THIRD
ASIAN
THEY RODE TO FAME
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1958.
GAMES PROSPECTS
PI Expect To Take Second Place In Overall Standings
The Tragic Genius Of Tod Sloan
By PERCY RUDD
The last two stanzas of a prize-winner in a verse competition run by a London newspaper, when Tod Sloan, the American jockey, made his short-lived but tremendous impact upon the English racing scene
were:
So backers cheer and bookies groan As race by rare is won by Sloan
On horses chestnut, bay or roan-
No matter if they're shoddy,
They may be broken-kneed or lame-
He wins upon them just the same.
So here's to health and wealth and fame
Or Yankee-doodle Toddy!
Sloan is remembered best as procling stable. the little man who revolutionis-told he would
There he was never make a
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ed British race-riding by injury, and her became a cook truducing what he himself called The first horses be rude al
tant away with him. tie "monkey-et-a-stick" sen?. Other Jockeys sat straight up had in 1993” he said "that I was in the saddle, but Soan crouched a byword ament trainers." over the home's week.
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successes were so phenomenal which Brst that the derision geeted him was soon silenced- and tritation, followed,
Amassed Fortune
cards and drinking into the late hours of the night and was unft
to ride.
The final blow soon followed, He was told not to apply for the renewal of his licence for 1901. in which season he, had been a retainer of 0,000 promised guineas by the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII,
Out Off
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stewards never went buck on Ont, decision and Sloan Bay cut ult from raelsg through- out the world at the height of Je his powers when only 25. was never "warned off," so he emild frequent racecourses and ride gallops,
He went to France and made freme money buying, selling and | backing horses. One night al Dieppe he cleared over £1,000 at bheement, lost ali but seven | trangs, pui Ave franes back (ou the gaming tuble and finally
went away with £1,125,
A Monte Cark he won the £1.600 Orst prize in the big pireon shouting contest, plus £1,000 in bets at 10 to 1.
Back Home in America he in a motor car
Manila, May 5.
The Philippines, host of and runner-up in the Second Asian Games in 1954, sends her top athletes to Tokyo for the Third Asiad without any illusion that they can work en ›ugh miracles to topple Japan, unofficially the de- fending champion.
Games officials are horrified that competition is graded accord- ing to each country's performances, insisting that only in- dividuals count.
The ubiquitous press, however, distributes its honours accord- ing to various point systems, country for country, and nobody can stop them.
Under
Azad-100-metre
system,
divisions, and will see point aray
The Philippines could also Even Japan's track and held athletes (spring a surprise in the 1,500 them retain the boxing title.
in Alejandro j Boxcrast ennes ruterally lo are again expected to sweep top metre honours. They
Won 11 the Cabusora, an unknown speert- the Filipinos, and here this Japan, bul following events
country fears not In the 2ndster here.
ruti
400- Japan is even more devaslat Korea, whose milislingers know metre run: 5,000-metre un; in women's track and deld. little about the sport's seleure te rugged, theless 3,000-metre steeplechase: 4 x 100- and any comparison of recorda | but
the Philippines ja punching lot. metre relay: 4 x 400-meire relay: here with pole vault; running broad jump: futile. hap, slep and jump; and ham-
mer throw.
Yes seven years later this mighty ton this size in shoes aliseovered the was one and a half), in spite of To suld he forward scul by hecident,
living always at the luxury level. horse bolted with him Aristad amassed a fortune of some- htten up. I got this; Bke £100,000 and had the "trying to pull anet of the suddle and on to his world at his feet. neek. Then I nolleed that the
After The came the crash. horre's stride seemed freer."
the 1900 Cambridgeshire, in which he dotshed second on the Ponek horse Codoman, he was hassled before the stewards and Previously Sloan had seen an
admitted having had big bels on Aurrican Jurkey, ifenry Gelfil he meant. In his autobiography -the best of hig
ript his prospective winnings lost £20,000 with short lenthers and leaning a £80,000. He also admitted busness, started a big bllard-metre
1st, There forward.
hi ving been promised a four-table enterprise,
gore "present" by a third party if he wan.
Short Leathers
thought, be samething in the ilea. So he developed the new seat and began to win races
And how he won them! In
Tod said he thought it was two years in America before his pemable for K Jockey to Brst appearance in Britain his back his own mounts, as they Average of winers to mounts then dil in America. He was was over 30 per cent.
everely reprimanded and went to hit the high ut to London spots.
In England, where he arrived In the Inte autumn of 1897 to ride 5 Cloud H for James fi. Keene, an American owner, he bad 21 winners (Incalding Zaur
serund and one
in a de at Manchester) from 48 mounts.
St Cloud won neither race, but was surond in the Cambridge- shire.
Next year in a slightly lunger Autumn visit he won 43 races-
In live in a day at Newmarket.
1899, he hirst full season,
345 trnd 163 winsors from mounts. In 1900, when he won the Ascot Gold Cup for Mrs. Langtry, he had 310 mounts and 93 winners,
Broken Leg
He was third in the Derby and Oaks in 1800 and would prob- ably have beaten the great Fly- ing Fox in the 1899 Derby in The French horse Holocaust had his ewunl not broken a leg two furlongs from bane, That year the 1,000 Guineas on Sibula and was second on her in the Ooks,
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But it wasn't anly the scut that brought Slean his triumphs, He made friends with horses that wouldn't let others come near them nad "kidded" bad and ungenerous animide to win.
He
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hnd wonderful bands, an enny Judgment of pee, and was, in foet, a genlus in the saddle.
English Jockeys resented his intrusion and didn't like him. which made the tribute paid him by Fred Riekaby the more r-markable Fred, asked by George Lamblon, the trainer for whom he rode, what he thought of the American, said “If I were un owner I should not run horse unless Sloan rode it."
Lambton hold a story that threw a vivid light on the best side of Sloan's character, was vain, brush, reckless, undis- epilned, often rude-but knew and loved a good horse. The Incident happened at Kemp. ton Park.
Wisen Lord Stanley, grand-
the
and went on vandeville
tebing stage stories. He tock a bar in Paris, becane a bookmaker in New a Red Cross York, and drove wagon in the first world war
When he died three days before Christmas in 1933, at the age of 53, in a Los Angeles hos pital his estate was valued at £1.109. That was only a
th
of what his the-plus were worth fahrt uftr present Earl of when he took their with him to Deity wanted him to ride in England on his second visit in the Liverpool Cup, Sloan re-1898. pled that he had been playing
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
GOT THE BLASTED RUDDER FIXED, NOW WE CAN
MOVE AGAIN,
FERDINAND
Tod
NANCY
Exhausted, But....
be
Sloan come back completely the exhausted from riding mullsh and self-willed Knight of the Thistle to victory in the Jubilee. After weighing out under. protest for Dobelte, one of Lambton's horses in the next race, he lay down on his back in the paddock and said "It's no use; I can't ride,"
A beautiful little ally walking "Is that past caught his eye.
my horse?" he asked. When the trainer said "Yes," Sloan was n his feet in, a moment, all larsi- tude and depression gone. von the race easily.
He
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Sloan was the son of a former officer in the United States Army who, at the time of his birth, the business of an combined estate agent with that of a bar- ber, Hla real name was James Sloan. His father Formau called him Toad because he was so small-hence the name Tod or Todhunter, by which he was Inter known.
After working in gas and oil works, livery stable, carriago factory, drinking saloon and travelling show at country fairs he went at the age of 13 into a
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Swimming
The
sions.
I is in the shooting events that the Pillippines terrs Japan, although her shooters were tops In the Second Asiadi,
In the Second Asiad, Philippines won gold medals the Aywelght, bantamweight, Rightweight, light-welterweight, The Philippines could only
Here as in track and deld, and light-middleweight divi- manage second and sixth places in the 100-metre dash; sixth Japan leads n the rest.
swimm events in #11 place in the 110-metre hurlies; men's
was a spectacle third the 400-metre hurdles: Second Asind fourth in the 3,000-metiet Japan finishing in 1-2-3 steeplechase: third to the 4 x 100- order in all but two events.
l the women's swimming. incire relay; third in the 4 x 400-
Philippine mermaids will gi relay; and fourth and
Japan a lesn Aght but stin sixth in the Javelin throw,
Lose in the overall standings,
In weightlifting, neither Japan Japan has made d noise
nor the Philippines can that the Philippines recently
come Korea's strong men. beller watch out in baskeiball. Shrewd observers say tinat while Japan's basketeers have | improved
The considerably. Philippines will st swathip them undi the reart competition.
Best Two
In the century dash, however, this time the Philippines may rocket to first place in Tokyo. Her best tw sprinters-Is Gomez and Enrique Bautista-- recently equalled with ease the Asian Games mark of 10.0 set by Pakistan's Abdul Khaliq.
the
In the 400-metre run,
Pablo Somblingo, Philippines' holder of this country's record of 48.5, may place second.
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Korea's Strong Men
Over-
Bul Japan's wrestlers, who grabbed all but one of the wred- ling titles in the Steund Aslad, And no difficulty re- the should uf
peating,
Boasting the second largest delegation
Tokyo. 15 athletes in all (second only to The boxing event may again Japan), the Tailippines expect
agle- the Philippines suntch to innd second place abcut three or four tiles in France-Presse.
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SHEILA WINS. AGAIN
Winner for the second year in succession, Miss Sheila Willcox tukes her dun gelding. "High and Mighty", over one of the obstacles in the show jump- ing on the last day of the three-day Horse Trials al Badminton, Gloucestershire. This is the first time horse and rider have won a three-day event twice in succession/Reuterphoto.
The Price Of Glory
FA CUP WINNERS STONED DURING
VICTORY MARCH
Bolton, Lancashire, May. 5. Bolton Wanderers →→ winners of the Football As- were stoned with sociation Cup final last Saturday clogs, (shoes, with wood and iron soles and heels); tomatoes, and bags of flour when they passed through Manchester on their way home here tonight.
They arrived here still jubilant over their jackets. But don't over their 2-0 victory ove Man-worry, we'll come through Man. chester United-the Chub sadly chester again next year it we depleted by the inssts the win the Cup." Mimich air crash,
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Long before the Bolton team Mr George Taylor, Bolton's reached hete police and coach and former player, made ambulance met had to deal with the stoning disclosure to a crowd a mamber of casuallies, mainly of 20,000 kathered round Bolton young children In danger Town Hall to welcome hone the Įbelné" erushed.· .་| Cup winners.
When the teum arrived, There were boos from some sitting on the open roof of their paris of the astonished crowd. conch, a sen of paper streamers The disclosure came at the end in blue and white the club of the great welcome. None of colours greeted them, and a the players who had spoken and struck up The Happy earlier had mentioned it.
Wanderer."
But afterwards Nat Lofthouse,
the team eaptain, told reporters: "yes, fer quite true. There were!
Nat Lofthouse, his face beam-
above
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a number of hooligans on the dry curted the cop route when we were passing through Manchester,
Narrow Escapes
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his head.
Then, everyone could see it, he lifted
the club's seven-year old Mas-
the
eot, David Hartley, on to shoulders of a player, and then
Some of the players had passed him the Cup starcow escapes and got flour ever higher.-Reuter.
to. hold
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