Betting at Gravesend Track Faces New Law Hurdles
Sheriff Hobley of Kings County says he will entertain complaints today but enforcement hinges on a copy of the statute from Albany. Bettors fear enforcement delays, while bookmakers discuss adopting an English style Tattersall clearance system or a deposit club to regulate wagers.
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Hobley
Kings County
Gravesend
Secretary of State
Hobiey
Albany
Tattersall’s
London
Charles Heany
Metropolitan Turf Association
Bookmakers’ Club
No Dutchess County Fair
Poughkeepsie New York June 11 The Agnew Hart bills and repeal of Percy Gray will end state aid and make the Dutchess County fair impractical The executive committee will likely abandon the fair noting the 12000 debt cleared by Percy Gray and the loss of state support.
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New York
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
The
Fair Association
H. N. Bain
Percy-Gray
Executive Committee
Bain
Hudson River
Agnew-Hart
Foelker
Senate
Governor signs bills stopping track betting tomorrow
Albany report says the bills take effect now after the Governor’s signature. There will be no betting at race tracks tomorrow.
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Albany
N. Y
Queens Sheriff vows to enforce new racing law
Sheriff Herbert F. Harvey of Queens County stated he will enforce the new racing law rigorously, though he will not reveal plans before conferring with his counsel. He affirmed enforcement across Queens County as with other laws, noting Aqueduct, Metropolitan, and Belmont tracks in part lie within Queens.
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Herbert F. Harvey
Queens County
Harvey
Aqueduct Track
Jamaica Bay
Metropolitan
Jamaica
Belmont Race Track
Queens
Nassau County
Tipsters to Continue Racing Information Service
John W. Diestel and others said tipster firms will keep supplying racing information as long as demand exists. About 15 to 20 men rely on the business, with the firms spending roughly $100,000 annually on advertising, despite a history of postal scrutiny and insurance of continued at-track service tomorrow.
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John W. Diestel
Broadway
Betting, Racing News Continue Despite Track Bet Ban
In New York five office workers remained silent as betting stalled at tracks and poolrooms kept operating. A woman criticized attempts to curb racing while Irving J. Joan of The Morning Telegraph insisted racing news would continue with charts and handicaps despite betting restrictions.
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Cosmopolitan
Irving J.oan
Morning Telegraph
Telegraph
Albany Racing Law Challenged Over Senate Seat Fight
Opponents vow to test constitutionality of the new racing bill in court arguing Senator Wallace’s seat was illegal and would have blocked the law. Assemblyman Frank K Johnston says the law’s penalties are cruel and that reapportioned districts render the current Senate de facto.
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Albany
Wallace
Senate
Frank K. Johnston
Niagra
Johnston
Court of Appeals
Mr. Wallace
New York Restaurateurs Brace for Loss if Race Betting Ends
Restaurant and hotel owners in Times Square warn that abolition of betting at race tracks could remove a large share of weekend and holiday patrons. They cite bookings from out-of-towners and bookmakers’ staff as key to summer revenue, with up to 80 percent of racing crowds seen as at risk and local workers fearing reduced breakfast and dinner traffic.
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Michael Shanley
Times Square
New York
New
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Thirtyfourth Street
Brooklyn
Belmont
Jamaica
Aqueduct
Sienor
Marieutch
Foelker Emerges as Possible Governor or Congress Candidate
Brooklyn Senator Otto G. Foelker, a self made Republican, eyed for governor but backed by insiders to seek Congress. Born in Germany in 1875, he rose from baker to lawyer and Brooklyn legislator, serving in the Assembly from 1904 and in the Senate since 1906, with a track record on race bills and various committees.
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Senator Foelker
Brooklyn
Albany
Foelker
Otto G. Foelker
Woodruff Machine
Troy
Lewis L. Fawcett
Kings County
Fawcett
Manhattan
Trojan
Daniel Daly
New York Law School
Assembly
Fortescue Metcalf
Theodore R Rave
Senate
Walter H. Cragg
Bells ring all afternoon for Hughes victory in racing bill
In Schenectady New York on June 11 bells rang across the city to celebrate Governor Hughes winning passage of his anti racing legislation.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Gov. Hughes
Legislature ends special session with key bills passed
Albany June 11 during the closing hours of the extraordinary session both houses passed the Allds Lansing agriculture bill to aid the Department of Agriculture against bovine tuberculosis and approved a $145 000 appropriation for diseased cattle. The maximum payment per animal rises from 60 to 75. The Page bill expanding the State Court of Claims hearing authority also passed. Senate Finance Committee members were named for a New York City finances inquiry.
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Albany
Allds-Lansing
State Department of Agriculture
Senator Page
State Court of Claims
Public Service Commissions
Wainwright
Westchester
Page
Oliver
New York
Raines
Senate
New York City
Owen Cassidy
Schuyler
Martin Saxe
Patrick H. McCarren
Brooklyn
Assembly
Cortelyou Not Involved In Vice Presidency Rumors
Washington insiders state Secretary Cortelyou has taken no action or announcements regarding a vice presidential nomination. He is focused on Treasury duties while friends at Chicago prepare for the Republican National Convention and discuss potential support. Governor Guild’s visit related to a shared commission.
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Washington
Cortelyou
Interior
Cornelius N. Bliss
Senator Crane
Massachusetts
Secretary of the Treasury
Chicago
Gov. Guild of
Contelyou
Zucker Presses Cortelyou for Vice Presidency at Convention
Peter Zucker a Cleveland native and president of the Conservative Republican Club of Gov. Hughes's Fifteenth district travels to Chicago to push Secretary Cortelyou for the VP slot. He cites Cortelyou's support from New York and national business interests and aims to win backing from leading Western politicians including Gov. Herrick and Ex-Attorney General Griggs. Zucker also backs a platform plank affirming faith in the courts as urged by Choate and Butler.
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Cortelyou
Chicago
Peter Zucker
Broadway
Republican Club
Congress
Taft
Zucker
Ortelyou
Gov. Herrick
Ohio
John W.griggs
New York
Joseph H. Choate
Nicholas J.murray Butler
Brooklyn Democrats Break With Senator McCarren Leaders
Seven Democratic district leaders in Brooklyn issue a statement denouncing McCarren's control of the party and nominating machinery. They pledge to build an independent organization to pursue public improvements like subway lines on Fourth Avenue and Broadway Lafayette East New York, sewer extensions, pavements, playgrounds, and a new Eighth Ward Public Market. Signatories include Melody, McGuire, Doyle, Farrell, Byrnes, Sinnott, and Lynch, leaders of the Fourth through Twenty-third districts.
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McCarren
Fourth Avenue
Broadway
Lafayette Avenue
East
New York
Ead 3
Eighth Ward
William E. Melody
William R. McGuire
William A Doyle
Thomas R. Farrell
Thomas F. Byrnes
James P. Sinnott
Patrick F. Lynch
Utah delegation backs Hammond for VP nomination
Salt Lake City June 11 Senator George Sutherland announced the Utah delegation will support John Hays Hammond for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination. He sent Hammond a telegram confirming the decision.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
John Hays Hammond
George Sutherland
Special sale on men and women undergarments and linens
A newspaper ad lists a Friday and Saturday sale on men summer undergarments pajamas and night robes with cambric night shirts per suit 135 dollars and 55 cents. It offers men summer undergarments and pajamas at low prices and women's handkerchiefs in various boxes and fabrics with discounts.
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Bill
an-Agnew
Hughes
Allan
Mbre
Racing News Bureau
Advanc
Nagh
Bureau Information
New York Times
Alexander Sixth
Assem
Bly
Ten Eyck
Boom
Greenhut and Company
ARROW
Seventh Arrow
6Th Ave
Greenhut & Company
B.altman & Co
McCarren Balters
Senator McCarren
Hammond
Astor Place
Fourth Ave
N.Y
Saks & Company
34Th Street
B. Akan & CO
35Th Street
7Th Avenue
Newark
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