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RUMBLINGS ABOUT BETTING Much Talk at New Orleans but Racing Goes On. * Rain a Regular Sunday Feature and a Downpour Yesterday Assures Heavy Going- Today. BY .1. U DKMISF.Y. M.W oim.kans. La., January l. Rartag i- in Kf«-a t favor here and tin- gtatral optatea is keep "hands aff." Saturdays crowd at the Pair Grounds Mils ,i wonderful one in iis high-class make n|i from all corners. It seems as though no Sunday hero h Without vain. Today was no exception. A heavy downpour early this morning gave tin- Fair Grae**da race track a drenching raai irUeh it will take at least two lays in recover anil the outlook is none too good for clear area that tomorrow. This marked the sixth consecutive Sunday on which it lias mined in this section. Hftrscs at exercise at the K:iir Groand* this morning lmd to fa an mi. I llic "daga." A- a result most of them were only given easy gallops, ljuite a crowd was on hand during the exercising period, however, anil most of il was ronilio-ed of local people who are showing Baore interest in 1 he racing this winter than ever before. It is the general local opinion that the Fair Grounds thii ty-thiee day* period of racing will be carried out in full. Matrlet Attorney Marr has declared that he will Hot heed the restraining order of Civil District Court Judge King and Hint he will pros. cute law violations. Judge Marr, however, will do nothing spee-lacular in the waj of arresting Pfflrc smottia. or persons making lxets a I the trick II. had icptv-■satasttvra from Ids ofrice fsirni; dnTii for lils information and he will also depend on the chief of iiolice U tell him of any violations. The Realm*! Mens Raciag Association will bf legal means strive in ererj way io keep the spi.it from jr • • i 1 1 ir under and eventually ;t will be put before the stated highest tribaaal to aetermiae whether the Locke law is beiag violated or not. it is geaeralll] believed that, regardless of the outcome, it is doubtful if the Supreme .art will pass upon the mattei until long after the Fair in. .mils meetings ends. Then- is roaaideraMe cutanea oa District Attor-ney .Mai is present attitude in the liettiag matter. It is a direct contradir; ion to the brief he Wed to the Supreme Court when defend!**. "Jack Kheehan." alleged violator i t tie- Locke law at Suburlian Park in 1808. On that occasion In- held. aeeardiag to his brief, "wageriag at randcsai with a simple memorandum kepi for Ho- purpose of identifying the bettor, is ahsolately n t bookaaaklng and. unless it rails aader tin- head of tin- Preach Boating devices or aactloa pools or other devices, it is not prohibited by the Locke law." Attention has been diverted from the reaming trial of T. I . McBride. who is charged with violation of the Locke law at Jefferaoa Park. This trial is to begta lomorrow ami it may have a b.-.n -lug on tie- Kair Grounds racing. The eeqaittal of Mclfriilc s| !,l -tieugtlien the Fair Grounds cause. District Attorney Marr, however, has intimated that he will not be guided b.i ;iiiy ucti.ii in Jefferson Paris!, courts, tiiongli lie decs maintain that the betting systems at both tracks are similar. The injection of Prestdeal Itailey of the Citl-zens" Leagae lata the raatioversy i- n t taken seriously, erea though he has announced his in teiiiion of filing information against officers and directors of the Basiaes* Mens Racing Associa-tion and also against Tiffaaj Woolfgang and Hilly Atkinson, a pair of price uajoten who look bets at the Pair Uronads Saturday. Mr. Kail y col lecied his owl evidence, lie angered *." on Eddie Itickeiib.ichor with "Whin y" Beck. Three other layers also accepted bets ft him, Mr, Rattej said The reformers bete are pretty apt at picking winners, a- one of them bel s." on Bombast al Jefferson Park reread! , according to his own stateaseat, and won Ss. arhile gathering erldeace ltailey won IS on Kddie lUckeabaclH P Bapreaeatatlre Pred I.. Claiborne roired the s,.n-thaient of the people arben he said Ratardar: "I believe the best notation of the raciag nitnatioa is to permit the jus u.. ,,[ ;1 parish to decide if Co v want raciag, an 1 after the/ have spoken at the polls, heed public ■eatlmenl I s;..,n i.. trodajca a bill in the next -.sin of the legists tare to create a state raciag rom mission with authority to control and regulate all race brat ks in this stale. The COtamissioa fi 1 1 in-.- would be patteracd after the Baca of the Keatacky law."
