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QUEER TURNS OF LUCK IN BETTING. Some say that the most unlucky thing you can do in betting or gambling is in any way to discount your possible winnings or to say beforehand that you expect to do well. Yet in 1911 the man who drew Sunstar in the Derby sweep at a well-known London club, gave as his non de plume in the draw the name of A. W. Inner. He was. says Answers of London, to the tune of about 1917.sh00. Blink Beamy was the assumed name of Dr. Bolton, who drew Sunstar in the Calcutta sweep the same year. He is said to have won 25.000 — a record ecn for tin- sweep. In the year 1910 tli" min who drew the winner. Leather*;, was Capt. H. L. Bahaaa, of the Indian army. He was homo on have at the time. Thinking that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he sold half of his ticket for 7,500 and then went to Kpsoni to sec Lcmberg earn him another |l 71,000 In all. he was the richer for his tacky investment of fourteen shillings by nearly 115. 000. Even this was not the end of his luck. for. by a strange coincidence, lie also drew Romberg in the sweep arranged among the members of the Somerset County Club at Taunton. Some years ago a young Englishman arrived in London frees Florida about * fortnight before the Derby. He had lost a large amount of money over oranges, and was hard up. He put up at a well-known hotel mar Covent Garden and took a ticket in the tea shilling Derby sweep, which is always made up tiiere. Though he had not more than S100 in his poeees-sion. he invested another sovereign in the club sweep. That was Commons year and. incrediide as it may appear, he drew Common iu both sweeps and won in all something over 0,000. Big Dividend from a Place Eet. To draw any winner in the Calcutta sweep meant a leg sum oi money. In 1011 a workhouse mas tor under the Warrington Inion bought three tickets, one of which, numbered 211.915. drew Btedfaat A syndicate at once offered SO. 000 for a half share. Although Btedfaat did not win, the total sum received by his lucky purchase was SO 1.000. What is the biggest sum ever won upon the Derby? Certainly not the 28,000 of the 1011 Calcutta sweep. In old days the betting on racing was far heavier than it is now. and the record in wagering was reached in the sixties. That* is no need to retell the story of the wonderful Derby of IBS?, with its terrific rivalry between Mr. Chaplin and the Marquis of Hastings. Hermit, the formers horse, was reported dead lume and a certain non-runner. The horse had broken a blood vessel not long before the race and started at til to 1. -Hermit, admirably ridden by John Daly, won Mr. naplin 25,000. One bet alone was for the enormous sum of 25,000. In lfSl, the year of the great Exhibition, the winner of the great race was leddiiigton. nominally the property of the famous Sir Joseph Haw -ley. What Sir Joseph won over that race no one knows, b it it must have been something enormous, for he pare liis jockey. Mareon, a cluck for 0,000. Davis, the Cetaeeaa of the ring, lost 1000,000 over that lace, and thr ther bookmakers over 50.- iioii apiece. Bliak B iy. the lo roiae of IB37, started at SO to 1. Tournament, the favorite, being unplaced. She only just succeed -cl iu beating Black Toauay, whose .i,:i, - w; lightly esteemed la.it one ■ eoeaker actually laid his owner. Mr. JLniukald, ,t;ou to a t uit oi rtathca against him.
