DYING PONY DERBY HERO MISS HARDWICK'S
WINS RECORD RACE
By A Correspondent
SCOTTISH RIFLE, a pony which won the Nort- holt Derby for Miss Dorothy Paget, has been re- scued from death's door to win a race in record time.
Sent to Malaya, Scottish Rifle was found by Captain Rufus Bowden, an Army veterinary sur- geon and younger son of Mr. Arther Bowden, of Ep- som, who is well known in Surrey business and sporting circles to be seriously ill and dying.
He not only rest wed the pony to health, but Scottish
race in record tot!?
Rthe Wer a
The captun was not quite aware that he badd pitch a distinguished patient.
In a letter to his tather he says he "thinks" Sruttish Rewon the Northolt Derby
He now know:
HENRY COTTON FULLY
BOOKED FOR YEAR
enough about him to waite that thelan for 1941 bout the homeles colt is a super-borse
yettled for 1912-34 Looks
DERBY WINNER
RETIRED TO STUD-
It is surprising that Pont I'Eveque, winner of the Derby atj Newmarket in June, has seen the last of the public track and that he goes to stud at the remarkably low tee of £98.
DECISION NO GREAT SURPRISE
IT WAS NO SURPRISE to hear that golden- haired Mary Hardwick has gone proféssional, and will make the fourth on the Budge-Tilden-Marble tour starting at Madison Square Garden. She is handing over to America's | This must be the lowest within British War Relief Fund a per-
her earning's memory for a newly-retired Derby† centage of
will be substential, winner. It is of course, due partly
As an amateur she just missed to present conditions,
class, The fees for both Hyperion and championship Blue Peter are 400 guinens.
which
through sacrificing hitting power for style.
Miss Hardwick's
AL. PERRY
JOINS UP
Pont Fiveűjüe's owner-trainer.
Friends of the 1933 Open cham- Fred Darling, would probably
hero was al- | pton, Alfred Perry, were sorry to have been able to stipulate a
ways Tilden, and she says she will;hese that he was laying his club higher fee had the colt won these thrilled to be in active tennis at Leatherhead.
Henry Cotton has been booked Champan Stakes instead of tin- ashing third to the disqualified Stardust, or even if he had decid- ed to reserve him for the Thirsk St. Leger. where the longer dis- lunce would have suited the Derby
Monty Smyth, the leading pony į like a long waUE trainer, tells me there has been a good market for English racing į
But if a true he bus three dates ponies in Malaya and the Fast, Bredt will flas usual reservationi, and fairly high
Thelub»•. prices have been of entire
are Sher- realised.
Wood Formt. Luffenham Heath. : and Church Stretton
Stardust Not For Sale
winner.
G B. Legge, former Kent cap- And Henty, ahtough now hav-lain. killed while flying with the ing only one free day a week in Fleet Air Arm, held the rare dis which to back his travelling as į tinction of having
captained He asking for Oxford in his and well as his weaken
second year. should get was a first-class slip.
An offer to buy Stardust, sec- ond in the St Leger "Guineas," has been made from more Secretaries America but has not been accept- busy ed. No
ofter to purchase the "Leger" winner. Turkhan, has yet been made.
Meanwhile I learn that the Aga Khân has derided to send Turkhan and Dastur to the Old Comell Stud, Co. Kildare, 111 the near future. Each will stand at a fee
of £75. Dastur has been at stud
in England for the past six years.
Both stallions
bred were
Sheshoon, Co. Kildare, which
quite close to their new home,
BOXER WHO MADE BOXING LAWFUL
at
IS
Jack Roberts, British feather- weight champion of 40 years ago, who was admitted 10 hospital suffering from injuries caused in an air raid, has one claim to fame
The sequel to one of his fights was the ruling that boxing is law- ful and was not prize-fighting.
Roberts had knocked out Dilly Smith the American champion, au i the N.S.C, in the eighth round. | Smith died two days later in hos- pital.
The ruling was made following a two-day inquiry at which J. 11. Douglas gave evidence.
When Roberts was fighting Wil) Curley for the title at the N.S.C three months before, members, laid and accepted 1,000 to I against him.
"He had been following his ser- ond's advice and had been taking a terrifle hiding. In the eighth round he boxed "on his own" and knocked Curley cut!
LEAGUE CUP TWO-SECTION AFFAIR
The League Cup, to be played; for in the second hall of the English season, will remain น two-section affair,
This was the somewhat surpris-
ing statement made by Mr. Fred Howard, the League secretary, after the meeting of the Manage- ment Committee at Blackburn recently.
It is surprising because it was believed that in view of the alter- ́ed circumstances a reversion to a four-section affair (as last season) was essential for the Cup's success.
Football Association have "de- cided that 'large' numbers of millated clubs who have shall
not
be
paid subscriptions readmitted
to member ship, without payment of entry fee
ut end of war.
** #
with him.
"His appearance at Wimbledon in 1930 was the first big match I watched." she says,
It was Bill's last season before and this turning professional would have happened a year ear- Her but for Tilden, after publicly announcing his retirement, being so raw over America's Davis Cup defeat by France that he decided to have another crack at the 1930 title--just to show that Americans could still play tennis.
He won, after a memorable bat- tle with Wilmer Allison--and only now tot.it England Football Association: lost two sets (to Jean Borotra) on
Bill £1,000 to- the way to the final. to have given another Wants make it £30,000 by the : pring. wards Army Soccer equipment. then 37.
The Colton matches. £27,770, and Henry
Perry has joined the Army, and went to the West country for a Jew weeks before his age group- is called up.
People will miss h's modest ans nouncement over his shop, which proclaims him Assistant champion 1924-25, and which Alfred nover troubled to have altered when he won the greatest golfing honour of all.
tille The Assistant's
was tha first he ever won, and he was more thrilled by that than any victory in his subsequent career.
L
Jimmy Lyden, Bootle, beat Basil
un points was McGee, Liverpool,
Blackpool recently.
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