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BETTS BILL IS DOOMED TO DEFEAT ALBANY N Y April 10 Unless there is a last minute change racing authorities will be vic ¬ torious in their efforts to defeat the Betts bilL placing a 12 per cent tax on the sport Late this afternoon the measure was slumbering peacefully in general orders of the graveyard and there was little likelihood of it being moved out before the legislature adjourns some time tonight The Pette oral betting bill was also sleeping in committee and assemblyman Pette said that while he was making every effort to have it passed it was ap ¬ parently dead BO fur us the 1921 leKislature was