£lo,ooo BET WON.
LONDON, April 3. A 26-ycar-okl private, Gordon Roll, who earns 2s a day in the Army, has won £IO,OOO in a bet on the racehorse Smv, which he formerly owned: He sold the horse when he lost £30,000 last summer plunging on the turf, after inheriting £140,000 from his father. Roll was in America planning a film career when the war started, and rushed home to join up. His comrades call him “Fairy Godfather,” because of his generosity.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 8
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81£l0,000 BET WON. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 8
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