1941-02-18 — Page 70

CHINA MAIL RACING EXTRA, FEBRUARY 18, 1941.

By BUD FISHER

ARE

-AM I AMBITIOUS?

You

WHY, I'M JUST BURSTING

FINE! YOU CAN START

WAIT!

WITH IT! I CAN'T.

I'LL NEED

AMBITIOUS

WORK AT

WAIT UNTIL I

ONCE!

GET BEHIND

TWO

DESKS

TWO

I KNOW IT'S A STRANGE REQUEST

DESKS?

BUT THE WAY I WORK I'LL NEED

A DESK!

TWO DESKS!

WE OUGHT TO HAVE MORE MEN LIKE

THAT!

FROM 2,000 TICKETS TO CLOSE ON 950,000 IN MAMMOTH SWEEP

-HOW FAVOURITES

FINISHED

The following table shows how the favourites have fared in the Hong Kong Derby over the past 10 years together with the number of ticketi cach carried and the position obtained: — Year

Pony

1931 King's Service (Chang)

1932 Liberty Bay (Hill)

1933

1934

1935

Win

Place Post Time Starter!

1C55

1384

1 3.09.4

11

3477

3014

1

3.04.4

11

Trentbridge (Needa)

1718

853

1

3.06.3

9

Soldier of Britain (Sun)

1328

964

13

The winner was Hydroplano

(Proplx), which carried 217

win

and 239 place tickets, and the time was 3,16.2. Soldier of Honour (D. S. LI)

1328

964

13

1936

Herod (DAVID) won in 3,09.3 Royal Scot (Harriman)

Win tickets 823; Place tickets 485. 1598

918

9

3

1923 only

1937

Honeymoon Eve (Needa) won in 3.14,3; Win tickets 641; Place 943. Rosemary (Loighton)

1645

795

1

7

1938

Happy Eve (Neoda) won In 3.00.4: Win tickels 983. Place 689. Desert Chief (Encarnaças)

2501 1758

2

7

1939

Silkylight (Moller) won in 3,01.3: Win tickets 1312: Place 1049. Navylight (Pin)

2

Rose Elect (Encarnacao)

2648 won in 2.55.2 (Record);

1402

5

Win tickets

1900: Place 862.

1940

Satinlight (Moller)

4048

2945

1

2.50.4

10

A special Hong Kong cash sweep on the Derby was inaugurated some 25 years ago, when tickets were sold at $10 each. In 1922 the sale of tickets just topped the 2,000 mark, and in 1,832 tickets were sold.

It will be interesting to note that the special sweeps on the big race were not run by Hong Kong Joe- key Club but were originally conducted by the Chinese Club and. later on, South China Ath- letic Association also tan a sweep of their WIL

In 1935. however, Jockey Club Introduced the special $1 sweep on the Hong Kong Derby. The scheme, ав may

bc Imagined. proved an immediate success and in the first year 148.240 tickets were sold to make it possible to pay out the sum of $63,091.00 to the holder of the ticket on the winning pony.

The following year featund tha sale of tickets even more brisk. and with 164,390 trekets, disposer

f the first prze Pale to $69.969 20. Bach siteceeding year Found the sale of tickets growing, and m 1940 all expectations were excredend when the total of 700,000 tickets patted by the Jockey Club were eagerly bought up. More. indeed, could have been sold but For the fact that at was found, al the last moment, impossible 10 have mote

tickets printed and stamped in time.

Bensfitting from this CX- periance, Jockey Club this year very naturally printed enough tickets to meet all de- mando, so much so that up till this afternoon the total num. be of chances sold came to almost 950,000:

In this connection it will be in- teresting to note that while this

Mr. Holden Out of Races

H. J. Holden, the Shanghai jockey, who sustained a nasty cut on the right knee when he was kicked by a pony just before the start of the second section of the Sydney Maidens yesterday, was taken to the War Memorial Hospital this morning on the advice of his

doctor.

IN

Mr. Halden will not take any further part in the Race Week and will probably re- turn to Shanghai on Munday.

IR thes metime it leamed that Messrs. C. B. Muller and Franely Noedt will take care of the Li Po-chun stable, for which Mr. Holden specially

from can down Shanghai as first string jue- key,

This will prove a great dis- appointment Lo buth Mr. Holden and his supporters for he showed, in the two races that he took part in yesterday, that he is indeed a first class jockey.

sweep was previously run on the Hong Kong Derby, it has this year. been switched over to the Rooty- Hill Derby.

MEET AT

THE

Gloucester Hotel

AFTER

THE RACES

IT PLEASES BOTH WINNER AND LOSER

に

Ciro

"Mr. Moller leading In Navy light, winner of the second cace 20-day. His Moonlight won the first event, giving the (atable two supqqasiye victories.

TURKEY'S BID FOR

PEACE

BALKAN

out.

COLONY

BUDGET SLASHED

Hong Kong's Budget estimates for the year beginning April 1st, 1941, has been slashed by near- ly two million dollars as

the result of re-examina- tion by the Select Com. mittee of Legislatíve Council,

Although no precise details of the cuts are likely to be made avail→ able until Thursday's Budget de- bate, they affect principally, the Harbour Department and works provided under the heading of Public Works Extraordinary.

This much is disclosed by Government's publication this morning of the draft Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding $52,483,294 to the public service of the Colony in 1941-42, which represents a reduction of about $1,750,000 on the Estimates as originally drafted.

re-

Charitable services have ceived an additional $10,000 as a result of the review by the Select Committee and an addi- tional $100,000 appears under the- head of Miscellaneous Service.

Harbour Department, however, has suffered a cut of $600,000, the Medical Depart- ment of just over $100,000 and Public Works Extraordinary, a cut of $1,150,000.

The

To these items have to be add-

ed $8,000,000 Military Contribu- tion, $2,158;421 on account of -Public Deht, and provision for further expenditure of $832,000 to be met out of the Waterworks

Renewals

Fund.

, and Improvements

PORTUGUESE CHILD BADLY INJURED

¿AFQUR-YEAR-OLD PORTU- GUESE LAD, FRANCISCO- D'ECA, OF NO. 8, QBSERVA- TORY ROAD, WAB BERIOUSLY INJURED YESTERDAY AFTER- {NOON.WHEN HE WAS KNOCK- LED DOWN BY AN... UNGON- TROLLED CAR RAPING DOWN LOBSERVATORY HILL. BE

He was admitted to the How- loon Hospital.

The lads Chinese amah, Ng Yan, was also hurt but was not detained.

It is believed that three boys," The chief significance mation, however, the Bulgarian

Government is doing Its best to playing in Observatory Hill where of the new Turco-Bulgar - persuade the Germans, to keep pushed the car

was packed, the car, No. 4744,

and..as a result. ian declaration, according

the brakes relaxed and the car to Turkish political cir-mittal regarding the possibility of

Political circles are non-com-went racing down the› hill.

After hitung the four-year-old cles, is that Bulgaria binds a further development of Bulgar-boy and his amah, the vehicle herself not to attack Tur- Turkish calations in the direction ended its journey against a wall

of a defensive past Reuter, Land was badly damaged. key or Greece, that is to say, not to march along with the Germans.

The question of Bulgaria's at- ida to the German, wish to ch through Bulgaria is outsido Fulchre of the-declaration,

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