THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1947.
A $2 OFFERING TO LADY LUCK
This is where it starts. You part with your two dollars 1. and walk away with a ticket and a silent prayer.
This picture was taken last Saturday at Happy Valley during the third extra meeting. Tickets for the big sweeps are also sold at the Jockey Club offices in Exchange Building. A through ticket, costing $16, gives you a chance on every sweep of the day on the same number.
2.
The sale of tickets is stopped 10 minutes
before each race is due to start. Jockey Club officials then check the numbers of tickets sold, and settle down to some fast arithmetic to work out the values of prizes. This is a part of the organizational work that the public does not usually are. Mr B. J. Bailhache, who is in charge of cash sweeps,
is here zeen with an assistant working out the prizes.
3.
This is the most important--and exciting-stage of the proceedings. The tiny marbles which the man is putting into the drum at the left bear the numbers of the ponies starting in the race. When one number is drawn, two other marbles, each bearing two digits, are drawn from the smaller drums in centre foreground to represent the lucky ticket number. Inact marble being drawn.
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The drawing takes place on race days in the Public 4. Stand betting enclosure, in full view of the public. As ́each number is drawn, it is held up for all to see, and, the official in charge also makes it known audibly. Each drawing is usually witnessed by a small crowd. When big sweeps are drawn, however, interest is intense and there may be a huge press of people.
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number is drawn, it is marked by another official on a blackboard against the number of the corresponding pony. The lists are typed and posted at convenient notice boards in the stands. Have you won? If you have, you may either receive your prize money on the spot or collect your cheque at the Jockey Club offices in town at your leisure. Well, good luck!
BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP (in Chicago) REPORTS-
• The Americans havo made a deep study of how ́lo"waste" time” efficiently.”
They
• Their privately-owned telephone system is one of "the wonders of the Universe,
When it comes to tho world's worst cooks, they've got the Empire beaten.
think Britain
is fading out
It is certainly true that American women seldom smoke in the streets, or in public conveyances; and, as we
BY THE
WAY by Beachcomber
VIRIGOU! What will they
say next? Here is a French doctor claiming that the sound of the violin is good for the liver.
But the best thing for the liver is a good laugh, and the violin is no laughing matter, unless the doc- tor was thinking of the music-hall
all know, the American privately performer in a tall coat, a kilt, owned telephone service is the first of the seven wonders of the
torn collar and a broken celluloid shirt-front hanging outside his Tis a somewhat shattering cream, bacon and eggs, rolls, toast,
Universe. But when it comes to crooked waist-coat. If I
suffered the world's worst cooks, I will experience to arrive in marmalade and koffee with cream.
vil from liver i should engage a big Mr. Bert Goldberg is wanted on
guarantee to pick a team from the girl to play the trombone
at mc. Chicago at seven o'clock
the telephone again. in the morning after travelling interrupt
They had to
U.S.A. that will beat the worst team
No cam None of your dainty misses. Dvorak's "Songs
chosen My
from the entire British dalliance or boudoir stuff.
"Ger- all night in a communal Pullman Mother Taught Me to get Bert this Empire. What 2410 Americans domaine, if the Baron calls, serve the sleeping coach, with a strange time,
in extracting all flavour from food Poppleton's British Port Wine. Tell is a major necomplishment, if not him 1 am out hunting and will be woman in the upper berth, and
» mirnele, Britain-hater
back shortly. He knows I am hermetically sealed train
But is it true that Englishmen keen follower of hounds." "And maintaining an average tem- THE Chicago Tribune is at once o
disparage their OWTA country to what hounds. ma'am! There's the perature of 98 degs. and
foreigners? I wonder if Mr. Holt captain, Mr Jimmie Buckram. great newspaper and the most may not have mistaken abuse of Count
Veniliope Commodore average speed of 60 miles per
bitter hater of Britala in all the
Mr
Eddie Go" the Government for abuse of the Knivette. hour.
U.S.A. I have been reading it for un country.
"Enough, Germaine, I hear the 1 hasten to add that the strange hour, admiring it as a journalist,
Baron's footfall. You may go." Indy and I did not travel in our en- deploring and
and resenting it ny forced Intimacy without proper Briton. I suggest that you look at chaperonage. Some 20 others shared the dormitorial democracy of what is regarded as first-class travel in the U.S.A.
All mechanised
an
it with me and try to
n
to imagine the Now let us
pit.
effect of its impact upon Chicago,
7
like
their
'Money or- Hail, 'cello, well met
look at the leader A RICH rasta, to whom somebody pointed out Kreisler at a party, cartoon enți- Here is a On its front page there is a story tled "Hold-up." A seedy looking shouldered his way up to the great entitled, "Here is why London isn't fellow with 11
it British-
"I've just walrus man, and said loudly. Chicago, signed by its London moustache and a morning coat is ordered your newest model. A fine torrespondent, Mr. Kermit Holt, It pointing a huge pistol (marked can And an equally rich mercanti, is written in Jinglese after the "Communism") to his own head when his wife bought a violin for fashion of Pickwick. Papers,
daughter, cried. "Surely, and while he holds out his hat (marked consists of staccato,
something disjointed "More Loans") to Uncle Sam, who
we can afford observations on London, such as: in his hands in his pockets. The bigger than that! Get her a 'cello, almost
Newspaper movie critics who pan death-beat in the morning cost is And from this it is but a step
Ainerlcon liims but saying:
my the man who found his Louis XV. money-ar drool praise for the most mediocre life."
bed too short for him, and told his British product.
that the Tribune's secretary to get the next size.
Louis XVI,, on approval. "sissies."
We seem to have wandered a long beggar's morning' coat is marked
actress sald to the stockbroker, who
!
"Your
In order
Mabci,
to
IN the advice of a taxicab driver the adverto Palmer House, a vast hotel where everything is so mechanised an alert that a stranger from England feels like a bowler hat blown on to the field in a Cup Final
In the great lounge. there is, me. chauised music, even ut 8 am.. Small boys dressed ilke renders should get the point, the which is constantly interrupted by a loud-speaker informing us that Mr Bert Goldberg is winted on the tele.
Telephone service that takes Broke Nations," but it is perfectly way from wherever we were, as the phone. All, symphonies, not merely five minutes on the average, often clear, which nation the coat fits. Schubert's,
are unfinished in this
longer to complete connection. But the most Intereating thing in led her into the middle of the maze hotel.
People with แก interiority the newspaper was its soberly at Hampton Court and The barber shops are hard at work complex who start a conversation written lender entitled "No Turning that his wife didn't understand blin. shaving, manicuring, and, above all, With a foreigner something like this.
"Well, cleaning the shoes of Chicago's man- hood. The strange and likeable people of the US.A, have made 4 deep study of how to waste time efficiently.
I
་་
bloody country
I Lu
Back."
This dealt in unprejudiced words what do you think of this
with the decision of His Majesty's Cigarettes that cost
Government to Introduce n Bill to 50 cents
develop. pack and women who smoke them plan all new real estate
imente without fale compensation. dangling from the lips
From this the Tribune argues that Hollywood gun moll style.
the socialisation of Britain to pro- The world's worst cooks who ceeding at such a reckless pace, that even if the Government are defent- "rationing, you knul."
ed at the next election the Con- servatives would be forced to be come Socialist Government, since the eggs cannot be unscrambled.
with the Chicago Tribune, upon the dining room, down when a dainty little negress "A Demi approached and said:" Tassp
500 air, and hardly sat blame their tasteless concoctions on
I told her that I had rather thought of opening the programme with Iced orange julee, but she said "Have a Demi Tasse, then orange juice and coffee at the end." So she poured me the famous American Demi Tasac, being a tiny cup of coffee.
He forgot these
much for Mr. Kermit Holl. Another pen might have found some alight nobility
They are kind
cathedrals, our Houses, of Parlia
rial a strange, and not altogether
happy, experience to be a roving
Song
The
nues
told her
man with spots before his Needs male's healing, balm. The fiddle's squeaking cestasies For him are full of charm. Hark to the scraping of the bou!
How luscious and how mellow! Who'd think that half an hour
при
That fellow
· Had black
cyce.
balloons before his Aud a face grotesquely yellow. Not that you care
THE report of a French ghost In
the uniform of the Napoleonic
ment, perhaps even in our bomb Briton An America just now. The wars in Shepheard's Hotel at Cairo BCUTA to shake London worthy to kindness of the people is over is rot very odd. For Bonaparte'a Then a pleasant sogto-walter took run with Chicago, but we would whelming, their warmth and friend- Cairo headquarters in 1708 were on. over and brought leod orange juice, be wise to sak ourselves if there is liness have no limits. But they are the spot now occupied by Shep- #rapefruit, cornflakes and rich not point to pome of his comments.
(Cchimued on Tage 10)
heard's Hotel,
· Isaataviste SKIDIKAN AZOTILLARDE
Clerk, taipan, banker, foki, hawker, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor and, of course, amah-they and the many thousands like them are responsible for the popularity of the Hongkong Jockey Club sweep- stakes. Their individual little "plunges," at two dollars per, amount in the aggregate to millions of dollars annually. Not a little of the success of the cash sweeps is due to the organisational efficiency of the Jockey Club officials. There is a lot of work involved in the operation of the sweeps, as you can imagine, but everything moves like clockwork.
Government derives considerable revenue from this source. From the gross receipts on each sweep, it takes 25 percent in betting tax. The money remaining after the Jockey Club's authorised com- mission has been deducted, is then applied to prizes: 70 percent for first prize, 20 percent for second prize and 10 percent for third prize, after standard prizes equal to the number of unplaced starters have been allowed for.
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