17 DECEMBER 1937, Page 6

A note from a correspondent : `.` A woman near

here (with plenty of money of her own) has just gone in for a football pool for the first time and won 4800 ; she chose the winning teams by pricking at the teams at random with a pin ; she has never been to a fotitball match." So much for knowledge of form and skill in iirediction.

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