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i FAIR GROUNDS KEEPS MUTUELS General Manager Robert S. Eddy States Same Betting Methods Will Be in Force Next Season. NEW ORLEANS, La., June 9. If R. S. Eddy, manager of the Louisiana Jockey Club, operating the Fair Grounds, has considered replacing the mutuel system of betting with oral bookmaking, or discussed it with large operators in New York, he evidently has abandoned the idea for he said on his return from the-East that there would be no change in the plan of betting. "We shall continue with the morning line bookmaking, which closes when .the race3 begin and the mutuels will be continued as heretofore," he said. Mr. Eddy insisted that the experience of-New Orleans tracks with the bookmaking system has not been such as to justify a return to it. "The year Quatrain won the Louisiana Derby at Jefferson Park," Eddy said, "twenty-one bookmakers cut in and our loss was considerable. Joseph A. Murphy tried bookmaking at the Fair Grounds and had to discontinue it because of the loss in revenue."
