WON £10,000 PRIZE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 5

WON £IO,OOO PRIZE

£IOOO EXCHANGE SWEEPSTAKE IX OESAEEWITCH JUBILATION IX AUCKLAND HOMES SMALL BOY RICHER- BY £2200 (Press Association AUCKLAND, Oct. 13, Tnero was jubilation in a All. Eden home at 20 minutes to I this morning when Air J. W. B. Comes was told by telephone that Sandwich had run third in tlio Cesarewitch. /Mr Corn os who is aged 30 years, jtnil bis fattier, are in partnership as grocers, and jointly held a ticket in tlio Irish sweep. When they learned that Francis Ritchie, Id, who lives only a few doors away, had also drawn a horse, they came_ to an agreement with him nuclei* which if either Sandwich or Bonny Bright Eves, Ritchie’s horse, gained a place, the owner of the winning ticket would pay the : others £SOOO for first, £2500 for second, and £ISOO for third. So Master Ritchie, besides the £7OO odd which he receives for drawing Bonny Bright Eyes, will go'-' £ISOO out of the Lorries’ prize of £IO,OOO. Tlio Cornea families, senior, and junior, and the Ritchie family endeavoured vainly to hear the result of the race by short-wave radio, hut the news eventually reached them by cable. Tb<> £IO.OOO prize will he increased by about £IOOO through exchange.