FANTASTIC BET
£o A WEEK FOR LIFE
TO HALF A CROWN
(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, April 11. Tntters.nll’p Committee settled one of the strangest bets made in Britain, when a- bookmaker offered a wager of ■Co a week for life to half a crown against a horse named Gold Meter. The hacker, a man aged thirty-one, took the bet. The. horse unexpectedly won. The resultant, annuity necessitated a layout of fifty thousand. Tattersal I's Club, however, ordered the bookmaker to pay to sterling lor only opo vpht.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1932, Page 5
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