WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1929.
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HOME RACING
HANDICAP
STEWARDS' CUP
London, Yesterday.
THE
died a rich man. Risdule was found dead in à hay loft in New- market with only three-halfpence in his pockets.
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battle, the South Africans had 207|| for the loss of another wicket | (seven now) when rain caused a stoppage at about 3:20 p.mx Cameron, the wicket-keeper, had then reached his 50.-
The end came about an hour. later-following the short interval- but Cameron's contribution had be-
come
a sterling 89. Deane, the captain, was in a useful stand with him, the skipper getting 29 himself
Freeman did most of the damage yesterday, taking five wickets and giving himself an excellent analysis
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SOLDIERS' CUP LEAGUE
POLICE BEAT VOLUNTEERS
The Police and the Portuguese Com- pany of the Hong Kong Volunteer Do-
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Scores:-
It takes a great horse to win the Derby, although, as I have always maintained, the race is run on one man of wealth. In that year Sig of the worst courses in England. norinetta, owned and trained by From a purely racing standpoint, I GOODWOODS FAMOUS SPRINT, Chevalier Ginistrelli, won at a would have the Derby and the Oaks hundred to one, and the gallant run at Newmarket on the course filly won the Oaks, to prove that where the Two Thousand Guineas the Derby win was not quite such are won, because to take the best of a fluke as many people imagined. the three-year-old colts and allies The story of Ginistrelli's Sig-from such a fair galloping course The entry of fifty-seven horses norinetta is more, interesting and 'as Newmarket to the, Epsom track for the whole match. Duckworth, to the Police by a, margin of 76 points.
romantic than any fiction tale about is like asking a champion sprint for the Stewards' Cup, Goodwood's the Derby. Ginistrelli was a weird-runner to do his best round a block the Lancashire wicket-keeper, claim- |
looking man, wearing clothes as of Aats.
The Sporting Empire strange as himself. The touts look- ed upon him as a harmless and ec- But I would not divorce Tradi- centric enthusiast, and apart from tion from the Turf. If you do that joking about him never considered you make the Derby just a famous him at all. But Ginistrelli always race instead of an institution that believed he would win the Derby. is, perhaps, one of the strongest In his case it was not so much a links in the constitution of the Em- reasoning belief in the speed and pire. For on Derby Day millions stamina of his dily (though that of King George's subjects all over was colossal) as a positive convic- the world will have one supreme tion that Signorinetta would win. interest-What has won the Derby? Had they brought the mighty Politics will fade; social and busi- Ormonde from his grave to run inness aspirations take a rest. that same Derby, Ginistrelli would not have been daunted.
famous sprint handicap, which was run to-day is only one less than last year. They include last year's winner, Navigator, and in addition Lord Glanely nominated Pondicherry, Grand Master, Gran ditora, and Lâvid.
Another owner strongly repre- sented is Mr. J. B. Joel, who has Tag End, Dark Fire, and the three-year-olds Fuzzy Wuzzy and Water Rose to choose from." The Workingham Stakes winner, Six Wheeler. was entered.
Royal Hunt Cup form was re- presented by the winner, Songe. and the second and third horses,. Caballero and Guards' Parade res pectively.
The result of the race was: Mr. Sol Joel's Fleeting Memory,
4 yrs.
Golden
Capt. H. Whitworth's
Oracle, 4 yrs. Mr. J. B. Joel's Dark Fire, 4 yrs.
Nineteen ran.
Betting:
Won by three-quarters of a length: a neck between second and
third.
I to agst. Fleeting Memory. 1 to 1 agst. Golden Oracle.
0 to 1 agst. Dark Fire.
-Reuter.
DERBY DAY
ROMANCE, TRAGEDY—AND
VILLAINY
[By Edward Wood]
not
!
A Man and His Horse To him Signorinetta was merely a racehorse, but something more--something that was part of himself. I have often thought that 1 Ginistrelli imparted something of his wonderful belief to the filly and thus paved the way to victory, Many people will laugh at this idea, but I do not think any real lover of horses or any real horse- man will. Only recently, in writing his life story, that great. jockey, Bernard Carslake, stated that sym-! pathy between horse and rider i often means the difference between victory and defeat, and if with a jockey, why not with a trainer?
You have only to think of the late King Edward (then Prince of Wales) leading in the first of his three Derby winners-Persimmon. The crowd mobbed him. Even if the Royal owner had been protect- ed by guards, they would have been powerless to help him. But the worst that happened was that one enthusiast smacked the Prince on the back and shouted: "Good old Teddy!""T.P.S. Weekly".
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DECIDED
ENGLAND WINS 4TH TEST MATCH
S. AFRICA'S GREAT TRY
England wor the Fourth Test Match with South Africa yester- day, the third and last day at oid Trafford, Manchester. by an innings and 32 runs.
By doing
so, the Old Country has annexed the "rubber" because the First
One short year ago Miss Virginia and Second games were left drawn Vilas, of Glenview, Chicago, little and England was successful in dreamed that she would be the Western the Third. The Fifth begins women's golf champion, but by dint of hard work and perseverance her the Oval on August 17.
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CLOSING DATE
AUGUST 3rd
H. K. P.
Brudseil Fender
200
200
Ellis
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Blakey
200
Sherry
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Whant
179
Bowers
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Wynne
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Total
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H. K. V. b. C.
E. Vas
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I.. Antonio
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M. F. Baptista
65
J. R. Soares
153
192
200
200
200
Total
1,310
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Police Beat Somersets
This match was played at Police Headquarters last evening.
BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
H. K. P.
Bradsell
160
Blakey
150
150
85
136
150
Total
821
Somersets
180
49
84
ROYAL
250
160
144
707
Ellis
Pile
Sherry; Fender
Leigh
O'Hare
Wisber
Jakeman
Trickey
Stacey
Total
PHIL SCOTT
ed four victims during the day, two AMERICA. TIRED OF WAITING
FOR RETURN VISIT of them stumped.
The famous case that has gone. down in turf history as "The Run- ning Rein Fraud" will never be for gotten. Running Rein won, but was objected to on the ground that he was a four-year-old, and the ob jection was sustained, an expert's The Derby is the greatest horse-examination of the horse's teeth race in the world. Its history is proving that he was a year older full of romance. It also has its than the three years which is the pages of tragedy and, the honest first qualification for a runner in historian must admit, its chapters the Derby. And in that very year of villainy.
When play resumed yesterday, there was another horse, Leander, The winner, if a stallion, is who was almost certainly a four South Africa, having followed on, worth a fortune as a sire, indepen-year-old. His connections said that required 282 runs to avoid defeat by an innings. The last seven dent of the stakes won by racing. he had broken a leg during the Last year, when Felstead won, the race, and they shot him very haatily batsmen (three having fallen on Derby was worth £11,605 The and buried him with equal dispatch. Monday) gathered 250 of these in horse did not run again, owing to But his body was dug up and!? great try, bringing the 2nd some trouble which kept him out veterinary surgeons swore Leander innings total to 265 ruas.
Taylor (10 not out) and Quinn of training; he might have won the was a four-year-old. St. Leger (£14,495), the Eclipse
(9 not out) were both dismissed by Stakes (£13,306), and the Champion In 1832 the Derby was won by the Kent slow bowler, Freeman, but Stakes (£1,460) for his owner, Sir St. Giles, a horse owned by John Taylor (who is the best batsman in H. Cunliffe-Owen.. These three Gully, the ex-prize fighter, who had the visiting side) got 70. Morkel F E. Woolley, c & b Vincent races were won by Lord Derby's been champion pugilist of England, made 36 and the score at lunch was E. Hendren, b Quinn Fairway, which was favourite for and Robert Risdale. The partners 145 runs for 6 wickets, three M. Leyland,
Mitchell the Derby, but was not placed. As won a hundred thousand pounds en wickets' having fallen in the morn- suming Felstead to have been the race. Then they quarrelleding for an additional 130 runs.
Rain Interrupts auperior to Fairway, he might have Gully became a Member of Parlia won £39,000 in stakes in one year.ment, lived to the age of eighty and Continuing to fight an uphill
The Greatest Horse
Never a Derby comes round with- out onthusiastic sportsmen discuss- ing What was the best horse that, ever won the Derby? My own be- lief is that Ormonde was not only the greatest Derby winner, but the greatest racehorse of all time. John Porter, the famous trainer, in declaring that Ormonde was the horse of the century, used to say: "Look at what he beat." Minting, winner of nine races out of twelve; Bendigo, a public idol and the win- the Eclipse Stakes, the Champion Stakes, and (carrying 9 st. 7 lb.) the Jubilee Handicap; the Rard, who was undefeated till he met Ormonde; Saraband and Kilwarlin; all these horses were ehamplons, and would probably! have been undefeated if they had not had the bad luck to come of vintage years and, worst of all, to meet the mighty Ormonde.
ner of
Later generations have some right to say that the late King Ed- ward's Persimmon was a mighty horse, but I do not rate him in the class of Ormonde... In comparative- ly recent times such wonderfal horses as Galtee More, Flying Fox, and Rock Sand each won the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St. Leger.
Signorinetta
The owner of the Derby winner is generally a wealthy man. Apart from the year 1923, when the race was won by Mr. Ben Trish's Papy rus, we have to go back to 1908 to find a winning owner who was not
Epsom and Newmarket
In competition with some of the finest horses from France and America, Invershin won the Arcot Gold Cup race at Ascot, for the second time in succession. This ultra-fuzhionable racing event surpasses in brilliance and colour any of the Home sporting events, Reigh Count, owned by Drs. Hertz of Chicago, ran the best rasu of his British trip to come in second.
Scores for the whole match as cabled by Reuter, were as follow:- ENGLAND -IST INNINGS H. Sutcliffe, b Morkel E, H. Bowley, b Bell
13
113
154
Phil Scott has for long been re- ported to be contemplating a return visit to America, but America is apparently tired of waiting as they have fixed up a heavyweight eli- mination series wherein the British Champion is coldly ignored.
12
C Cameron, b
R. E. S. Wyatt, c Cameron, b
Vincent ...
The same thing would have hap pened in regard to Teddy Baldock, 55 the Americans tried to make AI A. W. Carr, c Bell, h Quinn 10 Brown the Panama Negro, their new G. Geary, not out
31 champion, but or protest from the 2 new British Boxing Board control, F. Barratt, not ont
28 the New York State Athletic Com- mission ruled that ho boxer would be entitled to style himself bantam- weight champion until he meets Baldock.
Extras
Total (for 7 wkts., dec.) 427 G. Duckworth, A. P. Freeman did not bat.
BOWLING ANALYSIS
Owen-Smith
Baldock's Requirements 0. M R. W.
The Baldock-Brown match is still 18 5 61 1 hanging fire on the question of njoney. Baldock cabled his re- 1quirements namely £2,000 or 221⁄2.
SOUTH AFRICA-ÍST INNINGS
I. J. Siedle, 1.b.., b. Freeman
R. H. Catterall, c Sutcliffe, b
Barratt
B. Mitchell, C Geary
Freeman TE
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SOUTH AFRICA-2ND INNINGS
L. J. Siedle, b Barratt
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THE
R. H. Catterall, b Geary
1
B. Mitchell, b Geary
1 H. W. Taylor, e Leyland, b
28
Freeman
70
N. A. Quinn, b Freeman
11
0D. P. Morkel, st. Duckworth,
b Woolley
36 DENTIST.
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13 H. B. Cameron, e Woolley, b
Freeman
83
H. G. Owen-Smith, st. Duck-
6
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C. I Vincent. c Geary, b
Freeman.....
6
H. G. Deane, e Duckworth, b
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1 C. L. Vincent, e Duckworth, b
Freeman
0
H. W. Taylor, b Freeman
H. G. Deane, st Duckworth, b.
Freeman
H. R. Cameron, c. Bowley, b
Freeman va
D. P. Morkel, Ib.w., b. Geary · 63
H. G. Owen-Smith, e Barratt,
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N. A. Quinn, not out
A. J. Bell, g; Duckworth,
OA. J. Bell not out
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Extras
3
Extras
Total
130
Total
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