Evening star., 1943-07-02


that some one gave me an Irish
Hospitals Sweepstakes ticket on the
Baldoyle Derby. 1t isn't the chance
of winning q first prize Of 10000
that has made me forget what I
originally came to Dublin for. 1t Is
the wording Of the ticket.
I haven't been able to sleep since
I first read what 1t says. 1t Is the
most mysterious. message ever
penned by man and here it Is: THE
Baldoyle Derby. to be run at Bal
doyle, Fire, on the 3rd Of July, 1s43.
or at some other race course in Fire
on July 3rd, 1s43, or on some other
date"
You figure that one out or try to
figure that one out. The chief code
man of the ancient Egyptians
couldn't have thought that one up.
What 1t says is that the Derby will
be run at Baldoyle on July If it
isn't run somewhere else on some
other date.
Has Ticket Problem.
What is a man going to do on
July 3? When he gets up and puts
on his racing clothes and goes down
to the railroad station to catch a
train for the Baldoyle Derby, what
is he going to say to the ticket
seller? He is liable to get arrested
as a moonstruck soul if he just
says. Let me have q ticket to
somewhere"
At the same time he can't very
we'll tell the ticket seller to tell him
a ticket to every town in Southern
Ireland. 1t would cost a fortune
for one thing, and for a second, the
people waiting behind him would
shoot him for monopolizing the
window for the time 1t would take
the clerk to punch. stamp. look up
the price and sell the thousands Of
tickets
Too, how would man get to all
the towns in Fire in one day? He
would be on and of SO many trains
before midafternoon that he would
begin to look like a caboose ard
to talk in the gutteral tones Of an
engine.
Yet, all over Dublin I hear people
talk about the lovely day they are
going to have at the Baldoyle Derby.
Somehow they have figured out the
mysterious lettering. Perhaps you
have to be Irish and to have hved
with the pixies all your life % un-
derstand such a message.
Certainly, no American could
solve the problem. Can you imagine
the dismay Of our people If Matt
Winn announced that the Kentucky
Derby would be run at Churchill
Downs May 4 unless it were run
somewhere else at some other time?
Col. Matt would have to 60 into
hiding for a year to keep the rae
ing folk from shooting him or.
worse still. forcing him to drink a
warm julep.
Still Undecided.
haven't decided what I will Go
on July 3. I may just 60 down to
the railroad station and ask for
the prettiest ticket or the longest
ticket that is for sale Even II I
wind up miles from where the Bal
doyle Derby is being run, I will
have the satisfaction of knowing
that I made a game try and didn't
allow myself to be browbeaten by
the mysterious message.
What I really think I will Go IS
to ask John Mccormack to tip me-
of on where the Baldoyle Derby is
being run. He is staying at the same
hotel I am. and If there is any ono
capable of interpreting the Irish
folk, it is Mr.. Mccormack The
only thing that worries me is how
to ask Mr.. Mccormack. He may
take a very poor view Of me If I
walk up to him in the elevator and
say. Pardon me, sir, but where
is something going to take place
that isn't going to take place at the
place it is going to take place." I
see that the whole thing has me
balmy. Before nightfall I may we'll
nigh be in the Wicklow Mountains
playing leap frog with the lepre-
chauns.