JOCKEY CLUB AND PONY RACING
Proposed P.T.C. Course At Manchester £100,000 WILL BE SPENT ON IT
to
London, April 16. The Jockey Club's attitude poný racing was defined by Sir Humphrey de Trafford at the an- nual financial meeting of the Jockey Club held at Newmarket this week.
He was replying to a question by Mr. Egerton, who had asked if the attention of the stewards had been drawn to the announcement of a new pony racing track near Man- chester, and if it was not a fact
AMERICAN & S. AFRICAN OFFERS TO FARR
Wants £10,000 For U. S. Trip
London, April 19. Tommy Farr, the British and Empire heavy-weight champion, has received further offers to fight in South Africa and America, and London promoters are also sug gesting fresh fights for the Welsh- man. **Tommy will not go to America to fight Max Schmeling or Bob Pastor under £10,000,” said Mr. Broadribb, Farr's manager. "After all, if either of these men were to come to England they would want the same purse.
"Tommy is not afraid, of any heavy-weight. He will travel to Timbuctoo if the purse is good enough! Regarding an offer for a Ben Foord-Farr fight in Johannes- burg, we will go there if they can give us suitable terms."
that the stewards of the Jockey UMKMMA | |--423056 || 3237-43|||||| Club had only agreed to a maximum of 82 days under Pony Turf Club rules.
Sir Humphrey de Trafford said that on October 28 last he had ́an- the terms nounced to the Club which the stewards had offered to the Pony Turf Club if it was to maintain the position which had been accorded to it by the Jockey Club under Rule 178 (a) and (b) of the Rules of Racing.
THE TERMS
Those were:
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1937.
SHOP TO BEST ADVANTAGE AT
ASIACC
COY
GIANTS PITCHER SETS RECORD
YANKEES FIND WINNING FORM
THE
01
U.S. BASEBALL
New York, To-day. Yesterday was a red-letter day in the National Baseball League for the New York Giants, when Carl Hubbell, their super pitcher, broke all known pitching records by winning 21 successive Lengue games in a two-year period.
The Tigers were in a slashing mood in the American League, and blanked the White Sox, thanks to the fine pitching of Gill.
Yesterday's results Reuter, were:-~~
as
cabled by
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Pittsburgh
2
6
1
Vaughan hit two homers. New York
5 13
0
Bartell hit a homer, Cark Hubbell
broke pitching record.
Cincinnatti Brooklyn
8
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6
8
10
.6
13
Park, and it is intended to spend Chicago 100,000 on it. Covered accommo-|Boston dation is to be provided for 12,000 (12 innings were played). people, and a totalisator of the
latest type. installed.
LICENCE GRANTED The stewards of the Pony Turf (1) That no pony exceeding 15 hands Club have agreed to grant a licence. should run under Pony Turf Club Management and direction will be Rules. (2) That no two-year-old should be in the hands of the Northolt Park
eligible to run before Aug. 1, executive. and that the height of, two-year- olds should be limited to 14.3. That the Jockey Club should have the right to appoint their own measurer.
St. Louis Philadelphia
J. Moore hit a homer.
42
t-00
2
1
14:00
64
7
8"
AMERICAN LEAGUE ·
New York St. Louis
4 12
0
2
8
Vosmik hit a homer.
10
14
2
2
8
0
5
2
4
5 --Reuter.
0
Pony racing at present takes place at Northolt Park, Portsmouth Washington and Chelmsford. This year 57 days Hill hit a homer. iracing has been allotted to Northolt Chicago (3) That the total number of days' Park, 10 days to Portsmouth, and
Boston racing under Pony Turf Club eight days to Chelmsford. As at Rules in any year should not ex-
Gill pitched. present agreed, this would leave a Detroit ceed 82. (4) That no club or company owned total of only seven days' racing for the proposed new Manchester track.
ponies should run.
Those terms were accepted by the Pony Turf Club for the current year. The stewards had appointed Major K. Robertson as the Jockey Club measurer for the year. Sub- sequent to the Houghton meeting of last year
further correspondence had taken place between the ste- wards and the stewards of the Pony! Turf Club.
NO ROOM FOR MISUNDERSTANDING
GOLF STARTING TIMES
Holiday Pairings For Fanling'
The following are the Royal Hong During the course of that corres-Kong Golf Club starting times for pondence, both in November and Fanling Sunday next:-
SUNDAY, 16TH. MAY, 1937 OLD COURSE
again in December, it had been
rall.
OLYMPIAD OF 1940
Committee Meeting In Warsaw
Warsaw, To-day. Problems of the Olympic Games, of 1940 are the subject of discus- sion by the International Olympic Committee, which is meeting here from May 6 to June 11.
made perfectly plain that 82 days' 9.20 a.m. J. H. McElney, G. C. Wor- racing in any one
Japan, who is acting as host in year was the maximum figure to which the Joc-9.24 J. D. Haynes, D. A. O'Kieffe. 1940, demands that the programme key Club had agreed. The
9.28 H. Mi- ́Alexander, A. A. be shortened and that poló, fencing
•ste-1
Bremner. wards of the Pony Turf Club were
and the modern pentathlon be eli- 9,32
minated.. therefore fully aware of their posi- tion in that matter and there was no room for misunderstanding.
The proposed Pony Racing track Manchester is Worsley
near
N. K. Littlejohn, Capt. Michell.
WHITMONDAY, 17TH. MAY, 1937
OLD COURSE --- 9.20 a.m. R. Young, G. C. Worrall. 9.24 E. T. McMullen, J. H. – M.
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