Sports Diary
TODAY
Cricket
Div, 1-inc v OCC; Navy v Army South: Optimista v Scorpions: Army North Polles; NA KOC,
DIY. -Dockyard V KGV; Homete v Das; Muy North v ARDY
EXILES
Rugby
Police v Royal Navy (Army, 3.§.) pan RAF y Army (Army B.B.) 4.10 p.m. Club y Club "B" (XI.V.) 4.30 p.m.; 2001 “Engy 1 Royal Tanks (ICAL TAX 3,30 p.m. Hockey
Ladies' Lesque facralo Victorians (V)_3.80 p.m. Cup Match-Gremlins v **A2 (Xworejo) 2.20 p.m.
Hocoer
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Senior Shieldsing Tao v KMB (134) p.m.
South
Junior Shield.--Gymnarties "China ? AT8/Army] (19) 2 p.m.
Div. 3-CM v Mercantile (1) 120 9.1.2 NV Wayfoons (CR)
p.m.
Athletics
Annual Athletich of KGV SOLOGI, Missions Road Kin 1 D.m
Annual Univerity of HR Sports, Pokfulam p.m.
Macias
Ninth Annual Race Meeting, Happy Valley (Fimi Diy), noon,
THE JOCKEY CLUB DUKES BEGIN THEIR BATTLE
Faris.
Who will replace Armand Francola de la Rochefou- could, Duc do Doudeau- villo, as head of Pads' aristocratic Jockey Club? The duke, who will be 88 this year, has expressed his with to rotire so that ho can devote himself ontirely to his remarkable collection of snuff baxos.
He has born President of the Jockey Club, which is Buroly the most exclusiva in the world, for 38 years,
Now a "Battle of the Dukes" has started for the succession.
So far three dukes appear to be eligible.
They are the 74-year-old Duc de Levis-Mirepoix, whose family dates back to 1019, the 50-year- old Duc de Rechecouart-Morte- mart, whose family dates back to 880; and the Duc de Brissac, whose family is of more recent vintage, dating back to 1386.
The Due de Levis-Miropolx is considered too intellectual. well-known historian, he bo- langs to the French Academy.
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The Due de Mortemart has the disadvantage of being a He Is president of inancler. an insurance company and is on the board of several mining companies.
As for the Duc de Brissac. who is brilliant engineer, he is looked on with some disfavour as being too wordly. He is social criticised for attending functions at which "the com pany is mixed."
admits
The Jockey considers itself the last refuge of French aristo- cracy. And in matters of mem bership it is so discriminating
it very rarely that untitled people,
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18 of the exceptions Maurice Hennessy, who is the only untitled member of the committee.
In his case many members of his family have married into the aristocracy.
But even aristocratic birth is not sufficient to ensure admit- tanco to the Jockey: actors and ecclesiastics UIC automatically
most agreeable spot barred. and the accents of Glasgow and
Money is not necessarily an and a chip from the site of the File mingling with the tinking asset, and it is understood that
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a future for Imq which may morning-this being the Persian admitted at a time, well excel its palmiest days Sunday-give a pleasing illusion of being of home. The club many centuries ago."
solemnly is adfuited, I believe,
The playing surface excepted, to the English Golf Union but the gotera of Kirkukandthis, as in the case of almost there were many of them this every other overseas golf club day, since the fadies, who area which the British gather, is great mid-week golfers, were clearly a mistake. It should be playing a modal competition the Scottish Golf Union. might imagine themselves play-
The illusion of being at home the Now course at Sunningdale, or perhaps one of is strengthened by some of the the more open, rolling moorland tee shots, which In this foothill lack nothing by com- courses of England or Scotland, country with rocky outcrops and a few parison with those on the finest eucalyptus trens substituted for sand dune courses in Britain. So the heather and a reddish long as you have a flat stazze Devonshire-Hke earth for the and a. teo for the ball-In this fairways,
case fashioned of mud like an enlarged halma man by your cattle and prezented to you stuck on the bottom of the driver-the mchilaration of shoulders and
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Happy Memory
The course has, however, one feature which I found remark-opening your able and in my own experience hitting it as far as you can is the same original thrill of golf tinique. Some youth ago some
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that the ball,
experimental genius imported a all over the world. species of grass-I bellova trata Lite Gezirah Club at Cairo, of lich on a boulder and fly off such happy wartime memory to at right angles soon becomes so many and now, so they tell things like that?
immaterial. Why worry about
me, mostly dostroyed--which be
hoped would survive to replace
the "brown" that are normaal in
this part of the world, This grasa was of the "creeping"
variety and it not only survived; Scoring Wing Halves
it arept.
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