“I’VE HAD IT NOW”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22572, 27 February 1948, Page 2

“I’VE HAD IT NOW”

BIG WIN BRINGS WORRIES PEOPLE BEG FOR MONEY SYDNEY, Jan. 25. Punter Kay Mallick, who won £30,000 ■at the races, has paid out more than £2OO to people who begged for money. But he declared yesterday that he ■would pay no more. Mallick, aged 39, business executive won the money since October in a series of big bets. He said during the week that in a fortnight he had received more than 20 begging letters. His telephone hadn’t stopped ringing. DorenS of people had called at his Double Bay flat—all seeking money. “I’ve paid out more than £2OO to get rid of them,'’ Mallick said. “But I’ve had it now. Even if it means giving up betting. I won’t be bitten again.” “Leave Me Alone” Mallick said: “Look at my hands (shake. I’m frightened to open the door, and my little girl answers the phone. 1 “Tell people to leave me alone.” Several people asked him for betting .advice, and two women wanted to meet !him “by the big tree at the official '■stand” to give him betting money. One phone caller offered to place his ■ savings in Mallick’s care for betting, jibecause he would “get a better return than bank interest." . „ , A woman with three children called and asked for £lO because her husband had left her. Mallick visited Newcastle races- last Wednesday, where he is believed to ! have won £2OOO in a £IOOO plunge ! on Titus, winner of the Maiden Handicap.