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(UE RICHARD CAPELI. |
HIS LIFE.
It is a puzzle why more of us have not WIFE'S DEVOTION THAT SAVED the dying habit. The puzzle, tratu top tell, has only impressed itself on me in the last few days.
FANLING STEEPLECHASES.
RAIN INTERFERES WITH HOLIDAY MEETING.
The attendance at the Kwanti Race-
course was poor yesterday, owing to the
The will of Sir Robert Houston, the shipowner who died recently at his re sidence, Beaufeld, St. Saviour, Jersey, and is reputed to have left £7,000,000, has min which completely spoiled the Whit.
suntide meeting. It was altogether
Betting was poor,
The laney occurred to raw to take the Sir James Barrie proposed the toast of Cologne bus at Croydon our morning "Cricket" at a luncheon to the Austraiter breakrast. Arriving at the Dom
Hotel ready for lanch, our naked, been proved. lian cricketers in London,
there any other reasonable way at coming It states:- Responding to the cheers, he drally from London to Cologne
How much, sweeter those
Of course, to unes friends who have observed: samps would have seemed to me if 1,tut âgures-of-eight in a Bristol Fighter could have got them by lifting Mr. 20,000ft, over the Somme in is this Mailey over the ropes." (Laughter.)
is not Hying at all-it is the merest hedge-hopping. But, whatever your call it, how uncommonly convenient:
All know about cricket, and especially about my own pyrotechnics," be continued. tell me there will be no more play, to-day. (Laughter.) 1 feel I am again barkling on my pads. 1. try to do it, but oh how horrible (Laughter.) The worst sight of all is Mr. Gregory waiting in the slip. What is the man waiting for? (Laughter.)
I have just one Consolation out of Mr. Gregory, which is that his name shows conclusively that he is really a MacGregor. I fool sum he got his how- ling from his most famous ancestor. Roly Ray MacGregor,
The one danger is that the experience induces vain pride. Half-an-hour from Croydon and you pass" over a midget port. You are only some 1,301ft up, but you can hardly believe it is Dover there is no hill, but, only the merest wound, and you recall that when, on your last war-leave, you had to climb the castle hill with full pack it sverged nearly insuperable.
E declare that 'I have given up and relinquished my domicile of origin and disappointing dag, hare taken up a Jersey domicile, it and the bookmakers were but weakly being my intention to remain domiciled in dersey, until the end of wy, natural life. I nominate and ap- point my wife and George Appleton racentors of my last will and testa- Interat.
me give and Lequenth to my beloved wife, whose self-sacrifice, devotion, enre, and wonderful intuition on separate occasions saved my life when si doctors despaired of it. £100,000 to al at onge paid, also my steam sacht Liberty, with her equipment, and furniture and pictures, silver plate, and the personal effecta."
230,000 TO CO-EXECUTOR. Other bequest's were:-
To George Henry Appleton, "£30,000, to
be at onse paid.
C
But the toy town has gone, and you ty across the Channel in ten minutes. There is Calais, and there no doubt as THREE AGAINST ONE. " toiling rarthly gravellers geing through You will remember, secording to his. the medieval miseries of the Calais tury, that Rob Boy used to hurl rocks at! Custom-house. In your complacency you To Walter Francis Roch, $13,000. a light thought of pity on the To William Sanders Fiske, £5,000 the stumps of his opponents. (Laughter.); cast Mr. Gregory is now joined in the slips pereaming and the scuffing, the elbow-To John Herbert Cornford, £10,000,
This executors the sum of £30,000 for by Mr. Hendry and Mr. Mailey threeing and the trodden toes down below..
distribution in such amount and to The nonchalant. lounging attitude againat one. (Laughter.) I don't know
such persons as they may determine, what they will think they will look like which the easy chairs in the cabin make.
in their absolute discretion, who were standing there in the slips with their you adopt "encourages sapere:liousness.
in the service on or before October arius outstretched imploringly; but tot first, uncertain how the new motion
Bist. 1015, of R. P. Houston & Co. me they look as if they were all proposis going to affect your spirits, you have.
and the British and South American ing simultaneously to the same tady, made no approaches to your fellow pas
Steam Navigation Co.. Lid. (Laughter) Even if one of them winsengers. We are all very baughty, with her, what can here with her? (Laugh super-first-class manners.
But now comes Dunkirk, and now all ter.) only say this in the hope that when the first Test Match comes around the little brand-new villages which have these three will remember this and it sprouted out of the 1914-18 ruins.
been reassuring-nething will put them off their game. (Eenewed motion has
much more than that of n train with laughter.)
bints of a descending lift.
The
But here is a big town. You guess Ghent and wish you were up in geography. Brussels Surely not yet. Brussels in an hour and a half! But the wind has been westerly, and Brussels it is.
The first Test Match Fancy being able to speak that awful mouthful in words of one syllable! This is to be the great year for words of one syllable the three T's-Test, Toss, and Tail. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first day of
Descent is a new sensation.. The earth The first Test Match (Laughter.) We and all that therron is are for a second are all at Trent Bridge. The English,
or so a vertical wall-and you are temp captain has won the toss. (Laughter.) trd to pity at the simple souls you knew He puts the Australians in. (More who were satisfied with the Wembley laughter.) I think he must have some-
switchbacks. But before you have been thing up his sleeve. I don't quite catch too much tempted you are sedately motor sight of his free, but I see him having ag across a green held secret "conversation with Mr. Warner's old Harlequin cap and I believe they are up to something. (Laughter.)
"CATCHING AT STRAWS: Maurice Tate pais his hand behind his hack; an awful silence spreads over the universe; the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons, in the middle of his speech, is bereft of words. (Laughter.) It has been said, probably by Mr. Gregory that drowning men watch at straws. In the balcony of the pavilion nine members of the Australian team pick up straws and clutch at them. (lore bughter.3
supported.
The racing was quite good. however.
Some excitement was created in the.
cond race when Spaghetti fell in Evont of the stand, dragging Capt. Sturges in front of another pony. He escaped dis. aster, however, and remounted to be one at the four to complete the course,
In the Open Steeplechase Mrs. Bower registered another win en Cheriton Vale.. The biggest Geld of the day with s rutiners, was for the Consolation Steeple. chase, which Wahkeena won by a lengths,
Racing detaile follow-
TAP FO STEEPLECHASE (about 1 miles for
a cup presented by Tai Po residents for China, pogies that have started at Kwanti Steeplechase and have not won, Catch weight 163 lba.
(Owner) 2
As to the residue of his personat Mr. T. C. Beck's Harford......(Owner) 1 estate, Sif Robert left four-fifths to his Mr. R. H. Charles' New York wife absolutely and one fifth to Mr. George Henry Appleton absolutely, the Mr. W. Beveridge's Durian
(Mr. D. B. Pest), 3 present will being made without pre- jadier to my will of realty."
Also ran - Egbert (Mr. H. C. Gould), Zircon (Mr H. C. Turner).',
Won by her lengths. six lengths. Parimatool:-Winner, $20.35.
The will was signed at St. Saviour, Jersey, on January 19th last.
Of the beneficiaries. Mr. George Henry Appleton, a Liverpool Conservative, is the only Northern partner in the firm of Messrs. Houston.. HA was a personal friend of Sir Robert's.
Mr. William Francis Roch, late M. P., for Petabrokeshire, is a son-in-law of Lord Treowen, and was a great personal friend of Sir Habert Houston,
Mr. Herbert Cornford was Sir R. kert's personal secretary.
Mr. W. S. Fiske acted as solicitor for
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Cash Sweep:-No. 95, $93.50;. No, 198, $26.40: No. 378, 813.40.
$10 Tickets:-Nos. 80, 317.
FANLING HUNT HANDICAP (about 1 miles) for a cup presented by Fanting re sidents For China ponies open to subscribers to the Fanling Hounds.
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(Mr. E A. Brodie) 1 The wind "has served so well that weSir Robert Houston. As Sir Robert Eads, R. J. Paterson's John Smith bave to kill an hour and a quarter at the definitely given up his domicile of origin Brussels air-station. (Down with the and taken up a Jersey domicile no death Mr. R. K. Simpson's Smart Guy
(Mr. Ralph) absurd word aerodrome " :) But ma
duties can be claimed on his estate in
Mr. R. H. Charles Chessman chines are all the time coming and going Jersey,
(Owner) 3 It is as animated as a railway terminus. too, proper Belgian
Also ran-Spaghetti (Capt. Sturges), And there is
Naples (Mr. A. Sugden), Curlew Dahlia estaminet where you can drink coffee by the stove and talk with a proper, de-
(Mr. Greenway). tached manner to the quiet, matter-of- fact youth who has been piloting you, cross the firmament.
Brussels Cologne,
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? CAPTURE A THIEF OR JEWELS HE, DROPS?
If you were pursuing a jewel thief, and, just as his capture was imminent, You feel yourself he threw away a valuable haul of dia-
old hand. You cast a glance down-monds, what would you de
wards and with some disdain think now uch alike all the kingdoms of the earth look at this distance..
Mr. Noble, pauses in the middle of drawing up the complete Australian averages for the tour. 31. Hill, in Australia, is suspended between heaven
Here in brown thunderstorm. The and the inkpot. (Laughter.) Maurice Croydon bus has a more extended re- Tate inkes little walk which is to bepertory of motions than you had credit- followed by a little run.
ed it with it would be better if you knew when the lift was about to make. those sudden little descents.
Through a rift you see what must be Ais. Charlemagne's Aix, but you turn
My lords, ladies and gentlemen, pray Mac while Maurice Tate howls the first Call There is now pothing to be heard except Mr. Giczory letting fall his straw. (Laughter.) Tale goes pushing forward faded eye. The possibility presents and sends down, not the ball put the itself that if you were going on to seans. What does that mighty roar Prague or Persia you might become mean? That the "Australians" have al billious. But there is no time for sombre. ready made four, or does it mean, speralations. The earth has tipped up journalistic phrase. The next man in and again suddenly righted itself this is. Macartney (Laughter.) Much good time German earth. that would do na! (Laughter.) Then there is Mr. Ponsford who, I have been told, has only been out twice in the last five years." (Laughter.)
What polite affability reigns amerg the Customs and passport people at air- stations! Arriving in the town by the Fair-station car, you get an extra salaam Ladies and Kentlenen. I believe from the hall-porter of your inn Every- ne the only person present who knows what is to be the constitution, of the English tram.
NO HOPE:
Mr. Warner and his committee do nt know at least I have not told them. (Laughter.) On un orasion such as this it may seem a little cruel to damp Mr. Collins: but I suppose truth is best, and I am afraid I must tell him that this year there is no hope for his gallant but unfortunate company. (Laughter.)
Our team is mostly to ca composed
thing, in fact, from first to last has gone to persuade you that you, the man who has acquired the air habis, are genera. tions ahead of the bufeted, time-wasting traveliers of train and steamboat.
the last Test match-(laughter)-said. 1 think we can say to the Australians in a complimentary way, that we are quite well aware that if we had not hought of cricket first they would have bought of it. (Laughter.) Whether we win or
Won by one length, a distance. Pari-mutuel: Winner, 81.45.
80: No. 101, $13.90. Cash Sweep:-No. 173, 807.30; No. 234,
810 Tickets:Nos. 277, 152, 149.
This question is asked in the current issue of the Pulice Beriten the organ | OPEN" STEEPLECHASE (about 2 miles) for
British constabulary. The articje continues:
и
Total Abstinence Cup- presented by Mr. R. M. Dyer. For China panies. Catch weight 158 lbs.
Mr. R. J. Paterson's Cheriton Vale" ..
(Mr. Bower) 1
."
No doubt every policeman faced with this problem would let the jewels lie and continue the chase of the criminal, This is precisely what a policeman. did the other day. He caught the thief. Capt. R. G. Sturges' Reynolds and some people who watched the pur suit secured the jewels, and they neither gave their names nor reported their finds at the police station.
Now a curious point of casuistry, partly ethical and partly legal, has
(Owner) 2
Mr. C. H. Turner's Pongo......(Owner) '3 -
Won by three lengths, a distance.
Also ran: Tam (Mr. R. H. Charles). ·
arisen in consequence of the conduet of Jambu (Mr. W. T. Stanton), Country the policeman. The question which is Mouse (Mr. A. N. Lucey), Emperor (Mr. agitating the minds of many persons W. K. Bousfield).
is
Did the policeman do right!"
The point of view of the jewellers in particular is that the policeman should
Pari-matur:-Winger, $4.80.
Cash Sweeps:-No. 161, 8107.80; No.
have stopped to pick up the jewels, 150, 830.80; No. 117, 815.40. even if it meant the thief's escape. They want instructions to be given to the police that they should adopt that colirse if a similar thing happens again.
10 Ticket:-Nos. 188, 187, 160, 472. 8" Sweep:-Ticket No. 7810, $10,500; No. 15048, 83,000; 1596, $1,500.
of
It is, of course, not likely that any sane police authority will adopt this view. The desire of the jewellers. is very natural. They are more concern- edwith the return of their property than with the general welfare society. But it is surely better for society at large that the polies should place the arrest of the criminal before the recapture of his booty. The surest way to diminish crime is to make ita detection certain.
Mr.
1/
3250 Tickets:-Nos. 15827, 13448, 14708, 17084.
UNITED SERVICE RACE (about 1 miles) for a cup presented by the Fanling Hunt. Open to Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and Hongkong, Volunteer Defence Corps. For China ponies. Catch weight 158 15. Winner of any previous steeplechase 14 lbs. penalty. Lieut-Coud: Fanshawe's Racehorse
(Capt. Sturges) 1
Mr. R. H. Charles' Drako
Won by half a length, three lengths. Pari-mutuel :-Winner, $2.55. Cash Sweep:-Ticket No. 673, $299,80: No. 172, 880.80; No. 404, $40.40 $10 Tickets:-Nos. 698, 532, 192. CossoLATION STEEPLECHASE (about 12 miles) for a cup presented by Mr. W. T. Stantoa. For China ponies. that have started at Kwanti and not
of new men. They are presently being loss they cannot deprive us of our kept hidden away in cellars (Laughter.) greatest sporting glory, that we invented
(Mr. Ralph) 2 Our fast bowler-Ingation this in con- both cricket and the Australians. (Laugh- Sdence-is W. K. Thunder. He has never ter.) Do not let us forget especially at
Mr. R. H. Charles' New York "
(Owner) 3 been known to smile sept when people this time that the great glory of cricket LEGACY FOR A BRAVE, MAN. refer to Mr. Gregory test bowler. does not lie in Test matches or county
Also ran:-More Better (Mr. Cobbold), MacGillivray, Alexander R. (Laughter.)
championships or Sheffield shields; it in As for the batting, all merely to be found father on our old village Upper-Yates, Muckart, Perthshire, who Bertrain (Mr. Sugden), Why Net (Mr. indicate ita quality by saying that Hobbs greens, the cradle of cricket. (Cheers) was in the Regular Army when war D, B. Peat). is to be twelfth man. (Laughter.) Of Test matches are only the faver of the broke out and went to France with his Cameron Highlanders,. course, something might go wrong. There game. Thay pam. As the years roll on regiment, the
later becoming chief sniper aud observer is the glorious uncertainty of cricket. thay sink for ever down the horizon. Even the Prime Minister on the only The very Dame Test Match may into an artillery unit bae iately fallen heir Occasion on which ever my him play time be forgotten, but long after that I to a considerable legney from Australia.
While on service, one day he notice in the first innings be made 1, but in think your far off progeny will still hear | the second innings he was not to success the crack of the bat from those bumpy old in front of the German trenches an officer ful. (Loud, laughter.)
village pitches. It has been onid of the lying badly wounded in a shell-hole, and, "But Mr. Collins, even though the great armies of the dead marching always despite the firing which, was going on, Australians were to win this time, I have on their eternal journey, that when they MacGillivray crawled out and brought still a rod in pickle for you. In that come to a country cricket field the Eng back to the British lines the wounded case I am going myself to choose a Beat- lishmen among them step ont from the man, who proved to, be Captain, Neil tish team. (Laughter.) My first choice ranks for a moment to lean over the gate McPhail, of the Australian Army Corps. in MacGregor, with whons, for I believe and smile. And for the Englishman, yes, A few hours later MacGillivray was in bowling, shall have MacDonald, and the Australian, how dreadful it
(Owner) Macartney and Macaulay.
would be if they had to rejoin their con "Two other names as Scottish as any rades feeling that we were no longer
(Mr. Howard) 2 are Henry and Andrews. My captain is playing the game A. W. Care My wicket Eeeper, Lyons. I think that is about the last blunder
(Mr. E. A. Brodie) 3 Douglas Nigel Haig, MacBryan, and we shall make, and with that feeling I the two men, who corresponded after Mr. R. J. Paterson's October Armstrong, and with that team from give you the glorious toast of Cricket, the war; and Mr. MacGillivray has just
Also Tan-Harlord (Mr. G. W. "Scatland I challenge the Australians, the coupled with the name of one of the received intimation from the family of game not to be played on turf or mat greatest of all cricketers, and one of the ting. "but, as always, on our native greatest of cricket captains, Mr. War heather. (Laughter.)
"IN CONCLUSION
Colonal E. B, Jackson, submitting "The Chairman," in a jocular reference to the Selection Committee, said that there was no doubt they must have Bir James Barris added to that Committee. (Cheers.)
In conclusion as I was out long ago, caught Gregory in conclusion, as Mr. Grimmett, when he went on to bowl in (Continued on next Golzes).
ner." (Loud cheers.).
been placed on date of entry, Catch-
Weight 160 lbs.
badly wounded while trying to effect an. Mr. W. T. Stanton's Wahkeena other rescue under similar circumstances and found himself in hospital in the bed Mr. A. Sugden's Shot III next to that occupied by Capt. McPhail. A great friendship aprang up between
Capt. McPhail who died recently in Sewell), Elm Leaf (Mr. H. C. Turner), Australia, that their father desired him Fatty (Mr. T. C. Beck), Teddy (Mt. D. to receive a legacy of £5,500 in remem
ranée of his brave deeds. Capt. Mae E. Peat), Alcautrs (Mr. M. M. Watson). Phail's last words, the letter adds, were
Remember Sniper." Mr. MacGillivray, owing to bir vounds, has been unable to work siace the war, and is in receipt of a pension.
Pari-mutuef:-Wigner, $1.60. Caab Sweep:-Ticket No. 315, $113.40- No. 108, $32.40; No. 106, $16.20.
$10 Tickets-Nos. 32, 128, 157, 404, 97,