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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934.
FORTUNE WON IN RACING SEASON
NOTES OF THE DAY
ESPIONAGE
The Turf, which may be the most expensive of hob bics, provides big money prixes for winning owners, whose horses in these days are usually entrusted to one or other of the famous train- ing stables. The following draws attention to the rprising run of success en- joyed this season by Mr. Frank Butters'a slable at Newmarket, and describes a trainer's everyday routine,
does not enter into it at all. The great distinction which Mr. Butters has gained in his pro
The Very Idea!
PIRATES HUNT THE HAGGIS
By George
fession, and the large Income CONTINUING our soul- which in the last few years ho scaring serial after a must have derived from it have week-end mainly devoted to been thoroughly earned. They St. Andrew and other hag- are the just rewards of a high
degree of professional skill, back gard topics we find that our ed by an intense devotion to and pen has gone agley or some" in exceptional capacity for work, Highland fling. directed by clear, confident judg-
ment.
Such qualities command success in every sphere. They overcome ill-luck more, often than they are aided by good luck.
For instance.
(Below 100 continuo our kilt-
This is not fiction. Information of an ocial nature has been published disclosing the immense secret activity of international apy systems. There is not a nation of any consequence which has not, in the
-past few years, bean shocked to discover that esplomge of one sort or another is going on within Its borders. Britain la no excep- tion. There have been unpleasant discoveries in unusual places. They have not been given wide publicity. In December, one year ago, Robert Gordon Switz, an American, and his 22-year old wife, were arrested In Paris by members of the Surete. They had in their posacssion certain
Auttering serial in which George documents and various other, in-
sinds himself marooned in a boat criminating material. They were THE sweeping attccess of one
with a gang of pirates. George materParis of a large Taweng at Mens Deep
has been captured by the bloods group of Soviet-employed aples who striking feature of this racing
thirsty marauders who have been Mr. Butters did not begin to instructed by their "chief, Mfina were gathering a harvest of useful
The horses trained by Mr. train in England until he Benson. information respecting French mill- Frank Butters at Fitzroy House, nearly 50. He was educated at an cure a haggis for Blas Bay celebra
wax Bloop-Coo, nee Hollywood, to pro- tary and naval matters. We do not Newmarket, have won £88,800 In English public school, Framling tions of St. Andrew's Day.) know what has become of the Switz prize money so far this year.
"Ering me à haggia dead or family. But we do know that their
This sum is three times as large ham, but began his training career arrest and confessions mado pos- as the next highest in the trainers Austria, as did his father, the, alive," swore the blue eyed chief- sible the round-up of a large numlist, and rarely in the long history came Mr. Butters was not per husky looking pirates on the knee late Joe Butlers. When the war tainness of the society, roasting a ber of operators whom the French of racing have the horses of one mitted to leave Austria, though cap with her football boots. Government had long been anxious stable earned so much in a single the English racing community On Thursday we left us with a
discover. Among them was aaaon. The record in this res- there was treated most kindly. Lydin Stahl. Her own magnettam.pect is held by Mr. J. Lawson who
pistol pointing at our amidships a sort of seductiveness, and a free trains for Lord Astor; Mr. Somer savings disappeared, and when he the other end of the gun spat at the During those years most of his while the wicked looking fellow at supply of gold, gave her access to ville Tatteranil; and others,
odd at began to train in Italy after the secrets which France had been at Manton, in Wiltshire. In 1931 he Armistice he
demonstrate pains to keep. She obtained War won for his owners £33,895 in make a fresh start. In
had virtually to accuracy.)
The Cereal Iew College lectures, information re-stake money. garding the explosives used in
"Avaunt scullion" shouted years came Lord Dorby's engage- French sholls, facts about polson run. In that time Mr. Butters, no House,
This season has three weeks to ment as private trainer at Stanley the coxswain in the third upper gases and gas masks tested at the doubt, will win more races, but four years, and Mr. Butters was
The contract was for (Fukien dialect).
(Seo to-morrow's thrilling con- Biological Institute. All went to
is extremely improbable that he immediately Russia. Yet, yesterday, we read will beat the Manton record. "I' successful."
and consistently į tinuation of this aerial which wo that France and Russia had agreed have no reasonable chance of do-
confine to its short limits in respect upon a common policy for the pro-ing it," he remarked to me a few not renewed. Lord Derby
The engagement, however, was to the Scottish celebrations. Will tection of the peace of Europe. In days ago, "because all the rich cutting down
was¦ we avaunt to-morrow or is the the light of these revelations af prizes have gone."
time of Feuzswain only playing! espionage It would seem incredible
national economic anxiety, and Mr.} The only thing that prevents him He doubts if two racing records Butters, who had always been a from killing us out of hand is the that France can have faith in the achieved in the last few years will private trainer, was "out of a job" knowledge that the chieftainness sincerity of the Soviet.
ever be surpassed. One of them In December 1930 he lensed Fitzroy would vent her spleen on him if he is the Manton total for 1931, and, House, Newmarket, as a public served up an old haggis-and wo the other he established himself trainer, though at that time he doubt if we could keep for over a at Ascot this year when he won 9 had not been promised a single week. We daren't tell him that of the 28 races.
horse. He was over 60 then, and the original haggis was mauled to because nearly all the best horses beginning anew. An owner sent death in a brawl at the Edinburgh him two moderate animala. A Stock Exchange when he dropped who are fit, for racing run Ascot, and the competition for the little later he took some belonging a chopped saxpence on the floor of the house. This message is sent in Sir Alfred Butt, including rich prizes there is exceptionally Lord Bill, a horse of roguish receiving It please put some whisky
a Johnny Walker bottle. Anybody. keen.
reputation with whom he was to Thirty-three horses trained by Mr. do so well during the following in and send it back by the next
to
That was a wonderful triumph,
at
WOMEN AS WEAPONS
Women seem to take to this work of espionage. It was a woman who was behind the activities in Paris, in Rumania, in Finland. M. Rlekki, Chief of the Finnish Secret Service, about Mary knew Bomething Britain and to have attempted to Loulae," said to have worked in
obtain secret information from
Butters have won nearly 90 races Lieut. Baillie-Stewart. She was between them this season, and the sessed a beautiful figure. M. Rickk! exceeds £1,000, In spite of the fact golden-haired, blue-eyed, and pos-
average value of the prizes gained connected her, somehow, with the that the stable secured only one disappearance of mobilisation plans, of the five classic events-the with the vanishing of the drawings Onks--and missed, though narrow for a new rifle, and other valuable ly, the Eclipse Stakes, which this documents. M. Oksian, Minister year was worth about £7,500 to the for Defence. intimated that this winner. was believed that the whole Finnish was the result of a Soviet plot. It
technical milltary staff had been marked for assassination. country was tense. Subjects were The
arrested. Then, as the pursuit of plea grew hotter, one dark night. ghostly planes flew along the fron- tier, their lights drew close Helsingfors. The Finns лге
If popular literature is any reliable guide, most people nowa- days are doing a deal of wistfuli thinking about the vanished past. During recent years, publishers have brought out a surprisingly large number of books which mirror the past as a time of high charm and contentment. Some of them are novels and some of them are books of reminiscence; some of them look back to the dim and distant past, and some of them go back only to the nineties; but through book after book there runs the melancholy sentiment that things used to be at lot and sneered at what they believed was an attempt on the part ever so much happier and more of the Soviet to frighten them. secure than they are now. This They went ahend with their investi. gation, arraigned a crowd of sus contrast is not drawn with
pected spies, and convicted twenty- reference to the depression. It four of them. M. Riekki, was given is as if the depression, to these his work in this connection. But the French Legion of Honour for authors, simply climaxed a pro-espionage gous un. Men who are gression that had been going on caught at it are generally shot. for a long time; a progression The women go to prison for five, ten. fifteen years, Madame away from the old simplicities. Majewska and Frau Litike could the old virtues, the old content-tell amazing stories. But Poland has sent the former to prison for ments: A great deal of this life and the latter... sentiment is undeniably justified. knows where she may be. In Vienuu, in Tokyo, in London, or Life did move in a more even
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for Why not? The spica of the nations are everywhere Russia is not the only one accused.
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scientists of the
tempo, in the old days. Men's ideas were less confused. Their certainties were less open to question. The one unquestion able fact is that we have moved into a time of profound change, Pasteur Institute have at last
News that and it is as. confusing and perfected a vaccine for yellow fever generally unhappy a period as brings one of the most herofe und. any in modern history. Yet inspiring chapters in the history of however much this looking back medicine nearer to its conclusion. at the past may salve our The Oght to wipe out this great wounded feelings and meet our finest brains in medicine, and some
plague has enlisted some wistful desire to re-create a of the bravest spirits. From Reed time when the world. Was to Noguchi, the work has been in younger and less perplexing, in the hands of men whe
the long run it will do. us
of the
did not
henitnie to risk their own lives; and
precious little good. For the it has been carried forward with past, after all, is the past. that are nothing less than amazing. an intellectual skill and a patience It cannot be brought back. It is fitting, too, that two American For better or worse, we have aelentists-Dra. Andrew Watson on, and we shall not Sellards and Hans Tholler, both of moved find salvation by looking over the Harvard Medical School- our shoulders. at the shady should have played prominent parts places beneath the trees. We It was Americans who struck the in development of the new vaccine. may not like the present era. first great blow in the fight against It may be inferior to the olden yellow fever. It is fitting, there days in any of a dozen ways. fore, that Americans should be in But it is the era we have on the last campaign of the war, to live in; and only by facing |
It resolutely and bravely can wo
pave the way for a futuro understandable, but it can also that will be an improvement be bad for us. The only value on it, Once in a great while of looking backward is to gain the stream of human history lessons from its experience makes an abrupt,-right-angled which shall be of worth in turn, away from everything planning the future. This truth with which most people are applics as much to a Colony familiar, on towards the un-like Hongkong as it does to known. We seem to be living any other centre of human in just such a moment to-day activity. We shall beat serve In the circumstances, our pre-our time and day if wo culti occupation with the paattavate the habit of looking ahead.
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the Aga Khan scat his horses to Towards the end of that year Fitzroy House, and then, after the briefest break, Mr. Butters'a re- markable triumphs were continued, high-class horses, each of great laundry to you. There's me and The care of a largo stable of We're sending all our weekly
actual or potential value, is a my husband and my daughter Toca. The Aga Khan, the stable's chiefty. All the care in the world will Tess sho dont wear much.
Tremendous, ceaseless responsibili. We ain't holding nothing back but patron, has won four times as
Cordial not prevent a probable Derby win much in stake money as any other aer injuring himself by a playful owner this season, and his winners trick if he is so minded.
Mra. Timothy Dunk have earned considerably ΠΟΡΕ than £60,000. The other owners Derby this year for Mr. Butters if Umidwar might have won the for whom Mr. Butters trains in- he had not hurt himself one night clude Lord Durham, who won the as he tried to rise after lying down Oaks with Light Brocade; Prince to rest in his box. The effects of Aly Khan, Sir Alfred Butt, and Mr. that comparatively slight injury may have cost his owner many
T. Lant
thousands in stakes.
Mr. Butters has been training in England for eight seasons, and in that time he has won nearly half morning work of his horses. Ife A trainor supervises the curly
for his owners. a million pounds In stake money has just time for his breakfast be- This is probably fore the second lot goes out. He Italy to begin training for Lord or to motor to a distant meeting another record. He came from rushes from the heath to his train," Derby in 1927, and in that and the where he has runners, and he following season his horses won endeavours at all costs to return more in stake money than those home the same night. The work other trainer. He has for the following morning must be in 8 years; he has been second made, forfeits to declare, and headed the trainers' list four times arranged; there are entries to be
of any
jockeys to be engaged.
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once and third twice.
The story behind these figures is very different in its essentials from most of the romance and Mr. Butters has the valuable drama which, in racing, is to be and efficient assistance of his only Mr. Samuel Harden Church, Pre- found at
every turn. Betting
(Continued on Page 4.)
"Wallace, can't you come on home now? I've just received
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