DERBY SWEEPSTAKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20891, 5 June 1931, Page 11

DERBY SWEEPSTAKES.

BLIND MAN WINS £18,400. I PEER'S SON FORTUNATE. RESULT OF CALCUTTA DRAW. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received Juno <i, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, Juno A. A blind basket-maker of London, Mr. Arthur Collins, is one of tho 19 holders of Cameronian, the winner, in the Dublin hospitals sweepstake, and ho wins £18,400, having parted with a portion of his interest, the prize money for the holders of tho first horse being £30,000 in each case. Mr. David Bryson, a septuagenarian merchant wins £IIO,OOO on Cameronian in tho Calcutta sweep. Tho majority of the other winners were in humblo walks of life. Mr.. 11. 0. Edwardes, a Stock Exchange clerk, a son of Lord Kensington, wo.i the first prize in the Stock Exchange sweep of £15,000. A message from Boston says the only American holder of a ticket on Cameronian, tho winning horse in the Irish Sweepstake on tho Derby, is Joseph Kennedy, a picturesque and diminutive negro, who is working for 12 dollars a week. When ho heard that he had won £30,000 he dropped on his knees and said: " f thank Thee for Thy blessing." Kennedy stated that ho would first bring his wife and children homo from Jamaica, where he had sent them three years ago for a vacation. Never since had he had enough money to bring them back. CAMERONIAN'S WIN. NECK-AND-NECK TUSSLE. KING WARMLY WELCOMED. (Received Juno 9.45 p.m.) LONDON. June 4. There were 25 starters in the Derby, which Cameronian won by three-quarters of a length from Orpen, with Sandwich tho same distance away third. The weather was brilliant and the going was firm. There was an enormous attendance. Cameronian, Estato Duty and Orpen were prominent at the start, but dropped back. C.rindleton and Gallini were ahead at tho half-mile. Gallini magnificently led down the hill and round the Tottenham Corner, where Cameronian camo out and secured the lead. Orpen dashed away from the ruck and challenged Cameronian.

A terrific struggle ensued as the horses came neck and neck down the straight. Cameraman staved off the sustained challenge. Goyescas was fourth. Jacopo, Pomme d'Api and Gallini almost deadheated for fifth place. Cameronian could not have won had not the Jockey Club in 1929 revoked the rule voiding a horse's engagements on the death of its owner. Cameronian belonged to the late Lord Dowar, the famous aphoristic humourist, who, after entering him, died in April, 1930, without having won the Derby. His nephew, Mr. J. A. Dewar, inherited his huge fortune, and his best horse succeeded in its first attempt.

Many people successfully saw the Derby run by means of the televisor in their own homes. Tho Baird Company cooperated with the Broadcasting Corporation, and all the scenes were easily discernible. There was a record number of welshers at the Derby. It is estimated that at least 50 decamped and 13 were arrested. There was ferv.ent enthusiasm on Their Majesties' arrival, as it was tho King's Birthday. They motored for a milo through the cheering throng of racegoers, many of whom endeavoured to jump on tho running-board of the car. REPORT DENIED. EX-KING NOT A WINNER. LONDON, June 3. Ex-King Alfonso denies that ho was a prize-winner in the Irish hospital sweeptake. It is suspected that a member of his suite tried his luck and used the King's name. NEWS OF RESULT. RECEIPT IN AUCKLAND. SPEEDY CABLE DESPATCH. The story behind the publishing of tho result of the Derby at the Epsom Summer Meeting in yesterday's issue of (ho Herat,n can be, taken as an outstanding example of (he efficiency reached by modern methods of communication, applied in (he service of supplying the world with news. Tho result of the race reached Auckland at 39 minutes 27 seconds past one o'clock in tho morning, exactly 22 seconds after the placed horses passed the winning post. Tho lightning-like promptness with which the result was despatched was made possible by careful organisation and by the installation of a recently-perfected system which enables direct and simultaneous working between London on the ono hand and Australia and other parts of the world on the other. This system is in process of installation on tho Pacific cable route to Englnad. but yesterday's message came via the Eastern route, direct from London to Adelaide in one transmission through the regenerator system. It passed through tho following stations en route: —Porthcurnow, Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Weltreve den (Bata.via), Cocos Island, Cottesloe (Perth, Western Australia). Adclaido and Sydney. At Sydney, its first retransmission was necessary, the message being sent on over the Tasman cable to Auckland.