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LIKES BOOKS AND MUTUELS New York Racing Commission Would Prefer Both Methods of Betting on Metropolitan Tracks. NEW YORK, N. Y.f April 30— Refeiring to the present activity in Albany over the attempted racing legislation and the threat to test the validity of the Crawford law, under which the betting is carried on at the different New York tracks, John F. Shevlin of the racing commission said yesterday: "The racing commission has nothing to do with the fight in the legislature. We take the law as it is given us. If the legislature wants to give us mutuels, good. "The preference of the commission would be for both the machines and the books. As regards testing the law, any official must act in accordance with his own conscience. In this particular instance it would seem that the method is more sound than some think. It has been approved by the legislature, the governor and the attorney gen-| eral, and is being executed by the racing commission in accordance with the interpretation made by the attorney general on the new law and the various precedents of the courts. "I am not speaking for the commission, but am representing, as far as I can see it, the general attitude of the commission." «
