Kentucky days have recorded a larger amount. Off-hand figures in black type .boxed look "stupendous," but when they are reasonably divided are not nearly so great. Maryland isnt overplaying Itself or going betting, mad -"over racing. Kentucky and Canada aremore speculative and f.ir larger sums of money change hands daily and averagely on the metropolitan or Saratoga courses than on.tliose of Maryland.
