Show I NEW NEVI YORK COURT SAYS ORAL BETTING IS lEGAL Albany N Y Nov 9 That oral bet betting betting betting ting does not constitute bookmaking Within the meaning of the track gambling laws is the effect of ot the decision of ot the court of appeals today affirming an order of the lower courts for the discharge from custody of Orlando Jones and Sol Lich Lichtenstein indicted in Kings county on a charge of bookmaking Jones and Lichtenstein were charged with orally laying and publishing odds on horse races and accepting a bet on the basis of af such odds Betting Is a crime only when accorn accompanied accompanied panted by a record registry or the tho use ot of some part of the paraphernalia of pro professional professional professional gamblers according to the de decision Judge Haight Height said If it 1 a man should offer to bet the la Ia ladles ladies dies of ot his party a pair of gloves or a box of candy it would not be the laying of odds and publishing the same To hold him to be a bookmaker would in my judgment be a departure from the rule that gives to the terms of the statute their ordinary and accepted meaning and would be a n construction which was not within the contemplation of the legisla legislature legislature legislature ture No Change Here New York Nov No 9 The status of ot the bookmakers on the race tracks in the metropolitan district will not be altered by decision of the tho court of appeals upholding the th legality of oral betting except the seal of ot the states highest court is placed on a system which has been employed by bookmakers and bettors since shortly after atter the enactment of the HartAg new law Betting at the tracks this season has been conducted entirely by b word of ot mouth with wagers unrecorded The decision which is affirmed by bythe bythe bythe the court of appeals was rendered by Justice W Y J 1 Gaynor Ganor who last week was elected mayor of New York city |