Peter ✰
O'Sullevan
IN X
AMERICA
THE CHINA”MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1968.
day of
the
local Peter
O'Sullevan.
Further investments are temporarily suspended when the starter, Mr George Cassidy. Invites me on to his rostrum to Rec the electrically controlled sull start at close quarters,
IF YOU'VE a taste for the off-beat side of life step right forgoing back this morning into the colourful world of the late Damon Runyon, where there's always a sucker hoping to make a fast buck....and like as not you'll find the guy crowding the rails at some fast racetrack. Take, for instance, one recently when Peter O'Sullevan, that top-hatted notable British racing, dropped in at the New York Jamaica Track on his way to report the Washington International at Laurel Park, Maryland...... Horse
players
must always
be patient
New York. Here the world over TTORSE players are the
patient Heckers after the infallible among the highly fallible.
Al
But I
the driven to Jamalea truck by a New York taxi driver with an original approach to horse playing.
credibly informed, is equipped with Mutud booth-that's the Fote
That's the only legal way of
hotting here. On wd off-course I okmakers are barred, though The latter lo practise to Li alter extent in between holl- stays at the State's exPETISE.
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PREQUENT Indspeaker an-
nouncements ensure the customer is kept abreast of very development which cour possibly ald guys and dulls in bringing off the dally and playing up gains on each of the ensuing winners,
double
Whereas we in England are Set in ignorance concerning the type of footwear being worn
popular distance), and "No. 7" has Leen routed home victory, than the supporters of No, which ran second, object noisily.
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“ing him down," they cry The stewards who dwell reznie a glass case higher than Nelson's Column,
Time doesn't count when
money
IN
does
answer comes the inbounce-
ment: "Jockey William Boland on No. has elalined foul on jockey Angel Valen- zurin on No. 7. There will be s
It certainly promotes an even brenk but the aspect of so many hores looking like 50 many frightened rabbits does į not endear to the machine. :
From Captain Harry Gug- gorheten, whose Bald Eagle showed such a friendly dispost tion towards English book- makes this season, i learn that he plans to win the 1080 Epsomn Deiby with a horse named Tooth and Noll,
But my need for a winner Ja somewhat more immediate,
So Mr Samuel Renick wilo -has steered home some 700 winners before retirement, steps in la batidle my case
We go along to converse with Edille Arcaro, who is not only s great rider but a considerable personality. So entertaining that we overlook the question which I The main purpose of our visit. "A
rider great
that," suya SLUT as we leave "He never makes a mistake. He'll trot up
In the last,"
He says: "I've been trying by our selection, here there are slight delay while the stewards A sucker
tove it up.
Hope I lose to-
day. then Ive up for good."
He adds that unless embar- overburdened with rassingly riches before the inst race he would meet me outside when the show was over.
Gentle music assails the car of the visitor from the thum he steps Into the emporkan. IN mont Thu gentlemen's rem remarkably furnished with
of sedatives. generous Mily stimulants, und lolions The ladies' powder
room,
ENS
against ex mine the motion picture." un The
little coloured #ghts
Fer carh horac's paddock board:-
WHITE for aluminium shoes; RED and
Munterings of players gather
ed in little groups are heard by the bystanders until the an-
Can never
WHITE for mud bouncer settles the issue with: say No
raulkers on aluminium;
RED and YELLOW for mud wulkers on steel; and so on.
Ax now as hard
Ca
we horse players to please as
We
"Jockey William Boland claim-
ed he was bored at the top ADDIE doesn't though, and of the stretch. After examining the taxi driver is sim The wantin pleture the stewards
there, grbinaig broadly. decided the result stands and is official."
this
No soone have the seven
Up to the end of Race One inters In Roet
bee this One
visitor bus not #ade deed in the starting traps and
investment. Sirve their x-furlong
unusual restraint eas no longer journey (six is a monotonously
mr intained, huy, despite the considerable cost 150 cents, Ir three shillings and seven [jrence) the assistance of the
daily newspaper,
I
see red
too if I can't
get my bar of Nestle Chocolate.
با سی ام
I is not until face Five, by which time my anctal status shown satne deterioration, I realise I am evidently
has That
"E
done it," he calls gally. "Not a winning brt all day, I've given it up for life."
"What will win the big race
at Laurel next Tuesday?" I ush him when we have been going while. "Me," he said." "I'm betting on Clem."
"Didn't you say you'd given up lor e asked.
"So what," he shouts, "That's race is next week, isn't it?”
Oh, well, suppose if you Ask a horse player a silly questios.
ROUND-UP
PEARLY QUEEN
WOMAN with a heart of gold is the name given to the Royal Peurly Queen of Woolwich, Mrs Sarah Goldun, who has col- lected thousands of pounds for charity. She has just taken 32 putients from the Goldle Leigh Children's Hospital, Abbey Wood, on a day's ouling to the countryside on money she mised with her collecting box. Two years ago she raised £100 for a stained glass window to be placed in the hospital chapel. Now the Pearly Queen aims to raise enough money to buy u set of high chairs of Christ- mas for the very young in Goldie Leigh.
NO FOOTSLOGGING
THE words "No foolalogging" appear in a new recruiting appeal Iwued by the Royal Tank Regiment, it adds: “You ride every- where, with your kit beside you."
The LIVELY EYE
ARTIE considers a well-known phrase
THE END 15 NEAR
THE END
IS AT HAND
*Time, gentlemen, please 1"
**fimo, gentlemen, pienas 1 *
"Time, rankivroen, pleass i ”
"Timo, Eentlemen, pfosse i'
Pat
Boone:
"I
EARNEST YOUNG MAN KEEPING IT ALL CLEAN AND
WHOLESOME
by Sarah Rothschild
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DON'T go in for all that wriggling like Elvis," said Pat Boone, the pop singer with the college education. "I might put the wrong ideas into the fans' heads.”
Judging from the breathlese mob of Boone Ravers-- Boone's fan club in England-outside the Palladium, his fans seem to have much the same ideas ag any other pop singer's.
why shouldn't I? It would be a terrible weight on my con- sciener." Therefore Boone, like Elvis, drinks only milk - both on and off the screen.
But in spite of the pelvic difference, both Boone and Presley belong to the new school of Goody-Goody American entertainers who drink milk, blanch at the sight of a cigarette, and sembly of God. Boone belongs
go to church regularly.
'No prude'
Pat Boone feels that he can not
reconelle pelvic gyrationa with high-mindedness. I'm not prudish but i would never do nything in front of the teen- whers
which their parchis couldn't watch."
Bot are religious, Elvis be- longs to the Church of the As-
to the Church of Christ. "It is not a sect of the Protestant Church," he explained. "We belleve it is the original, brasle kind of Christianity they had in the New Testament or when they used to worship in caves."
No smoking
Nevertheless Boone's Church seems a lot stricter than in New Boone Ravers, therefore, have Testament times. It forbids its le. be satisfied with the ocen- members to smoke, drink, sional snup of a finger ог the have "sensual contact with the tap of foot,
or
opposite sex except in matri- mony." These rules have caused Boone a certain amount of trouble, if not any major act- back in his career.
How would ne describe the reaction of his fans to himself? "Well, it's more like the reaction towards Д famous football player perfectly clean and The first lost him two tele- wholesome.
vision serles for cigarette Boone Is under a seven- sponsors; the second lost him a year Alm contruct with 20th feries sponsored by a beer firm; Century-Fox worth £1,428,000; the last led him to refusing to he has £40,000 in the bank; and kiss actress Shirley Jones in the has sold 15,000,000 records. But im "Aurli Love." large ns Boone's bank balance may swell, it can never equal the size of his sonse of responst bility. "Whatever Ido on or off the screen the fans may copy, Therefore I must set them Rood example,"
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Boone's private ike is shining example of all that is clean and wholesome. Ho Is happily married to his pretty wife Shirley, and they have four 1 clean, wholesome children.
For the moment Mr Boong So Boone, like Elvis, does no
should be satisfied. Ho ins drink. "If I thought any teen- found the pop singer's elixir: Ager Bow me drinking and that it pays, in hard cash, to be thought 'Put Boone drinks, no virtuous.
BOONE-SOARING BALES DESPITE A STATIC DELIVERY,
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PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY
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