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TORTOIBE RACING ! BILLIARD ROOM SPORT LONDON, April 16 1 Tortoise-racing on billiard tables is j the latest sport to catch the popular > fancy. It is spreading rapidly through- ; out South Dorset, says the Daily j Herald. Billiard tables unused for years are being everywhere converted into tur- j toise tracks. ! The new craze started when, for fun, Mr Cyril Frampton, licensee of a Weymouth hotel, set tw 7 o toy tortoises to race for a lettuce leaf placed across the baulk-line of his billiard table. The idea caught on. Children are buying tortoises at sixpenny stores, and their parents take them at night to race at the "local.” Mr Frampton has formed a club for the new sport, and its tlrst monthly | tournament was held in the billiard- i room of his hotel on Thursday night. The winner was Herbert, the small- I est tortoise present, owned by Mr R. j Walls, of Chelmsford Street, Wey- i mouth. ! “I train him on music.’' Mr walls said. "When I want him to get a | move on. t lean over the table and croon. Sing Me to Sleep.' He ; positively jumps:"
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20513, 1 June 1938, Page 15
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192THE LATEST THRILL Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20513, 1 June 1938, Page 15
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