Show RACES BENEfiT 13 STATES Coffers Ring As Millions Soon Accrue By ORLO ROBERTSON Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Feb 6 The 6 The rapid spread of legalized wagering on on horse racing has produced substantial p pub p. public b- b lie lic revenue based on a compilation of 1934 figures and I it L is likely to show a marked increase this year Figures for tor last year show the income income in in- come for tor 13 stat states 5 from license fe feor feor fees fe or a percentage of the handle by bythe bythe bythe the pan mutual machines aggregated 5 22 2 With New York ork Rhode Island added to the list in Iii 1934 this represents roughly a 50 per cent increase in revenue over 1933 although although al al- though no exact comparison Is possIble pos pos- sIble because of the absence of complete com corn com official reports A total of was wagered with figures from New York the only state In which handbooks are used and Louisiana unavailable Illinois Leads Leads' Illinois led in Iii total wagers with 27 but ranked no better than seventh f ta amount paid to io the state with The state docs does not participate in the handle a ado as do man many states but gets its share from license fees which ran ranged d from 1000 to 2500 daily Ranking Banking second to to Illinois in total amount wagered with Maryland topped the list in revenue to the state with a total of The old line state had one of it its poorest poor est seasons in recent years financially however the total wagers comparing with in 1933 states state's profit with the year ous otIs The smallest state stale in the Union Rhode Island and the largest Texas ranked third and fourth respectively in total amounts that passed through the machines Rhode Island fans with their only track Narragansett n. n sett ett park exceeding all expectations In attendance backed the ponies with of which the state took With a smaller take the state slate of Texas received only from an aggregate of wagered New York state which had received no revenue revenue- from horse racing since the sport was blackballed in 1909 profited profiled to the extent of as its share of the ga gate t receipts Al AI though no figures are available on the amount wagered the gate gats rec receipts of more than doubled those thos of 1933 Kentucky Declines Decline Besides Mar Maryland land Kentucky was the only other state that reported a decline in the Associated Press sur sur- vey The 1933 figures were not available avail avill able for Illinois where a racing commission commission com com- mission was not created until last February but it is believed that the st state held its own In Louisiana where no figures were available for either year as to the amount wagered the state state- received re re- re- re more revenue in 1934 due to the fact that there was a longer sea sea- son The state derives its income from a daily dally tax of on J Jefferson park and on the Fair Grounds Especially notable also were the increases increases in in- creases in Michigan which had only a short season reason in 1933 1033 New Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire with all of its iLs racing concentrated concentrated concen concen- at Rockingham park and Florida Florida Flor Flor- ida where the figures were computed by sea seasons ons and not years cars t The comparative figures |