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ADMIRAL WHO MADE THE TURF
BRITISH RACING'S DEBT
TO HENRY ROUSE
EXPOSED THE CROOKS
(By J. Wentworth Day.)
IX years ago I sat in a sunny follows the advice of his jockey is
little back library in a house sure to be ruled."
He kept both jockeys and trainers
Own.
"Fragments become coated with in Balfour-place, talking to the last the acids (used for the explosive) Lord Coventry. On that sunny in their place, snubbed his in exploding, and wounds caused by morning in an Ascot week the old equals if he thought they transgress- them mean death in terrible agony man who had seen sixty-fourjed the standards of gentlemanly within four hours if not attended Ascots, and been the last Master of conduct and was merciless with the to immediately.
the Royal Buckhounds to ride up plungers of the betting ring..
Yet those were the days when "There seems to be no antidote the course in the green-and-gold of that will counteract the poison."
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JUSTICE BY MURDER
Midnapore is not the only difficult magisterial post in India: witness
his office, talked of the men and men like Mr. Merry won £70,000 on horses he had known in three- Thormanby, when Sir Joseph Haw quarters of a century of the Turf. ley took £80,000 on Beadsman, when "The greatest man I ever knew," "Squire" Chaplin landed £100,000 on he said. "was the Admiral. He Hermit, and the Admiral's bosom
this story of Mr. Justice Monroe, made the Turf. The standard of friend, George Payne, gambled away racecourse behaviour to-day is a £300,000 in a few years. In Lord of the Punjab High Court,
Recently, he was trying two gen- greater monument to him than any Lyon's year, Payne stood to win £60,000 on Savernake and saw him tlemen called Baz Khan and Akbar Rous Memorial at Newmarket Khan, who were accused of murder-Yes, he was a great man. But how lose the Derby by the length of a ing their sister following a mis-he and George Payne could rubbull-dog's nose.
An Old Friendship understanding over her marriage. together so well as they did some
The friendship between these two Akbar pleaded that in his family times passed my comprehension."
Yet I wonder how many people was perhaps the oddest thing of all
murder was not a crime. As far
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back as he could remember (which to-day think of, still less remember. in the Admiral's life, for Payne was was 1920) he did not know of a Admiral Rous who cleaned up tre a born gambler and the Admiral single natural death in his family. Turf as no Trenchard has ever abominated the very sound of the word. But Payne was an honest "Have there been any deaths in cleaned up London.:
Born in January 1795, at Hen-man, and a good loser. Perhaps your family since. 1920" asked the
ham Hall, in Suffolk, Rear-Admiral that explains a lot. When he went judge.
"Yes," replied Akbar with dis-Rous a brother of Lord Stradbroke, down for £33,000 on Jerry in the St. arming simplicity. "During the served under that grand Norfolk Leger, he remarked: "It is a plea- last 14 years I have attended the sailor, Sir William Hoste, and on sure to lose it, by Jove."
frigate Admiral Rous was incapable of funerals of eight relatives. But one occasion brought a each was assassinated by some fifteen hundred miles in twenty believing that a gentleman could tell in England;"of the other Socialist leaders in all the European coun-member of the family. We settle days, without a keel or forefoot, a lle or that his servants could de and practically rudderless and leaking ceive him. So strict was his own our own disputes at home But their principal 're-
at the rate of two feet of water an code of honour that deception in BOOKER—At Hong Kong, on July tries.
never trouble the police."
hour-1 superb piece of seamanship those whom he trusted hurt him 20, 1934, Charles William Fildes liance was on Bebel and his So-
probably without parallel.
like the sting of death, aged 34 years.
Funeral will cial Democratic party in Ger
When he retired from the sea and I remember being told that for раве the Monument to-day many, where the party had (Saturday) at 5 p.m.
grown until it controlled an
from politics in 1846 he took to many months the Admiral's most actual majority of votes. In "Now, what about some elastic?" the Turf for good and all. The trusted man was notorious as the France and England the pacifist suggested the commercial travel- Jockey Club in those days, of biggest tout of Newmarket. Morn- order which he was a Steward, was in a ing after morning he rode the old movement made war impossible ter who was getting an
bad way. Its income was a mere man's hack on the Heath, ostensibly The China Mail: except to repel a clear and un- from an Aberdeen shopkeeper.
mistakable act of aggression."Na, na," said the Aberdonian. three thousand a year. Within a for exercise, actually to watch the The invasion of peaceful Belgíum
No one dared · tell the Ad- ||"141 bae nae mair of it. I couldaa few years he had increased it to files. Hong Kong, Saturday, July 21, 1934. swept all hesitation away, and measure wont the stuff' snap- £18,000 per annum.
ping."
Finally one morning Charlie Blan- both nations stood as one man
Sacked The Lot
a ton opened, the old man's eyes behind their Governments. Be-
The Turf was infested with crooks, "Admiral, if that old horse of yours Labour And War fore that happened the German Mistress (ló new mald): "Be ruffians, copers, tricksters,, gam- could talk", he said, he might tell Social Democrats had been swept careful when you dust those pic blers, sharpers and pigeons, The you every trial there's been on the 'When Kings go mad, their away in a storm of martial en-tures, Mary. They are all old rottenness of the Georges had left Heath for the last three montha."
a tide- peoples pay the cost' was an old thusiasm like corks in
sport of kings. Even the handl Roman saying that is as true race. Men who lived through Maid: "You don't say? Who'd capper to the Jockey Club Itself to-day as it ever was. With all those stirring days are pot likely ever think you'd been married all was not above suspicion. Horses The Admiral died on June 19, Japan talking of the crisis of to underestimate, the instinct of them times!".
were pulled, doped and under-1877. He left the English turf 1935', and preparing for it, it is Nationalism, even while they are
handicapped. Probably at no time more clean, upright and unspotted quite natural that the Trade trying to promote some less chao-
in history has the sport of racing than it had ever been. Ever since, Union leaders who have recently tic system.
ask-lever sunk so low.
in spite of all its well-known faults, Henry Rous, a proud, uncom-It has remained a model for the promising old gentleman with world.
masters."!
Old Masters
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volce and a blistering tongue, sack-]
ed the lot. He turned, Newmarket,
Is that an eight or a 12?" been holding a special conference The Trades Union Congress is ed the admirer of Mr. Twitchell's in London on the subject of war, evidently of opinion that Japan new automobile. should set out to define their at-is to-day of the same mentality "Both," replied Elmer. "Eight quarter-deck manner, a hurricane) titude as civilians to any future jas Germany in 1914, and that no cylinders; 12 payments." --- war. Apart from any question pacifist section would have any of recruiting, war has been so influence.
Safety mechanised and industrialised, official resolution states 'in other Policeman: "Lady, don't that in any country where the countries, such as Japan, the know that la, a safety-zone?", operatives are as well organised weakness of the trade union or-. Woman Driver: "Of course as in England, their passive in-ganisation made it unable to res- that's why I drove in here." difference or opposition would be train its Government'. In a
One sentence of the
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Fortunate
imiral.
Those words sealed the tout's
doom
Epsom and Ascot inside out. The PRESIDENT CAUGHT
you crooks were exposed, the sharpers
put away, the plungers denounced, and, above all, the handicapping. was revolutionised.
NAPPING
Never before or since has there Humorous U.S. Incident
Recalled.
THE INOPPORTUNE WOMAN
Washington.
more crucial than in the old country where patriotism, inter-
been a man with such an uncanny' days of personal combat. preted as obedience to the Em- Wife (in from her afternoon genius for summing up the chances Internationalism has for many peror, is a religion, that is cer-out); "Well, dear, I've found just of a horse. With him it was almost years been far more widely (tainly true. It is extraordinary the summer frock I've been look-la sort of second sight.
Morning after morning he was spread amongst working men what an amount of avoidable ing for.'' than would be inferred from the auspicion and antagonism Japan Husband: "Splendid! I certainly on the Heath at Newmarket, glasses action of their Governments. has managed to arouse by the couldn't have afforded to buy it for in hand, sitting his horse like a It is not necessarily identified high-handed methods adopted you." with Socialism or any other during the last three years. By party label. The Unions, in the the Nine-Power Treaty she ob course of trying to raise the tained advantages greater than Person: "Well, Mose, how is him in his Reminiscences" one of from the Capitol, has been told by standard of living of their mem- usually fall to the victor in a your better half this morning?” · the best books of the Turf ever clerk of the House, to the Daugh- i
"She's bettah, thanks, written": bers, came across the snag that successful war; yet she has Mose:
Careless
A story of how President John ramrod, his eye scanning the Lime- Quincy Adams was caught by a kilns with the gaze of an eagle, woman in his private awimming William Day of Woodyeates, says of hole in old Tiber Creek, not far Mr. William Tyler Page, a former
"His bold and manly form erect:
ters of the American Revolution, and stately to the last, in a shoot-leays the Washington Star. ing or pea jacket, wearing black Speaking at a ceremony held in Europeans Abroad boots or leggings of the same colour, the Capitol grounds for the dedicn- dog whip in hand, ready for mount- tion of trees to Presidents of the United States, Mr. Page said that Chleago and St. Louis when you ing his old bay horse for the course there was a lady who was very no matter what the weather might
if they raised it 'unilaterally, created a doubt whether that suh, but yo sho' is careless wit that is, independently of foreign Treaty is any longer valid. As a you fractions" competitors, the trade went else-member of the League of "Na- where and they were left unem- tions she had a place in world ployed. Hence at any time dur-politics that she cannot have "And did you visit New York, ing the last fifty years they have alone; the Treaty of London gave been sending delegates to various her such complete security that were in the United States ?"
"I really don't know. You see, centres in Europe to negotiate even Sir Roger Keyes says that! for common and simultaneous in her own waters she is un-George bought all the tickets." betterment. Most of these Con-touchable', yet she is voting away gresses were of a Socialist tinge, some hundreds of millions of yen Facts You Did Not Know but what really interested the to build battleships and cruisers English delegates were the ques- that would have been quite un- A new tool for cutting holes in sheet tions of hours, wages, and peace, necessary,
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be, was an imposing sight-before importunate in her demands to get the start he would take up his posi-a job in the Federal Government, tion close to the Bushes, like an and she made Adams life miser
able,
"She resolved, to get that job. equestrian status, silent and motion- less, the reins resting on the neck
of his horse..... his eyes, once Finally she did a bit of reconnoiter metal resembles bolt, tightening a fixed on the runners, were seldom ing and discovered the secret swim
removed until he had dicovered all ming hole of the President. She Despite the cheap jibes, at the There is little sign that Japan-ut operating a cutting edge.
he wanted to see in the different repaired to it one day when he was League of Nations, these practiese statesmen are conscious of It has been estimated by a British starters
in swimming cal men found a means of ac- the e" "Intangible' results of her meteorologist that tire world average
⠀ "Now I've got you," she cried," Stiff In Opinions hieving their objects in the policy; but it is worth noting 44,000 thunder storms each day,
Baid Mr. Page. “You give me my ““Thormanby"" says of him: "Like job or I'll stay right here until League and the International La- that one of them has been to con-
A single steering wheel has been all men of strong charecter and in bour Organisation. Outside of vert the peace-at-any-price men
you do. invented to operate all three of the dividuality, the Admiral was stiff Ministries and Departments to the view that war may be fundamental controls of an airplane.
. “Madam,” protested the Presi there is a vast body of sentiment justifiable and necessary. and conviction in favour of the other result is that In dition of the 1841 motion picture theatres League that has not been able to to doubling the track of the in Czechoslovakia approximately 500 get itself expressed In "ofdal Siberian Railway, Russia policies.
securing her rear by getting on The old Socialist platform was to terms with Europe; and still the simple one of uniting all the another is that the other signa workers into a flat refusal to tories to the Nike-Power Trea fight under any circumstances, are increasing their That was the programme of at a joint cost much Jaures in France; of Hyndman Japan, alone could afford. Great mer
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