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This usage could, presumably, have been extended to Indin and the greenhorn" involved limit ed to the British Isles and not merely to the Principality.

The word seems to have been particularly popular in Madras where there is a reference for 1794. A writer in 1808 says "at the Inn I was tormented to death by the impertinent persevering of the black people;

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1958.

Sensations Of Sport No. 2 By John Cottrell

THE

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ROUGH-HOUSE DERBY DISASTER

ING GEORGE V fingered a white carnation more, their hooves

on the hard turf. in the heat his jockey. American Johnny

the

oblivious to the

in his buttonhole as he talked with the Crown of their dramatic duel, Princess of Sweden, Queen Mary, standing with Jockeys were

chaos behind them when the the Duke of Connaught,, ranged her binoculars woman brought down the King's over the vast crowd of politicians and peers, bookies and tipsters, pedlars and gypsies.

It was June 4, 1913. The scene was set for another Derby, that most colourful of all events on the British sporting calendar. And, as ever, it had attracted a wide cross-section of society to Epsom Downs,

in the

home,

thundering fered with other homes, ond Relf, admitted that he had bumped Aboyeur in retallation." It was also an unsatisfactory result, for photographs later Sir Edward showed that

well Hulton's Shogun might have won had he been given o clear run home,

Now, nelther Aboyeur nor : Craganour could be described as an angelle horse, and, when they came together in the final straight, Aboyeur gave his rival a hely bump.

been Craganour.. who had bumping horses all the way, did not hesitate to bump Avoyeur

And that cost him in retura the race.

In the closing stages there was nothing to choose between the two hories and they finished to gether, with Sport, Nimbus, Day Comel and Shogun only a few paces behind.

clear WO5 Craganour was home first by a head and the cry, "The favourite wits," went round the

Louvois,

Creat

This year, a record crowd turned out to see the famous flat race for three-year-olds. They came on foot, on bicycles, by automobile, and by a new-fangled form of transport called the motor omnibus. They filled the stands and packed the rails along the one-mile four-furlong course, On this day, in the third year would never be forgotten, that it ofter other event of George V's reign, they were would be recalled more to witness the most sensational than any and disastrous Derby since the history of the furt. race was first run in 1780.

This Derby, eo packed with They called it the Rough sensation and suspense, began

Derby.

And

An with under leaden akles and on firm

unofficial "All right" was house excellent reason. There was a tutt. Creganour, owned by Mr given; congratulations were ex- disgraceful amount of bumping Bower Ismay, a rich shipping tended to the winners; bookies

the first magnate, was the 6-4 favourite, began to pay out. and, for and boring,

to the delight of me in the history of the classic And, race, there was a disqualiscation spectators, he was well up at

the start. for interference,

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that

course.

The only people who could rejoice at the result were the bookies, the owners of Aboyeur, and a little part of vialtore who had all backed Aboyeur because they had recently sailed in a ship of that name.

This verdict Was to be

debated for many years to come, was the But, of course the big talking- point after the race

the unexplained

of action woman who had dashed in front of the King's horse.

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To the horror of the crowd, Emily Davison threw herself in front of the King's horto, Anmer, and brought both horsa and jockey to the ground.

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Emily Davison was probably arst to talk of sterilicing life the most belligerent and daring for the cause.

Sho

suffragette of them all.

cach timo disaster The woman was a milllant Emilly Davison, tall, thin, and gress, and

suffragette. The colours were in her late thirties, had been narrowly averted.

the symbol of those who were Bachelor of Arts, an able writer This tbne, jockey

on Jones campaigning furiously for voles and accomplished orator. But she was also a headstrong thought he would cally miss for women.

woman and had been one of the the woman. When he first saw her, he was in the centre of the course and he was near the rails, But he was wrong.

had once struck ի Baptist Ten days after dier death.she Jones recalled: "Surely the minister, on Aberdeen station was given a martyr's funeral"

of London. Thousands She was cunning that he was Lloyd George In in Into

Shopkod fired pillar women, dressed in black, purple She disquleo. was mad.

my path,

I boxes and broken windows of or whlte, matched in the pro- nearly fell. stumbled and

And the House of Parliament, She cession, reigned Anmer cruelly. then with a great rush she had been imprisoned several acized Anmer's bridle and leap times and forcibly fed when on ed at his neck with the move hunger strike. ment of a matador.

back for every

one is a beggar, as long as you are reckoned seriffin or a new- comer" in our time may have mock-herole ring about it in egalitarian English and Amert- can care, It has not the power to wound speaker and listener as has boy with its stridencies and core of disrespect.

Agar-Agar

This is a sco-weed, used in the manufacture of gum and paste, capeelally that employed in the and making of paper lanterns

It is also the base of models. some: Chinese sweet-meals may be used in the preparation of birdsnest soup.

and

in

An account of the trade this commodity in former Limes maybe read in Description of

2nd.cd the City of Canton, Canton, 1839, page 131. Yule and Burnell, in Hobson Jobson, state that it is a Malay word.

Not since Running Rein was when a disquallded in 1844, gigantic plot to deceive the a four-year-old stewards with was attempled. had such a thing happened in the Derby.

But the disquallication of a horse unfortunately, It hap-. pened to be the favourite shocked Druly

racing the Another Incident in fraternity.

the whole the race shocked country.

Aboyeur, a 100-1 outsider, quickly showed In front, follow- rd by Aldegond. Craganour, and Sun Yat and Nimbus, with Louvola close behind.

At the mile past, Aboyeur still led from Craganour. But thore who had bacted the favourite were not too worried. As all Derby followers know, the real lest is at the sharp bend of Tattenham Coyner.

Two minutes later came the bombshell. The red "objection" flag

was holsted, And soon after, Aboyeur, the 100-1 out- sider, was declared the winner.

Mr A. P. Cunliffe, owner of Aboyeur, has been sporting en-

not to

The object. ough

raised by objection had been

disqualified the stewards, whe Craganour "On the grounds that he jostled the second horse."

Why Who was this woman?

Was she she done ? had dead? What Will the King say? Was the Royal jockey seriously Injured?

These were the questions on everyone's lips, and it was. several hours before all the answers were known.

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Emily's last demonstration had ended disastrously--and achieved cothing. The following year the "Votes for Women" "An awful scream. The crowd

campaign was temporarily for The woman was a brilliant

Women fainted. In an

gotten as Bliain went, to war. yelled,

In scholar by the name of Emily Instant we were all three Wilding Davison and she died

Once Emily barricaded her

As for Herbert Jones, who' a struggling heap on the grass." four days later in Epsom College

The King's horse scrambled to cell door and would not open up had won the. Derbies of 1000 he never fully. Te- Hospital after an operation for

Ho The its feet and bolted. The woman even when she was drenched by and 1900, found that a fracture of the skull. The judges algo

King's Jockey, Herbert Jones, was unconscious. She had blood hosepipes pointed through the covered from his injuries.

bars. Eventually, the door had contracted tuberculosis and, at Craganour, "by not keeping straight course, had at one point was also badly injured, but he on her face; her hat lay several to be taken off its hinges. By the age of 70, committed suicide.

then the water in the cell was It is a popular theory that the of the race seriously interfered ved to give a full account of feet away,

the in

log after with Shogun, Day Comet and his airange adventure., in the. No one in the crowd could' six inches deep...

Another time, she hid herself and disappointed, sold his horse- Just as the field rounded the horse

identify her. Then a policeman Corner should win Aboyeur, and find afterwards 1913 Derby. bend at Tattenham Corner, a Tattenham

Certainly it is bumped and bored the latter so

The jockey used to recall that turned over her inert body, and in the House of Parliament for Craganour to a South American round her waist, 48 hours, staying in the room for £20,000. Anmer, the King's woman dashed on to the course, the Derby.

dis- grey.coli, was 'presented to the he was not altogether surprised. found, tied narrowly escaping death under excellent tactics to take the lead as to prevent his winning."

The of the nt this point just before coming

verdiet caused general to see a woman on the course; three ribbons: purple, green and where Guy Fawkes was

colours of covered. She planned to burst Canadian Government, the Iron-shod hooves

consternation. Punter argued; into the final straight.

occasions. white-the farmillar recch

when Chamber the and into Social Women's confused; lending horsės.

-ENDS nyere!

the the women had decided to cross the

Parliament reassembled. the horror of the

Aboyeur still led round the bookles Then-w

threw herself in.bend. But then Craganour, crowd was gloomy.

been a most course while racing was in pro- Political Union. crowd-the

It had, indeed, a great carrying the coming up fast, made a horse

In the front of Hoyal colours. The King's horse challenge. Neck and neck, the disappointing Derby. was brought down, the jockey two horses fought for the lead, words of a commentator of the woman with the other horses bunched time, "It was not a race, it was Injured-and the was

a fight." only a short distance behind. was killed.

This incident

did not affect Ax the crowd cheered and est profusion. The botanist's the outcome of the race. But it urged them on, the pair swept Derby along at 30 miles an hour or

Certainly Malayala is the area where the plant, grows in great- name for this spherococcus chenoides.

Amah

sca-wood is

Maid-servant. It is used In combination with other words to formi compounds such as wash- umah, baby-amah, number-one- amah and the picturesque and presumably obsolete chow-amab (wel-nurse),

It is the Portuguese ama (also used in Spain). Both Portuguese and English gave this name to a wet-nurse In the south of India tid in other parts of the East (I have heard American residents in Japan use it). It is Eow the Hongkong word for non-European mald-servants in the same way as cootle and foki Dre employed for non-European Jabourers, poriers and other re- Jatively unskilled workmen and womeri.

Cash

This was the name given to small copper coin, once the only coin In China, worth about one tenth of a cent, according to the older books. Its Chinese name was tung taien, elc. The word is

in Anglo-Indian origin and, again, was borrowed from Indo-Portuguese which seems to have had it from опе, а! the Indian

The languages. early. farms in

India resembled Sanskrit karsha. The Portuguese form eaixa is pre- aumably "contaminated" by the traditional word meaning chest, etc., Chiselt is probably a atraight translation of this form, though it too may have suffered similar contamination.

One.wrlier, quoted in Hobson Jobson, observes that "In China the word cash is used by Euro- beans and their hangers-on as the synonym of tho Chinese le and Lalen."

The earliest European roter- enco, to this. name recorded in Hobson Jobson is cas in 1510.

John Davie wrote in. 1000 (Purchas 1, page 117) "Those (coins) of lead are called câxas, whereof 1000 make one TAN."

the The 'ma" referred to is mace of China Coast Plugin. We shall have something to say of it later.

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