£500,000 GOES TO Tsui Yan-pui Favoured For First Singles Title Recent Impressive Form
THE DOGS EACH WEEK IN ENGLAND
MORE THAN £500,000 is being gambled on the dogs in this rough old island week by week, writes Paul Irwin in the "Sunday Express."
1 am not rushing in to condemn ¡ium that the staff was overwhelm- uch big-scale etting even af ed. When race intervals were there is n war um. Par from it. incrcused. 4,000 more tickets were If you say that £500,000 would sold on the next event, buy a lot of Savings Certificates, I answer that it would buy half a million pounds worth. No more,
O less.
show
Now I don't need to tell you That there is nothing so fund as
£40.000.
I hope, too, that I don't really have to explain that when you bet on the tole the money is not sunk for all the gamblers all the time.
Ret
fai-
any
All I do here is to pinpoint the gevat greyhound mystery for mystery it is. Fac's and figures Trom all over the country that the average
As a fet the tote offers a dog follower's bet, as far as you'll betting budget is around the £3 where. a week mark.
With the exception of six per cent. kept by the tracks for Ponder that fact. Money is overheads and their slice of pro- tight. We are taxed to the eye-it, the public get back all the cash | brows. Prices are soaring. We the winners get are asked to lend to win this war. And yet, on average, the dog fan gumibles £3 a week.
The Figure
TO-DAY'S
TENNIS
Following is to-day's
gramme:
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OPEN SINGLES Final Teul Wal-pui V (Stand Court),
CLUB HANDICAP DOUBLES Final
SERVICE MAY
DECIDE ISSUE
By "Adrem"
THE COLONY SINGLES TENNIS FINAL OF Tsul Yan-pul 1939 WILL BE RE-ENACTED THIS AFTERNOON WHEN TSUI WAI-PUI, WHO WON THE TITLE ON THAT OCCASION, WILL MEET HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, YAN-PUI, ON STAND HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.
well (-15.21 T. C. Monaghan C. H. R. Oxlade and A. H. Bar- and T. J. Gould (-15.2) (B).
ed with them to-day. be more, many more, before the It used to
war.
What It Costs
COURT OF
It is the opinion of many fol- I favour Yan-pui to win but I " vious result will be reversed this much in it. lowers of the game that the pre- don't think there will be very
afternoon and Tsui Yan-pui will) win his first crown,
H.K.C.C. TOURNEY
On the form shown by the two
In the Hong Kong Cricket Club The cost to kennel a dog at the men in their recent matches, this Tennis Handicap Doubles semi- top-class tracks is anything
be is by no means improbable but
final match played yesterday C. H. believe tween 15s, and £1. For that the cannot
that Wai-pul's R. Oxlade and A. H. Barwell greyhound is trained, grated for form against Sirdar Rumjahn can (15,2) beat R. H. Blake and H. ruces, given his eats-"Nothing be anything like his true form-C. D. Knight (-3/8). 6-3, 6-1. that's fit for human consumption,it was too bad to be true in fact. Figures
The winners now meet T. C. Monaghan and T. J. Gould in the final.
it. "Really, there is
anyhow. precious Hittle won or lost by
the greyhound racing regular," said a London track official. "Mind you,
I'm talking about the man or woman who plays the tote. How do I get that figure? Here's
"1'11 be the way of it. Working on tote show that
I am assured-and the chance to returns and the volume of betting suy # season, the
win some money for this boss. Much had been made of that with the bookmakers, 1 estimate any one wins or loses is about is keep a dog!
Fifteen shillings 3 week to semi-final and I am certain that that twenty tracks in and around 6d. It may not seem that way, 6d, to house and feed a child fore cramped in all his strokes. Why, it only costs Tsui was over-anxious and there- London give £230,000-£250,000. if they have a run of luck, good or The total attendance figures bad, but that's how we work it each week are about 80,000. So out.
a little simple arithmetic soon shows that the £3 average stands so far as the London area is con- cerned.
Now there are fly odd tracks, including those outside the Na- tional Greyhound Racing Club. in the provinces. Many do bus Iness every bit as good Londoners.
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the
frank.
over
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period, average
"Relaxation"
tote forget this.
evacuee over the same spon of Against his brother this factor time. Why this? Maybe the ans-should not again arise and I shall wer is that no child evacuee ever be surprised if he does not show yet ran fast enough to win the vast improvement. Dog Derby.
Think it over.
CINEMA CLUB
Yan-pui's Coolness
On the other hand, Yan-put has
Amateur Cinema Club are asked his coolness
Members of the Hong Kong impressed in all his matches with
poned
under
ONE ARMY MATCH
Only one match in "B" Division of the Army Tennis League was played at Sookunpoo yesterday, when Royal Scots defeated Royal Army Pay Corps by three points to nil.
The match between Middlesex und 36th Heavy Battery. Royal Artlilery, was cancelled owing to the downpour of rain at 5 p.m.
scores:
Following all circum-
аге the detailed
Sgt. Eisley and L/Cpl. Giassgow Ingleby, 61, 6—1, 6—1. (R.S) bent L/Sgt. Norrell and Cpl.
"They can't win in the end? Well there's always that six per cent, which we keep. That never Roes back. Yet, taking it all the way round, we give real relaxation
the thrill of a gamble-a a cost to note that the meeting originally stances. All his strokes have been comparing pretty favourably with Liverpool way.
fold, the emenins or soccer. And don't arranged for to-day has been post-working fluently, while his service £5,000 passed through the
until Monday, May You'll never stop the when a programme of Aims, de-the moment than it has ever been 19, is probably 25 per cent, better at machines-this when the crowd! Englishman having a flutter on a picting war was about 2.000.
scenes, and And another boise or a dog."
some All being equal this service will northern track recently showed
L/Cpl. Downing and Bdm. Drib- Who are these gamblers?
comedy reels will be presented. probable decide the match as al-bie (R.S.) beat L/Sgt. Luckhurst £9.584 in tote wagers
workers
The meeting, which will be held though (with bit of
Wai-pui has completely and L/Sgt. Luckhurst and L/Sgt. in the West Lounge of the Euro-reorganised his service and 5,000 crowd.
cash), men in the Services, Civil pean Y.M.C.A., will open-at 7 pm indulges in a heavy slice, I don't
now Chalcraft 6-0, 6-0, 6-1, workers-"the old gang Members and their friends are in-think the high bound of the ball (R.S.) beat Sgt. Reed and Pte. Cpl. Ogden and Pte. Gilroy vited to attend.
will worry his brother very much. Pendergast, 6-3, 6-0, 7—5.
from
U
So it goes on. Newcastle has Defence four tracks. The most popular, it | in uniforms." is estimated does be'ween £5,000 and £6,000 business weekly.
In London
Now switch back to London. Last December a couple of tracks -one in the north, the other in the south--pulled in more than £40,000 on the tote between them.
il
War extra
Even the Army believes the Tommy is better off
for a mild gamble. Anyhow, one brigadier arrangéd a dog meeting, stumping up twenty-five guineas for a cup and getting private owners to lend their greyhounds.
the
go
Now for something about lean, clean-limbed dogs that to make up the animated rouletle they call greyhound racine. The The rush to the windows for 25. National Greyhound Racing Club tickets was so brisk at one stad- I have about 6,000 animals register-
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