IRISH SWEEPSTAKE
CLERKS GET £IOO,OOO EACH
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Oopyrigh c).
LONDON, November 22.
The Manchester November Handicap on which the Irish sweep was held, resulted:— Glorious Devon 1 ■ Coligny ' 2 Nestorian 3
There were 28 starters. Won b.y three lengths; third four lengths away.
Two clerks in the Ministry of Agriculture of Northern Ireland are to divide the first prize of £204,764, as the result of their holding the winning ticket in the Irish sweep on the Manchester November Handicap.
THE SECOND PRIZE.
VANCOUVER, November 22
Mr Alan Dawe, 35 years of age, born in Vancouver, received the big surprise of his lifetime on Saturday when he received a cable informing him that he had won 409,500 dollars, it being the second prize in the Irish Free State sweepstake. Dawe is the proprietor of an automobile garage.
He has. announced that he will immediately clear off his mortgage, and will then deed his business over to his two youthful employees. Dawe is planning for a long holiday trip for himself.
BLACKMAIL ATTEMPTED. LONDON, November 21. New turf problems nrise from the Irish Hospital sweepstake. At least two of the , ticketholders for runners have been threatened that, unless they pay respectively eight hundred and five hundred sterling, the horses will not start. This form of blackmail is facilitated by the publication of the names and addresses of the drawers of the horses. IRISH SWEEP STAKE WINNER. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 23. A Belfast civil servant who had been unable to .sell the last hook of tickets shared it with a local barman. He drew the first prize of £204,701 in the Irish sweep, but as he had sold half the ticket lor £3,500 their net win is £102,382. The newsapers point out that the Irish Sweep cost almost as much, in expenses as the £131,724 it provided for Irish hospitals. Correspondents and leader writers are increasingly insisting in the sanctioning of sweeps in Britain in aid of hospitals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 5
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