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"I made a mistake. Annandale is third and not Ballasport. . . . The official result has been put up. The winner is Grakle, second horse is Gregalach. third horse is Annandale." Fourth was Rhyticere.
The three persons most concerned with the result of the Grand National were not at Aintree. One was Emilio Scala, the proprietor of a coffee shop in London, who had Grakle's ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Another was Clayton C. Woods, the woodwork inspector at Fisher Body's Shops in Buffalo, N. Y. The third was George P. Dyamond, who runs a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa and who, because he had been unable to sell a half interest in his ticket on Annandale, won $590,905.
When informed that he had won $1,723,083, Emilio Scala shouted: "Now I will, go to my village of Isola and settle down." He said he would share his winnings with the 39 members of his family who had pooled $2.50 to buy the ticket, employ physicians for his ailing wife.
In Buffalo, Clayton Woods, who with four other members of his family held Gregalach's ticket, worth $886,360* explained that he had been unemployed for a week because, after it was known his ticket was for Gregalach, "my fellow employes would not let me work. They congratulated me and promised me everything and the boss told me to get out." Workman Woods announced that he would purchase his wife "an Easter outfit . . . buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet-lined stall," and give up his job.
Next day Workman Woods paid a long visit to a barber shop, then inspected his letters. Said he: "A lot of them have been from women who want to know where they can buy tickets on the race next year. . . . There are a whole lot more women after that information than men." Also after lottery information were Buffalo police who arrested one William H. Paschal, charged him with being chief agent for the quick distribution of $50,000 worth of tickets in the "Kentucky Derby sweepstakes, "†
In London, J. Harpman, half-owner of the Irish sweepstakes ticket on Easter Hero, was told the favorite had not finished. "Well, never mind," said he. "Now, someone give me a cup of tea."
*The U. S. Treasury Department calculated it would have to have $187,085 of this sum as income tax. New York State will appropriate $20,378 of what is then left. The Irish and British Governments ignore price monies as an object of taxation.
†Statute 213 of the Federal Criminal Code forbids mailing lottery information, before or after the prizes are won. But U. S. periodicals are, by Federal indulgence, allowed to break the letter of the law and send through the mails news accounts of lotteries. This year the Irish Sweepstakes were world's largest, outrunning even the famed Calcutta Sweeps on the British Derby. Irish sweepstake tickets were peddled in the U. S. by race track bookies or by salesmen who brought them over from Dublin in books of twelve at $2.50 each, the salesman receiving two tickets free from each book sold.