IRISH SWEEP

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 6

IRISH SWEEP

FOUR. MORE HERTZES FOR NEW ZEALAND

“ATAHARA.TAH OF JODHPUR” ' WINS £IOO

NOT INDIAN POTENTATE BUT PET OAT

nr.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright, i LONDON. Nov. 18.

In the Irish, sweepstake draw, London and homo counties secured 230 horses, America 109 Ireland 90, Scotland - r >6, Wiales 18, South, Africa j,9, Canada, 16, Holland 10, and In'Lancashire was the luckiest English county with 100 chances. Alany horses aro held in remote parts of the world. , , -Australia and New Zealand were unsuccessful to-day in the ten ®pecial prices of £4216 oacb in the Insh sweep but “Two Tigers” Putters street, Foxton, New Zealand, and “Five Stiffs” care Miss Maher, Upper Hntt, Wellington, drew £IOO GSt ' ’ Later. Ironically the Maharajah of Jodhpur. one of the richest men 'in the workl, also won £IOO. Tn the Irish sweep, the following secured £IOO prizes: Cat” 20 Austin street. Wellington, New Zealand; Mnknriti. . care literary staff Dailv Telegraph., Napier. Thus far 1400 consolation / prizes have been drawn. The remaining 900 win he drawn to-morrow. It is revealed that the “Alaliaraiah of Jodhpur” the winner of £IOO is not the Indian Prince Imt a pseudonvm for a cat, the pet oi Miss Tilley, of Twickenham, who was given 'a high-sounding name owino- to its autocratic hearing. Muss Tilley says: “I was certain Maharajah was going to win He, mewed so excitedly when I' nsked him _ this mornino- if he was going to jump out of the Dublin barrel. He was always a lucky one, and won a Christmas hamper”