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This strange individual was the son of Sir Joshua Stewart. After fighting at Waterloo, he entered into a wager of £5,000 with a certain Count Bender, a school- fellow in Scotland, that in order to test the hospitality of varicus countries, they should proceed in disguise, the peer through Great Britain and the Count fiddling his way through France and Belgium. The campaign was to have lasted three years, but the Count gave up the contest, having only col- lected $340, as against the Scots- man's £7,000 in England alone.
The closing years of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth were notorious for the extraordinary wagers indulged in by our sport- ing forebears. At certain famous clubs every incident was made the subject of a wager, and thou- sands of pounds changed hands over the veriest trifle. George Selwyn, who knew something about the business, used to declare that there was nothing| in the heavens above or the earth below, or in the waters under the earth upon which these men could not contrive to bet, and this craze led many noble family to ruin.
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would get first on foot to Inverness Wagers were made ON the from Blackhallin Kincardineshire, point. After the slums of Lon- where a large party of sportsmen don had been searched from were just having dianer with Mr. one end to another, an old woman Farquharson. At pine that very was found who seemed to be night, in evening dress, with thin | more ugly than the Master of the shoes and silk stockings. Lord Revels. The judges were те Kennedy, accompanied by Cap- luctantly bound to admit that tain Ross, struck straight across Heidegger had met his match, the Grampains.
until it was suggested that he should put on the old women's bonnet. But this caused him to appear so much uglier than the old woman that he was unan- incasly declared to be the cham- pion of extreme ugliness.
It rained till morning.. It rain- ed all day. It rained all the next night. At six the following morning they reached Inverness four hours before Sir Andrew, who had taken the coach road by way of Huntly and Elgin.
WHICH WAS THE UGLIER? This Captain Ross was the same man who bet Mr. George Foljambe £60 that he would shoot
When George IV. was Prince Regent he made a wager with Sheridan that when opening Par- lament he would work in any interpolation he liked without it being detected: and the foolish
to introduce the words "Baa, haa, black sheep! in the very middle of the Speech from the Tbrane. And if anyone smiles or looks startled, I lose my bet," the Prince remarked.
Strange, incredible indeed, as
Who, for instance, would nowa- days bet anything between five and a hundred guineas as to the number of his friend's children and the date of their arrival? Yet there are terally hundreds of those wagers solemnly recorded in the Betting Book of White's some two and a half hundred-team and to give notices of the together with others dealing with weight.
arrival of the Royal Mail! almost every conceivable subject On August 29, 1750, the carriage Just three years before the One of the less common type with its four chosen horses and foregoing. Baron Osten, of the relates to a gentleman, presum-postilións took the field at New-16th Lancers, won curious ably embarrassed, concerning market before an immense crowd wager in Lord Charlemont's park, whom a bet is recorded that be of spectators, among whom A hundred stones were placed on does not from necessity part course was cleared by a horseman the ground with a yard between with his gold ice-pails before this resplendent in red velvet. In the cach: the Baron rode up to each, day twelve month." Another result the duke's judgment was dismounted, picked it up, rode concerns a certain baronet whose thoroughly viudicated, for the back to a basket, dismounted financial itemstances formed horses, fairly running away with again, and put in the stone and ten brace of swallows-with-abet being accepted, it was agreed the subject of a wager between their riders, actually covered the rode off for the next. He did pistol and single ball in one day, Lord Alvanley and Sir Joseph first four miles in nine minutes them all in three-quarters of an and won the wager before break Copley.. If he is observ and the total distance in six hour. Much the same thing fast. Lord Kennedy was also ed, so runs the Betting minutes and thirty-three seconds was done by a clever Devonshire famous for another bet with a Mr. Book, to borrow small change under the bour.
man, who wagered that he Cruickshank of £500 a hole, for of the chairman or waiters Sir The duke's next successful would
hundred three holes, at golf, at half-past Joseph is to be reckoned to lose." venture was in a curious competi-stones, each a yard from its ten at night: one lantern to be
Again the course of contempor- tion in which he made a remark-neighbour, and put them all placed on the hole, the other to as it may seem in these strenuous ary history may be traced in such able use of professional cricketers. together back in one spot within be carried by the caddie, and no political days, he did not lose entries in the betting book as His bet was that he would cause thirty-five minutes. on foot. A more allowed. Boys were on the his bet. The ridiculous exploit Mr. Butler bets Sir George a letter to be conveyed fifty miles knowledge of Baron Osten's feat course to track the balls, and came off as planned. At the Talbot twenty guineas to one an hour, a feat that, in those day's availed the layers nothing, for Lord Kennedy won, with the close of a more or less weighty that he is not in the room at sounded no doubt impossible the crafty West countryman laid usual score he made in daylight. allusion to Wellesley's campaign White's with Napoleon in the enough to those unfortunate per out the stones in a circle, and hadi Nothing was too trivial or too in Spain, the Royal gagger course of the next two years sons who took the bet. Not so. them all in a heap in the middle serious--for betting in those days cleared his throat, and said. April 24, 1815:
however, to His Grace, who en-in eighteen minutes.
There is a true story concerning "Baa, baa, black sheep!" and closed the message in a cricket In Scotland feats of muscular Heidegger, Master of the Revels went on without exciting remark ! ball and then stationed a number strength used to be particularly to George II., whose ugliness, itJH. Young in the Weekly On one occasion a mar. dropped of noted cricketers at fixed inter-popular. The lifting of heavy was said, could not be surpassed. Scrdsman. down at the door of White's, and vals. The ball was then thrown weights, the wrestling of strong he was carried into the house. from man to man, and covered by men together, the tearing of packs Was he dead? Betting
com- this method many miles over the of cards, the splitting of wood by menced, and the odds were taken required fifty.
the hands were feats that excited for end against. Some, who had
great interest and caused con- staked hundreds on the man being
siderable wagering of money. deed, protested when their oppon- But old-time competitors and
bert ents desired to bleed the un- wager-makers
modern BULLOCK FELLED BY FIST. conscious object of these wagers. ones. hollow for originality On one occasion enormous in- They argued that the use of the and eccentricity. For instance, terest was produced in the Border lance, would affect the fairness of Horace Walpole's brother, Lord towns by the public declaration of the bet. Thus these gentlemen Orford, once backed a drove cija mane named Me. Gregor, & gravely argued the pros and cons. geese to race an equal number of painter, belonging to Kelso, that affecting their foolish wagers. turkeys from Norwich to London, he would fell a bullock with three Of all odd wagers, however, He won the bet., for the geese blows of his.fst. He was reputed that of the Duke of Queensberry.kept to the road all the time and to be a strong man, although of who was notorious es "Old Qwere steady goers. The turkeys. slender build, but few thought was probably the father of the when darkness came on, flew to his promise possible of fulfilment. most remarkable, in days when the trees to roost by the roadside, When the day came there were borses alone were more than from which their drovers had a thousands gathered to witness sufficient to sate the gambling hard task to dislodge them. The the trial of strength, and en- energies of our forefathers. No turkeys arrived in town two days) thusiasm knew no bounds when one was as clever as he at mak- after the geese.
the animal fell at the second blow ing matches on the turf, whether Sir John Laïde once wagered to of his fist. as Lord March, he rode himself, carry Lord Cholmondeley at Pedestrianism had many ardent or not; and bis famous bet (in Brighton puck-a-puck fashion devotees in these days, such which Lord Eglinton was his from the Pavilion twice round the as Captain Robert Barclay, associate) with Count Taaffe and Steyne.. As Sir John was small one of the earliest advocates of Mr. Andrew Sprowle showed that and the Eari a giant in stature, something like scientific training. he understood horses in harness the event drew a large crowd. He won his first wager when he All was ready when Sir John re- was only 17 by walking six
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The terms of the wager were marked that it was time for his miles within the hour on the that Count Taaffe and his friend Lordship to strip. His Lordship Croydon road. Five years later betted Lord March and Eglinton gasped. "I engaged to carry you, this hardy young Scot bet Mr one thousand-guineas that they but not an inch of clothes," re- Fletcher £5,000 that he would could not provide a four-wheeled peated Sir John;" so hurry up, go 90 miles on foot in 2114 carriage to carry a man and be my Lord, make ready, and do not successive hours. He began at drawn by four horses nineteen let us disappoint the crowd." But midnight at Aytou, on the road miles in an hour. The duke, as the crowd was disappointed, for to Hull, which was well lighted it is simpler to call him, took an his Lordship-stoutly refused to by lamps, and walked a mile out infinity of trouble over his task, take off hie clothes, and Sir John and back until he finished his' trying horse after horse, and pocketed the stakes.
task at 22 minutes past eight in carriage after carriage. Wright, In January 1821, when 97 years the evening, with an hour to of Long Acre, was finally the old, Mr. Huddy, who was the spare. When he was 30 and happy man whose bandiwork was postmaster of Lismore, made a weighing just under 13. stone, he selected. This was a horse-wager that he would travel from did considerably better, covering breaker's brake without the usual Lismore to Fermoy in a Dungai-1000 miles in 1000 consecutive high perch, having oilcans fixed van tub drawn by a pig, two cats, hours on grase that had been cut to the boxes of the wheels, and a goose, and a hedgehog. He and rolled.
the pole and bars made of thin wore on his head a large, red As a matter of unprepared and wood lapped with wire to streng-, night-cap, and carried a pig genuine strength, Sir Andrew then. The springs were of steel drover's whip in one hand, and Leith Hay's wager with Lord and the harness of silk and in the other & big cow's horn, Kennedy will always stand high whalebone, and the total weight which he blew to encourage his for Sir Andrew bet £2,500 shat he
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ENEMY WAR CRIMINALS.
London, Dec. 4. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Lloyd George stated that the Allies had the right to demand the surrender for trial of any enemy war criminals. It was in tended to enforce that fight and final lists were now under consideration, but at present it was undesirable to state the numbers or how many were already in the hands of the Allies
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Paris, Dec. 8. -
Wang King-ki, a law professor of Peking University, was itterviewed in Paris after the Brussels conference for establishing a League of Nations. He asserted that China is ready to associate with the League provided, all nations are heing allowed the same rights.-Havas.
THE IRISH BILL.
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London, Dec. 4.
In the "House of Commons at question time Mr. Lloyd George said he hoped to introduce the Irish Bill early in the third week of December. Parliament would be prorogued before Christmas but the Bill would be carried over to next session by a special suspensory resolution.
BULGAR ARMY REDUCED.
London, Det, 4.
The Bulgarian army has been reduced to a strength 3,000 officers and 44,000 men."
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