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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1925.
BATTLE OF SEXES,
LORD DARLING AND THE
SHINGLE TEST.
HUNTING AT 81.
VETERAN WHO HOLDS
JUMP RECORD.
Hunting, oven at 81, is the best sport in the world, according to Mr. Tom Smith, the famous Woreostor trainor of jumpere, who a month ago began his 65th with the consecutive season Worcestor Hounds.
At 81 he can take any jump' Introducing the topic, he re-that comes in his way, and. called that as a law student, 50 according to " Horse and Hound," years ago, ho look part in a debate has cleared the highest jump of at University College, following any hunting man in the world. which Lord Coleridge, then At-o is the only can who has over torney-General. who presided, riddon and cleared the deer park predicted that one day he would wall with its flat stone top at Croome Court, Earl Coventry's. it on the judges' bench.
Worcestershiro seat.
· RECEIVER. Hookups for five tuhe radio- "That the emancipation of wo- frequency sets can be covorted man has been accompanied by the into four-tubo layouts simply by progressive degeneration of tran." olicinating the second coil, vari- This was the tempting subject able condenser and tube from the of the debate over which Lord schematic diagram and list of, Darling presided at the University parle. You can couple the second of London Union Society the coll to the detector tube more other day. easily if you will paint out of the diagram furnished with such kits all symbols and connecting lines batween the G on the second RPT and third variable condensor, Litz wire, used in loops, is less efficient if any of the wires are broken, so be careful in removing inaulation. A match will burn of the insulation where a Knifo ugod as a 'stripper might break wires.
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Protect vacuum tubes by slipping a section of mailing tube over the glass. A hole can be cut in the side for a clear view of the
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"OLE BILL."
A RECOGNISED TYPE.
Captain Bairnsfather's revue at the New Oxford seems to have had ather a "bad Press "—
This splendid survivor of the old school of riders has broken almost every bone in his body at one time or another, many of
Summing up the debato, in which no vote was taken, Lord Darling said the question had buen very well argued on both sides by people who obviously did not believe in their own argu-them twice. ments. (Laughter.)
As trainer and ridor of jumpera and tamer of refractory horses, he is known throughout the British Isles and in America.
POPE'S DICTUM.. Alluding to an argument that women having cut their hair
TRAINED "SPRING BOK."' short men had so degenerated as
He was the trainor of Spring to wear theirs long, he quoted from "The Rape of the Lock": Rok, a few years ago one of the Great Jove suspends the goldenhest jumpers living. Soon aftor
boom in air,
Mr. Smith sold him he won the
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'gainst the womun's hair. Ho was not propared to say us a rosult of the dobate that, woman having risen, man had fallen, like two buckets in a well.
Wore Earl Coventry's horses
Smith, who schooled by Mr. travelled all over the country to jump at agricultural shows and other moutings till he was 65.
Some years ago ha and his
But it appeared to him certain- ly established that man and wo-three sons were the leading man having now become equal to spirits of a Worcestershire polo one another, one only wanted to team, and he is just as well known turn to Euclid to know that now
as a driver of four-in-hands. Two that they were equal to one of his most cherished prizes are another, they were equal to any long silver horns presented for thing. Laughter.)
driving skill.
Miss Ethel Shand, the only woman student to support the
the.
Mr. Smith is still in busineso horse dealer and trainer, and good deal less good Press than it motion, said the fact that women can be seen on most days riding
earned their own living nowadays unbroken colts through seems to me on the whole it de-had lessened men's sense of re-busiest streets of Worcester. serven, writes Hubert Griffith" in
sponsibility, making them grow the Daily Chronicle.
Looked at from from one point lax, lazy and selfish.
Miss Baker (King's College of view, there are ways in which
spectacular "Carry On, Sergeant" might be said it was merely
mun to offer al
Mr. Smith has been a teetotaler improved. It had on the first chivalry" for a night no professional slickness seat to a woman in a railway
"Courtesy, if you like, for 60 years, and has never smoked. and quickness about it. It was a carriage:
but not chivalry," she added. little under-rehearsed.
The roul point, however, on which people will agree or dis-
agree about the revue is
"Is
Ole Bill doud? Has ho survived! the war or not ?"
And to this I reply that, though
think many people otherwise, ho is emphatically alive and kicking, and that Captain Bairnsfather has done vory well indeed in resuscitating him.
"Is Ole Bill dead?" The Admittod question is absurd.
that in the years of the war he stood for anything tas he certain- ly did, he cannot die. For .Ole He Bill was never a soldier. fought the whole war through. and it was owing to him that the war was won: but the whole essence.of him was that he was Ho civilian-turned-soldier.
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was not the professional. And Captain Bairnsfather seized on this aspect of him, and im mortalised it in many drawings.
BEFORE THE WAR.
He oxisted before the war; in the time of the war he went into the army and was drawn by Bairnsfather, and after the war lic retreated into civilian life. again. and resumed his pro fessions of nowsboy, Acane shifter, publican, eccentric, In all these or philosopher. guises wo see him at the Now Oxford,
His He is irroverent as ever. raciness, his cockney idiom; his outlook on life (cheerfully though profoundly opposed to all the inane stupidities of war, as ho always was), has been more ac- curately caught than ever. I am)
glad to see him again among us. He is a true type, and worth ton thousand of the types usually soen in roVUR.
The outstanding characteristic of, Ole Bill was his truth. Ho gained immediate popularity, not because ho was 山 fantastic creation, but because he something that a whole nation could soo and recognise..
WAS
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The drawings, of the wretched privates amid the mud and shells: "If you knows a better olo, go to it": Ole Bill opining that the enormous sholl hole torn in the roof of the barn "must have boon made by rats": Ole Bill and the phrase "They say the Brat seven years will bo the worst "those things repre- sented at one period of our his- tory the feelings of a whole peo-1 plo. The future historian of tho war will got a very fair idea of the war from two things; from the groat Jaggers howitzer at Hyde Park Cornor, and from the philosophy of Olo Bill. course, he is not dead.
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"They tell me I am an old fool for doing it," he told a Daily! Chronicle representative, "but I cannot keep off it."
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