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ATTACK MARYLAND MEASURE Racing Commissioner Latane and Baltimore Sun Point Out Its Evils. BALTIMORE. Md.. March IS.— The Hall-Byrn ant i-liet ting hill is to come before the senate at Annapolis next Tuesday. Chairman James A. I.;-tai-e of the Racing Commission has denounced the measure as on- like-ly to bring to Maryland a horde of tracks auel sly bookmaking and one that would take away a ni-c-eleel annual .sTIIO.ItOO or as rev i.u, from a healthy source. An influential unname-d eritic also attacked Cue anti-betting bill on the same grounds and in editorially ■ omme-nting on the measure and the criticism the influential Halt iniotr Sun prints this: "It may be well for these who are really anxieus to eliminate the evils that they believe are produeeal by regnlate-d raere track bcttias, to study the remedy which is offered them in the Hall bill and to find out for themselves whether it is not a pecison rath- r than a cur.-. "To a disinterested observer it looks as if the , state would lie victimized by the bill which the house- of delegates swallowed so eagerly, and as if tie- moralists would be sadly flim flammed at the aasee Mate. If the Hall bill opens the door to law less prae ticca awl srpaalaed sharpen we are ears that the- honest people behind it will repudiate it. "Of eaatae Mr. Hall has be-c-n duped along with all the re-st. if what the- writer of the- article in Thursdays Sun says is true, but the trickery in it j may have escaped even his ki-en eyes. At all I events, we know that slacrere supporters of racing i c form do not wish to lend themselves to a lake- . measure, nor to 1m- used by sinister interests as I promoters of worse conditions than pre-vail under I n-giilated betting."
