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WORLD OF
BOAT RACE..
THE UMPIRE'S ADMIS- SIONS.
THE DELAYED START.
Following upon the reports regarding the fixing of the stake. boats in the Inter Varsity Boat Race on March 28, the umpire. Mr. F. I. Pitman, In a letter to
'Field says.
SPORT.
DEMPSEY'S REFUSAL VETERAN DERBY WINNER.
SOME DANGEROUS CHALLENGERS.
NOT AFRAID OF WILL'S.
New York-Jack Dempsey is not doing himself any good by refusing to defend the world's heavyweight championship..
|"LUCKY MAIDMENT" ENTERS
HIS EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR.
Charles Maldment, the veteran jockey, who won the Derby on Cremorne and the St. Leger on Wenlock as long agp as 1872 has entered on his 81st year.
He is living quietly in retire- Some of those who follow boxing ment at Newmarket, and is delight- closely forgive the Inactivity ofed to find a stoner to his stories "Many suppose that in an ordin-Dempsey by accepting his excuses of his great racing days, when he ary year it is the simplest of that there is no one for him to fight, was known as "Lucky Maidment" A widower, whose children have matters to fix the stake boats. but others less interested in the can assure those who have not game, who considered Dempsey gone out into the world; Maidment. tried to do so that it is the most as a public character, look upon still walks the streets of New- anxious piece of work that exists his excuses" as an indication of market as dapper and happy as
evasion.
ever, and he was warmly coa In connection with rowing;
There are many smart boxing gratulated by many friends on the men who believe that Harry Wills attalament of his Soth birthday and Tom Gibbons are not danger. He told a representative of that be dus challengers and that Dempsey "The Sunday" News "
Handly, born at has just reasons to take litle was
in interest in the attempts being Dorsetshire, and belonged to a made to force him to fight family of small farmers. He ran
"I saw Mr. Garton, the Oxford couch, on the Friday night, and he told me that the water had been very rough for the last two days, and asked, if it continued, whether the stake-boats could be moved nearer the Middlesex bank. I saw no objection to this if Cambridge agreed.
On Saturday, the day of the race, I saw both Mr. Garton, with whom was, Mr. Mower White, the Oxford president, and Mr. Escombe, and told them that I had told the stake boatmen to take up their position a little over to the Middlesex side.
"Mr. Garton and Mr Escombe both agreed that the water was nothing like as bad as on the pre- vious day, and they said they would "leave it entirely to me.. Neither suggested for a moment Hongkong.thatthere was any doubt about the
crews getting through."
Mr. Pitman adds that at three o'clock the water was obviously SHOEMAKERS rough from the Point to the Mile, there were no "white horses" op- posite the boat-houses, and the water was quite smooth at the start. As the suggestion had been made the previous night,—Mr.- Pitman placed: the Surrey stake- boat in the middle of the river and the Middlesex boat as near as may be to the other one,
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"If the water was all right up to, the boat-houses," writes Mir. Pitman, "I think I should have been wrong to put one of the boats right out of the tide on the Middlesex shore. After fixing the stake-boats I then returned to the boat-houses and learned the result of the toss for stations."
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Mr. Pitman says he misjudged what a delay of forty minutes was going to produce, but as the toss had taken place he does not think he would have been justified la "Realising, however, that during the delay the water had become worse," adds the umpire. "I took. the unusual step of warning the Cambridge cox, that his proper course was close to the Middlesex bank, especially at the Point, and that he must not bore the Oxford crew out.
are many more, however, of the raway from home at the age of 10 opialon that Dempsey is avoiding and found-William Day's stable at Wills and Gibbons and that he has 11, when he weighed only 4 stone, becoms just another one of those careful champions who will not take a chance.
Although he has always been criticized for refusing to defend his title against a real challenger, Dempsey has been a popular cham- pion until recently and he could have made a record as one of the few real champions if he had not been so unreasonable about purses casual about accepting
and so
matches."
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While I was riding" a horse called Kimbourne, the animal fell and broke its leg, whereupon. Lord Anglesey sald, You young rascal, your weight has broken my borse's back.""
He is quite happy on the old age pension and grants from the Bentinck fund.”
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A BILLIARD BOOK. It is becoming more and more apparent that Dempsey never will
When he was just over 20. Mr. fight Harry Wills. If he doesn't, Hoppe "held all the recognized he always will have to hear the balk-line championships"; he had accusation that he was afraid of triumphed at the 18.1 game and Wills and that he wasn't the daring champion that he was thought to thes at the 18.2. It will be gather- be before he became a millionaireed that he is an American and the carona game he describes is fighter.
not curs. Indeed, many of the technical terms henses-will-be-un--- intelligible to the English player; who,moreover, will take but an academic interest in "the lessons in billiarde with "charts and diagrams" to which are given the last seventy pages of this book. But it demands no knowledge of. the particular art in which Mr. Hoppe excels to be interested in his progress to mastery; the struggle itself, the risks taken, the American arena, all are vividly 'described.
The Hoppe family are worth' commemorating on their personal characteristics. The author took up the game as a very small boy at Cornwall Landing near New York at the "hotel" which his father ran" in conjunction with a barber's shop: The boy's father decided that he had the makings of a breadwinner for the family and he' saw to it that he did not misuse his opportunities. A miss entailed a box on the ear; and on winning There are many reasons" to be. I the championship of the world at It must be remembered" con lieve that Dempsey is not afraid eighteen the victor comments that it had cost him a boy's inherit tinues Mr. Pitman, "that lo placing of Wills. the stake boats regard must only champion intimately and who have ance." His sisters helped; they be had for the state of the water been around him when he was read to him to save the eyes which from the start to about the boat-training feel sure that he doesn't he rested with American thorough- houses. The umpire
cannot fear a man in the world. There ness, and they pointed out errors protect the crews from inequality must be some reason; however, for a technique with feminine con- of conditions after that point. his refusal to fight Wills. If he
Looking back at it all, I readily admit that it would have been more satisfactory if the stake boats had been fixed close to the Middlesex bank, even if this had involved one boat being right out of the tide."
Those who know the
wasn't afraid of the Negro cham- pion, why did he turn down a fight that certainly would have drawn a world's record gate?
fidence and sisterly frankness. His mother, who tied the infant phenomenon's bows when he first performed in public, and sacrificed herself for the family when the performances failed to attract, Possibly there were political turned to, learned billiards, and reasons that prevented promoters, took the place of a recalcitrant from making the match several elder brother as little Willie's In conclusion Mr. Pitman says, years ago. Dempsey claims that sparring partner; there is a book "In future I hope that the umpire New York Boxing Commission to be written about Mrs. Hoppe. may be relieved from the duty of refused to permit the match several
[Thirty Years of Billiards. By fixing the course, or that he may years ago after the same commis Willib Hoppe. Edited by Thomas have the assistance of a representasion had forced him to sign a paper Emmett Crozier 81⁄44×534, vili + tive of both universities in his on which he agreed to accept the 255 pp. Putnams. 128. 6d. p.] - launch in fixing the stake-boats challenge of Wills when a promo- and deciding whether the race canter made a suitable offer, William be rowed."
RIVIERA RECORDS.
GOLF OVERDOSE.
PLAYERS WHO GORGE.
Muldoom, who was chairman of the commission at that time, claims that the commission do not inter- fere with the match, but that Dempsey blocked it himself with a 'demand" for an exorbitant purse that no sane promoter could offer. Mr. L. J. Maxze, who was to have The Duke of Westminster. put
Dempsey will have some sup. a debate with the Earl of Balfour up a new record dash across the porters in the contention that the yesterday at the London School of whole of southern France to his New York Boxing Commission has Economics, on the question "Dogs place at Mimizan, in the no right to handle his business golf do more harm than good?" T Landes. above Bordeaux, in order affairs and has no authority in writes in his editoral notes in the to be in time for a Christmas wild placing him on the ineligible list. April number of the National boar hunt. He accomplished the The duty of the commission, how Review: six hundred odd miles from Monte aver, is not to protect champions at Seasible people are gradually Carlo in his Rolls Royce in a day, the expense of, challengers but to realising that the present genera chiefly remaining at the wheel see that the law is administered tion, of Englishmen and English himself. This does not touch Lord fairly to all parties: It certainty is women.......have had and are Rocksaynge's astonishing fourteen not unfair for any commission to having an overdose of golf. This run from Cannes to Paris, but it is ask that champion to live up to as not to belittle a game which has remarkable going none the less section of the law that requires him brought health, happiness, and In view of the time of year and to defend his title once in each six recreation to many persons of both state of the roads. The Duke in months
now back at Monte again, where The champion may ridicple the But its suitableness for the he lives on his yacht Flying Cloud. New York Commission for setting middle-aged and the physically His passion for tennis meanwhile him down but, he will not laugh if inactiva la no reason for making it locrosses, and threatens to ea he intends to fight again. His a cult among the younger genera croach upon his other two hobbles, manager may talk about the big tion, who should be encouraged to the Sporting Club and cruising in offers from other states, but unless play games worthier of their years. the Mediterranean. ··
Dempsey his changed his mind But even croquet "fans" would radically about the sum of money regret that their favourite pastime he is entitled to, he will have to shouldreplade cricket or football st 6ght in New York No other stalo our greater public schools, or can pay the freight.
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