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PARI-MUTUEL BETTING IN ENGLAND The London Winning Peat, in these days of the nonsense being published in the press about the totalixator and pari mntuei. recalls the time e/hea a "character" about the- Bnglfasb courses. "Andy" Anderson, bought one of the Oiler machines a: Itieppe. France, for .SLotl. and turned up with it at New III. 1 1 kit . It was on the first day of the bygone raven meeting that "Ani!," wa making his way afoot from the railway station to Newmarket beatll While an assistant behind him wheeled the machine on a truck. On passing the .lockey lull rooms, who should Im- on the top step but Admiral Hulls He had heard or read abeat "the machine." mid evidently was on tin. lookout and promptly hailed Andy. "What have you got there, my man." "Only our old organ, admiral you know what I mean." was tin- reply. "No. sir I do not know what yea iniin." said the great turf dictator, beginning to fame, explanation* followed as p tin- working of the fair-eat system of belting ever Invented, but the admit il was obdurate, and the "aid organ" was peremptorily ordered to be trundled back to the station. Later ia the naif year ■ worse thing befell "Andy" and his clerfc. -i the Liverpool November meeting the polar stopped In, confiscated the machine and conveyed the operators to durance vile. Both Andy and his clerk irere atataaeed to three weeks hard labor. And the "old organ" was sent to Scotland Yard, where it used to be one of the principal ornaments of the "Black Museum." Which reminds us that Iaris also has something of the sort. ♦- — •
