TO-DAY to SATURDAY THE DERBY SWEEP, Daily at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
UNDERWORLD
GEORGE BANCROFT fus CLIVE BROOK, EVELYN BRENT,
LARRY SEMON
A HECTOR TUANBULL PORQUETION The picture you've been waiting for A tale of the Underworld ait really in Written especially for the screen by Ben Hecht, 2 reporter who has seen the scènes that have been filmed.
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STOCK EXCHANGE DRAW
TO GO ON.
It has been "décided to run this year the Stock Exchange Darby. Sweep the Stock Exchange (Derby). Mutual- Subscription Fund-but on a greatly reduced scale.
There will only be one hundred thousand tickets at a pound each. The allotment to each member of the House is limited to about 23 tickets.
With the usual 10 per cent, de- voted to charities and the expenses the amount available for distribu- tion will thus be less than £90,000.
Last year the fund totalled about £1,000,000 and there were two first prizes alone of £125,000 each.
The Stock Exchange Sweep will consequently again have to yield pride of place to the Calcutta Sweep, which during recent years it had supplanted in the magni- tude of its subscriptions.
The general public are not likely to secure many tickets. The bun dred thousand tickets will hardly suffice for members of the Stock Exchange and their personal fricads.:
It is not known at present whe ther brokers will be allowed to sell tickets to their clients. The limita tion in the number of tickets has been made with, the purpose of re- storing the fund to its original in- tention that of a private affair" between Stock Exchange nyambers.
Mr. Hamilton's Withdrawal.
Mr. J. Hamilton, who was one of the joint secretaries of last year's sweep," explained why he is not |laking an official part this year.
"I ran the sweep," be said, primarily ia
interests of the charits. There is an induential section in the Stock Exchange who are against the magnitude the sweep reached last year. Having satisfied my ambition to raise the 'sweep' to a million, and hoped to contribute a quarter of a million. to charity, I believe the time has come for me to drop out.”
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SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN GETTING HIS COAT OUT OF THE CLOSET.
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THE LIVERPOOL RACE MEETING.
PUNTERS' HEAVY LOSSES.
GRAND NATIONAL TO BE AN OPEN EVENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 24.
The ups and downs of Grand National betting have provided an unhappy inauguration to the flat racing season for puutors who, after having already lost thousands of pounds on the Spring doubles to bookmakers by the scratching of the popularly fancied Lincoln horses Vatout, Corduroy and Lep hare will now be finally routed.
After their hopes had been dash- ed, revived, and then, after the encouraging report of yesterday's gallop and the rehoisting of Easter Haro to the position of favourite, came the news, less than two hours afterwards that be would be
scratched.
The incidents of the past for days constitute one of the most demoralising pages in the history of ante-post betting:
The race, which is run on Fri- day, will be watched by the cua tomary huge cosmopolitan crowd, and the result will now be a com- plete, riddle, with Gregalach, Sir Lindsay, and Grakle all well favoured by the betting public.
THE GRAND NATIONAL One of England's biggest sport ing fixtures, the Grand National steeplechase, a race which attracts world-wide interest, will be ran at Aintree on March 98.
Description of Gourse.. The exact distance covered by the runners during the race will be 4 miles 256 yards, or two circuits of the track, in which 16 jumps are placed. All but two of these ob stacles have to be cleared twice. Some are especially dificult to negotiate, notably those known as Beecher's Brook and Valentine's Brook. Both these are thorn fences with a brook & feet 6 inches on 5 feet high, 3 feet 3 inches wide,
the landing side. Not only bave horses to jump and land sufficiently far to miss the water, but extra precaution is needed by both horse and man, because of the drop in the level of the ground on the off side.
.. It costs £100 to run each horse. The winner's prize approaches £10,000 while the second receives 21,000, the third £50, and the fourth horse £200.
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COCKTAILS AGAIN.
CONDEMNED BY CHIEF DOCTOR TO MINISTRY
OF HEALTH
No less an authority than Sir) George Newman, chief medical offi- car to the Ministry of Health, rais- ed his voice against the cocktail habit when he gave evidence at the Royal Commission on Licensing which was held in London a few weeks ago.
"From the medical point of view," he said, "I think it is most indefensible to have cocktails before- dinner, and that drinking cocktails, without relation ta food, is also undesirabl, for most poople. It de pends what is in the cocktail.
Before this Sir George confessed that he had "no experience at all of drinking cocktaila."
Then the Rev. Henry Carter, a member of the Commission, asked Sir George whether, he thought whisky was a cure for influenza.
Sir George: should have thought that in most cases it would not fulfil that function..
Going to the Doctor for an Annual Overhaul.
Mr. Carter: And stout for the nursing mother?..
Sir George, ufter a long pause, replied: I think much would de pead upon the habits of the lady in question. I should not like. either to commend or condemn it without knowing the facts of the
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"And what would be your view," Mr. Carter asked, "from a publis health standpoint, of a concerted campaign urging people to drink more beer 1"
on the same day at Newmarket, Gregalach fetching £4,500
"I cannot find myself able to say and
this beverage is good for all people Grakle £8,000. Grakle was Coul thwaite's favourite and he per-ple," Sir Geotge added......
"ar this beverage is bad for all peo- suaded one of his patrons Mr. C. Taylor to buy him and let him remain in his own stable. Greg lach went to Mrs. Gemmell, a very Fortunate circumstance" for her, while Grakle has on the whole been disappointing animal, with erra- tic ways He finished sixth Inst year in the Grand National, and his traines still has hopes that he will bring off the feat next time.
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Sir George. I should hope it would fail. "(Laughter.) It would make it more difficult for the pub- lie health point of view.
Sir George produced figures which showed that half the insured population visit their doctor once a.year.
thing that half the insured populá
Mr. Whitbread.-It is à terrible
tion should have to go and see a doctor once a year.
be much higher. They love to see Sir George. In America it would
their doctor and go once a year to have what they call an "overhaul." It is possible some of these people are like the Americans and want to
be overhauled.
One of the best performances, 30 far this season, has been given by one of the Grand National Innser lights, Merrivale II. This horse Gatwick, beating several other as won a four-mile race recently at pirants to steeplechasing fame, in cluding M. D. Blair's Ballyhan wood, H. G. Selfridge's Ruddy man, and Lady H. eCalmont's Irish mare Alike, winner of the Irish Grand National. This was Merrivale's first" win under Nation al Hunt Rules, although now in his thirteenth year. He is an ex- hunter who has won no fewer than race" are coupled with the Grand 18 point-to-point steeplechases. National of Friday, the most Merrivale, who belongs to the popular Lineola fancies being History of the Race.
sporting peer Lord Westmoreland, Guards Parade. Square Rock and fell in the 1839 Grand National; Pachilik. These are coupled chief- The Grand National was first run
through no fault of his own, having in the year 1839, there being 17 completed one circuit of the track runners. In 1929 there were 08, when he was baulked at a jump by which was the highest number of Tipperary Tim, who won the pre- horses that ever started in a racevious year. The Gatwick race, is in England. The record time for reckoned to be a good teat of { are looking for 100 to 1.," shots". the race is 9 minutes 4.2-5 seconds stamina, so Merrivale II. possesses again this time. made by Ascetic Silver in 1006. Up till 1929 only three horses have won the Grand National in suc. cessive years. Last year only ten
The Lincolnshire handicap was horses completed the full distance.
instituted in 1849, though in its The first big race of the flat-early history the race was run over Even though Easter Hero, who was favourite
season, for the Grand racing
the Lincolnshire twice to-day's distance.
is no reason to suppose the race National, has been scratched, there handicap will take place on March will develop into a one-horse affair. Gregalach Shows Good Form.
Several hundred thousands of people will swarm all over the Aintree enclosure to witness the great race. They will go from all parts of England, Scotland, Wales,
As the season advances several and Ireland. Special liners will others have been showing marked take a large contingent direct to ability in the various rehearsals, Liverpool from America, many of Gregalach, by winning the Grand whom are regular visitors each Allies steeplechase at Blanchester, year. Besides dozens of special after an absence of 10 months from and excursion traïns direof to the à race-track, rallied many new sup race-track station, provision will be porters to his side. On this occa made for those arriving by air, &sion last year's Grand National special landing ground is being made close by.....
To Liverpool and. the surround ing districts the Grand National fixture provides a veritable gold mine owing to the great influx of people for the occasion.
Hotels,
a good outside chance at Aintree.
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THE LINCOLNSHIRE
HANDICAP.
with Gregalach, Great Span, and Grakle. though many, bettors, re- mombering that in 1928 and 1923. the winners of the Grand National were quoted at odds of 100 to 1.
First Run In 1848.
It fiequently falls to an extreme outsider, giving the bookmakers their first benefit of the year. Only
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As usual the meeting which opened last Monday, will attract a large once in the history of the race has WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY it been won by the same horse in crowd of the general public, be, sides owners, trainers, jockeys and successive years. This honour be bookmakers, all eager to resume longs to a horse named Ob, which operations after the winter's rest.
son in 1906, and 1007. Curiously Run over a
straight mile track, enough there were 24 runners on the field will be made up of good, each occasion, though Ob carried bad, and indiferent horses Howpounds more weight the second ever all are more forward in con- dition than usual so early in the season owing to mild weather dur winner gave faultless exhibitioning most of the winter; some hay- of jumping when a long way from ing benefitted from a course of tip-top condition, Even with 10 hurdling during the National Hunt pounds more weight to carry than season.
time..
THE LIVERPOOL CUP. The Liverpool Spring Cup race provides the chief attraction on the opening day of the famous Aintree meet, which starta on March 27.
Although the Grand, National is.
when be won last year, Mrs. M. A. Originally the entry list totalled Gemmell's gelding must be con- 16 horses, one less than last year's the star turn on the whole pro- sidered one of the live candidates figure. M. J. Wittouck's well-gramme, the various enclosures. shops, restauranta, and pubs" do for the coming National." Whe-known performer, Palais Royal 11. and stands will be packed by sport- a roaring trade: So great is thether he will win again, now that was allotted topweight, but his ing folk from all parts of England, demand for accommodation at the the weights do not appear to be name was later withdrawn. When Scotland and Ireland, besides inany leading hotels that many reserva in his favour is a matter which betting commenced on the race thousands from European countries, tions were made twelve months ago, must be left to the race itself to about a month beforehand, the pub and the United States. Unlike
All the best steeplechasers in decide." "
........lic fastened on to another French- Epsom and Ascot, Aintree is not England together with some from Gregalach is likely to overshadow trained horse, Capt. J. D. Cohn's an ultra-fashionable meet. There Ireland and France will take part his stable companions Great Span Vatout, this horse has now been are no spacious lawns where in the race. Although there will be and Sandy Hook, at least till the scratched. French owners are gen- fashionable folk may sojourn and no American bred animal in the day of the race, but Sandy Hook erally very interested in the Lingossip. Nor can the ladies Tend race, there will be several owned has 16 pounds "less to carry than colnshire handicap, and many much colour to the proceedings for,. by wealthy Americana, including Gregalach, and this is a big differ-Gallic names appeared in the list owing to the vagaries of the Eng Mr. Stephen Sanford's Sandy ance in weight between two good when entries were published. Hook. Several of the runners will horses Sandy Hook is a proved The Americans, à. K. Macomber, he old slagers over the Amatree Aintree fencer who sent exception- treck, while others will be tackling ally well in the race last year, the formidable fences for the first keeping close to Easter Hero for time. Most bettors are plunging 4 miles. There is just a doubt for last year's winner, Mrs. M. A. about him staying the full dis Gemmell's. Gregalach. Richmond tance. The same can be applied to 11., which ran third last year, whs the majority of the runners so scratched from the race two months there is a possibility of Sandy Ago. However, Gregalach is not Hook crediting Mr. S. Sanford the only one receiving support, and with his second Grand National practically every horse in the race win. A is backed by some one or other. On the same day that Gregalnch Approximately £2.000 go to the Many people, remembering that in won at Manchester, another well-winning owner, while second and home territory! The winner's :1929 and 1928 the race was won by known Grand National hores, third receive $100 and £50 respec- outsiders quoted at odds of 100 to Grakle, won a two-faile race. This tively. Owners of horses which 1, and that anything may happen pair have had similar careers up will run in the Lincolnshire Han in race of thrills and spills, are to a point for both came from dirap paid 20 entrance fee for fastening on the long-priced horses Ireland at the same time to Coul- each animal, Many, wagers on the on this opension."
thwaite's stable. They were sold (Continued on next Column,)
and Victor Emanuel also will be represented, the former by one horse from France, Saint Nicholas II, while the latter bas entered three of which trio War Mist is consider ed to hold the best chance. Last, year's 100/1 wisnor, Elton is enter ed again. This animal was kept in good, trim during the winter by means of hurdling, and is not un favourably handicapped the
lish springtime, warm furs, stout tweeds or leather conte with mae- kintoshes, are the order of the day. The field for the Liverpool Cup race will be composed of good handicap performers, many of which are also entered in the Lin. colnshire handicap. It is run over a circular track of ten furlongs,, the race provides some heavy wagering, many bettors, following Lord Derby's runners throughout the day as the famous sporting peer uegally wins one or more events on his
prize amounts to £300 together with 250 in plate or specie at the option of the owner, ze
"Läst year the race who won by. Adieu, The Mohawk being accop and Quick Stick third.
HONEY MOON."
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