The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-28
HUGE LOTTERY
Prize WON BY
Ex-PEDDLER
Former Ice Cream Vender
Gets 81 100000 for
Race Ticket.
FORTUNE FOR AMERICAN
Buffalo Workers Share Is
1886, 300 as Runner-Up
in Irish Pool.
BY United Press

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tons of the earth-London, Buffalo,
N. Y, and Capetown, South Africa
were rich beyond their fondeSt
dreams because they held winning
tickets in the Irish Hospital sweep
stakes on the grand national
steeplechase run at the Aintree
court outside of Liverpool Friday.
They included:
O-Emilio Scala, Italian coffee
shop owner, prize $1,90O,0O0.
(2)-Clayton G. Woods, factory
worker, Buffalo. N. Y, prize
s8S6,30
(3)-George P. Diamond, hotel
proprietor, Capetown, prize, $574, 359.
Sold Three Fourths
Scala, Italian, ex-pushcart ice
cream peddler, now proprietor of
a London coffee shop and holder of
the first prize ticket on Grakle in
the Grand National sweepstakes,
revealed today that before the race
he had sold three quarters Of his
ticket to a bookmaker's syndicate
for about $4,000.
The ticket was worth around
S1,o00,000 when Grakle galloped
home ahead Of the field in the
Aintree race.
The next big one. the ticket on
Gregalach, was held by Clayton G.
Wood, a 39-year-old wood inspector
in a Buffalo automobile n1anufac-
turing plant.
I'm going to buy that horse
Gregalach, if he's for SALE" he said,
when the news reached him. II
know where my luck lies from now
on. I'm going in for horse racing. -
Wood had only SO cents invested
in his ticket. Other members of
the family made up the other 50. He
told reporters that he had been
without a job since it became known
that he had drawn Gregalach, win
Eer of two Grand National sweep
stakes.
Boss Fired Him
my co-employes showered me
with so much attention that the
boss got sore and fired me-" he said.
We'll, that's o. k. by me now. I
guess I can get along on what I've
got the rest Of my life"
His wife did not concur in his
horse-racing ideas.
Wen get Easter outfits first
thing" she said, and then I'd like
to have a new home and invest the
rest safely"
Scala hid himself away Friday
night in London in an effort to
escape the attention of thousands
of persons who Showered him with
congratulations, but he was found
later by newspaper nent.
Il am still drinking lemonade, de-
spite my luck" he said. I'm not
letting this turn my head. You
can't go through life working hard
and then suddenly have this thrust
on you without feeling a tremend-
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wanted to do for my invalid mother
and also for my youngest boy, who
is ill. They will be first in my
thoughts"
Gables Mussolini of Luck
He said he had cabled Premier
Mussolini of his luck.
Meanwhile, Scala's wife continued
washing dishes and doing the usual
housework at their home. The
family expects to return to their
native province in Italy and estab-
lish their home there.
1t was said that no tax would be
deducted from the prize Of about
$4,000 won by Woods. It also was
said that Woods prize probably
would be more than that due to the
fact that he is entitled to a certain
rate Of interest on the amount I'M
til it is actually paid in April.
Officials at Dublin said more than
$l000,000 in prize money, including
consolation prizes, would be sent to
the United States.