THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 4, 1941.
Rage 15
DYING PONY DERBY HERO MISS HARDWICK'S
WINS RECORD RACE
By A Correspondent
SCOTTISH RIFLE, a pony which won the Nort- holt Derby for Miss Dorothy Paget, has been re- scued from death's door to win a race in record time.
Sent to Malaya, Scottish Rifle was found by Captain Rufus Bowden, an Army veterinary sur- geon and younger son of Mr. Arther Bowden, of Ep- som, who is well known in Surrey business and sporting circles to be seriously ill and dying.
He not only restored the pony to health, but Scottish Rille won a race in record time.
The captain was not quite aware that he had such a distinguished į patient.
In a letter to his father he says he "thinks" Scottish Ritte won the Northolt Derby. He now knows enough about him to write that the colt is a super-horse.
HENRY COTTON FULLY
BOOKED FOR YEAR
Henry Cotton has been booked up for 1941, but he has nothing yet settled for 1942-3 or 4. Looks like a long war.
MACAO TEAM FOR H.K.
Macao
Football Associa- tion are visiting the Colony next week and on Tuesday will meet Eastern at Caro- line Hill.
As the team is staying here several days they will pro- bably play Sing Тао on Wednesday and South China on Thursday.
The team will be accom- panlod by Lieut, Montalvao, president of the Macao Foot- ball Association.
Monty Smyth, the leading pony
G. B. Legge, former Kent cap- trainer, tells me there has been a
tain. killed while flying with the good market for English racing
But it is true he has three dates Fleet Air Arm, held the rare dis- ponies in Malaya and the East, fixed-with the usual reservation, tinction
of having and fairly high
The clubs are Sher-Oxford in his prices have been of course.
second realised.
wood Forest. Luffenham Heath. was a first-class slip.
Stardust Not For Sale
An offer to buy Stardust, sec- ond in the St. Leger and "Guineas," has been made from An.erica but has not been accept el. No offer to purchase the "Leger" winner, Turkhan, has yet been made.
Meanwhile I learn that the Agu Khan has decided to send Turkhan and Dastur to the Old Connell ¦ Stud, Co. Kildare, 111 the near future. Each will stand at a fee of £75. Dastur has been at stud in England for the past six years.
Both stallions
bred were Sheshoon, Co. Kildare, which quile close to the new home
at
and Church Stretton.
And Henry, although now hav- ing only one free day a week in which to back his travelling as well as
his match. is asking for more! Secretaries should get busy.
* * *
DECISION NO GREAT SURPRISE
IT WAS NO SURPRISE to hear that golden- haired Mary Hardwick has gone professional, and will make the fourth on the Budge-Tilden-Marble tour starting at Madison Square Garden.
She is handing over to America's British War Relief Fund a per- centage of her earning's which will be substantial.
As an amateur she just missed championship class, possibly through sacrificing hitting power for style.
AL. PERRY JOINS UP
Friends of the 1935 Open chan- Miss Hardwick's hero was al-pion, Alfred Perry, were sorry to ways Tilden, and she says she will hear that he was leaving his club be thrilled to be in active tennis at Leatherhead. with him.
"His appearance at Wimbledon in 1930 was the first big match I watched." she says,
this
It was Bill's last season before turning professional and captained would have happened a year car- year.
Helier but for Tilden, after publicly announcing his retirement, being so raw over America's Davis Cup defeat by Frince that he decided to have another crack at the 1930
Football Association have de-title-just to show that Americans cided that large numbers could still play tennis. of affiliated clubs who have He won, after a memorable bat- not paid subscriptions shall fle with Wilmer Allison--and only
readmitted The Cotton matches now total be £27,770, and
member lost two sets (to Jean Borotra) on Henry wants
Bill tship without payment of entry fee | the way to the final. make it £30,000 by the spring. at end of war.
then 37.
BEST
to
Perry has joined the Army, and went to the West country for a few weeks before his age group is called up.
People will miss his modest an- nouncement over his shop, which proclaims him Assistant champion troubled to have altered when he 1924-25, and which Alfred never
Won the greatest going honour of all.
The Assistant's title was the
and he first he ever won. more thrilled by that than any victory in his subsequent career.
was
Jimmy Lyden, Bootle, beat Basil was McGee, Liverpool, on points at
Blackpool recently.
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