AWAY WITH HER!

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 April 1927, Page 6

AWAY WITH HER!

THE STAGE TIPSTER' CONSTERNATION IN DUBLIN There is a suspicion that there is more than a dash of satire in the following from the “Sporting Life”; “The news from Dublin that a musichall performer claiming the power of prophecy would forecast the ‘Lincoln’ and ‘National’ double, event from the stage has upset all the bookmakers in Ireland. A deputation waited on the theatre management, and begered that the seeress might not be allowed to unburden herself of a dread secret that might send them into the Irish equivalent of Carey Street or into hiding for the rest of their lives. “The management was sympathetic, but would give no promise, and now we are curious as to whether the lady did ‘tip’ the double event, and what were her selections. There ought to be a law against it. This is a matter which ought to be taken up not only by bookmakers, who dread a onehorse book or a calamity such as that which resulted from Victor Wild’s victory in the Jubilee Stakes, but by all the ‘Augurs’ and ‘Solons’ and ‘Men on the Spot’ who have served their countrymen so long and so valiantly. “This amateur tipster, this wonder woman of the East, as she calls herself —what is she? A blackleg in the noble profession of turf vaticinators, a menace to the peace of mind and the financial stability of the honourable brotherhood of bookmakers. Away with her! Let her return to the East!”