the syndicate^⁂

Also syndicate

Bertie's betting syndicate at Twing, financed by Bertie: first with Bingo and the twins on the Sermon Handicap, then with Bingo and Jeeves on the school-treat sports.

Connections

dealings

• is financed by Bertie Wooster 2
• has as a member Bingo Little 2
• has as a member Claude 1
• has as a member Eustace 1
• has as a member Jeeves 1
• backs the Rev. Francis Heppenstall 1
• backs the Rev. G. Hayward 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Bingo reads Bertie his poem to Cynthia, then Claude and Eustace burst in to explain Steggles's book on the Sermon Handicap and why Heppenstall is a sitter, and Bertie agrees to finance the syndicate while Jeeves declines a flutter.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
2. The syndicate backs Heppenstall at seven to one, he preaches thirty-six minutes and Steggles cuts his odds, and then the twins report that G. Hayward of Lower Bingley is a dark horse, so Bertie plans to ask Heppenstall to preach his Brotherly Love sermon.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
3. Eustace phones to say Heppenstall has hay-fever and will be scratched, and Bertie has him hedge another fiver all round on G. Hayward.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
4. Bingo proposes betting on Steggles's book for the school-treat sports, Bertie forms a syndicate with Jeeves, and Jeeves tips Harold the page-boy for the Choir-Boys' Handicap.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Twing, as syndicate
5. Bertie gets the syndicate's money on Harold at a hundred-to-twelve and Harold is put into reluctant training.Chapter 14, as syndicate
6. Jeeves takes the news calmly and reveals he had Bingo back the outsider Prudence Baxter in the Egg and Spoon Race.Chapter 14, Twing Hall, as syndicate