NOT YET PAID

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 6

NOT YET PAID

DERBY SWEEPSTAKE PEREGRINATIONS OF WINNING TICKET The £75,000 prize in the London Stock Exchange English Derby sweepstake has not yet been paid over, but it is expected that the matter will soon be settled satisfactorily to all concerned, says a London paper published early last month. The whole question to be settled is who should present the winning ticket which drew Call Boy. The ticket has had an adventurous career. It was issued, with nine others, to a London stockbroker, and passed on to a* Birmingham firm, Messrs. Edwards and Burbidge. They ' sold the other nine, and then the lucky one to Mr. William Jones, formerly a Birmingham man, but now a resident of Felixstowe. Mr. Jones in his turn sold half the ticket to Mr. Frank Curzon, the owner of Call Boy, and a quarter to a firm of London commission agents. So ; after all these ramifications the ques- ; tion remains, who should present the . winning ticket for payment? It is at the moment in the hands of a solicitor. There is no question as to to its genuineness. Meanwhile the question has arisen as to the effect of sweepstakes increasing the number of runners in the Derby—that is, owners running impossible horses because j there is a large prize for each runner. “We are ready to fall in with any suggestion that may be made to us i by the Jockey Club,” said Mr. J. J. Hamilton, the organiser of the Stock Exchange Mutual Subscription Fund. “The last thing in the world that we want to do,” he said, “is to interfere [ with sport, particularly with the Derby. No doubt the magnitude of the prizes given to starters in the last year cr two has been a factor in causing a number of horses to go to the post which- would not otherwise have started. That, of course, is not in the interest of sport, and that’s why we want to do anything we can to help.” |