To Get Rich in a Night —Plated Pennies

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 6

To Get Rich in a Night —Plated Pennies

Heart Broken Bookies at the Tin Hares A NOVEL WAY TO WIN Anyone who says that the books don’t bet good prices at the dogs at Epping, Sydney, must be mad. A well-known iieldcr bet £1 to 2id about a four to one chance on a recent Saturday night, and 9G to one about a four to one pop isn’t a bad price by any stretch of the imagination. Of course the bookmaker was mad, too, . He found that that instead of receiving 5s in a bet he had been presented with two pennies and a halfpenny silvered over with a preparation which is on sale for Is Gd a bottle at a Sydney store. This store employs a girl to demonstrate the efficacy of this silver-plating solution, and appar-

llllb bilvcl [lid. LlilA buIULIUII, tlllU cippctl ently several patrons of the tin hares have been studying her methods. At one time .the bookmaker had 12 silvered pennies and one silvered halfpenny in his bag. He finished up with two silvered pennies. In the rush and bustle at the tin hares, where a constant stream of punters fight each other while they stand on each others’ feet thrusting money into the bookmakers’ hands, almost anything round could be passed off as money. But the bookmaker concerned is sore because he reckons that the crooks are getting him both ways. BREAKING THE BOOKS “They stop away from the races in the afternoon,” he says, thinking of the cash he is missing by their absence, “shining up pennies and making Is lid every time they rub the silver over them. Then they come out to the dogs with a dollar in browns worth six quid if thy can pass them off.” But the gentlemen of the silverplated pennies are chicken-feed crooks. There is a rumour that a millionaire j (in German marks, 10 millions .for 10s) nearly sent some bookmakers broke. But that’s not authentic. The silver- I plated pennies are, though.