LAYERS AT NEW ORLEANS.
Washington Post
Jan 17, 1909
Bookies Say First Day
of the Meet Promised Great Success.
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Los Angeles Times
BOOKIES GET
AROUND LAWS. Four Accept Bets at Track Near New Orleans; Sheriff Present, but Does not Make Any Arrests; Sport Fails to Interest
the Fair-Sized Crowd.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16.--[Exclusive Dispatch.] A puny attempt to revive racing in Louisiana
in defiance of the stringent Locke law, was pulled off at the suburban half-mile track at McDonoughville this afternoon...
| WINTER RACING IN LOUISIANA |
| Despite So-Called
Anti-Racing Law Recently Passed Sport Is Inaugurated at Half-mile Treck Across the River From New Orlenas--State Officers
Say the Law Is Not Being Violated. |
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| The Atlanta Constitution |
In the inauguration this afternoon of a race meet at the heaf-mile suburban track across the river from New Orleans,
local declare that racing will agajn be made a feature of the winter.
