25 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 6

Stories about football-pool luck, I suppose, are numberless. Anyhow, here

is a new, and a true, one. A county bench has just heard an appeal brought by a man who had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for being drunk in charge of a motor-car. He was an artisan on a modest weekly wage ; had never touched football-pools ; someone suggested he should try ; he tried, venturing sixpence, or it may have been a shilling ; in a week or ten days he got a cheque for £2,575 ; his mates then refused to work with him, on the ground that he was a capitalist holding on to a job that an honest working-man needed ; he threw his job up, acquired a motor-car, got royally drunk, and was, as stated, given a month for being drunk in charge. He