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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1958.

PRE-STOCKTAKING

text.

Forgive the correction, but I'm NOT a

highway. I'm an examiner and this is Mrs. Farquharson-Smith aboia to fail her test."

Giants of Sport

Monte Carlo Rallyist chuttering up the

No. 4

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|HEY enfled him, as they call him now, the Gran'did n-post chairman of

of Sport.

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the Royal Aero Club, asi president the Royal Aeronautical Society. He has been a Colonel, Member of Parliament, a former Parliamentary Secre racing motorist, yachtsman, scientist, air pilot, winter fary to the Ministry of Trans- sportsman, chess expert, and industrialist.

He is Lord Brabazon of Tara, "Dashed Food lot of riders Man of Speed,

this year, my bay,

John Theodore Cullibert Moory-Brabazon, M.C.. is 73.

good."

Lord Brabazon doesn't

Dashed

port.

ac-

A personality, yes. But one who instead of seeking prise for himself admires tho blevements of others. He has go in often said he would gladly

have given his life for It is a wander he has lived so for scratch racing any more. Winston Churchill (Fer whom long. For as an adventurer- "I cannot get of as well as in sport and polities-danger I did when has been his constant punton.

an

read

com. You see you have to

Sir

Privato

I was younger. I way Parliamentary

Fo ten Secretary"); for Lord Tren- fee behind the starting line, chard ("nded whom I served p Junior and inefficient push ke hell and then throw as

D for golf writer Bernard Darwin (The Kreat and loyable").

Instead of spending his old yourself flat on your machine, officer") 3ge in a club armchair, be with my fat stomach I cannos hind

newspaper, oo that any more." "Brab" Koca off in scarel: of speed. Nowadays, he finds i once a year on the Cresls Run at St. Moritz, where only last

year he chalked up yet another

speed victory,

Ask Lord Brabazon which of the many activities in a crowd- ed Life has given him the greatest pleasure and he will reply without a second's besila- tion, "Golf!"

Brab, recently had thoughts car of competing in stockc

He avenged 40 miles an vacing, which he describe us hour down the three-quarter giving you

"funny kind of mile course in, win the huidicap. pleasure." I nearest rival was 19 years old. And the nearest in age,

40.

"You feel it is the sort of thing you would like to do in the middle of Piccadilly when 3on are in a bad temper," he said.

He was the Brst man to haul a golfer's Trolley on i Course in Britain. And, in 1052, the Royal and Ancient Club of St. honoured him by Andrews electing him their captain.

A strangely quiet and sedale sport for und who ballooned For the Brabazon philosophy from the Battersea Gas Wories, firal race st hobbies as and drove in the

There have never been any is: have as many

never

ay an

armchairs and slippers in the you can, and never be afraid Brooklands. life of Lord Brabazon. He pre- of maicing a foul of yourself. fers a crush helmet, knee pro- And Brab has always practised tectors, big bools, and metal what he preaches. He believes backed gloves to slippers; lying that many Englishmen head Orst on

a small steel do anythink useful because But his most useful activities skeleton" toboggan to sitting they are afraid of being sucked have undoubtedly been in an armchair.

at when they begin,

air plancer, us One of those Not so with him. Forly bold young men who helped to He knows every hich of the seven years ago he took into conquer the skies. course. He has been down the the air over Kent what was Cresta every year, excluding little more then a string bag the wars, since 1907, and has with an engine aluuched. 3 tion; pioneered the air mail no thoughts of retiring from crashed, but he had flown 500 this exhausting pastime. In yands, and had gained Pilot fact, he sets nside part of his Certificate No. 1. annual holiday Lo make sure

he gets there.

Hu comments after his vie

tory last year are typical of

the man.

Tie onsla the relistration What then, had this "budding number FLY 1 on his car n sportsman" to say after his a reminder of the days when, anazing victory? "Well, you know, my bay," he was speak- though men laughed, he hein ing to a man over 40) "I think ed to begin an era. my success was dile а сег- tain devil-may-care feeling on

the first run down.

*

He played a leading part in the development of civil avia-

for

service; was responsible Britain's daring use of aerial photography during World War I. His efforts earned him the Military Cross, the Legion of Ilonour, and three mentions in despatches.

in World War II he played an even more vital role as Minister of Transport and then'

of Atreraft Produc- Minister fon. For his services to the nation he was created a Baron

Nothing was more hazardous' in 1942. .- in those carly days than his circular mile flight in an ull- English machino in 1909 (for which he won a £1,000 Prize) or the victory In the Circuit, des Ardennes motor race in

"This was my first run this 1007,

year. One usually makeun run

Ironically, he no longer en nir, travel the suffers from wir-

But then a new instrument sickness in the much smoother

or two before the undicap. of speed ls, like

modern machines) and 'always Journeys by boat and train to

But this year I did not do so. in the hands of Lord Brabazon his annual rendezvous with a

As a general rule, the first run

In the handicap is taken more slowly, you know, feeling the way and all that,

But. I let her rip and made a very good, speed. That helped mo in the handicap over the

three run

and built up my time tremendously to make mo the winner.",

And what did Lord Brabazon

think

a new Loy

-something that must be ex- perimented with,

It has always been so, Ap- propriately, therefore,

"

bob sleigh at St. Moriiz.

But he is. All fascinated by the engines and takes an immense world's largest aircraft--the Interest in the design and de- 130-ton Tristo! Brabazon-was velopment of alretati

And what will Lord Brabazon named after him.

There is nothing of the sport do when he 'relires? ing playboy about him. He is intend to wall for America elief of the Associated Com- to become puller, to a wealthy mercial Vehicles group, Pre- family. Failing that, I shall

of hi competitors? pldent of the Royal Institution, become a buller on the Alma.

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