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Boy Draws Favorite in £125,000 Sweep.
LONDON, Monday.
QRAGADOUR, the Derby favorite, has been drawn in the
Stock Exchange sweep by Jimmy Gibb, seven years, who thus
has a chance ol' winning £125,000. The Derby will be run on
Wednesday, June 5. Jimmy's father, a London contractor,
bought 30 tickets and kept six for himself, his wife and four
children. . Jimmy told a newspaper man that he liad been lucky
before, 'as he had drawn a winner in a sweep conducted by thc
Southend Yacht Club, of which in's father is a member.
"I want to buy mother a motor-boat," he said, "because
dad's yacht isn't fast enough. I'm going to ask for a day's holi
day from school, anyway." The Stock Exchange sweep was,
secretly drawn ar a West End hotel last evening. The drawing
occupied five hours. Mr. John Hamilton, organiser',1 stated that
in view of the Scottish police action in stopping the Glasgow sweep
he thought it advisable to draw the sweep as speedily and as
quietly as possible.
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