Word: cesarewitch
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...Farrell, it brought more fame to Ireland than Guinness' Stout. The Sweeps' huge Drum (ticket-mixing machine) standing in Dublin's Plaza Hall became Eire's No. 1 sightseeing attraction for tourists. The Draw, held thrice a year (on the Grand National, Derby and Cesarewitch)-with Eire's prettiest nurses picking tickets out of the Drum's 24 portholes-was a national shindig. Irish hospitals were run as though Rockefeller-endowed...
Lloyd's of London rates have for many years been taken as perfectly sound indications of what horse would win the Cesarewitch stakes, what the weather would be like on Boxing Day, how long Noel Coward's latest would run, whether or not Adolf Hitler would strike. Last week Lloyd's offered a brand new type of insurance: against death or injuries inflicted on the King's civilian subjects by the King's military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same...
Sports went into the Army with the athletes. Boxing and soccer, popular in 1914-18 with the Tommies, went inter-regimental. The first wartime boxing match, attended by 2,000, was held at the Aldershot training camp. All horseracing fixtures (like the Cesarewitch Stakes, on which millions are gambled annually in the Irish Sweepstakes) were canceled, but the blood stock industry, which unearthed great horses like Gainsborough and Hurry On in World War I, hoped to keep racing horses even without crowds...
...British race meetings for 1939 were scratched, including next month's Cesarewitch Stakes, basis of the third and last of this year's Irish Hospital Sweepstakes -for which some $10,000,000 has already been pooled. Ticket holders, however, will still get a run for their money in some form of drawing for prizes...
...Newmarket, England last week Mr. Widener's Seminole won the Cesarewitch, important long-distance stake, at odds...