1958-12-04 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4,- 1958.

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ARE VERDICT IS FUN

FANTASTIC Double Blow To O'Neill

THE ODDS BUT THE

Pupil And Master

Pupil and muster they used to say of Peter May

und Len Jutton. Now they are equals in slature and execution. See how the pupil

the copied master.

(right) May hooks Australia's Lind- Hay Kline in Sydney in a

recent match. Ten years ago Hutton, when May was 18, was playing the shot in the same text-book

manner.

Diving Champion Suspended

Hungary's

Budapest, Dec. 3

diving champion, slo Ujvart, has been excluded from the national Olymple pre- seinglion and suspended until the conclusion of un loquiry Intu charges of a disciplinary nature levelled against him," the Hun- gurian MTI news agency report -

tonight,

Ujvari wan

the European springboard uitle at The 1958

National Baseball League President

for a further Washington, Dve. 3

five-year period. has presided witaming championship held in The American National Base- er

over the Budapest this summer --Pratwe- | ball 1gur

League since 1951. today re-elected | Baseball Presse

as its ChalmunFrance-Presse.

Warren Giles

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

PART OF THAT PUCKE

DIGINTEORATED

SANISHED!

1 DAT WHAT HAPPENED?

IN THE PEOPLE IN THIS

LITTLE ROOM -

FERDINAND.

NANCY

NO-THAT'S QUITE DIFFORENT.-

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HERE COMES ROLLO, THE RICH KID

HE'S DELIVERING HIS NEWSPAPER ROUTE

I DON'T SEE HIM

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BRICK BRADFORD ·

BRICK LANDO ON THE ATOLL AND 18 QUICKLY RUSHED INTO PREPARATIONS

· FOR HIS MISSION

YOU ARE FINE PHYSICALLY, BRICK! IF I DONT GEE YOU BEFORE BLAST-OPH

8 CCST OF LUCH!

A FEW HOURD LATER...

YOU KNOW THE FLIGHT PLAN, YOU ORBIT THE

I HAVE IT)

IT GHOULD GO AS GWOOTI} AS CLOCK

| BARTH FOR TWENTY-FOUR}{

HOURS, THEN BRING THE CON

X-&-9-16 BACK

DOWN,

WORKS

Millions Of Punters' Buying A Dream Via The Football Pools

By TERENCE FEELY

Each weekend in the football season, ten million Britons

spend £2,000,000 on the Pools.

For some of them, Pools Fever hits delirious climax with a winning line, when the results of Saturday matches come throught.

For the rest-a bit of disappointment. But not permanent disillusion. The Pools punter buys a dream of riches. And it the dream 'comes unstuck' this week, he can buy another one next week.

these

Who

they, Bre lion hopeful punterst

ten Does that matter to Britons?!

In that curious British tradition, The man next door, punting] it's not so much the result that for the promise of 'Shangri La,' counts it's the playing of the

The

big businessman-playing game.

of an untaxed

for the chance

capital gain (one prosperous stockbroker won £100,00Ö),

Some Tune

And the game is played to

soine 500 newspapers devote acres of newsprint to discussion of the subject.

Clergymen-lu the hope of a windfall for their church. Im Somme tune, Every week, British

of poverished persons

title; and prosperous 'barrow boys',

This is sporting bishops, too. what the mailing lists of the big) Pools Arms show.

Astronomical Odds

All the perm does, for instance,

Ir the case quoted, is to save

the punter the labour of writing out 15 separate lines,

The fact is, too, that despite the growing popularity

of syndicates their record in the big prize category is not parti- cularly impressive.

The Big Winners

Who gets the big money? Time and again it's the man who is in the numbers from his femily's birthdays who scoops te poolt Or the woman who pricks out her cholee with an intuitive pint

Every week the millions pour from the British public into the What are the chances of a winį pools, It comes from the canal man at the rate of four shillings --any sort of a win?

#time-the average stake. it comes from syndicates al the: Women send in almost rate of £10-£20-£30 a time. rany coupons is men and their 11 comes from the cautious opuch, tunist risking six pence. steadily, from

The odds against the punter org astronomical, Against the fabulous sort of win that brings u reward amourting to £200,000, the odds are a thousand-milion

19 one.

In other words, if a man were Immortal and did the pools every week of his life, he'd have to live halt a million years be- fore he could expect to win a big dividem.

It

seems, it

Arm

ая

15 luckter. It's no more than a "Perhaps

they're because comes, most more persistent," suggested thu the permutation) spokesman of one Pools fend, who work by week links They will stick at it where men

Into his Hele half-lines

up-{ get discouraged It's ex- patently impregnable chains of traordinary, though, how often a wife will bring off the big win winners

the very week that she takes over frem frer fed-up husband."

The Big Win-this is the lure that keeps the coupons rolling And despite the odds, despite the denial of mathematics cold

lucky humanity stumbling,

into it with heartening Lumps regularity

How does the little man fare against the syndicates and the permutation experts?

not

Strangely, it is often the sixpence-a-time man, putting in the one line that the per

who expert forgot,

scoops the

A person has the same chance of winning 25,000 as he or she hes of being struck by lightning. You can hope to win £500 as often as you can expect to find pool. a pearl in an oyster.

And

For the fact is that the value the odds against your of perans is purely illusory. Can you "Addie" the Pools:

There have been people who winning £5-£30 are the same There is no Intrinsic mathemati- as those against polsoning your- cal magle in

They have falted, the cryptic little have tried. self seeldentally in your home, messages ("Perm

two For the extraordinary situation any is That what the statistics) columns from six") that accom- that Pools Fever has brought in

pany so many questing coupons. tis wake is this:

show.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THIS STRANGE AGENCY YOUR STRANGE WEAPON ..WHERE ARE YOU FROM--AND WHAT

ARE YOU DOING

HERE T

I CAN'T TAKE TIME

TO TELL YOU. WE ARE

AGAINST VIOLENCE

BUT YOU ARE DANGEROUS TO US-- I'M SORRY TO

DO THIS

By Mik

ay Erate Bushmiller

HE'S OVER

KELLY'S

HOUSE NOW

By Paul Norris

BRICK, YOU HAVE BEEN IN OPACE. MANY TIMEO IN THE TIME-TOP AND IN SHİPO FROM OTHER PLANETS, THATS WHY YOU ARE SO GUITED FOR THE TADK...THE TIME YDP IN AUNQUE VEHICLE, BUT IT SN'T OUITABLE TO OUR NEEDS) THE

IS...EVERYONE WIGHES, YOU THE BBOY IN THIS, GRACE RACE..BRING IN OUR FRET BIS WINNER/

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COMFORT

A double blow in the full sense is being inflicted on Australian batsman, Norman O'Neill hero, as he

Is not only out Ibw, but also hit on the toe by fast- bowler Freddie Trueman,

Davis Cuppers Reprimanded

Two

For Incorrect Attire

Melbourne, Dec. 4. very good rule."-China members of the United Special. States Davis Cup team have been reprimanded for not wear- ing correct tennis attire when they practised at Kooyong courts

on Tuesday.

Earl Buchholz and Chris Craw- ford, who appeared on the courts!

Mall

Korean Boxer No Match For

in grey track suits to warm up, Jap Champion

DI \-)|

did not know that a rule of the

Association Lawn Tennis

Tokyo, Dec. 3. Australia required players

Twenty-year-old Jiro Suwinda wear whiles on the coura

defended his Japanese welter- An official at the courts asked weight crown

Lonight with a them to wear white tennis clothes one-sided ten-round decision when they next appeared.

Over handsome 28-year-old He sald the rule was de Korean middleweight and wel- algned to maintain the dignity erweight champion Kang Sae of tennis. than

Chuli before 3,000 spectators at Non-playing

of the the Nichi-Dai auditorium, for- U.S. team Mr Perry Jones said merly known as the Memorial

us too much

Wr. Stadium.

Well Guarded

No atomic plant is more a scrupulously guarded Puoiy frm on match day Saturday, after kick-off time, no one-no maller who he is15 allowed to enter or leave the building.

Executives must give up their car keys to prevent anyone Every stening in to car radios. door and window is locked. A ecurity mun takes charge of the switchboard-to Intercept any telephone call that might be tried.

CITI~

During the week, 3,000 to 4,000 searches-on desks and ployees--are carried out. Snap searches may be announced at any hour of the day,

There are Jetter-boxes- and doors and windows are 80 sealed that nothing can be slipped through them. Each coupon delivered in the normal way is stamped four separate times and the stamp codes are liable to be changed at a minute's notice

Can the Pools "fiddle" their clients?

'Fiddling'?

"There would be no point in! our trying," they say, "We have te pay out a certain sum of money cach week. It doesn't matter to us who gets it.

"Also, by the very nature of our machinery, to many cm- ployees know when wioner comes up, that it could not be kept quiet. 'Fiddling on our part is therefore unt only point- less, but it is physically Lan. possible."

Are the Pools a good thing? | Ten million Britons think so, They feel the wonderful thing about the Pools is that even if that Big Win eludes you, it won fan junt the same...and you Java just as much chance as anybody else to win a fortune next week,

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

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DRAWN MATCH

Kang, who arrived from Manila, was no match for tho fish-market-working Jopanese

boxer.

Albens, Dec. 3. Korean bantamweight cham- Greece and France drew 1-1pion Chung Kook Myo fought to

with fourth raniting in their European football cupļa draw match for natioba here today. Japanese bantamweight Kanji

Both goals were scored In Inagiki in the 10-round semi- the second half-Router. inal bout-UP.1.

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