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SPION KOP'S DERBY.
OUTSIDER WINS IN
RECORD TIME. Edgar Rowan writes in the Daily Chronicle as follows:-"A Derby of records and sensation record crowds, recond beat, and an outsider's dramatic victory in record time that is how shall remember. this day of Bunshine and heat and fierce excitement on the pleasant bill tops of Epsom.
we
It is agreed that it was a record crowd.
Not only Londoners, but people from all over the country throng ed to this greatest of open-air carnivals.
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may lunch well-appointed tables on lobster or salmon may- onnise, with chicken, tongue, and all the other pleasant things of the cold sideboard, and wash them down with champagne, or you may buy cold fried fish, thick sandwiches, and beer, with slices] of tinned pineapple from wander- ing hawkers for dessert.
On the stands "and in private i boxes they are talking of the opera and planning parties for Cowes and for the moors
FUN OF THE FAIE. Flunge into the crowd and you roar pass your time with fierceri joys trying your skill at the coker-aut shy or laying up for yourselves memories of foolish- 0229 at pricking-the-garter, at the spinning jenny or at the three card trick.
And then oh, yes, of course! there's the racing. Several times during the afternoon the carnival
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[To the Edtur of the Hongkong Tulograph."]
CATHEDRAL WAR MEMORIAL.
Sir.-The Gathedral Church Body has agreed upon a design for a Memoria) eross to be erected in the compound in memory of the Hoog- kong man who fell in the War. Their names are to be inscribed on a tablet in the porch. We are | anxious' - that--none--should........be
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At one moment on the lawn before the grand grand I had a Japanese from the forthest East on my right and a man from Canada's forthest West on my left Within touching distance is interrupted, and a few horses Hoogabay. 19th July, 1920, were American naval uniforms gallop down the cleared track. and the khaki of several of our Bus it is all over in few
and they canter along again, andį Allies in the recent war. minutes. stepped aside to let a well-known For the thing that strikes.cuou to the distant starting gate. musical comedy actress pass, about a Derby crowd is that thes The tumairdies down, there-is-
come out to enjoy themselves in strange sense of a million people their several ways, and if the awed to silence, as we gaze across the bread downs, all gleaming rates did not take place they would still have enjoyed all the fun of the fair.
and bumped into + Bdmiral.
8,000 FROM WALES.
famous
South Wales sent a compact body of 8,000 miners and steel workers, and a Chertsey friend reported that a char-a-bane that left the borders of the Principality at 4 in the morning passed through his town at noon.
People with a taste of that sort of thing say that there were a million people on the Downs. Or was it two millions?
I neither know nor care, but they are nice, round. satisfying figures, which setre to convey the impression the vast throngs made on the mind.
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where the horses have gathered, their jockeys a bunch of gaily- coloured flowers against a greent wood.
Soon after one ocko a roar of cheering begins afar off, and
The hush and stillness become gathering in volume as it sweeps almost unreal. It is no longer a forward, like a tidal wave, comes washing up to the Royal standing crowd that one sees on the bill, but a giant canvas panorams, bearing with it the King and Queen and Princess Mary.
A bookmaker at my elbow,
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and familiarity in e Derby crowdfusion as the coloured pattern far Whatever estimate you accepta feeling that on this day the across by the wood changes and
of their numbers, you may be satisfied that nowhere else in the world will you see 50 sy people packed on to the same number of acres.
re-forms, and through glasses we King is one with them, or at any see the horses being sent back rate that they are of his party.
into line. Now he has arrived, and the
At last we could not have day has properly begun.
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They flash past, a flicker of held our breath and our silence Where is the light "bice bright colours and slender legs. out white bats, of straw or felt, for the first race so vigorously and (as if we were a stage crowd and scarlet, that the favourite Already the crowd is breaking
The fine weather has brought
which glisten in the sun, and there are bold splashes of scarlet and blue, where the bookmakers have set up their banners.
A BOLD RED LINE.
Along the rails between the Grand Stand and the Corner, there is a red line of motor bases from the London streets, parked wheel to wheel like guns before a push.
mach longer-there is a gasp,|
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to say, looking up the course,
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And so the Derby was won; by THE FUJI PAPER MFG. CO., LTD. hot faces and wait for inquiries they slide smoothly along this enough to set the crowd shout, and in record time at that.
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Only the men perched above the edge of the wood and disappearing names and the name of
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The police have cleared the arrival on the skyline above the shape of caps and sleeves. You flashed across the world, and men
coume, the numbers are up, and the Derby horses are led past the stands.
Already the newe is being
Eastern plantation and can see arms waving, and you in There they age-curiously like have a sense of knees straining, Western prairie, will know
as the gallant animals beneath before we leave the course.
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Plunge into the crowd and you may take your choice, from
A bookmaker begins shouting: Petticoat-lane to an old English It is difficult to believe that allhouettes moving along a piece the colours come stretching out
of scenery in a racing melodrams for home.
the odds for the next race- fair, from Hanley to Ranelagh, over the world men are waiting|
Again we lose them for a
another Derby is added to our for all classes come here, and to hear which of these animals
SPION KOP!"* then specks of moment, and esch brings
yellow records and many months of little IL
can gallop the fastest for a tile colour are coming out of a thin
No mistaking that world, and - makes itself and a half.
jacket now wall ahead of the work and talk and wagering have dust haze around Tattenham black figure that is working bad the answer to the question "t home according
The horses bave been led past Corner. 10 its gwn ideas and taates. Thus you Their attendants loose their heads!
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