THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1939
News Snack Bar
BOY OF 16 BIDS FOR £2,000 JOB
London, June 29.
By riding the winner of the Stud Produce Stakes at Newmarket yesterday, sixteen-year-old Dou- glas Marks brought a step nearer the possi- bility that he may become jockey to the King, at £2,000 a year.
He has won a number of races, and it is thought he will be considered for the post at the end of the flat racing season.
QUAINT CORNER
P.-C. Constable Now-The first woman policeman to be appoint- ed at Bath has a very appropriate name. She is Miss Dora Constable,
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A class for dogs which looked like their owners was included in -a-Midhurst, Sussex, show,
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So many young folk around Winchelsea have joined, civil de- fence units that the local amateur players have abandoned their sum- mer production “A Midsum¬ mer Night's Dream.”.
LIFEBOAT TOWS YACHT
Hythe lifeboat, returning from Cowes after an overhaul, found the 10-ton yacht Mary becalmed off Beachy Head owing to a motor breakdown and towed her to Folke- stone.
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DRIVING ERRORS IN FILM
Swansea Motorists' League, which has 2,800 members pledged to as sist in reducing road accidents, is to make a film showing common driving errors and how to act in emergencies.
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CABLE BLAZE ON RAILWAY
When the insulation of electric trunk cables alongside the Southern Railway, near Malden, Surrey, was ignited by a grasa fire, the current was switched off for an hour, but the railway cables were not affect ed.
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NEW WELSH COALMINE
Work has been begun at Dulais Valley, Glam., on the sinking of a shaft for, a new colliery, which is ́expected to produce 1,500 tons of coal, daily.
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TRAWLER SKIPPER
OVERBOARD
The job fell vacant last week, Jack Crouch, aged twenty-four, was killed while flying to Newcastle
races.
Marks is an apprentice jockey to Mr. W. R. Jarvis, who trains the King's horses at Newmarket. He was told at the last minute yester- day that he would ride Godiva in the-Stud Produce Stakes,
Mr. Jarvis gave him the chance because he got on well with the horse at exercise. Marks won by a length, repeating the victory gained for Mr. Jarvis by Jack Crouch in the same race last year.
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GASSED IN FIRE