Show THEY RAIDED A RAGE TRACK A Cold Day for the Sports Who Defy the J Law j EVIL WAS VERY OFFENSIVE 5 Some Tall Hustling as the Officers Offi-cers Approached I I That Betting at Ilace Tracks h a Violation of the State Law of Illinois Is Not Questioned and I Olileers of the Civic Federation I Have Decided That it Must bo Stopped Racy Time Looked For I Chicago May 10lt was a cold day for the sports at the Hawthorne race track today when 150 big deputy sheriffs marched into the track and declared that Hawthorne was running a game prejudicial prejudi-cial to good morals the laws and tho peace of the community Having declared de-clared themselves the deputies proceeded proceed-ed to gather in Edward Corrigan the master of Hawthorne and John Brennock his business partner Joseph F UHman the proprietor of the foreign book and twentysix smaller fry The prisoners were hustled off to the city and brought before Judge Ewing of the Superior court who after a short discussion with the attorneys of the prisoners and for the civic federation which planned the raid admitted the prisoners to bail In the sum of 0 each The officials of the civic federation have determined that there shall be no racing contrary to law m Cook county this year and they declare that they will repeat the raids as often as open the management up of Hawthorne cares to Had Become Offensive The gambling evil at the race track be came s offensive that President Baker Peident Bael Of the federation resolved to begin war ware on them without waiting for the in tervention of the federations committee on morals He consulted with a number of the prominent members of the federa tion and all of them approved and en dorsed his plans and promised him their support teir It was decided to swear out warrants before a judge of a conrt of record as It was known that the Hawthorne people kept a justice of the peace at the race te rce track and were prepared to give bail on the spot when arrests were made on warrants war-rants issued by another Justice Warrants were accordingly taken out before Judge j Ewing this morning given to the sheriff at noon and two hours later a small army of deputies was headed smal t towar track carrying warrants returnable In Judge Ewings court at 4 oclock Some Tall Hustling Rumors of the intended raid had got abroad however and when the army of te an the law approached the track there was grrat confusion and excitement The book makers had been given the alarm and at once began to hustle their blackboards I out of sight Some of the bookmakers made a wild break for liberty but the of fibers secured as many of them as they I cared for Joe UHman was among the number The formal hearing of the prisoners will be next Tuesday morning at 10 oclock I President Baker was prompt to vigorous action in the matter JL Is said j by the federation people by the audacity of the track managers In Ignoring the law as entirely as if it did not exist That Tat betting at race tracks is a violation of the state law Is not questioned So well were the racing crowds satisfied that their enterprises were illegal that they caused to be introduced in the legislature te the Humphrey racing bill legalizing rap ing in the state under certain condition This bill has not yet become a law butte but-te racetrack people did not wait for the general assembly to act on their bill They made extensive preparations for teal te-al summer racing meeting and the two associations arranged to divide the time < tme so that both would have equal chances at the public President Baker watched this performance till he thought it time to use the civic federations influence t compel respect for the law and then he I acted ten |