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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY
10,000,000 BET ON POOLS
Gambling On Hours
Of Sunshine
LONDON, JUNE 19. THE CHURCHES: COMMITTEE ON GAMBLING, IN 1TS: LATEST SURVEY, ESTIMATES THAT 10,000,000 PEOPLE TOOK PART REGULARLY DURING 1938-9 IN FOOTBALL AND OTHER POOL BETTING.
Exact figures were not available, but careful. inquiries official Post Office statistics and answers to questions in Parliament, it is stat ed, confirm the estimate of the numbers who used the pools re- gularly.
The survey states that, as the, average, stake was not less than 28, 6d, the necessary, postages and poundages would bring the total figure invested in pools to about. £50,000,000,
"The biggest prizes paid during the season were two of £18,000 .each for one penny as against. several of over £80,000 during the previous season," it is stated.
"This was due to a new rule which strictly limited the amount of first dividends and enabled & greater number of clients to share the winnings. However, the size of the pools increased.
FOOTBALL OPPOSITION
"The largest penny points pool received regularly over £100,000 per week and reached the high-water mark of £108,660 for the week just before Christmas. Into this one gigantic penny pool the incredible amount of about 24,000,000 pennies was poured every week over period of some months.
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"Although a number of small promoters disppeared, others, at- tracted by the propect of big profits. ́and quick returns, took their places, and the total showed an increase on the figures for the pre vious year.
"Firms advertising in leading national and provincial newspapers numbered 65, with a total of about 450 pools.
"Profit are attractive, for, if the minimum of 20 per cent. of the money staked is allowed for expen- ses and commission, the total rake- off for the season was- about £9, 000,000 £2,250,000 clear profit. and £6,750,000 expenses.
"Clubs and syndicates are popu- lar in which members pool their ́stakes and share the winnings.
"The football authorities, always stoutly opposed to any from of gambling associated with football, maintained their opposition to the pools."
The review concludes by pointing out that there appears to be no limit "to promoters' ingenuity in inventing pools. There are -iće hockey pools, Stock Exchange pools, gigantic Totaligator pools, cricket pools and even sunshine pools for holiday-makers to exploit hu-
man weakness.
*1939,
are now
Funits.
Library,
cleared of Japanese ELECTIONS ON
Japanese who landed on
Sunday were driven back to their NOVEMBER 162
warships yesterday morning.
Some 20 of the Japanese war vessels off the mouth of the Min River have steamed away, leaving only over ten vessels there. Central News.
The P. and O. steamer Corfu, which left Singapore on July 1, is due in Hong Kong at about 11 a.m. on Wednesday
London, To-day.
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SON FOR HERBERT SUTCLIFFE
During the luncheon interval- the match between Warwickshire and Yorkshire, at Birmingham elec-telegr was received by the York- lahire team from Herbert Sutcliffe
his announcing the birth B. son
Though no official decisi yet been taken, the chand that the date of the general tion will be November 16.
To hold it earlier would impinge upon municipal election activities, which reach their climax on Novem bør T
The child - is Sutcliffe's second son, Jack Hobbs is godfather of the first, and there is also a daughter. To have the election in mid- October would cut short the normal fore the prorogation, as has been Parliamentary vacation and preclude the custom in recent years. the resumption of the reason be own. Correspondent,
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Dick, you're always running away to those girls next← door! You never consider me lately.
| might as well not exist for all the notice you
take of
me
This tiredness makes me feel so desperate. doctor. Why I even wake
·tired!
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For heaven's sake, Gwen, don't be difficult. If you: weren't always complaining of tiredness these days
they'd
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too!"
Well, Mrs. Peters. your trouble sounds like Night Starvation. You see, even during sleep you go on using up energy in. heartbeats, breathing. and other automatic actions: Unless energy is replaced during sleep, no wonder you wake hired feel and book, run-down and y nervy,, ladvise
Horlicks for that
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DICK'S GAY, LAUGHTER FROM NEXT DOOR WAS UKE TORTURE TO NERVY RUN-DOWN GIVEN SHE RUSHED INDOORS TO ESCAPE IT
HORLICKS FOR GWEN EVERY NIGHT -- HER HEALTH IMPROVED WONDERFULLY
MR PETERS! We want another man for a mixed doubles. Will you join us ?
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GOSH, I DA LOOM OLD AND DEARN THESE DAYS. CANY BLAME DICK, DEALER ON IF "ONLY I COULD SHAKE OFF THESE NERVES AND TIREDNESS.
I WONDER IF ITD BE ANY GOOD SEEING THE
DOCTOR
Gwen, you look marvellous
such a sparkle these day
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