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I r 1 I t J a i -, « I ;l a :l I h » ; - • |, ■ t , % ; j be . p J , ° ADMIRAL ROUS "ORGANIST" j How He Checked the Introduction of the ; J Pari-Mutuel in England. s ■ . M The Loudon Winning Post, commenting ..n the S nonsense being published in the press about the totalizator and pari mill nel. recalls th time when •character" about the English courses. "Anilv" Anderson, bought oae of Ike oiler machines at Dieppe, France, for 3* ami turned up with it at Newmarket. || L waa am the first day of tke bygone raven P ine.-iing that "Anil" was making his way afoot fraaa the railway station to Ncvwiinrkel heath while aa assistant behind him wheeled the machine on track. Oa paastaa the loekej Clab t s, who f should be on the top step but admiral Rous. lie . had heard or read alMiut "the machine." and ev i de« tly was on the taakent and promptly hailed i: Andy. "What have yon uot there, my man? B "Only our old organ, admiral yon know what lid ■ mean." was tht- reply. "No. sir. I do not know ! j what inn mean." said the great tnrf dictator. beginning to fame. Explanations followed as to _ the working of the so-called fairest aysteai of bet- ling ever invented, but the admiral was obdurate. and the "obi organ" was pereasptorily ordered to trundled back to the station. Liter in the ,! same year a worse thing befell "And." and his G clerk. At the Liverpool November meeting the C police stepped in. confiscated the machine and conveyed the operators to durance vile. Both Andy Bad his clerk were sentenced to three weeks hard , „ tabor. And the "old organ" was sent to Scotland I Yard, where it used to he one of the principal ornaments of the "Black Museum." 1
