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Home Soccer Results

London, Sept. 15. Results of football matches played today were: DIVISION I

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Aston Villa Wolves

Blackpor

Stoke City 'Spurs

3 Chelsea

, Preston *.

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3 Liverpool

DIVISIÓN II

+

Hull City

3 Blackburn 0 Rotherham 2 Southampton 2 West Ham 4 Leicester

DIVISION II (South) Bristol R. 3 Colchester Coventry 1 Northamplon 1

DIVISION III (North)

Oldham Accrington } Itartlepools 0 Gateshead Stockport U Port Vale

Chesterfield

Halifax T.

York City

2

Wrexham

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FRIENDLY MATCH

ibernian M M'chester. 3

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SATURDAY'S PROGRAMME

The following are Home Faut- bail fixtures for Saturday September 20:

Aston V

Belton

Division I

Manchester U

V Porinth

Shefeld W.

Burnley

V

Charlton

V

Derby

Liverpool

V

Middlesbro

Manchester C

V

Preston N.E.

V

Sunderland

Tottenham

Wolves

Stoke

Brentford

Doncaster Fulham Huddersfield

llotherham Shameld V.

Southampton Swanson West Ham

Aldershat Brighton Bristol R. Colchester Coventry Crystal F Excler Newport Norwich Southend

Swindon

Walford

Barrow Bradford

Cartiale

West Brom.

Cardig

Chelsea

✔ Arsenal

v Illackpoo!

v Newcastle

Divialbu i

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1952.

SET-UP IN RACING

THE NEW SET-UP

By SIDNEY RODIN

Exactly 200 years ago in High Street, Newmarket, a plot of land was leased for a coffee-room to be used by "noblemen and gentlemen" who rode their own racehorses. They called themselves the Jockey Club.

It was a few years on before the coffee-room went up, but from that day to this the nobles and gentlemen have met at the same spot, rapidly extending their control of racing until by the mid-Victorian era the Jockey Club had become the Supreme Court of the racing world-a supreme court that allows no appeal. '.

Two hundred years have seen changes in the ways of racing men. You don't find a marquis gambling

£300,000 hla

In heritance on one horse

any more, although you see millions more people putting on 1s. bets. But no change has been so swift nad revokitionary us now. FADING OUT

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market High Street as one of tha "pack of cards."

death this year, was forced to wait till three years before he died before he was admitted to

No man may be a jockey, a the patriarchy,

Club has often trainer, or a racing owner with- The Jockey

for been criticised

its trad-out a cence from the club, No tionalism, its hide-bound refusal race may run without the club's to overlook faults or forgive consent.--- niinor transgressions after the passage of years, and for its alleged aloofness from the lot of the ordinary punter who crowded into the cheaper rings at the races......

BUSINESS MAN

Today, however, Mr Edward the potato Holland-Martin, an ex-governor

iron of the Bank Lincoln, the

If the Stewards take away a man's licence, he may never get it back. It he is "warned off" going bankrupt, or for not pay- for some .malpractice, or for

ing

This is the time that sees the old aristocratic stables Coding and the new men of the Turf

gambling debts, or in- dulging in some other conduct challenging for leadership-the new-rich

"unbecoming a gentleman," he is industrial magnates,

automatically barred from ap- the thentre Impresarios, the book- maker - owner,

pearing on the racecourses in 42 from

of England, is a countries, including_even those from Shemeld.

Mr Holland-Martin's | ruled by the Danubian Horse smelter

footballer from | reened of horse-ownership Is.not | Society in Yugoslavia, ex-professional

Chinese res outstanding. Huddersfield, the Izurant owner from Sohv, "

No longer

can the nobleman keep his private trainer and run his horses as u rich man's hobby, win or lose.

the member.

Racing is far too expensive- £15 n weck to keep a horse racing and far too competitive today for all but a handful of the old names to stay at the top Rosebery, Derby, Rothschild. Sassoon.

What,

then, is coming Over 2 racing? Whol will be its

future. Is it to become the Spart of the Common Man, no

nore the Sport of Kings?

The Jockey Club presents in sharpest focus the typical English way in which a-great tradition adapts itself to the new social forces nasniling it...

In Newmarket itself the social historian, however, would note no visible change. The red-brick Georgian headquarters of the club continues to preside over the High Street with imperturbable dignity.

seeming

with

But it is believed this hunts- man banker was elected because his Bancial acumen was deemed valuable in reviewing the money

A Growing

List

More than 3,300 men and women today have their flat racing colours registered with Weatherbys, the Jockey Club

secretaries. al- though got all of them are current owners of racehorses. Fifty years ago flat and jumping owners to- gether numbered only 1,530,

IMPROVEMENTS

The Jockey Club would reply if it ever stooped to answer criticism (which, like royalty, it never does)—that to lower its exacting standards would lead to the deterioration of racing every- where,

As for the humble racegoer. it would any it showed ils awareness of his disadvantages by recommending in 1910 cheaper and better accommodation and bigger race prizes to provide more attractive racing.

What has been done? Not a great deni, The standing-room on one or two tracks has been banked up to afford spectators. a clearer view of the races. Joud- Goodwood tried out a speaker running commentary to make the races intelligible to all. Newmarket may follow suit.

Photo-finish cameras have now→ been installed at most important tracks to make judging infallible.

Since the Chancellor's slight Budget tax relief, admission charges still far too high-have been slightly reduced.

Within the high-ceilinged rooms the Old-Guard is still in problems besetting scores of residence. The dukes, the earis, rucecourses. the gentlemen Squires

of step with the Also out centuries of stable-owning be-customary routine of, seniority. But hardly any new stands hind them are still there survey- | Major-General Handle Fellden, have seen built, or existing ones

with the steady, the Beld

of Naaf, has covered in. Overcrowding still general manager shrewd cyes of the men who been made one of the club's has to be endured, with primi- tribunal tive feeding arrangements, often know horses.

three Stewards, the And still they stay." withdrawn from the members, which at exorbitant cost, Building thoroughbred hauteur, the auto-holds life and death power over permits, it is true, are hard to cratic, almost Stor Chamber a racing man's career and re-get. arbiters, of the. Turk

ing

v. Everion

v Nottingham

v Plymouth

v Full

y..Luton

v Birmingham

Y

Barnsley

Lincoln

Bury

Blackburn

v Lect's

Division 1 (South)

y Queen's P.R.

V Leyton

v Bristol C.

v Shrewsbury

Y. Gulingham..

Torquay

Millwall.

NorthamptonTM.

V

V

Walsall

Reading

V

Bournemouth

V Ipswich

Division II (North)

Chesterfield

Darlington Gateshead

Grnaby

Hartlepools

Rochdale Tranmere

Wrexham

York C.

Airdrie

Cele Dundes

East Fife

y Mansfield

y Bradford C.

Southport

Scunthorpa

V

Crewe

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V

V

V

Chester

Halifax

Part Vale

Stockport C.

Workington Oldham

V Accrington

Scottish League "A"

Hibernian

Partick

St Mirren

y Motherwell ·

V Палести

Y

Aberdeen

** Raith R.

v

Henta

Clyde

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.

q. of the So.

Third Lanark V Falkirk

Roottists League "B"

Arbroathy Cowdenbeath

Dunbarton

Hamilton

Kilmarnock Stenh'mur

St Jumtone

Stirling

Forfar Dunfermline Queen's P.

Y

V

Albion R, Ayr U.

Alloa Murtan Dunde

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putation.

Compared with Again, although old-Etonlan

most Conti- FIVE DUKES

und ex-Guards, Feliden is not nental and American tracks, with the coursey remain diamaliy out- within their own most popularly associated exclusive ranks, subtle changes old regime, he was promoted moded.

by the club because of his

Even

always.

Ings.

have nevertheless been wrought, vigour and competence

as any Racing men warm that with- Members of the Jockey Club ordinary steward at race meci-out such a revision the racing today number 52. They have

industry will decline and so will tutalled about the same though to restore the blue- the bloodstock export Industry. pack o

of cards," but with blonded balance. thus slightly in which Britain, with exports always more court cards than disturbed by the needs of the of racehorses worth £1,000,000 a the usual pack (live dukeg at times, the

Earl of Athlone-year, leads the world, Inament).

nothing to do with racing--was elected.

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the

TRADITIONALISM

No trainer, no bookmaker, no

From the very beginning a man was always closely con- nected with racing and an owner of standing before he could be clected. His sociul background

jockey-not even Captain Boyd- had usually English history.

Rochfort, trainer for the Queen, Thus Mr James Rank, although | nor even all-lime champion he raced for 20 years and owned Gordon Richards--can yet hope £200,000 of bloodstock at his to enter the portals in New-

In be a part of

First Callovers On

The Cesarewitch

&

Cambridgeshire

WELCOME

What, though, does the Jockey Club really think of the new owners of prize-winning horses? In 1857 Lord Derby regretted to the Stewards that there was an increasing number of horses in the hands of persons in an Inferior position."

I could get no opinion from the Stewards of 1952, but Captain Boyd-Rochfort, one of the wisest men in racing, said Newmarket: "I think lo me at

they must welcome new owners. as I do, provided, that they are not just out to make a quick success but have a genuine love of racing."

One danger, however, is indeed the new

who type of owner wants a quick return for his money. He expects the trainer to get an immature horse ready quickly go that he can have Two three-year-old fillies, Ballechin and Pink Jasper, bet on it and tell his friends to were made favourites for the Cesarewitch and Cambridge-back it too.

London, Sept. 15.

Thoroughbreds hire respectively when the first enllover on the big More and more trainers today

Qu8

Perish In Stable Fire

Belmont, New York,

Sept. 15.

"autumn double" was held at the Victoria Club here to are forced to back their horses night.

to make ends meet, rather than Little business of note was transacted. The layers regarding their job as a purely primary concern was the shaping of a market on each "professional" task.

race,

Ballechin, the clear favourite 20 to 1 French Squadron, and at 100 to 6 for the long distance Judicate. event, the. Cesarewitch, raha great race at the Doncaster meet-

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'NO MENACE' Yet the Queen's trainer, con- cluded:

see no menace to British bloodstock coming from to Flighty Frances, the fact that so many men own Parting Shot, just one or two horses and that Vidi Viel, Perselta, the big old stables are breaking Philantrope, French

Design, up. Whinsaire and Tobias.

33 to 1 Pyrgos.

ing last week, going under by a West inform, short head to the classic filly, Veullin, Moon Star.

cate.

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A stable pony and 25 thoroughbreds, valued at approximately $120,000,

French Squadron, the mount perished in a Are which of Gordon Richards. on whom he swept a stable at the fam-finished second in 1050, is 20 to 1, Belmont Park race cosecond favourite with Judi- course last night.

"It was a case of 15 to 1 bar 000 for tho Cambridgeshire Some of the horses were ta with Lady Durham's Pink have run today in the opening of Jasper, winner of three of her

three-week the race course's

Inst Ave races, heading the mar ket. Included among 11 horsen autumn,meeting.

quoted at 25 to 1 was the French horse, Faubourg, third in this year's Epsom Derby.

.Twenty-five horses were rescued, though the blaze en gulfed the huge, wooden structure In 15 minuter.

Dry hay fed the flames as the panicky animals were brought out.

Mr Alex M. Robb, race course esilmated Secretary-Treasurer,

the total damage at $175,000 Router.

THE QUOTATIONS Prices ruling at the end of the first. callovers un the Cesare witch und Cambridgeshire handicaps at the Victoria Club here tonight were:

Controwitch Blakes (Newmarket, October 15) 100 to 8 Bellechin,

"Breeding of horses is virtually unaffected. Our stock is in des. mand all over the world. Wo have beaten the French this year. We are on top more than ever."

Cambridgeshire Handicap (Newmarket, October '20)

100 to 6 Pink Jasper. 25 to 1 Stranger, Danremont,

And on the other question: "I Adjournment, have the greatest admiration for Queen of Light,

But I don't Signal Box, tho Brighton Belle, the Jockey Club. Hilltop, Castleton H.V.C., Fau think they can do much to im-

prove the: bourg and Valdescoe..

ordinary racegoer until the Tote denationalised-the Govern- ment lakes most of the proft

ct

Shebo,

33 to 1 Antrydde, Numitar, Queen

Stalina, Brunetto, Primavera and Kriss Kringle.

comforts. of tho

now-and each racecourse allowed to run lis own and 40 to 1 Magic Circle and devote the proceeds to making Postman's Path.

our courses as good as those abroad. M

Tha next callavors will bo held on Monday, September 22. -Routor.

But I can't see that happen- ing in my lifetime."

AFTER 200 YEARS THE JOCKEY CLUB SEES THE OLD-TIME STABLES FADING, THE NEW-TYPE OWNERS MOVING IN

THE HORSE'S TAIL

High-street, Newmarket

Supreme Court of the Turf....the rooms where a man's. whole life can be changed...

A horse's tall hangs from the horseshoe table (above) in the Jockey Club room where major decisions in racing are taken

The tail from Count de Lagrange's Gladiateuf,- Derby, 2,000 Guineas, and St Leger winner of 1805, usually Hles on a side table.

YES....NO.....YES. The Jockey Club votes on matters ballot boxes into which go all racing.

Did you know ?

That hundreds of punters in Newmarket, the Newmarket write to the Jockey Club Heath training grounds, seven complaining of being cheated by breeding studs, a golf club, 50 bookmakers. The club always cottages, two farms-and a shop replies that it cannot intervene, which may sell but it will "warn off" any de- goods, leggings, and gloves." fauiting bookmaker reported by Tattersalls.

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That every reigning monarch sinéa the beginning the 10th century-except of Queen Victoria---has been a member of the Jockey Club. Women are barred. The facing world is now asking: Will the Jockey Club show 'its epprecia- tion of the now spirit abroad by trying to secure the Queen's patronage?

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