The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-07
"PARIS MUTUAL"
 IS BEST SYSTEM
VISITOR HERE WHO HAS BEEN AT HORSE GAME TALKS IN-
 WRESTLING OF FUTURE.
Tracks In Other States Have Operated Satisfactorily Under the System
 Where Fraud is Eliminated.

At all tine racing courses of the old World the Paris Mutual System of bet ting is in vogue, and it is the only kind of betting that has stood the test of popular approval and govern mental sanction. This interesting phase of the racing question was stat ed by visitor at the Park hotel MT. E F, Crawford of Jacksonville, Fla. ,, who is making winters stay at the big hosterly which has just opened it's hospitable doors to the public.
 Mir. Crawford is a horse owner himself. and at one time raced jhis horse, Rather Royal, at Essex Park Besides this horse, he also owns and races Good Money, Laurina Hindoo, and King of Yolo.
 There is no doubt that the Paris Mutual system of racing will be in- trodueed all over the United States during the next half a dozen years" said Mir. Crawford Tt protects the public from getting the worse end of the betting, and from all the old time frauds which have dealt blows to ordinary racing. This Paris Mutual system has been used in Kentucky for the past two years, and it has won the people and the public officials com pletely over to it. The state of Kentucky gets portion of the money won at play, and this makes the rac- ing game help in a legitimate way to pay the public expenses. All of the money bet at race by the Paris Mu- tual system is returned to the people. except about seven per cent. That is, if sl,000 should be placed by the crowd on race, the amount return ed to the crowd would be s930,"
 '"rhe great advantage of the Paris Mutual system is that it eliminates the crooks aad other undesirable float CTS who follow the races, for there is nothing for them to do.
 There is a great revival of inter- est in racing" continued Mr. Craw- ford q have just returned from a series of race meets at Jacksonville, Fla, Columbus. S C., and Washing ton D. C., where the meets are held outside of the city about fifteen miles There is to be a race meet of seven ty-fiye days at Charleston, s. C., which will open the tenth of Janu- ary and run till spring. There is no law against horse racing in South Carolina.
 'Tf Hot Springs would introduce the Paris Mutual system of horse rac- ing, the people of this community would never find any fault with it." said MT. Crawford, "and they could hold meets at any time in the year when it would do the city the most good All you would need to do, would be to announce that sou were going to have a meet, and you would have enough entrants to fill Oaklawn Track in ten days "
 As an example of the way betting is done by the Paris Mutual System, the Jacksonville racing maa told of a race at Louisville, Ky. After the crowd bets it's money, and the race has been run off, the proportion of money bet on each horse is figured out, and this determines the odds on tine horses. There were three men who bet on a particular horse, at the race spoken of Each one bet s2. The way the crowd kept away from this horse made his odds 940 to 2. So that each of the three men Who bet on him made $94O on s2 bet. Under the old system of betting the book makers would have cleaned up every thing.