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Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 15, 1934.
1
War Profits-
were
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
CANADIAN PIONEER
man.
BRITAIN'S LEADING
TRAINER
SWEEPING SUCCESS OF FRANK BUTTERS
THE
THE EVERYDAY
ROUTINE
By the death of Sir Donald, Mann at the age of 81 Canada leses one of her best-known railway planeers. With Sir William Mackenzie,
London. a fresh start. In a few years came "Dan" Mann, as he was always known, entered the railway con-l THE sweeping success of one Lord Derby's engagement as private seven- training stable has been a trainer at Stanley House. The con tracting business after a year apprenticeship as a lumber-striking feature of this racing tract was for four years, and Mr. season, writes "Robin Goodfellow" Butters was immediately and con-
The horses sistently successful. The two men formed the firm of in the Daily Mail.
The engagement, however, was Mackenzie Mann and Company. trained by Mr. Frank Butters at During that golden period of Can- Fitzroy House, Newmarket, have not renewed. Lord Derby was cut- adian railway expansion from 1880 won £88,806 in prize money so farfting down at a time of national economic anxiety, and Mr. Butters, to 1910 these two Canadian Scots this year.
This sum is three times as large who had always been a private coined money.
"out of a job," In It was a touch age. Mackenzie as the next highest in the train-trainer, was
& public and Mann, both men of splondiders' list, and rarely in the long December 1930 he leased Fitzroy physique, could hold their own with history of racing have the horses House, Newmarket, as the toughest. When they retized of one stable earned so much in a trainer, though at that time he had they, bought themselves magnificent single season. The record in this not been promised a single horse. respect la hold by Mr. J. Lawson He was over 50 then, and beginning houses in Toronto.
who trains for Lord Astor; Mr. anew. An owner sent him two Somerville Tattersall; and others, moderate animals. A little later he at Manton, in Wiltshire. In 1981 took some belonging to Sir Alfred Mackenzie died soon after the
The won for his owners £98,899 In Butt, including Lord Bill, a horse of roguish reputation with whom he war, but Mann lived on to scare the stake money. post-war youth of Toronto with his
This season has three weeka tej was to do so well during the follow- tales of the Canadian North.
run. In that time Mr. Butters, no ing season.
Tremendous Responsibility His favourite story was when at doubt, will win more races, but it the age of twenty he was appointed is extremely improbable that hel foreman of a lumber camp. From will beat the Manton record. Aga Khan scat his horses to Fitzroy have no reasonable chance of do- House, and then, after the briefest lumber-jacks refused to take orders ing it," he remarked to me a few break, Mr. Butters's remarkable from a raw youngster. Mann chal-days ago, "because all the rich triumphs were continued.
The care of a large stable of high- lenged the biggest to a duel with prizes have gone."
He doubta if, two racing records class horses, each of great actual or He would describe the scene: the achieved in the last few years will potential value, is a tremendous, frozen snow, the lumber-jacks ever be surpassed. One of them ceaseless responsibility. All the standing round, the two antagonista is the Manton total for 1981, and care in the world will not prevent with their right legs strapped to the other he established himself a probable Derby winner injuring he at Ascot this year, when he won 9 himself by a playful trick if he is so
of the 28 races.
#
THE AXE DUEL
the first there was trouble.
axes.
■
True.
*
The
Wonderful Triumph
LAT
Towards the end of that year the
minded.
Umidwar might have won the Derby this year for Mr. Butters if That was a wonderful triumph, he had not hurt himself one night as because nearly all the best horses he tried to rise after lying down who are fit for racing run at As-to rest in his box. The effects of cot, and the competition for the that comparatively alight injury rich prizes there is exceptionally may have cost his owner many thou-
sands in stakes.
merely means shifting the bur-gether below the knee. Then
to the would pause. den of payment on
happened?" someone "What shoulders of future citizens.
There is something rather would ask. leomic about the shifts that "Well," said "Dan" modestly, Governments were put to raise "I'm still here, nin't I?"
the money in
days, before national debts secured on the Your Daily Smile! whole income and property of a invented. The President Roosevelt's proposal nation,
New Jersey police picked up a mankeen. -
Thirty-three horses trained by A trainer 'supervises the early "to take the profits out of war" British national debt dates back in tatters, but with $10,000 in old- has at any rate this to its credit only to the days of Charles II. style bills in his pockets. Perhaps the Mr. Butters have won nearly 80 morning work of his horses. He that it takes the control of arma- One of the most interesting of man was holding his savings against races between them this season, has just time for his breakfast be-
bad times.
and the average value of the fore the second lot goes out. He ments out of the category of recent historical revelations is
prizes gained exceeds $1,000, in Fashes from the heath to his train, harmless eranks, and puts it into the collection of the official cor
Son: "Why do we have eagles, on all spite of the fact that the stable or to motor to a distant meeting secured only one of the Ave clas-where he has runnera, and he the list of questions that are respondence of the famous practical politics. The extent to Samuel Pepys, which makes it American money?"
Father: "Why, er-er it's emblematical
sic events-the Oaks-and missed, endeavours at all costs to return though narrowly, the Eclipse home the same night. The work which the Commission that is to clear that his diary was but the be appointed will succeed in con- confessions of a man who was of its swift fight,” ・・
Stakes, which this year was worth for the following morning must be Two of a Kind triving a scheme that will defeat very candid with himself about
arranged; there are entries to be Jack London was once addressed on about $7,500 to the winner, some of the ablest brains engaged his private life, while he was a
to declare, and The Aga Khan, the stable's made, forfeits commerce, assisted by the fearless champion of the sailors a train by a drummer, who said: smartest lawyers who will take whose payment was his official represent a woolen mill. My line is chief patron, has won four times as jockeys to be engaged.
No Time To Bet advantage of the division of duty. Never did he succeed in varne."
"Well, so is mine," responded the much in stake money an any other owner this season, and his winners powers between Congress and bringing up pay to the proper genial auther.
Mr. Buttera has the valuable and have earned considerably more than the State Legislatures, and all date, he took three months of
unavoidable, and Once George Bernard Shaw got his £60,000.
The other owners for efficient assistance of his only son the other possible legal loopholes, arrears it is impossible for us to esti-struggled only to avoid a general desserts and from a clever woman whom Mr. Butters trains include Victor, but almost every detail calls the trainer. Time must be found mate. But if once a principle is average of more than six months, Lady Randolph Churchill sent him an recognised that civilised states while he quotes many cases of invitation to luncheon. On the back of Lord Durham, who won the Oaks for the thought and supervision of not, I will not come. What have I done Khan, Sir Alfred Butt, and Mr. for consultation with the veterinary jsurgeon, and when the Aga Khan is. ought not to allow shareholders eighteen months or more, both post card Shaw wrote: "Certainly with Light Brocade; Prince Aly
The to provoke such an attack upon my Lant.
not present to see his horses run he to draw dividends out of trades for sailors and officers.
£500,000 In Stake Money
usually has a long telephonic con- that are injurious or fatal to debt system had the effect of re-well-known habits?"
which she said she knew nothing about
Mr. Butters has been training inversation from the Continent with men, as is now recognised in gularising payments, but only at The lady sent Shaw a telegram in the case of heroin and other the cost of transferring the pre-his well-known habits, but that she habit-forming drugs, reformers dominant political influence very hoped "they are not quite as bad as England for eight seasons, and in his trainer in the evening Mr. But- that time he has won nearly half a ters also manages Sir Alfred Butt's will have something to go upon. largely from the big landowners your manners."
million pounds in stake money for stud at Newmarket, which also in- The strongest weapon they can to the bankers. The major part
his owners. This is probably an-volves much work.
When Fairway regained his high use is publicity, and there will of the pre-war national debt was
to begin training for Lord Derby reputation by winning the Eclipse in 1927, and in that and the follow: Stakes after a very disappointing fing season his horses won more performance in the Derby, Mr. But- "1
in
83
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OFFICE
always be some people who will incurred for the Napoleonic cam- THE PRINCE'S NEW other record. He came from Italy "want to know" why some other paigns, and however much one people are allowed to break laws may appreciate the loyalty of the that have been placed on the financiers in the "House of Rothschild" film; it is a. sober- Statute Book.
It is very easy to ridicule the ing thought that the people of Grand Master Mason Of in stake money than those of any ters's first remark to me was: demande of ex-Service men who England have paid for every
hundred pounds advanced” gix,
make pilgrimages to Washington and want to be paid pensions that five, four, three, or two and a half per cent every year since.
Was
Master.
Scotland
Edinburgh.
have derived from it have been
ENGLAND
Found On Quarry In Peak District
other trainer: He has headed the shall sleep to-night for the first time trainers' list four times in 8 years; for weeks." And he has not pass- he has been second-once-and-third ed-through-this remarkably. BUCC 296- ful season without many sleepless twice. The Prince of Wales is to be The story behind these figures is nights, I am sure.
No Wonder he says that he can- have been promised to them in The debt has never been repaid. Grand Master Mason of Scotland in very different in its essentials from days of prosperity, but have be- come inconvenient when the and last month the price of a 1996. The Bicentenary year of the most of the romance and drama not be "bothered to bet." He has which, in racing, is to be found at not the time, the inclination; nor Grand Lodge of Scotland. Treasury is empty. The atti-hundred pounds nominal
The election was made at the every turn. Betting does not enter the need to do it seriously. tude of these men is that that is ninety two. All the surpluses of last century went to pay for the
quarterly Communication of Grand into it at all. The great distinction no concern of theirs; and that Crimean and South African wars Lodge in Edinburgh on the motion which Mr. Buttere has gained in his attitude is by no means confined
of Lord Saltoun. Grand Master, profession, and the large income to the demonstrators in Wash-and we are now left with a ington. Why, as the President national debt of which the annual seconded by Lord Elgin, Past Grand (which in the last few years he must PREHISTORIC MAN IN
interest exceeds what used to be says, should the man who makes the total annual revenue, in the The Prince of Wales, who was thoroughly earned. They are the shells in a factory and goes home days of prosperity. In the every evening to a good dinner, get eight dollars a day, while the meantime the men who fought initiated to Masonry in the House just rewards of a high degree of man who fires them off and then under "the Duke" were simply hold Brigade Lodge in 1919, is professional skill, backed by an in- discharged with a small gratulty already an Hof. Member of the tenso devotion to and an exceptional hides himself in a dug-out
and left to chance and private Grand Lodge of Scotland, and last capacity for work, directed by clear, only gets one? Justice seems to charity, slightly modified for the year was installed as Deputy Grand confident judgment. demand that the man who volun-penniless and the very old, oraster and Governor of the Grand. Such qualities command success of prehistoric man has been..
luck more often than they are aided stone quarry at Eyam, North emergency should be paid what incapacitated by the chance of Lodge of the Royal Order of In every ephere. They overcome ill-found standing upright in he
by good luck admission to Chelsea or Green-
¡Derbyshire. It is believed to ever is considered to be a living wich Hospitals.
Trainer On Continent have been buried for thousands wage in his community, or else
Mr. Butters did not begin to train of years o that, as no State could actually There would be a boom in the
in England until he was nearly 50. The skull is extremely thin but afford to pay such an amount to authority of the Hague Court and
He was educated at an English pub only two teeth are missing from hundreds of thousands of men, the League if it were establish-
lic school, Framlingham, but began the lower Jaw. The skeleton the whole community should be ed that war debts cannot be commandeered at the outbreak of repaid, and all costs must be met
his training career, in Austria, as has been carefully removed and did his father, the late Joe Butters. It will be examined by experts. war, and the factory worker out of revenue: that men on should have to accept a military active service should not suffer rate of remuneration for the pecuniary loss; and that the
When the war came Mr. Butters It is thought that it
teers to serve the State in "an
Seatland.
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS
A complete seven-foot skeleton
duration. If this should make citizens who stay at home should customs. for the month of Novembar was not permitted to leave, Austria, a valuable link in trap
national wars too expensive and not make any profit out of unpopular that would only be recognition of what is the fact
the
DOUBLED
Amoy Port Prospers
The total receipts of the Amey were $870,000, practically a 100 per though the English racing com- evolution of man, Eyam is be- cent. Increase over the month of munity there was treated most kind-lieved to have been the home of a group of prehistoric men for October.
The reason given for the increase During those years most of his on Eyam Edge there is à barrow the new export duty, levied on savings disappeared, and when he over a hundred feet in diameter. to silver which went into effect early began to train in Italy after the land on Eyam Moor there is a
Armistice he had virtually to make Druid circle. In November
the
Russia
business.
already
for no
has
The
waged
war within
century
exceptus on :: bor
money.
The raising of loans T
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