WINS PRIZE OF £5000, AND FEELS HAPPY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 9

WINS PRIZE OF £SOOO, AND FEELS HAPPY.

CHRISTCHURCH MAN WALKED UNDER THREE LADDERS TO GET LUCK. There’s a man in Christchurch to-day who wouldn't care if the sun wasn’t shining. This morning he found that he had drawn the first prize in Tatt's—-so now he’s £SOOO richer than he was last night. The lucky man is well known to city lawyers, the police, even to criminals, but in the meantime he has probably forgotten all about them. His smile to-day is fixed and expansive, and he Should be able to qualify easily as president of any Sunshine Club that might couie into existence. This morning, whCn he got his little billet doux from Tasmania, the lucky man scanned the ticket without ance, and then suddenly glimpsed his number on the ticket. “Gosh. I've collected a fiver," he said to his wife, and his wife, who knew no more about the tickets that he did, congratulated him. It was only the third ticket that had bought in his life. sO he was not an expert in conning them. However, he went along to a more experienced friend and showed the ticket to him. “You’ve drawn a horse,” said the friend. “Let’s see who won the race.” They had a look at the newspaper file and the man wondered why his friend gripped his hand so strongly. “Man! ” said the friend, "you’ve got the first prize ! ” Tt was then that the smile came to birth, and it has not faded since. This is the man’s recipe for winning the first prize in Tatt's. He had bought two tickets before, and decided that he would like one on the Melbourne Cup. His ticket missed the Cup, so it was put in on the race run on November 13. He knew this, and he knew that his ticket would be among the last in. On November 13 he left his house and the first thing he did was to walk under a ladder. Round the corner he saw another ladder, so he walked under that. Down the road was another lad der, so he walked under that one too There you have it. Choose a race run on the thirteenth of the month, and walk under three ladders on the day of the race. The winner of the £SOOO is not wealthy, so the prize means much to him.