A DECENT DOUBLE DIVIDEND.

NZ Truth, Issue 101, 25 May 1907, Page 2

A DECENT DOUBLE DIVIDEND.

The double tota lisa-tor*,-., since its inception, has paid one or two cplpssal dividends, the biffge.st on recoipd being on the" opening day ofthe Canterbury, Jockey Club's last 'November meeting. On that occasion the solitary investor on the winning | combination soooped over ,£2000" For consistency m the matter of' lafge' dq>uble dividends", however, we must, turn to Auckland. So far they have not' turned out a four-figure dividend ,up that way, .but on -several occasions the prices have been unusually hiffh. At the Takapuna meet-, ing last Saturday . there were something like two thousand tickets planked on the double machine, but only two of these were for the winning combination, arid thus, the dividend; was nearly ;£&00.. On account of tye occasional 'outbursts of^ this kind t-He double machine is becoming; very popular for such prices were hitherto unheard of. In justice t o the layer of odds it must be! ; said . that theiir ' prices sometimes exceed j the amounts paid toy the totalisator, ■': but anyone seeking' a fair price for an outside double usually turns to 'the machine nowada.ys.: However, ■were a ' liookmaker to quote ttli« prices that have several times been .reQorded on the Trentham course, .he 1 would, not 'be taken senpusly, for a pu n t&r usually expects more . than 6- to 1 for picking a double. But tbis is a., side issue. ;T}ie -point far racing clybs to note ,-^s-: the^^.-increas-ing-, populaivty- of tl^ ,4o^le 'ma--ohine" and '■■*&«.. necessity , for improvirijj; ,1 the; iipcpmm.pdaticm m. connecr ., ti"dh with' it. One usually has .a' se^ere ¥ "'JScrambie to place his pound : mL a d^PßOfe. - Ojice 'in' the^crowd ' ytou; are 'jostled and pushed about m all; direGticwiSi and it is a mattet of talfflni.sj pot luck, as to whether, you e.eb near- the window or : not. It' I shoiuid foe an easy mattclr for clivbs 4pr arrange a proper eniirance. . atwl exit' and pnee th^s was dooie ; 'ift ■ten W? c enfc deduction from invest•men,te would probably be a \&i<r& item ' than'it is at present. ' '