Evening star., 1939-08-21
Chance Of Winninu
Something in Sweeps
Is I in 1000
Nine Of Every Million
Ticket Buyers Will
Reop Fortunes
(Second of a Series)
(Second of a Series)
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star stan Correspondent,

CuOnQA, Cnc sea queen OF munster.
Cinnamon and Chileans fell in love
with her deep. sad eyes and high,
white brow. All these had passed
before her in the Celtic art parade.
Today the models for this surfeit of
mystic beauty are back in 1899 tweed
suits at their typewriters. punching
machines and filing cabinets in
large Dublin Office.
Certain theoretical inducements,
other than possession of a lovely
portrait and support Of the revival,
had been offered to purchasers of
these works of art. Some of them, it
turned out to be 13, would receive
$150,000 each as a reward for their
interest and generosity. An equal
number would get $4,000 each. Still
another equal number would get
$50 1000 each. And host of others,
1t turned out to be 858 of them,
would get $3.50 each. A multitude
OF l, 300 would get $500 each. Besides
there were number of minor en-
couragements to aid the artistic
movement, such as share in the
left-overs.
Fortunes Chances 9 in 1000, 200.
That is, every purchaser of the
lovely young lady's portrait had As
chances in about 100000 that his
romanticism would be rewarded with
q comfortable fortune and exactly,
as it turned out, 2,247 chances in
the same 100000 of getting at least
$500. Which all goes to show how
ridiculous are the claims of those
captious critics Of the Irish sweep
stakes who proclaim that the
chances of winning are less than of
being struck by lightning and that
at the best they are only about one
In million. Actually, it will be
seen, there are almost 500 chances in
q million OF winning something, or
one chance in 1000. And there are
nine chances in million of getting
q very comfortable nest egg.
Besides contributing to the revival
OF art the purchaser of one of these
pictures helps make up contribu-
ton of about $2,50O, 900 toward pro-
viding Fire with first-class hospitals
and a much appreciated contribu-
ton of about 100000 to the budget
Of the Irish nation. The picture, of
course, was that of the girl on the
sweeps" ticket, doubtless one of
Dublin's most beautiful maidens
made up to represent a character in
Irish mythology.
She and all her predecessors, are
anonymous, and it would be hard to
recognize one of them among the
busy, cigarette-pufnng, lip-rouged
Office force of about the biggest busi-
ness in Eire's capital. They must
keep her name secret or she would
have time for nothing else except
answer the love letters from all over
the world-a task for which the
highly efficient and unromantic busi-
nessmen who run the Irish sweep
stakes do not feel like paying her
salary.
No Skullduggery Found Yet.
She is a priestess Of Lady Luck,
playing humble part in keeping
that eccentric goddess honest. It
would be a sad day for the wealth.
showering divinity when she was
caught in the slightest skullduggery,
and with the eyes of scandal-fear-
Ing government and a lot of un-
friendly clergymen upon her nothing
shady is likely to go unnoticed.
But the gigantic mathematical ma
chine, which is the altar where the
glamorous dark lady of the sweeps
ticket serves, has a most puritanical
conscience and never yet has been
caught in slip.
1t has its human side too. One Of
the girls jobs today may be to get
for some lonely gaucho in Argen-
tina a ticket bearing the initials OF
his dead mother or for some rancher
in Alberta one with the initials of
his boyhood sweetheart. Such re-
quests come very frequently to Lady
Lucks Dublin temple and always
are complied with If 1t Is humanity
possible. Every superstition is re-
spected, even that Of an astrologer
who wants ticket bearing numbers
matching some configuration of the
stars.
The Gaelic art revival of the
sweepstakes offices is not without it's
practical side. 1t is really art OF a
high order and new beauty is Sc
lected for each race. 1t helps guard
against counterfeiting. Actually, the
sweepstakes directors say, it would
be far harder to counterfeit one of
their tickets successfully than note
OF the Bank Of England. For one
thing, there is a new design every
three months and the fine detail re-,
quired to duplicate it would have to
be mastered in hurry. One Of the
tickets could not be photographed
successfully. A process is used
which would make possible instantly
the detection of any photograph.
The lady on the ticket, looked at
under special lighting arrangements
III the Dublin Offices, would be
changed from raving beauty to q
decrepN old hag.
Even II somebody does happen to
Get a counterfeit ticket. one is as
sured, it would make no difference
80 long as they got the necessary
$3.50. A good ticket would imme-
6iately be substituted. The pur-
chaser always is protected, they say,
80 long as he doesn't buy from
stranger.
Just now the yellow -stucco temple
on the bank Of the Dodder Is await
ing another shower Of gold for tick
cts on the Cesarewitch this fall.
Already 1t is sprinkling gold from
all quarters Of the gambling sky.
Just how the drops manage to get
through from so many places where
the sale Of lottery tickets is prohi-
bited the directors do not know nor
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