8-1 ON HORSE BEATEN
Gordon Richards In Dramatic Win
STEWARDS CAUTION AMATEUR RIDER
Scandal, a hot favourite at 12 to
8 on, was 20 yards ahead, with only 150 yards to go. Benering he could (By HOTSPUR)
not be beaten, Mr. Armstrong CESEN Lewes, August 7. his mount by "dropping his heads Gordon Richards, the champion
“INJUDICIOUS” FINISH jockey, figured in the most drama- tic incident of the flat-racing sea-
Mr. A. Bexall, lying second on Protomartyr, an outside, son here to-day when his mount, Knock-a-Penny, at 8 to 1 against, lenged strongly and, with Scandal beat the 8 to 1 on favourite, Law unable to increase his pace, he was Court.
beaten in the last stride. There were only three runners. The Stewards sent for Mr. Arm- and Law Court, owned by Col. F.strong and, having heard his ex- T. Halse, was thought to be a cer planation, stated that they con- tainty.
sidered he had ridden a very i- judicious finish and cautioned him. as to the future.
Earlier, in the fourth race, a mile and a half handicap confined to amateur riders, the large holiday
crowd had witnessed a surprising
finish.
BEATEN ON POST
Mr. Gerald Armstrong, who had flown from Yorkshire to ride Mr. J. V. Rank's horse, Scandal, was caught and beaten on the post after he was apparently assured of victory.
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THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 4, 1987.
MICHEL MORE IS NEW SCHOOLBOY CHAMPION
DOBBS HANDICAP IN TENNIS FINAL
PROMISING FORM OF UNDER 16 WINNER
(By A. WALLIS MYERS)
London, August 7. J. MICHELMORE, of Charterhouse, won the Mac- Leod Public Schools Cup at Queen's Club yes- terday after a 35-minute final against A. C. Dobbs, ourites have failed at this week's of Magdalen College School, Oxford.
No fewer than eight odds-on fav-
meetings.
Mr. Armstrong, one of our best With the temperature in the 80's, a humane referee wisely or- amateur riders, was obviously up-dered a maximum interval between the decision of the last two set by this afternoon's incident. He rounds, but even so a trial of both flesh and spirit was involved. cancelled his plans to fly back to Chasing the ball under a fiery sun on a sand court was something Middleham to-night, and will ride ike running on an Oriental desert, and it cannot have made the Fad here to-morrow in the race for young competitors any fresher to see adjacent tuɗf courts, so amateur
much more amenable to net work in hot weather, occupied.
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Michelmore -deserved his suc- cess by his tenacity in earlier rounds, but he would be the first to admit that, physically he had an advantage in the final. Dobbs had already played five sets and 63 games in singles and doubles before he tackled the Carthusian
He had little energy left and. serving many double faults and netting backhand drives, he could twin only four games in a final all
too brief for the relative skill
SAVED TWO MATCH BALLS
The grim fighting had come in the morning. Both Michelmore and Dobbs had gruelling three set matches, and Michelmore one that he might easily have lost. Pilking ton, of Sherbourne, was his ad- versary and he not only reduced lead of 4-2 in the oral set, but saved two match balls.
Perhaps save is scarcely the right word, for Michelmore, wiren lead- ing 5-4 sacrificed one of his chances by serving a double fault. He atoned for this lapse with two good smashes in the victory game.
DOBBS CARELESS
Dobbs was inclined to be care- Jess in his match against Trewby and, indeed, conceded the first set by errors of timing and footwork. But in the next two sets he declined to let Trewby slow up the game and gave quite a
ing dis- play in the last set.
G. F. Palish, of Whitgift Middle School, who won the under 16 event,
hould be good enough to carry the MacLeod Cup in a canter when he qualifies. In a final of 40 tes he beat G. F. Anson, of
playing drives and volleys and
port the