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...Olympia. Wash., Governor Clarence D. Martin last fortnight signed a bill legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races, which has been forbidden in Washington since...
...Indianapolis, the Indiana State Senate last fortnight passed a bill to legalize pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog races...
Strolling down from the stand a little later, the King-Emperor approached with frank curiosity a "tote" or totalizator, a modification of the French pari mutuel betting machine, which has been introduced at British meets since the onset of His Majesty's illness. On a series of automatic dials the machine shows the total of bets on each horse up to the moment of starting and the grand total of bets. On the basis of these totals the totalizator automatically sets the odds. In "tote" or pari mutuel betting a percentage of the whole sum wagered is deducted...
Prince Alexandre Dimitri Golitzin,* onetime Court Master of Ceremonies to Tsar Nicholas II, was named in despatches as chief backer of the Woman Racing Syndicate. The track was equipped, in time for the first race last week, with automatic pari-mutuel betting machines, similar to those used on horse and dog racetracks throughout Europe...
...Pari nessuno con chi rappresenta il governo dello stato...