£20,000 WON

Evening Star, Issue 19711, 11 November 1927, Page 6

£20,000 WON

HOW THE LUCKY FEEL AUCKLANDER DESCRIBES THE SENSATION [Special to tkk ‘ Stap..’] AUCKLAND, November 10. £20,000! How does it feel to win it? Two Aucklanders who won a Melbourne Cup sweep for that amount have experienced it, whereas most folk have got no nearer to it than a dream. Mr S. Adeano and Mr P. O’Brien, to whom this good fortune came two days ago, aro still going on with their job—Mr Adeane, in his shirt sleeves, managing the affairs of his printery in Hobson street, and Mr P.. O’Brien, his partner, out in the country on a business tour.

When the news came through, Mr Adeane says, ho wasn't disturbed in the least, and when he wired his partner, Mr O’Brien, the latter had only a slight shock., “ I’ll toll you how it all came about,” said Mr Adeane, with a quizzical smile. “ There is romance in it. We had a little hit of luck, my partner and I, being gamblers m a small way. We won a pound or two over the National Meeting, so my partner was keen to have a pot at the sweep, thinking it might be our lucky year. Thinking that we might as well try the big stuff as the small if our luck was going to bold, we sent for two tickets in the pound consultation.

DREAMS ENCOURAGED THEM. “ It was about hero that the little romance came in. The morning before I came down my wife told me of a strange dream, that I bad struck a double for £3,000. Of course, I laughed at the idea. Never in my sane senses would I have backed a double for that amount, but I did make a mental note of it, and when I got to work and my partner talked about the sweep I told him what Mrs Adeanc had dreamed, and then nothing would stop him. So wo sent to an address, and I forgot about everything until one morning about a week after the race the mail came in. But I was plugging away at a job and too busy to attend to the letter, so I tossed it on tho office table for my daughter, and went on working. She opened it, and, of course, when she saw our number against Trivalve she made slight noises about it; but 1 wouldn’t fall for it, and kept on with my job. I kept on working until she tricked mo with the story that she couldn’t get some proofs to agree, so then I came in, and there it was. It didn’t disturb mo a bit. I did the only sane thing. I rang up the hank manager, and when I found that there was a mail to ‘Aussie’ that night I just sent the ticket, duly endorsed and everything.” So that is the story of how a Melbourne Gup sweep came to Auckland. A follower of racing, Mr Adeaue follows the horses fairly closely. Miss Adeane says that he can tell one “every winner from the year 1.” He follows' form, and sometimes has the rewards of good judgment, though Trivalve was sheer luck, such as folk dream about rather than meet in real life. Ho was the owner of the horse on which Jimmy Buchanan hod his first win in Gisborne 35 years ago. His next reminiscence of tho racing game was when Mahutouga won the Auckland Cup in 1904. In 1914, when his brother went to the war, Mr Adeane took his place on the totalisaior staff. “ I gob pretty close to the sport then, and I have followed it ever since. Then I used to print the ‘ Times and Sporting News,’ so I had racing for breakfast, dinner, and tea,” said Mr Adeaue; “ but I haven’t any wild ideas of buying racehorses or anything like that. I’m still content to try my luck in a milder way.”