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Monday, March 25, 2002

By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA -- A cracked lottery ball forced officials to hold a second drawing for the Pennsylvania Lottery's Cash 5 game last night, a spokeswoman said.

	Two drawings The numbers in the first Cash 5 drawing last night: 04, 24, 34, 35, 39 The numbers in the second Cash 5 drawing last night: 14, 16, 17, 36, 38

The lottery will pay winning tickets for both the first and second set of numbers drawn, officials said. The cash jackpot prize value for each drawing was $100,000.

"We held a drawing for Cash 5 earlier this evening and the number 24 ball was cracked. It was not determined until we were off-camera that it was cracked," lottery spokeswoman Sally Danyluk said.

The drawing officials, lottery executive director Robert Mars and deputy executive director Edward Trees decided to hold a second drawing, which was held about 10:40 p.m. at WHP-TV studios in Harrisburg, she said.

The second drawing was not televised, but it was taped, Danyluk said.

Lottery rules govern the weight and size of the balls, which are similar to pingpong balls. The balls are measured by the state Bureau of Weights and Measures before they are drawn, but Danyluk speculated that the crack might have happened in the shaft of the machine used in the drawing.

Danyluk said there has not been a cracked lottery ball in the seven years she has worked for the lottery, although she could not say whether such a thing had ever happened before that.

The lottery is investigating the incident, she said.