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Vernons' Pools was founded in 1925, also in Liverpool, and Zetters was founded 1933 in London. In 1934, the Football Pool Promoters' Association was formed: besides Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters, its members were the other large pools companies including Cope's Pools (based in London), W.S. Murphy (Edinburgh) and Western Pools (Newport). [10]
Leonard Martin (17 April 1919 – 21 August 1995) was an Australian-born British classified results reader. He worked in radio broadcasting at Australian radio stations and was known in the United Kingdom for reading out the football results, associated football pools statistics and horse-racing results on the BBC's Saturday afternoon sports programme, Grandstand, from 1958 until the end of ...
The classified results were followed by the pools news and score draws and then by the league tables, although the pools news element was dropped due to its decline. Whilst football was always the mainstay of Final Score , news and results from other sports, such as rugby union, and until 1987 racing results, were also included.
Batchelor sponsored programmes on Radio Luxembourg to promote his "Famous Infra-Draw Method", a system that he claimed increased the chances of winning large sums on the football pools. [2] Before the National Lottery started in 1994, the "Pools" was the only way to win large sums for a small stake. Listeners were asked to submit their stakes ...
Super Bowl Squares are the second most popular office sports betting tradition in the United States (No. 1: March Madness brackets), maybe because the outcome is based entirely on luck. Here's how ...
James Alexander Gordon Born (1936-02-10) 10 February 1936 Edinburgh, Scotland Died 18 August 2014 (2014-08-18) (aged 78) Reading, England Occupation Radio broadcaster Years active 1972–2013 Spouse Julia Children 1 James Alexander Gordon (10 February 1936 – 18 August 2014) was a Scottish radio broadcaster, best known for reading out football results on BBC radio. Born in Edinburgh in 1936 ...
White Abarrio won the $3 million Pegasus World Cup by 6 1/4 lengths at Gulfstream on Saturday. Sent off at 5-2 odds, White Abarrio paid $7.60, $3.80 and $3. Locked returned $3.20 and $2.40, while ...
The Longitude Enhanced Pari-Mutuel System enables sports betting and race track operators to offer a wider range of bet types, a richer display of odds data and bigger pools with more stable odds. By allowing a range of different types of wagers on an individual race or sporting event to be aggregated into merged pools, the Longitude Enhanced ...