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PREDICTS MHTUE RECORDS Mortimer Mahoney Believes New NarragaD.se tt Park Will Top All American Tracks in Handle. PAWTUCKET, R. I., July 20— Mortimer Mahoney, who has handled millions of the publics money at American race tracks, predicted today that every standing mark for betting at tracks in the United States will be shattered at the August meeting of the Narragansett Racing Association. Ma* honey will be in charge of the totalizator at the new track. Mahoney states that the record mutuel play was at Pimlico, with a daily average of 36,000. Havre de Grace is second, with an average of 94,000 and Rockingham Park third with an average of 72,000. He stressed the fact that southern New England is. "turf hungry," that the new track is one of the most accessible in the East and it is situated in a densely populated territory. It is estimated that 10,000,000 people live within 100 miles of the track. He predicted that the daily average of Narragansett Park will approximate 40,000. There will be 137 betting booths and the contractors have speeded up the work of installing the costly totalizator, the mechanical device which regulates and records all wagering at the track. E. P. McClain, superintendent working Under Henry L. Strauss, inventor of the "tote" declared today that all the heavy wires and cables had been installed and that he will start testing the lines the first of next week. Several units of the machine will be connected within forty-eight hours for immediate tests. Straus and McClain said 125 units will be delivered at Narragansett Park, July 29, and will be. carried immediately to the booths. A small electrical plug will be connected and the machines will be ready to record the first bet. The speed with which they can be installed is reflected in McClains statement that the machines will have been tested two hours after they reach the park. "It took five weeks to install the tote at Rockingham Park, but we will have finished the work here in three weeks," McClain said.
