SWEEP WINNERS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1931, Page 3

SWEEP WINNERS

MANY POOR PEOPLE SUCCESSFUL. I United Procsa Aasuciauoxi By Electru telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 4Mr Arthur Collins, a blind London basket maker, is one of the nineteen holders of Cameronian. in the Dublin Sweep, and he thus wins a dividend of £18,400. Mr David Bryson, a Septuagenarian merchant, wins £IOO, OOO on Cnmeronian in the Calcutta Sweep. The majority of other winners were in humble walks of life. Mr H. O. Edwards, a Stock Exchange clerk, The son of Lord Kensington, won the first prize in the Stock Exchange sweep of bfteen thousand sterling. MANY WELSHERS. LONDON, Juno 4. There was a record number of Washers a.t the Derby. It is estimated that at least fifty decamped. Thirteen Wclsliers were arrested. THE WINNING OWNER. LONDON, June 4Cameroninn could not have won had not the Jockey Club, in 1929, revoked 'its rule ’ voiding horses’ engagements on the death of the owner. Cameroni‘an belonged to Lord Dewar, a famous aphoristic humourist, who; after entering him, died in April, 1930, without winning a single Derby. His nephew. Mr J. A. Dewar, inherited his huge fortune and his best horse and h a s succeeded in the first attempt to win the Derby.