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HOROUGHBREDS DONT CRY
dopted from the METRO GOLDWYN MAYER tere
HALSEY RAINES
WHAT HAS TAPPENED
SO FAR
Timmie Donovan, the impotu- ove but loyal young jockry on: gagent by Air Poter Calverton and My grandson Roger to ride their British entry in its first Amer- ican race, in deoclved by his acheming father's story that he nooda money for aurplent ez- ponses, and deliberately goes out to lose. When Bir Peler dios from a heart attack, as the race a concluded, Timmia la heart- broken and bitterly romoracjul. Finding out that he has bean tricked, ho rakos funda for Roger to enter the horns in the American Cup, and vows he will win. But funt before the alart he is brought to the judges stand and told he has been labarred un a jockey because of facts din- covered about the previous raco,
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Tager was patting The Pookah, while Wilkins, the most naaldunus of trainers, gave the animal a final brushing and wiping before the call for battle.
red-
Entering the paddock, a conted attendant hurried up to the British youngater.
the break in his volee. "Not after- Timmle."
"Come, now, don't take it like that," sad the stoward. "These boys are honest, most of them. Don't think about the past. Your job ja to find a mount."
With a wave of his hand he dis- missed the boy. Rogor stumbled nway, Croaing toward the stands he was consclous of a shrill, yot booming voice. It was the an nouncer speaking, and an electrio tension seemed to sweep over the cruwd:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special announcement that The Pookah to scratched, and Timmie Donovan has been disbarred by the stowards.
Wilkins, Roger's trainer, was as dumbfounded by the proclamation an everyone else. 11e turned and alared vacantly at Mother Ralph and Cricket, who were just enlèr- Ing the paddock.
What's all this nonsense around here, anyhow?" anappou Mother Ralph. Be shook Wilkins' aboulder. "Woll, don't stand there like a verotablel"
Ow should I know?" bilaked the trafner. "I'm standin' there and som bloke cuines up to me an say, The Pookah's scratched 'caUSO
o ain't got a rider
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Wilkins caught night of Roger, the elindow of the doorway. moving slowly and dejectedly across "Mr. Calverton," he said, "you're reached forward and drew the youngster to him, putting a pro- wanted at the judges' stand."
tecting arm around his shoulder. "Me?" rojoined Roger, puzzled.
"Come,
kid," he cried. "Yes, sir, it's very important." "What'va these blarated savages Roger gave the horse a final lov-been doin' to us now?" Ing thutrip, and hastened to follow the attendant. When he arrived at ile stand he was surprised to sea Timmie. The latter was plainly dis troaned.
"Timmle! What is it?" begged Roger.
Before any answer could be made the first toward intervened.
"Roger didn't know anything," cried Timmie!
"Your friend just gave us an in- foresting little statement about the Ridgomore Handicaps," he said.
"I don't understand," replied Roger.
It's very almple: he just threw
"Oh, nothing much," said Roger. speaking with dincalty. They'vo ruled Timmle off the turf. It was something he did. If he did do it, I'm sure he couldn't holp it"
"I might of knowed they'd try something like tulo," groaned Wil kine. "It's the worst country for an honest 'borso I've over necní“
Roger, turning to The Pookah, had stopped listening. He put ono of his arms around the horse's mus zio, as the animal socmed to in- cling his head forward in sympa- thetic attention,
the face."
"Pookah," said Roger, "It's the Throw the race!" cried Roger, strangest thing. They don't seem shocked and inorodulous. "That's to want us over hore. A lot of not true! He couldn't help if Tepeople would be happy. If you could.
run today... you're in such plen- Pookah lost!"
did shape... woli, maybe there'l be another race."
"He's given us the story," ro- turned the steward firmly. "He was well paid for what he did, by his father."
Timmie said that?" asked Roger, atili diabelloving, Ho faced the other boy. "Did you, Timmie?"
Yes, I did," Timmie's lipa woro Tim and tenna. "It's true."
Then I know why!" ortod Roger exeltedly. "If he did it, I was bo causo bo thought his father was dying. It was to save his life-
"We're not Interested in why," cut in the aleward, "What we're in- terested in, is how much you knew about it."
"He didn't know nothin'" broke in Tinmie.
"Just a moment" The steward put a hand on Roger's arm. "Is it trun your grandfather loft you nothing but the horner"
"Yes, air," said Roger, trying to collect his thoughts, frightened in
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"Another race nothing!" crlod Mother Ralph. "It's this or none! I know what's back of it! Tim- mlo's father framed the whole thing! Are you going to give in?" "No one can ride The Pookah over here but Timmle," said Roger noberly.
Crickal Buddenly grabbed his arm, an exclted look in her eyes. "Timmie was giving you lessons every day, wasn't he, Roger?"
"Yes. Why?"
"Why don't you ride him then?" Mother Kalpli aud Wilkins gasped. The latter drew in his breath and said:
"You can't do that, ma'am. Not at the last minute. They're got racin' rules,"
But Mother Ralph, once the Arst shock of the idea had passed, wan a dynamo of action. She noized Rog-
spite of his own freo conscience. |ers arm, surveying his sturdy litio
"Then where did you get the thousand dollars to enter your horse in this race?"
frame with sharp, darting eyes.
"Can you ride The Pookant" sho naked.
"Why, yes, I suppose so. I used
Roger Bunbed. He couldn't In- volvo Timmie by telling the truth to. in England."
yot his very baaltation was "You wouldn't be afraid to try equivalent to an indictment against | It?"-
nlm.
Roger shook his head quickly. "Thon come with me," cried
"Listen!" cried Timmio, breaking tho alience. "I gave it to him! That's Mother Ralph, pulling him toward how I used the money I got from the door. You may not be a reg- any old man for pulling The Pookah, istered Jockey, but I don't know Roger didn't know anything,"
any rule to stop an owner from "Very well," rejoined the ntoward. | riding his own horna. And if they "What you did will cost you your try to stop you just let me tell 'em career. But we don't want to be thing or two" unjust to the owner of the horar She and Rogor rushed away as If he was not Involved."
Wilkina gaped, and Cricket clapped "Involved!" erted Timmie, his hier hands in thrilled anticipation. voice rising to a shrill pitch. "Outside the crowd was becoming was the one that double-crossed tenso and rostivo. Thane who had him? My old man tramed it. and bet on The Pookah were downcast;. I did it. You can't rule him off for supporters of Hop Bkit had become That?"
more jaunty and confident than The first steward hookoned to never, Pinkerton man who stood waiting Minute after minuto passed. The on the terrace.
"See Donovan to the front gate. ing it up. At last the announcer's he ordered. And remember, bee voice sounded over the loud speak- not to be seen anywhere on this er. He seemed excited himself, and courte till the Jockey, Club has a voluntary hush fell over the acted."
race was late. Something was hold
throng Timmie was taken by the arm. "Ladies and gentlemen have Ho cast a anal look, half despair Just received the following impor Ing. half-undaunted, as he was fed tant news from the stoward's stand. Away. The stoward motioned Roger The great British
The
to step aside while he wont into Pookah, who was sorsiohed earlier n serious buddle with his confreres. in the afternoon, has been rain- In a few moments he stopped for stated. As previously announced, ward and faced the British boy. however, he will not be ridden" by. "Well, I don't think there la any Timmie Donovan. The now rider, question about your personal stand- who has just been given official ing," he said, "You may run your permission to enter the race, is Hager Calverton, grandson of that horse in the American Cup."
"But it's too late now," responded beloved sportsman, the late..., Bir Roger. "I couldn't' find anyone to Peler Valverion." rida him."
He was trying to say more, but The frit steward glanced at bis the stands burst into a turmoil of shouting, cheering and discordant watch.
"You've still got fifteen minutes," conversation. Roger Calverton rid ho said. "Get in touch with the club ing The Pookah was a drama that Acerolary. He'll find a rider for no one prosent could have foreseed.
Let the race go oni you.
I couldn't trust any jockey now,” answared Boger, trying to conceal
COUNT THE
To de continued)
“TEL ̈E GRAPHS " EVERYWHERE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,
1938.
The truth about..
LAMBETH WALK SEI
E in Lambeth are blushing a bit. Only a little, because it is not in the nature of the Cockney to blush.
But this sudden popularity is really a little bowildering.
A month or two ago the world did not know of our existence. Not that we cared. We are a self-cen- tred community. To-day we are on everybody's lips.
Such is our fame that when 1, the local M.P., speak at a political meeting, I am introauced as the "Member for Lambeth Walk.”
The Walk-no Lambeth person calls it anything else should be n solemn place. A few hundred yards away, on the banks of the Thames, stands Lambeth Palace, for centuries the official abode of Archbishops of Canterbury.
All around are streets bearing the names of departed Arch-
Thirteen bishops.
altogether. Probably few of their inhabitants are aware of this.
They can hardly be blamed, for there is nothing angelic or epis- copallan about Lanfranc-street, Chichely street, Juxon street, Wake-street, Tenison-street, or the others.
And as for Paradise-street, right in the centre of the Walk-well, if Paradise is anything like that, and I am given my cholce, I would like a peep at the other place first.
No. The Walk is not solemn. Busy, cheerful, lively; noisy often: sometimes a little tawdry and fly- blown. But whatever its superficial mood may be, it is fundamentally serious. For it is the meeting place of people bent on the dreary task of buying adequate food and other home necessities on inadequate re- sources.
IN this street, three- quarters of a mile long. almost every house 18
a shop. In front of almost every shop is a stall. There, exposed for sale, is everything the working- class family wants, from food to furniture.
For generations the Walk has Eten the shopping and social centre for Lambeth families. Why should they go farther?
It offers an admirable variety of goods and the keen competition of It traders ensures cheap prices. offers an opportunity for enjoyable Eosalp and au interchange of that frulty repartee which the Londoner so much enjoys.
Above all, it offers to its patrons,
Men
BY ITS M.P.-
G. R. Strauss
most of whom live in old and dark houses, colour, bustle and life. The Walk has far more to offer to the Lambethlan than Bond-streat or Oxford-strect to the dweller of Mayfair.
A surprisingly large number of Lambeth women never move more than a few hundred yards from their homes. Why should they, when in the short time they are free from the drudgery of house- work they have round the corner the pub, the cinema, and the Walk?
I REMEMBER
telling
an old lady, resident in Lambeth all her life, to
go to an address in Horseferry- road, just the other side of tho Thames, not a mile away,
She told me she did not know where that was, adding: "You see, I'm not much of a traveller, I have never been over the water."
If you want to see the Walk at its best, you should go there on Saturday night. You won't fad us"All doing the Lambeth Walk," but you will find as much glamour as you want.
The street is brilliantly it. A sound of laughter and the notes of an accordion burst from the public houses each time their doors open, drowning for a moment the blare emitted from the radio shop at the corner. All the neigh- bourhood is there.
"Every little Lambeth pal, With her little Lambeth pal..."
and and mother
father also. Pausing at each stall, casting a business-like glance at the goods displayed, appraising at their true value the superlatives with which the traders describe their wares, mother elbows her way along the Walk, string bag over her arm, the friends she chatting with mects,
The street bookies, no busy as anyone, pay out the day's win- nings. Lambeth Walk is in full glory.
As it grows late the tempo
The quickens,
sounds become shriller and the atmosphere more tensc. The tradera are increas- ingly anxious to get rid of their perishable goods, and the house-
and here's a typical
Lambeth Walk scono
wife to lay in her Sunday supplies. Blowly, the crowd melts away. The traders pack up their stalls and the shopkeepers extinguish their lights.
There remains a mean street strown with old papers and rotten frult. Cats prowl among the rub- bish. And so for a short time the Walk remains stagnant and sor- did, until the Borough Counc!! cleaners enter the scene and tidy it up ready for the next day.
IT would be quite wrong to think of the Walk as a picturesque corner of London. It may be that, but it is much more.
It is the heart of a working-class district whose people suffer from all the usual ravages of capitalism: low wages, long hours, unemploy- ment and insecurity. The Walk is itself a reflection of this poverty. If Lambeth people received better wages they would not have to haggle at the stalls for the, too often, second and third class goods which they are forced to buy.
market The
night then be
& Things Abroad by W. N. Ewer
SEA of FATE
DALESTINE, Malta, Spain. The
Mediterranean is in the news.
It has been more or less per- manently in the news for three thousand years or 80.
When the long ships of the Greeks
beached opposite were Gallipoli and the ten-year-alego of Troy began, the story was news -reported
and discussed-long .. before Homer put it all into the Illnd.
Rome and Carthage, Christian- ity and Islam. fought out their struggles in the Mediterranean. Europe's civilisation came trom it. Rome's Empire was built round it. It is the Middle Sea of the Old World, joining Europe and Asia and Africa: all-important politie- ally, economically, strategically.
Germany's economic interests and diplomatic ambitions are by no means negligible.
At one end all Ave Great Powers are, in one way or another, in- volved in the "Spanish situation." At the other and indeed along all the southern shore-the surging unrest of Arab nationalism gots.
EGYI
Mediterranean in Politics" (Ox- ford University Press, 10s.), And who has not only tried; she has succeeded.
robbed of some of its glamour, but that can readily be sacrificed for an all-round higher standard of Ilc.
Since the turn of the century. thanks to political action and a the conscience, growing social standard of life of the Lambeth people has, of course, improved Immensely. The log book of a neighbouring school shows these entries by its Headmaster in 1904: There were 85 Sept. 23rd. boys who had no dinner vester day and scarcely a crust all day long, while over 30 had no boots or only tattered fragments on their feet.
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Oct. 24th. Doctor Elcholz, in Jhai Banking Corporation. Itules may be his report to the Physical De- obtained on application. terioration Committee places this school as the "10orst he can And in England."
Then in November, 1006, there appears this:-
It has rained all day. Many boys are at school with bundles of soaked raps on their lect which they call boots. I have tried to induce parents to send them barefooled in lieu of such footgear, but without avail.
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THOSE dnys have passed. But when you think of the Lambeth Walk as a place of glamour and colour, remember it was just as glamorous and colourful in those Batavis days.
old
Alor Star
Klang
Amritsar
Ipoti Il0110
Saigon
Semarang
Bangkok
Karachi
Seremban
Shanghal
Dombay
Kobe
Singapore
Calculia
Kuala
Canton
· Lumpur
SILAWEN Hourabaya
Kuching
Taiping
Madras
Tientsin
Colombo Delil
Manila
Tongitah
Medan
Dhuket).
Now York
Tsingtao
Peiping
Yokohama
(Peking)
Penang
To-day the Walk, Ikke many an
tumble-down cottage, mayCowrpora look charming, but it hides much Cebu. poverly and suffering.
The London County Council is Haiphong to-day busily transforming the Hamburg
Hankow Lambeth Walk neighbourhood. Harbin tangoon Until a few years ago there were Hongkong
Foreign Exchange and General Bank- more alums in Lambeth than any ing business transacted. other area in London.
Current Accounts' opened and Fixed Deposits received for one year of shorter application.
They are now coming down. Fine new dwellings are springing up in a sales which will be quoted on their place. The population of the Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor & Trustee business, the London County Counell flats in and claims recovery of British Income the two adjoining constituencies of Tax overpaid, on terms which may be of la Agencies de Branches Lambeth and Kennington will, certained at any when completed, be not less than 19,500.
Social services, initiated and ex- tended by the Labour majorly at County Hall and on the Lambeth Borough Counell, are bringing to the people of the Walk much for appreciated opportunities better enjoyment of health and happiness.
themscivei
These people are partly responsible for the improve- ments. They are politically minded, and have elected Labour repre- sentatives to all public bodies.
This is the true Lambeth Walk. It is a workaday open-air market, where the employed and the unem- ployed of the neighbourhood do their shopping.
arc
ROMANTIC? Not to the staliholders, who at the moment are having a almculty in making a living. ΤΟ
They the shoppers? too busy getting 100 per cent. value out of every penny they the visitor? That spend. To depends on his social awareness) Come and see for yourself. In the words of the song
"Why don't you make your way
there?
Go there? Stay there?" But you won't be able to stay here even if you want to. You
won't and room. In spite of the new municipal houses, overcrowd- ing is still terrible round Lambeth Walk.
R. A. CAMIDGE, Hongkong, 20th June, 1938,
Manager.
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Britain began to take part in mixed up la." Big Power Politics. pedantic references, but in bookTO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE
the Mediterranean gáma in 1580,
Why do we keep great fortresses when Elizabeth made a treaty with at Gibraltar and Malta, and, with the Sultan, and the Company of Egyptian consent, a naval base at Merchants of the Levant Seas was Alexandria? Why is France forti- founded in London..
fying Mers-ol-Kebir, and · Italy
a contury Pantelleria? Why is Mussolini so Three-quarters of later Blake was bombarding Tunis, keen that Franco should win, and ther corsair base. Batoty of the why are the French so disturbed Mediterranean trade routes had about his hold on the Balearle
major British interest." Talands? Become a
Bince then, Great Britain hás been a "Mediterranean Power." And Mediterranean affairs LAVO
Compileated questions theso- played a bigger part than any others in shaping British foreign and a lot more akin to them. Highly desirable that somebody policy-right down to 1938.
What is the set-up in the Medi- should try to set out the answers terranean to-day? Three great to them soberly and simply and Powers Britain, France, Italy understandably
hold territory on its shores, and Mixż Zizabeth Monroe, once of keep bla fleets on its waters. Rus- the League Secretariat, now of the #l, for whom it is one of her Royal Institute of International main outists, is deeply interested. Aftaim, han tejed to do it in 4 The
cheap to buy, light to hold and easy to read."
She knows that you need not be solemn in order to be serious, and that trivialities may be more im- portant than pomposities. Sho has absorbed mountains of statistics: but her own shrewd eye has noted, for instance, that the Maltese "koop- pablia houses not cafes, and drink, boor standing up, not aperitifs sitting down."
Above all, she has come inunune through clouds of propaganda: and sticks to her job of explaining. instead of praising or denouncing. Here are facts in plenty, under- standing in. plenty, humour, in ~ plenty: What more cah one, wanit in any book on politics?
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