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The Brussels Post, 1959-11-26, Page 7,4",":";•sr" . ' &aiI;;w1.1*2MT.,. ..... EATING HIS HAT — Secreiary of Labor James P. Mitchell nibbles on a piece of cake baked in the form of a fedora hat to keep a pledge ha made last April to "eat my hat" if unem- ployment in the U.S.A. reached three million in October. Figures released Nov. 11 showed that unemployment rose to 3,270,000 in October. His pledge had been mode at an AFL- CIO rally. Mitchell ate the hat on the steps of the Labor Depart- ment building in Washington. ADVERTISING '-' 4.1 ...,..i.0;;* 4'4' .ix.,,i ,,,," 'i* .:‘,,..:Ii'.",‘i.' A. ,'(.""'" !ALP' '4011 WINS' INTERNAtIONAIL .,,.. Bal8 ;;:16":-t.':l'ite-'ll''''''i''''ti.:i id d tialet, entry, is ShbOVii" Wltitilfitt • .,e. o... E4,. ;Vilst- ...... ''.8oaMi.,:):::::....„..;,;,,,„....,.., 'the' $'100,060- 'W•aikuititbii,..•bt,. iii.f6riiiiirotidi horse rote di' Laurel i Md. Midnight Silk. titiith• • iiiiikyo, Ili itettnid:, "Ringer" Won The English Derby A horse entered for the Derby is "kidnapped" and its place in the race taken by an older and more experienced horse of sim- ilar appearance. The substitute July wins the race, but the gang nvolveci in the plot are unmask )d before they can collect the nuge sums they had expected to win. That sounds like the theme of t blood-and-thunder racing nov- ' el of the kind which everyone Knows cannot happen in real life, But it did! True, it was more than 100 years ago, when the regulations were more lax than they are now. But to this day "Running Rein's Derby" provides one of the most fantastic stories sport has to offer, The fact that a four-year-old von the 1844 Derby is fairly well Known to racing fans. What is .lot so well known is that the rang had already got away with exactly the same trick with the tame masquerading horse a few peeks previonsly. Some sportsmen who suspect- td trickery warned the author- ties then, but were not believed because they were unable to fur- bish proof. Not until the Derby tad been won in similar circum- dances was their evidence in- vestigated and finally accepted. The plot had been carefully aid. It had started three years earlier when, in 1841, a race- horse owner named: Goodman !old his trainer, Stebbings, to ouy a colt foal or two "if you !an pick them up cheap." Steb- sings bought for 228 a colt de- icribled as "a bay with some white hairs on the forehead." Che colt, which was named Run- ning Rein, was taken to Good- man's stables in London and ;hen turned out into the pad- docks of a farmer named Bear at Finchley. In due course he was entered for the Derby of 1844. Not long after Running Rein's arrival at Finchley, Goodman went to Doncaster Sales with a farmer named Higgins, and there bought a yearling named Macca- beus—a bay with a few white aairs on the forehead. It is un- certain whether this was a coin- cidence that gave Goodman an Idea or whether he had already formed his plan, but his inten- tions soon became clear. Maccabeus was taken to Hig- gins' farm near Northampton and put out to grass. A few months later he, too, was sent to Goodman's' London stables, where he remained for some time before being removed. The next development, in Sep- tember, 1842, was the arrival at the Epsom stables of a trainer named Smith of a bay colt that had some white hairs on its fore- head. The horse was described as Running Rein. Nine months later came the first rehearsal for the grand coup. Smith ran at the Epsom meeting a horse named Macca- bens, The stand-in was getting experience. The two animals were so alike, that only by seeing them togeth- er could a stranger tell which was which, and Goodman and his confederates naturally did not go out of their way to ensure that .there was no confusion. 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Carioca Court, 817 N.E„ 18th Ave„ Ft. Lauder-dale, Florida. ISSUE 48 — 1959 their plot might never have been discovered. But employees had the actual handling of Running Rein, or Maccabeus (or both!), and eventually rumours began to leak out. The story reached the ears of Lord George Bentinck, one of the leading sportsmen of the day, and when Running Rein was re- turned as the 'winner of a race at Newmarket a few weeks be- fore the$ Derby, Lcbrd George raised an objection o n th e grounds that the horse was not, in fact, Running Rein but some other. Now things began to warm up. The horse known as Running Rein found a new owner, an Epsom corn merchant, named Wood. Smith, who continued to train it, told him the sale was to wipe out Goodman's unpaid training bills. Meanwhile, Lord George Ben- tinck and his friends continued investigating the history of Run- ning Rein. In doing so they dis- covered that another gang were working exactly similar lines with another horse, entered in the Derby as Leander. The anxious race stewards im- mediately' called for the identity Certificates of the two horses, but the switches were so clever they were ,still not convinced of fraud, and announced that both should be allowed to run, with the proviso that if either won the stakes were to be withheld Until a full inquiry had been held. Leander, however, caused them no trouble. He led the field of twenty-nine for half a mile and then Running Rein took over the lead. In passing, he kicked Leander's offside hind leg and smashed the bone. That was the end of Leander, leaving Run- ning Rein two lengths clear of the field, His jockey held him in then, and eventually he won by three- quarters, of a length from Orlan- do, with Ionian two lengths away third. The stewards, anticipat- ing an objection, officially placed a fourth horse, Bay Momus. The objection to Running Rein was lodged, the stakes were , with- held, and it was decided to settle the case in the courts. This took the form of an ac- tion "to decide whether a certain colt called Running Rein which ran in a certain race foaled in 1841 whose sire was The Sad- dler and dam Mab." The plain- tiff, Alexander Wood, the owner, said it was; the defendant, Col. Peel, owner of both Orlando and Ionian, said it was not. The case did not last long. Col. Peel produced the man who had' looked after Maccabeus at Nor- thampton, and who swore this was the horse now called Run- ning Rein. The judge ordered Wood, as owner of the horse, to- make it available for inspection at Smith's training quarters. When the experts arrived there Smith refused to allow them to see the animal unless Wood was also present. Smith had good reason for his refusal. Though he did not say so, the horse was no longer in his stables. It had been removed without the owners knowledge. Next morning Wood told the judge he had been grossly de- ceived by his associates and did not wish to proceed with the case. So, a month later after the race, the Derby of 1844 was -of- ficially awarded to Orlando. Goodman, Bear, Higgins, and Smith were all warned off the Turf for life, and a group of admirers presented Lord George Bentinck with a piece of plate worth 2300 for his work in ex- posing the fraud. ON HIS WAY! A letter received by officials at Omana County Jail was address- ed td an inmate not entered in the books. On the flap side of the envel- ope was pencilled: "If not yet in jail, please hold until he arrives." Stole A House ,-Brick By Brick! Sunning himself in the park on his afternoon off, the twenty- three-year-Old Italian bachelor yawned at the mere thought of the strenuous work he would have to return to on a local hous- ing estate next day. A builder's labourer, lit was very strong and athletic, but he had always disliked hard work of any kind, That was one rea- son his girl friend had thrown him over a fortnight earlier. His reverie was interrupted by the appearance of a pretty brunette, a' nursemaid of about twenty, who came in sight push- ing a pram. So gracefully did she walk by that he gazed admiringly and was delighted to see'her sit down pn a seat near-by. She took out a book and be- gan to. read but soon became aware of his persistent stare, Glancing quickly at his suntan- ned, handsome face, she decided that she liked the look of him. He began the flirtation by walking to her 'seat and asking the time. Soon he was seated be- side her, saying extravagant things about her fine eyes and lustrous hair. Theirs was a whirlwind court- ship. At the end of a month he proposed to her, concealing the fact that his savings were meagre, so completely did her beauty dazzle him, "I'll quit my job and marry you only on condition you build me the kind of little dream home in the country I've always longed for," she announced, "You'll have to do it in your spare time, but I'll wait. The hard work will help cure your tendency to.be lazy," she added slyly. "I love you, but I don't want a lazy husband." About a year later he told her their tiny ,but well-nigh perfect home was finished. He had built it all himself, using the finest materials, She was enraptured when she saw it. But soon afterwards, on the very eve of their wedding day, her husband-to-be was arrested and jailed. The police had caught up with him, For months he had been systematically stealing bricks, roof tiles, windows, doors, plumbing — everything but the foundations — from his employ- ers' building sites, selecting al- ways• the best. He had virtually stolen a whole house. He was sentenced to hard la- bour of another kind — twelve months — and the girl broke off their engagement. It's almost in- c,redible what some folk will steal. Crooks in the United States once removed 150 miles of, cop- per wire from the Michigan elec- tricity system, though a current of 200,000 volts was passing through at the time! Yet not one of the thieves was killed a.nd no one was arrested. Only a crazy thief, surely would 'steal a fire engine. Yet someone broke into a village fire station i n Worcestershire at dead of night, some time ago, and ,drove away the fire engine, complete With pump' and ladders. Neither he nor the engine was ever• traced. A complete mile of railway track was removed from a Penn- sylvania branch line. The ripp- • ed-up rails were cut up into small lengths and sold as junk. The thieves were also `:cut up" when police tracked them down and arrested them as they were planning another raid on similar lines. Thieves at Miami stole a ten- ton steamroller. A burglar enter- ed a house at Charleston, Vir- ginia, and cut off Mrs. B. N. Hen- nigan's plaits while she slept. The reason for this astonishing theft has never been discovered. . CLASSIFIED ship shapes--- • Ever wonder what's in back of those pictures of pretty girls who put their heads through ship portholes to accommodate photographers? Covering the story in depth, the lensman not only snapped pretties Mary Jo Jones, iqft, and Sheila. Finn in the photo above peering through the side of the French liner Liberte. He also got a. behind-die-scenes shot, below, of the 19-year-old models who were returhing to New York City from a four-month tour of Europe, .t fial iF