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Commission Inspects And Approves Totalisor Australian Device to Be Used At Randall Meet Opening Friday RANDALL PARK, North Randall, Ohio, June 29. Considerable interest has been aroused in the new totalisor installed for the forthcoming Randall Park meeting, July 2 through August 21. The machines were Imported by boat and airplane during the month of May from Automatic Totalisor, Ltd., in Sydney, Australia. Installation engineers Douglas Nicoll and Victor Miller came from "Down Under" to supervise the shipment and to get things in working order. They will remain as supervisors until the conclusion of the meeting. The Ohio State Racing Commission members, of which O. C. Belt is chairman, inspected the workings of the totalisor last Sunday during an employees roll-call. They reported to mutuel manager Norman Telzrow that their findings were completely satisfactory, and were amazed at the speed and efficiency of the machines, which produce tickets at the rate of 50 to the minute. Nicoll explained that the machines installed are outmoded by their newer model, but that it will be impossible to make the change-over for at least a year, due to -previous commitments and shortages caused by the recent world conflict. The outstanding feature of the newer model is that the computation is done completely by machinery and the result is posted directly to the odds-board without intermediary service. The Automatic Totalisor, Ltd., service over 15 race tracks in Australia, include all but one or two of the major plants in r that country. Throughout the Empire the Automatic Totalisor is in use, listing such strange and little known tracks to the average American turf follower as Rangoon, French-Indo China, Durban, South Africa; Madras, Colombo, India; the Philippines, and the renowned Longchamps in France. They also supply machines to all of the dog tracks in the British Isles. Whereas the American-made totalisators are much more sleek in appearance, the Australian machine looks austerely stolid and efficient. The ticket begins from a roll hanging above the sellers head, enters the machine on the right hand side and emerges from the center, pointing upward. The desired number of the horse and amount to be wagered is selected by a semicircular punch wheel which Is pressed indo the correct small hole. This sets the enclosed mechanics in action and turns a wheel, until in the correct position, when a pressure plate descends from a hinge to print the ticket, which results in a product similar to the nominal American ducat. The paper roll Is changed every race with different identifying marks and colors, and the date is also printed on the roll before being stamped as a ticket.
