Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-09 | Page 10 | Florida Racing in Hands of Court

flORIDA RACING RAtIN IN HANDS OF f C COURT URI Meeting Is Suspended at Pompano Track Hearing Hearing Hear Hear- ing on Monday TALLAHASSEE Fla Jan 8 AP destiny of Florida horse racing was pl placed ced in the h hands of the state supreme court toda today Whether sale of lease certificates s sat at race tracks is betting and as such comes under the state statutes agaInst gambling was the question the court had been asked to decide for aU all tracks in Florida Although JOhn N. N Bryan Bro Broward Brow Brow- ard county commissIoner is the latest latest lat lat- est to raise the question considerable considerable consid- consid erable agitation n and several suits Inthe in inthe the past l have ve raIsed the poInt whether the certificate s system stem of betting is legal Mr Bryan has obtaIned obtained ob- ob an injunction agaInst the selling of the certificates at the Pompano Horse club track in his I county Yesterday Pompano o officials declared the case to the supreme supreme su- su I fl-I preme court when they asked the injunction be set asIde The tribunal was Vas expected to render render ren- ren der an opinion today but instead invited oral argument Immediately Immediately Immedi- Immedi Pompano officials filed a new new I motion requesting sting the court to hear as early as possible oral arguments involving involving on their merits all cases ing the legality of race track operation operation oper- oper in Florida The hearing tentatively tentatively ten ten- has been set for next Mon Mon- day MeanwhIle racing has been suspended suspended sus- sus at pomp Pompano no and CommIssioner Commissioner CommIs- CommIs Bryan has issued a statement declaring that he will proceed ag against every track in Florida to stop the sale of certifIcates Paul M M. Beacom president of t the e Pompano Pompano Pom- Pom pano Horse club In Inc saId today an effort would be made to keep the horses at Pom Pompano ano until the case hits h s been settled It was an an- bounced today that the ra races es were suspended owing owing- to lack of horses at the track I In their latest petition to the supreme supreme su- su preme court counsel for the Pompano Pompano Pom- Pom pano club contend that the effect the ot restraining order obtained by Mr 11 Bryan has deprived the tho track or of equal protection of the laws this appellant being advised and believing that a sImIlar proceeding has been brought heretofore in the circuit court of Dade county agaInst a sImIlar industry operated in MIami and the injunction in such case h having been denied and no appeal appeal ap- ap peal having been taken from the orde Mr Bryan is questioning questioning- the legality le- le of the certificate system at Pompano under a decisIon in the case of McBride versus the State ot of Florida in which the court held that