Boy Draws Favourite In Derby Sweep
Chance of £125,000 LITTLE JIMMY “FED-UP'’ The London Stock Exchange Derby sweep, which closed with contributions amounting to £1,000,000, was secretly drawn in a West End hotel early this month, the drawing taking live hours. Mr. John Hamilton, the organiser, stated: "In view of the Scottish police action in declaring sweeps in Scotland illegal. I thought it advisable to draw the sweep as speedily and quietly as possible. We employed for the first time a new system of six revolving discs similar to roulette wheels. The discs were on a board, the first being lettered A to J. and the other live boro numbers 0 to 9. “When the first disc was spun the pointer stopped at a letter. This was the series letter. Five other discs were spun almost simultaneously, and the five numbers recorded formed a complete number, against which a horse was drawn from the ballot-box. “I am fed up with being talked to and photographed, but I am going to bed happy all the same,” said seven-year-old Jimmy Gibb, when finally interviewed in his bath after a successsion of talks with newspapermen after the announcement that Jimmy had drawn the favourite, Cragadour, in the Stock Exchange Sweep, with a chance of winning £125.000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 14
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213Boy Draws Favourite In Derby Sweep Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 14
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