Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1913 — RAGE TRACK MEET A BIG FAILURE [ARTICLE]

RAGE TRACK MEET A BIG FAILURE

Chicago Sports Won’t Attend Porter Races Unless They Gan Gamble on Results. ■'•W - Valparaiso Vidette. little by little the sport at the Mineral Springs race course is dying. Day after day the crowd grows less. This Is the opinion of nearly every one wh6, visits the resort from this district. Yesterday, is is said, there was less than four hundred people on the grounds, and these were far from enthusiastic, One of the features of the afternoon was a storm of wind and rain. Another was what looked for a time like a “blow” to the whole concern. That Was when the horse owners announced to the management, that unless the purses already won were paid to them, there- would be no more racing. After a confab matters were adjusted by cutting purses from |3OO to $125. Sheriff W. S. Lindall was on the job with a nuipber of deputies whom he notified to arrest all law violators and take'them to Valparaiso for trial. Prosecutor Walter Fabing asserted that he would hereafter demand jail sentences for any caught gambling. As a result Of this, money seemed as scarce as, the proverbial hen’s teeth. The most interested spectator present was Justice T. B. Louderback, who had the responsibility the ev-, ening before of imposing a fine oh four alleged gamblers'. He was handed a pass by the manapement and went unhindered to all pcurts of the enclosure. “I never saw so quiet a bunch of people at a /ace eoiirse,” he said this morning in telling of his experience. "Not once did I see any money .pasfe Gambling is probably going in its own quiet.way,i but I cah not detect It, and if the officers manage to make just a Jew arrests it is sufficient evidence that they are on the alert.” Mr. Louderbark stated, however, that there was one place which was a puzzle to him and even looked suspicious. That is at the secretary’s office north of the paddock. There he saw money paid over, He asked what this was for'and the men in charge asserted that the horse owners were paying their rent But the Valparaiso justice was skeptical. He is still of the opinion that men paid money In there who never owned a horse. " No arrests were made yesterday. W. E. Duncan, $ member of th/ public utilities commission, who had, been sent to the track by tjto' governor to get information first hand as to conditions, conferred with Prosecutor Fabing. v • The Main Garage now offers day and night service Livery cars for hire. Bring in your cars for wash and polish, as we have secured the services of Mr. Geo. Parker, direct from the Capitol Garage of Indianapolis, to do this work N. C. SHAFER A 00., “Proprietors,