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:`Raths the. words
`ton: "+ _r ealy are Got
sae -de 'The ,. .:a'7 asks for
the . e . ! . , ram end) then,
in 2...:elle. .ie, - '_fifer..
k.r aie.eral ion. 77 rse-^t']
let '; L e h lny brr'-
ther... .I:p?, !2P 1.7eNt race,'v',. ,...tdiz-.int if seta
spedee^":' :0:7 Of those
targe..... }a u:,? .en:lal Turf
.ai.d•:.,a:r,' $ "Special Siector' or
same eaalt e:en if he hasn't picked
a w ir eae H: - Jirll Was a
lite„ . g .' :1 is a Ionia: time
age.
* a a
tlaaee been
zee. aa these gen-
...ten
en-
e . tee :es regarding
no.<. ltave 'tin tl';etn try
dee nano ateange. a:reast incredible
oitity worthy of
;e:_ .. ':lra':ara. Bell, all in
the .. . ,. - :`. . s1 tap: ng the curse
c? .. __... '..,.sa ......est day's
netek_J'. _ -,pn ca- :ay We
-. _ . c' --=e•
� a x
i'. ill a few days ago, e.
neeet heard nil ore .:heir: writing
there's a first t;" --P
evera-thinat and retw. under the
title - +st1T TA HORSE" Prince
Ras '.f _ : it , an E tegli .. tipster—
thee tiall sea.dies apades over there
..- etors of his
It�f
dale .- 'e: known orl, every
British -_:e crsv.ae, where his
brightly cc•lenered rrs'1r:c, African
heat. re=s and fog -horn voice have
t+-a:.'nine one. or the most familiar
figtar _ T ori dc.^t. Unlike most of
his hieeeheen we have nlet on this
side .. the .-t areie. :.e must dig up
lire
oaas o :e :: a while as he esti-
mates -..e.. ,during the past thir.y
years overthree-yuerters of a mil -
1! n dollars have pas -ed through his
harels. A Targe proportion of this
sum, he claims came from betting
on his ;,:. tips : -rnthing :which
would pr ..i,ably gethimheaved out
of every Turf Adviser's lodge from
Lansdowne Paak t'. Santa Anita,
where such a practice is regarded
as the b•gge=,t kind of knucklehead
play. "Let the suckers take the
chances—what else arc they made
for:
.* *
Monr.lulu's first
taste of real
success came in 1929, when Spion
Kop won the Derby. For months
before the race he had given the
horse as a free tip everywhere he
went. As he walked through the
streets of London he would stop
pass' -r -by and tell them.: "Don't
forget — Spion Kop for the Derby."
In trains and buses, at football
matehea and race meetings, even
in re=tat:rants, he ;:'ruid implore
everyr.-•e he ,net to: "Have a
pe~r '' ..ein Spion Ko,), and when
veru', 'u. don't forget the darkie
who told. yon. . Spion Kop for the
Derby and no dao er:"
't *
ne, story of the r::r'e itself is
best told in his own words: "I
sort the Boase=_ it t:e +last few
fuer:•:::"•, Everyone was craning
for''.l:rr: and I cold get only an
(,c".... i,':i11t glimpse of the jockeys'
cap- P . end me tha crowd was
begir.l.irg. tr.) Sliryt�t, '.Archaic
wins! <1rph'u- wins" -- then
followed. b,: `Fipiia11 Kop' Spion
lxrp for a rail?Ilein!'
, 5
"i lsairiou : I drjn't know
just iehat 1r did then, I shouted,
I acrean":,1: `Spion Bop's won!
What 'I told you!—What I told you!'
The '.rowel mobbed me; I had told
everybody on the Downs, 'Back
Spion Rep.' All the way through
the trout people began to give
s,Yj�9eO4 .lo ./.!
Foul Play ---Two ex. -Manhattan College basketball stars and three ether men, identified ed as
gamblers, were in a Bronx, N.Y., police station on charges of conspiring to "1]x' Iive cage
games last season. From left to right are Hank Poppe and la& .Byrnr-
players:
Cornelius Kelleher; and two brother=, Irving g andBon a.--'„ Sc'="ar.z1•a:ts
me money. rimy thrust pound
notes into ray hand to:, -bob notes,
half-crowns, shillings and even tan-
ners. I had backed Spion Kop
for every penny I had in the world
at 20 to 1 and I left x11.; course with
aver £3,000 in winnings alone!"
}
Next day camethe deluge! Pos-
tal -orders, cheques, bank -notes be-
gan to arrive in hundreds at Mono -
lulu's home, sent by people who
had "remembered the darkie who
told them." Many of the letters
were addressed simply to ',Prince
Monoluht, 1-ondon."
For some months after that Mo-
nolulu could do no wrong, and by
St. Leger Day in September he was
worth some £8,000. BLt his luck
turned. He was always fond of
spending, and there were always
many ready to help. So that when
luck deserted hint, and loser fol-
lowed loser in monotonous succes-
sion, his thousands vanished as
quickly as they had come, By
December he was broke — very
broke indeed. So much so that
he was forced :o € o into the work-
house.
* 3
Then, just before Christmas, he
happened to call at a post office in
Soho where four letters were ad-
dressed to hint, waiting collection,
The first three contained postal
orders for tips, totalling the modest
but none -the -less welcome sum of
twelve shillings. Then Monolulu
opened the fourth --• and drew out
ten crisp five -pound notes — ac-
companied by a letter which apolo-
gized for not sending him a present
earlier out of the Spion Kop win-
nings, but expressing- the hope that
the enclosed would be acceptable
at Christmas.
y { .1
Another Derby Day drama —
this time with a less happy ending
—came the way of the dusky tipster
ten years later. To all and sundry
he had tipped the Aga Khan's
horse, Blenheim, to win the big
race, and had himself had £25 on
at twenty -to -one. The horse duly
won. And Monolulu, -urrounded
by a crowd of congratulatory pun-
ters, drew £525 in cash from the
bookie, But that was not all;
scores of backers who had shared
in its luck thrust presents on him,
and as he made his way to the
station at the end of the day he was
richer by £700!
R :f a
As he neared the station a man
stepped from a marquee and asked
him to have a drink -- an invitation
which was readily accepted.
* 71, *
As the pair stood chatting Mono -
lulu suddenly received a tremend-
ous push in the back. He stumbled,
fell, and before you could say "Jack
Tots Don Togs And Assorted Expressions --At the famed Mer-
chandise Mart, the small set modeled summer clothes with
nixed emotions. One -year-old Sherry Ann Bobek (left) belli-
gerently posed in a polka dot diaper cover. Beside her, Danny
c;otlw<l , age three, was downright defiant as he displayed
leopard trunks. Resolutely unhappy was Sharon Brookwater,
also three, who found that her ruffled red panties itched. Five-
year-old Kathieen Ludwig was a picture of exubei an.ce in her
beach ensemble with reversible jacket, while Leslie Gagu ter,
oaring, a plaid denim sun shit with bare midriff, stood poised
like the eight-year-old lady that she is.
Pretty Perch if- "Lime Crest
Prince," a light Brahma type
rooster, found the shoulder of
Lois tunas the perfect perch-
ing spot as he preened his
feathers for recent poultry
show.
Robinson' five :nen were on top o
him. 'Ihe racecourse "boys" work
quickly and, in a matter of second*
he had been robbed of every Doe
and coin he had on him. By the'
time the police -inspector arrived on
the scene the "boys" were on their
way to fresh adventures — and all
the inspector could do# was lend
poor Monolulu half a crown to get
home with.
* * :f
'Well, they say that the only sure
way of heating the races is either
to own a track or write stories
about them. Maybe, if Monolulu's
hook becomes a "best seller" he'll
find it more profitable than any of
his sensational tips.
Escaped Gallows
On Three Occasions
How many lecturers have ad-
dressed a big audience in pitch
darkness?? It fell to the lot of
Comdr. A. B. Campbell, the fa-
mous Brains Trustcr, when he had
to speak during the war in a
crowded hangar with a glass roof
which could not be blacked out.
He fumbled his way to a small
platform with a "mike in front of
it, but when he began talking there
was a loud persis;en note like the
cipher in an organ.
He stepped back and shouted
"Can you hear me at the back?"
"No!" came the response. All they
could hear was the note --C major.
That gave hint a clue. He asked
the sergeant eleetrician who'd fixed
the "mike" where he'd put the
loudspeaker. "There was no place
to rig it in the hall," the sergeant
called, "so I stood it on the piano."
"Shift it of and put it on a chair,"
Comdr. Campbell ordered—and that
cured the trouble. A note in his
voice was synchronizing with that
on the piano, and the C major note
was being transmitted instead of
his words.
Free Drinks in Error.
His speaking tours brought him
some amusing experiences. At New-
port, Mon., where he, Freddie
Grisewood, gardener Middleton, and
Donald McCullough, as visiting
Brains Trust, were first to be given
lunch by the Mayor, they were met
at the station by a municipal car,
and a liveried chauffeur drove them
to an imposing mansion. The dining
room table, they noticed, was laid
for only three, hut on the side-
board were bottles of gin, whisky
and sherry, so they helped them-
selves,
A woman came itt and asked:
"You are the gentlemen in the
judge's suite, aren't you"r" They dis-
covered then that they had been
taken in the wrong car to the
judge's lodgings instead of to the
hotel, and while he—who arrived
by the same train—paced the sta-
tion yard they were in his private
room drinking bis sherry.
Comdr. Campbell heard of a re-
- . V aneeinv::r. ;1n
toder az `@ e .. -. -e .saw, Bri-
;iele sailor who had laten doing hien-
self well, and invited him in. He
followed the nsher, 'vt'o led 'diet.
to the "penitents' seat." The
preacher, af,er a fervent appeal =,:•r
converts, said: "All those who tvant
to go to Leaven will please stand
up and testify."
The congregation rose—all but
the sailor, who was nearly asleep.
"Hi, you sailor. called the preacher,.
noticing him. "Don't you want to
go to Heaven?" The tar roused
himself and became aware of his
surroundings. "Yes." he replied,
"but not wi.h a ruddy excursion
party."
When Comdr. Campbell was do-
ing his reserve training in H.M.S.
Juno, the governor of a convict
prison near the port invited the
ship's officers to visit it. In the
garden he pointed out a dark, thick-
set man working on the path who
was not in convict clothes and
smoking a cigarette. "That's the
man they couldn't hang," he said.
It was Lee, tIle Babbacombe
murderer. At the first "execution"
the flaps, when the bolts were
drawn, refused to drop. He was
taken back to his cell, and the' gov-
ernor ordered a bag of cement of
Lee's weight to be placed on the
flaps, which at once opened when
the bolts were. drawn.
Two more attempts were made,
but each time the flaps failed. He
was given his "freedom."
Later on, a warden told the
Commander that the prison car-
penter, convinced of the innocence
of Lee, conceived the plan when
preparing the gallows.
Hangman's "Perks"
In those days the flaps met in
the centre of the platform on
which the condemned Ivan stood.
The carpenter carefully- bevelled the
top edge of one of them. There was
a certain amount of play at the
hinges to allow for the fall, and
he somehow managed to warn Lee
to step on the left-hand flap and
keep his weight there. Thus, the
flap slid just under the other and
remained jammed. 13t when the
bag of cement was placed on both
flaps they dropped when the bolts
were withdrawn.
"I can imagine the prisoner roost
have had a queer feeling the first
time he heard the creaking of those
bolts " Comdr, Campbell comments
in his entertaining new book, "In-
to the Straight." ".Anyhow, the plan
seemed r,) work."
In a train crossing at nada the
Commander ,net a short fat man,
who showed him a large badge in-
scribed "Public Ii tngunan" and
said proudly: "les, that's my job 1
I've just finished a batch of three
in one go, up caun,ry. He then
produced a gold ring, shying: "Take
this, sonny. I took it off the finger
of one of the men I dropped. You
see, if no one claims things in
twenty-four hours they're my
'perks."; The Commander declined
it with thanks.
Later this cheerful companion
produced a photograph of a fat,
smiling damsel—"My daughter"—
and asked: '"Are you a married
plan?" At the reply "Single" a
strange look crossed his face,
"Do you know, sonny, because
of the job I'm doing—which is of
national importance, itu't it?—no
one will marry the girl, If you'll
take the job on I'll pass over a
thousand bucks and fix you in good
work."
Whether the "good job" con-
sisted of following in father-in-
law's footsteps Comdr. Campbell
cannot say, but "he was very much
hurt, when I turned down his offer
of Tabs
This typifies the remarkable
stories in "Into the Straight," which
covers broadcasting, lecturing, and
at sea.
"Waiter, I'll have a pork -chop
with fried potatoes., and I'd like
the chop lean."
"Yes, sir, Which way?"
Lesser Irvi1? During a souffle be-
tween police and Reds in Rome,
one than shouted "I'm not a Com-
munist; I'm a pickpocket" He pro-
duced a wallet, pointed to the
owner as proof.
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