Show RACE RACI TRACK I GAMBliNG Sheriff Makes Raid on Cleveland I IRace Race Bace Track Betting Ring and Seizes Money of Bookies MONEY WILL BE TURNED OVER TO CHARITY Means Serious Blow to Racing Racing Men Believed They j Were Safe I CLEVELAND Aug Aus 13 l Acting un under under der del peremptory Instructions from froni Governor Harmon the thc county author authorities authorities I tics today clamped the lid on un the tho butting ring at North Randall track three hours before the llio closing of or the Grand Circuit race meet As a re roo result sult suit it Il is i predicted the track rack may ma be closed permanently Sheriff A 1 7 Hirstius retired from the tho raid his pockets his hat and the tho fullness of or the shirt stuffed with sur stir roncy and tonight a swarm of aggrieved ed bettors are arc looking hooking through the time downtown section for the armed with tickets which have hare not nol been heon redeemed Mysteriously tho the bookmakers learned at noon that a raid was scheduled Bondsmen were ball Nevertheless on hand to provide less le at nt 3 30 when the sheriff with his deputies appeared the book bookmakers bookmakers makers were in full voice oice and a string of contented winners was swarming past the little stands engaged in a cash Ing inS in boarded the time first 1 stand I and seized the tho box bo of or money His I Ichler chief deputy deput made mado as quick work of or orthe the tIme second and ond twenty others rushed down the line The bookies prompt promptly ly l vanished and tho the ticket holders J alarmed made hasto haste to the grandi ran stand One Oae bookmaker seized his box but scattered red greenbacks and gold poldi from Crom It In bin hin flight and Hirstius and J his assistants gathered it ip up The cleared and those I Iwho bolting betting ring was waH j who braved tho the storm to te ask Mk for Cor their noney were Informed that tho the cash ca h turned over to charity c Jarll The raid followed ec sharp Instructions I from r erno that the law la against public betting be enforced It Itis ItIs Itis is recognized that the tho belated raid raidS Is S a n serious blow at horse racing in Cleveland Officers of the Forest Forc t City Livestock and Fair Fall company compan which owns the Randall course are not yet prepared to say sn sa what they will do doThe doThe doThe The racing men wore driven from I the Ole old Glenville track tr ck by tho time refusal of the time city authorities to permit pool I selling and tho time North Randall course far out in the Hie country countr was built hullt at atla large la expense to avoid avo hI this trouble The place was organized into a vii vil village lage laJe with race enthusiasts as fiS village e officers and it was thought they tho would be safe from real interruption The TIme local authorities are seriously concerned over oCr the disposition to tp be lie made of the large sums not yet et count counted ed cd that were seized sel ed in Sn the raid The Time sheriff sherl C says his first determination to turn over to tu charity will stand and that the time winners on omm the first race may frame their tickets as a mementos The failure of the sheriff to make maleo any nn r arrests today was explained by b bhim him on the ground that it was simply desired to stop atop betting and not to en cn enter ter into any an prosecutions further than that already almeady instituted against Proud President President dent A A large number numbe of the bookies tonight at a downtown hotel paying off all tickets offered A number of the ticket holders how however however ever eer had gone gomma home discouraged crl be before fore ore time the bookmakers opened their ledgers to settle claims A comparison of notes among the tho bookmakers tonight Indicate that the amount of or money mone seized by hr the tho sher shere IU Hi was much less than was sup I It transpired that the tho bookmakers bad thoughtfully stored their larger 1 In their clothes and the cash boxes with one dollar doUar and two dollar bills |