KELLSBORO JACK'S
LAST RACE
WINNING FAREWELL IN CHAMPION
'CHASE
(By WATCHMAN)
KILRAIN AND
London, March 28. EUROPEAN Followers of steeplechasing will retain pleasant memories of Kellsboro' Jack, who has finished his racing career. Appropriately, BOXING TITLE his last race was at Aintree, the scene of his triumph in the Grand National five years ago. At 12 years old he is thought' by Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark to have richly earned his retirement.
After unsaddling him on Saturday Ivor Anthony announced
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ers heaved a sigh of relief when the concluding item
an exhilarating tie was a pass by W. R. C. Brydon that sailed over J. B. Craig's shoulder when the latter was only inches from the home club's line. The acceptance or better direction of that pass would have taken Heriot's through. Yet if Hawick were a trifle lucky to go on, they fully justified their progress when they subsequently defeated Stewart's (F.P.) in the face of a somewhat cruel circumstance.
BROKE LEG
They were leading 6-3 against the Scottish club champions when J. Breckenridge, who had scored their try for Beattie to convert, fell in try- ing to stop an opponent, and
broke
a leg just above the ankle, and had removed to Edinburgh Royal Infirm-
to be carried off on a stretcher and
ary.
that the gallant old chaser will not be seen on the race-course The suggestion that Jake Kilrain, welter- again. He will be almost as much missed at Wroughton as Brown of Bellshill, the British Jack was when his racing days came to an end.
weight boxing champion, should go to Brussels for a match for the When he had won the Grand last season, a colt called War Ad- European championship with Felix National Mrs. Clark decided that miral, and then have provided the Wouters, of Belgium, the I.B.U. Kellsboro' Jack should not run at winner of our premier steeplechase. title-holder of Europe, may have Aintree again.
That resolution War Admiral, like the Liverpool the somewhat curious effect that held good so far as the Grand] winner, is a small horse.
the match may ultimately be de- National is concerned, but it was Incidentally, Royal
Mail's cided in Scotland.
With only six men against a side rescinded in 'the case of the broken blood vessel is more serious Champion 'Chase, which he has than anticipated, and it has been While Kilrain was willing to go to so heftily built as Stewart's, it look- ed as if Hawick's career in the tourna- won twice. A co-incidence is that decided not to run him again this. the Continent for the bout, there was
ment would end, but they fought gal the stipulation that the financial two of the steeplechases at Ain-season. Also interesting is the terms would require to be suitable. lantly and A. L. Glover (last year's tree were won by American wo-fact that Major "Barrett, the These have not been satisfactory, and captain of Stewart's) went over for a try. Though L. G. Doig got a try con- so far as the Brussels fight is Wroughton trainer, has received a
which A. G. Blair converted to equalise out now. Reg. Hobbs, the trainer of Bat- telegram from the owner, the Mar- cerned, it may be ruled
the scores, A. L. Crozier -went However, the Belgian has intimated that tleship, asks me to express thanks quis de San Miguel, stating
that he would not be averse to com- before the finish to give the Teries a on behalf of himself and his son.
before Takvor Pacha returns
well-deserved victory. toing to Scotland to defend his title.
WATSONIANS LACK CONFIDENCE Bruce for the vast number of tele-France he is ready to accept an of- He may have heard of the good money:
that is paid to boxers of note here. introduced in place of Breckenridge, In the semi-final, R. Turnbull was fer for the gelding.
In any event, the matter is being
and with Beattie and Glover again O'DELL'S GREAT FEAT pursued by one Glasgow' promoter as
a possibility for an open-air show in playing a big part, Hawick complete- Kellsboro's Jack was not the only the summer, and the British Boardly outclassed Edinburgh Academicals, even more hero of the afternoon at the con-of Control are to be consulted on the whose movements were
matter to ascertain that everything restricted than those of Heriot's had No fewer than 58 cables of con- cluding stage at Aintree. He was would be in order. The fixture would
not more lustily cheered than O'be an undoubted draw. gratulations reached him from friends in America, where the Lam-Dell, whose feat of capturing the Foxhunters' 'Chase for the second bourn trainer lived for 13 years before returning to Leicestershire the crowed.
time kindled the imagination of
men.
grams and other messages of con- gratulation he has received on the triumph of Battleship.
in 1924.
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At 16 years O'Dell is one of the He tells me that Battleship will
oldest horses in training, and cer- not run again this spring. I have already mentioned that it is Mrs tainly the oldest to win steeple-
chases of this importance,
For many seasons he was a popular that figure with the Worcestershire Hounds, of which his owner, Major H.P. Rushton, is M.F.H.
Marion Scott's intention to send him to the stud in America next
Reg. Hobbs declares year. in appearance the Grand National winner has many of the characteris-
tics of his redoubtable sire.
FINE TRIBUTE
In the point-to-point field he won everything and I believe he holds the record for the number of races of that type he has won. It is a remarkable tribute to Man The finish of the Foxhunters' was o' War that he should have sired almost a replica of that for the best three-year-old in the U.S.A. Grand National.
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Crozier's transfer to his best posi- tion, scrum-half, had much to do with Kilrain's championship success has the improvement of the promoting club. Little or nothing was seen of R. certainly put him into demand, but either C. Ritchie or G. A. F. the financial offers generally are not Gibson, the young Academical backs, coming up to his requirement, and it who had done so well the previous seems extremely unlikely that he will week, but the whole Raeburn - Place be seen in the National Sporting team were badly "thrown out of their Club, London on a future date sug stride by the spoiling measures adopt- gested by the London authorities. It ed by Hawick. In fact, the Academicals had been proposed that he meet either might as easily have lost as won in George Daly or George Orwell; both their opening bout with Melrose, for of the London area, in
confidence overweight there was little matches, but the terms were not to his liking, and the proposal is likely BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
But the greatest disappointment of to be called off.
all among the city teams was the Watsonians, even though they got as far as the semi-final, which feat re- presents an advance on previous dis- easily, but there was almost a fatalis plays this spring. They beat Kelso
tic attitude about their play in the second round against Selkirk During the second half they practically in- ́vited the Souters to beat them, and it was more than they deserved when R. H. Dryden ran away for a last- minute try that A. Reid converted: to. take them through. Dryden was not to blame for their fall against the eventual winners, for he scored from the only pass he got in that tie. The shadow tackling of E. C. Hunter, did not aid the confidence of the Myresi ders,
Kilrain's next bout may be in. Liver-| pool, from where an inquiry has come. For the present the champion is re- the result of his two quick contests re- covering from slightly sore hands;
cently. However, no great damage was done, and he could take the ring at a moment's notice if called upon.
A.B.A. CHAMPION TO TURN PROFESSIONAL
London, March 80.
M. Dennis, holder of the Amateur Boxing Association middle-weight title, is to turn professional. Ho was in the English team in the Em- pire Games at Sydney, and has just returned from -Australia.
Messrs. R. A. Beattie (Watsonians), C. S. Broadwood- (Heriot's T.P.), C. W. Carmichael (Stewart's F.P.), and J. H. Ferguson (Gala), refereed the ties, the results of which were:-
FIRST ROUND
Jedforest, 10 points; Gala, 0.. Royal High School. (F.P.), 11 points; Langholm, 8 points.
Watsonians, 18 points; Kelso, 0.
• Selkirk, 6. pointa;
School (F.P.), 5 points:
Hillhead High
Hawick, 8 points; Heriot's (F.P.), 6 points,...
Stewart's (F.P.), 11 points; Glasgow Academicals, & points.
16 points;
SECOND ROUND Royal High School (F. Jedforest, 0.
Watsonians, 13: points; - Selkirk, 11 points.
Hawick, 11' points; Stewart's (F.P.), 8 points
Edinburgh Academicals, 5 points;
Dennis won the A.B.A. title last year from W. S. Pack. His first pro-Melrose, 0. fessional contest will be at the end of April.
Until he actually engages in a professional bout Dennis is eligible to box in the Amateur champion ships, which will be decided at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Two other title-holders, A. Harper (feather) and V. A. Stuart (heavy) have also entered.
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-SEMI-FINALS.
Royal High School (F.P.), 10 points: Watsonians, 3 points:
Hawick, 19 points; Edinburgh, Aca- demicals, 8 points.
"FINAL: Royal High School (F.P.), 36, points; Huwick. 0.
Royal High School (F.P)---R. M. M'Arthur, G. O Hell, E. T, Gólogly, D. Murray; R. Bidzot,. P.-W. Tatt, and J. Watt.
Peden, A. L. Crozier; J. Beattle, A. Havid R. Turnbull, G. Brown,
Glover, and J. Thom,