LATE SPORTING.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 3 February 1923, Page 5

LATE SPORTING.

CJ.C SUMMER MEETING Per Press Association — Copyright Christchurch, This Day. HORNBY HANDICAP, of 300 sova; 11 miles.— Roniform 1 First Aid 2 Amendment ... t .... 3 All started. • TRIAL PLATE, of 200 sovs; 7 furlongs.— Valdamo 1 Barmaid 2 Heraldry 3 Scratched: Maharanui, Votist. MIDDLE PARK PTiATTC, of 500 sovs; 6 furlongs.— Murihaupo 1 Wild Hind 2 Lucienette 3 Scratched: Viewpoint, Gay Juliet. FORBURY PARK TROTS. Dunedin, This Day. VAUXHALL HANDICAP, of 225 sovs; 13 furlongs.— Young Blake 1 Wood Lass 2 eGneral Derby 3 Scratched: Ben Logan, Avalanche, Marvin Drft, Racewood, Bondo, Tipperary, El Muntar. KENSINGTON HHANDICAP, of 275 sovs; 2 miles. — Kilmarnock 1 Linden 2 Lenamhor 3 Scratched: Golden Peter, Harold’s Treasure, Honest Ned, Fashion Queen, Baroogh, Greystone, Flora Goldnig, Locanda Mac.

FORTUNES DISSIPATED BY FAMOUS SPENDTHRIFTS. “Handsome Jack” Cudahy, who brought hie life to am untimely end at Loe Angeles recently, deserves a place among the world’s greatest spendthrifts. His father was one of the original Cudaihys who were poor Irish butchers half a century ago. They joined the Armours in the tinned meat business in Chicago and made millions. When Jack’s father died he left £12,400,000. Out of this, by his will, the millionaire left to Handsome Jack only £2OOO, but as the result of a lawsuit he succeeded in securing a oneseventh interest in the estate. One hundred thousand pounds were paid outright and the rest held in trust for his children. In ten years every penny of this fortune had been squandered, and be shot himself after failing to negotiate a loan of £2500. John W. Steele, known for many yeans as “Coal Oil Johnny,” was another notorious spendthrift. In early life he was a poor fanner in Pennsylvania, but one day an oil gusher was discovered on his farm, and he found himself with £2OO a day from his ail weels. When he got over the shock of having such great wealth he proceeded to get rid of it in a way that dazzled all beholders. He went to Pittsburg, bought salbons, threw open the doors to the public, and he chartered theatres far days at a time, hie greatest enjoyment being the eight of others enjoying what his money would do for them. Attending one theatre in Pittsburg, he stepped out of his box when a blackfaced comedian finished his song and handed the man a £2OO note, asking at the same time that the song should be repeated. In Philahelphia he used ten-dollar notes for lighting his cigar, insisted upon the driver of his carriage wearing livery designed by himself, and would not associate with any of bis hangers-on unless they wore silk hats, for which he paid. In New York he threw bank notes to the crowd as he walked down Broadway. When his oil wells dried up after several years, Steele found himself as poor as before, and was glad to get a job as station agent on the Burlington Railway Company. He died at the age of seventy-seven. Some years ago the world was ringing with the doings of that monumental spendthrift and dashing young sprig of the old French nobility, the Count Boni de Castellane. The daughter of the late Jay Gould brought nim, on their marriage, somewhere about £2,000,000. This vast sum of money, and an almost equal sum represented by unpaid tradesmen’s bills, were squandered in fewer than four years. During the week that he gave a bear hunt in honor of the Grand Duke Boris of Russia ,de Castellane gave close upon £4,000 for a fur coat, and between seventy and eighty thousand pounds for a wardrobe in which to hang it and his other garments. Once when sorely pressed to find new forms of extravagance he paid £l°,000 for a few paintings worth about £lO. This appealed to him as such a successful method of reducing his in-’ come that he immediately bought a pair of candlesticks for £5OOO. Not all of the £2,000,000 through which Boni went in four years came from the Goulds. After Bom had spent £600,000, his wife’s total dowery for building the Little Trianon de Castellane, George Gould did relax to the extent of another £250,000. No less a sum than £2,000,000 Count Bom owed to tradesmen.