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326-IM-0006-0019
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The 'Blower' Boys Pulling off a Hoax
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- 1917-04-04 (Creation)
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The Times of Ceylon Press
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Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
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The owner of the Aintree race course where the Grand National was run had prohibited bookmakers inside the course from passing on information to colleagues outside with a view to beating the ban imposed on them, but the bookies hoped to get over the difficulty by using their tic-toc methods. Last Friday the 'Blower' boys on the race course scored a victory against the owner of the course and pulled off a sensational hoax to do it. The tic-toc men were to be seen on top of the stand roof appearing to be telephoning the 'Blower' boys operating the telephone at a private house in neighbouring Omskirk Road, while in actual fact the 'Blower' men reading the signals given from the top of the stand roof by tic-toc men, from the garden of the house in Omskirk Road.
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- The Times of Ceylon Press (Creator)
- Keystone Press Agency Ltd. (Creator)
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