LUCK TURNS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 223, 4 July 1939, Page 6

LUCK TURNS

WINNERS OF THE ART UNION.

TWO YOUNG MEN “BROKE.”

BOXER AND LEAGUE FOOT-

BALLER

(Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Possessors of • £‘2ooo but “broke.. This was tho singular position this morning of Mr 15. V. Reynolds, aged 21, and T. J. Stewart, aged 20, winners of the first prize of-£2OOO in the “My Luck Turns” Art Union. They did not have a. penny between them. In a tiny room above a second-hand shop in Colombo Street Reynolds listened intently to the spluttering of his radio when the draw was being broadcast from Wellington last night. His radio was not working well but he managed to pick up the last three numbers of the winning ticket and the nom-de-plunie, “Two Drunkards.” Tense with excitement, convinced that ho and his pal were the winners, Reynolds waited for a later announcement before he let his feelings run away with him. Alone in the tiny attic room which is his home, Reynolds dressed and hastened to an hotel where his friend Stewart was on night duty. Wisely, Reynolds handed over the precious winning ticket to the hotel proprietor to be placed in the safe, and then he “shouted.” White excitement ran high and beer

flowed at the hotel, Stewart, the other • winner, worked on in ignorance of his good luck. He arrived home at his boarding-house in Colombo Street about 1.30 this morning and .“turned in,” still not knowing that he was the winner of £IOOO for Is 3d. This morning the two young men told how, one Friday night about a month ago, they were walking up the city when they decided to share in an artunion ticket. They could not think of a suitable nom-de-plume so ‘‘just for devilment” they used “Two Drunkards.”

They joked among themselves this morning. Reynolds, who is a tyre worker, is at present out of work. “I borrowed fifteen bob from my cobber on Friday night,” Reynolds said. “I made the remark then, * Don’t worry about it. We will win the art union on Monday.’ Now 1 can toss him double or quits.” Roth are athletes. Stewart is an amateur middle-weight boxer who last year fought in the Canterbury championships. Reynolds is Addington League senior reserve forward.