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THE "GRAND NATIONAL"
ROYAL NAVY
FIRST GLIMPSE OF
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THE BOAT RACE
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Its Thrills Described
(BY CAPTAIN HEATH) When the Orand National was first run, in 1839, it was won by a $1,300 horse named "Lottery," and never 2103 214.
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BY P. N. CARPMAEL
During her stay in England after months at Gibraltar, the battle-cruiser Much may happen between now Hood will change her commanding and April 4, but it is always in- officer, executive officer, and navigateresting to go up to Oxford and ing officer. The officers how in the ship
Cambridge to see the" University have been there since August, 1933, and have therefore nearly completex eights when first they start Boat. the normal 2 years. Rear-Admiral Race practice after Christmas. F. T. B. Tower,
OBE, will be suc ceeded in command by Captain A. F. Pridhaus; Commander R. C. O'Couor executive officer by Commander A. D. Torlesse: and Commander E Lees as squadron navigating officer by Commander E. D. Brooke.
The Presidents have now ten to
twelve men from whom they must pick the final eight, which though not necessarily the best eight cars-
President, B.
J.
men should be the eight men who, each in his respective position, will from the strongest combination.
The Oxford Sciortino, has a crew which should prove to be more plastic in the hands of the coaches than any Ox- ford crew for some little time. A plethora of Blues, which is often somewhat of a mixed blessing, they
Captain Pridham, who now has the distinction of being appointed in com mand of the world's heaviest war There is no race in the world vessel, with a displacement of 12,100 tons, commanded the Excellent, gun- quite like the Grand National, with aery school, in 1933-35, and had form- Its sixteen separate obstacles, allerly been Deputy Director of Naval of which, with the exception of Ordnance. He commanded the cruisers the Water Jump and the Open Concord, Calliope, and Curlew in the Ditch, have to be taken twice. Mediterranean in 1998-30, Captain Pridham has now been 33 years in the That is to say, thirty fearsome leaps, at each one of which acct-Navy. He was gunnery officer during have not got, and it therefore the War of the cruisers Weymouth leaves the only other Blue, R. dent, misfortune, or miscalcula- and Shannon and the battleship | Hope, at stroke; an excellent place tion, on the part of horse or jockey Marlborough. In 1927 he was among in which to have both experience may make all the difference be the first group of naval officers select-
talent. ed to attend the Imperial Defence tween winning, or losing, a for- College.
tune.
THE BIGGEST GAMBLE
In short, the Grand National re-
owner of the 100 to 1 chance, "Tip- perary Tim." who was, the only horse in a big field to complete the course without mishap.
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NEW ADMIRALTY TRAWLERS The trawlors which, as the First Lord announced in November, are presents the biggest gamble on the being taken up from the fishing in- British Turf. It is well worth windustry. for naval service fall into two ning. A few years ago it realised groups. It has been decided to name over £11,000 to H. S. Kenyon, the one group after precious stones, and the other after trees and shrubs. In the former are the Agate, Amethyst, Cornelian, Jasper, and Pearl; in the latter, the Cedar, Hawthorn, Laurel, Lilac. and Magnolia. Some well- known ships of the Navy have borne some of these names in the past. Amethyst, for example, was the name of a cruiser in the War, and bad pre- viously, been borne by other vessels since 1793, when the French 3gun frigate Perls was captured and added to the Royal Navy as the Amethyst. Pearl is also an old frigate and cruiser nadie, and is specially associated with the death of Commodore J. G. Good enough, who was murdered by natives 5 Santa Cruz in 1875, white Com
It is likely that there will be seme thirty runners for the race on March 27, and of these the two previous winners, "Reynoldstown and Golden Miller," are outstand-
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Furlong, son of the horse's owner- trainer: this year he will be pilot- another amateur-Fulke by
Walwyn. "Reynoldstown" has a ble chance of winning the race d second time and thus adding his name to the list of only five others
ho have twice won Riband at Liverpool,
noore on the Australian Station. The name of Laurel dates back to 1651, when it was that of a 38-gun frigate built at Portsmouth, which the Algewus a diagship in the Dutch wars.
GOLDEN MILLER
For weeks past Dorothy Paget's "Golden Miller" has been the ante- post favourite for the
He race. won in immaculate style two years
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AEROPLANE SEARCH FOR THE WATT BICENTENARY
METEORITES
Soviet Union Expedition" Planned
Greenock, on the Firth of Clyde, celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of its illustrious townsman. James Watt, last month. A com momorative exhibition that is being held at the Science Museum, South Kensington, remains open uns April 19.
When I saw the crew last Saturday Hope certainly seemed to have a control over his meri which few strokes have shown over a University crew so early in practice. Going over, as they out this year in the U.S.S.R. The original beam engines, which were
were, the odd four-mile course it speaks a lot for this rhythm and stroking that the crew were able to whip the rate up from 28 to 38 per minute in three or four strokes without merely rushing and bucketing,
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London, Feb. 1 Aeroplane flights to carry out photographic surveys for the dis- covery of meteorites are to be carried
Academy of Sciences is organising an expedition in aeroplanes to investigato the region of Podkamenni Tungusk.
Every year about 80 meteorites fall on the territory of the
Union, Soviet but only two or three of them are scattered throughout the U.S.S.R. located quickly. Over 1000 observers
inform the Meteorita Department when any falls occur,
Many objects of particular In- terest are shown, including three"
erected in 1777, 1788 and 1797,"and
the separate condensers of 1785 which led to Watt's most im-
portant contribution to the de- velopment of the steam engine.
A large number of drawings, some by Watt himself, have been lent by the Birmingham Fublie Libraries Committee and form
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When falling these "cosmic shells," This capacity alone of this Ox-ying at a speed of 40 to 50 kilometers detalled survey of the progress in ford crew must give their coaches
per second, become deeply embedded in the earth. To find a meteorite it is steam-engine design from 1775 to necessary to make a careful investiga- 1800, the period of Watt's part- a degree of confidence that 'none can have had in recent years.
tion of the region of the fall.
nership with Boulton. The greatest number of meteorites || when often they must have felt
Portraits have been lent by the that during the instilling of "first
were collected by the Institute in 1934, National
the Portrait Gallery, when a rain of meteorites fell in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the principles the racing capacity of Ivanovski district. the crew might be suffering con- siderably. It is so seldom University crews are given gallops with other crews in the early
Society, the
Art
City of Gallery. and
With the help of local collective Royal that fargers 03 meteorites, weighing Birmingham altogether about a hundredweight, others. ites now possessed by the Meteorite Watt frequently worked from 1790 were found. The collection of meteor "The Garret Workshop," where Department is one of the largest in until his death in 1819, is per- the world.
stages of practice that it is good to see this one "able to gallop on its own without an eight alongside to draw it out.
A very wise decision was that the practice should start on the Radley stretch of the Thames, in- tead of on home waters, as has us- ually been the case in previous years. Nothing can be more bor- ing than to "have to cover the £10; home course twice up and down,
The following, amounts are to be awarded from the Lott Naval Trust Fund for efficiency in fighting prac- tices of the several feets up to Decem- ber 31, 1936: Mediterranean, £130; Home Fleet, £130; China, 260; Ainerica ago, but last March his effort was
and West Indies, £50; Africa (includ one of the most tragic ever assp-ing South African Naval Forces), £40; ciated with an event which bristres East Indies, £50; Rear-Admiral (Sub with broken hopes,
marines), E30; Royal Marines (shore), "Golden Miller." public Idol and Captain, Fishery Protection.
P30: Anti-Submarine Schoul vines Oxford crews must do to have regarded as being as honest as the sweeping, £10; Australia, £40; day. actually refused a fence · and da, 320, Indio, £36, and New unseated his jockey, the champion, £30. The Herbert Lott Naval Trust $18.00 Gerry Wilson. He repeated, the Fund was established in May, 1930, performance, moreover, when pull-through the generosity of a private donor who desired to help the Service. ed out again the following day. It enables the Admiralty to make Many unkind things were said at
awards to such of the personnel of $11.10 the time, and if only for this rea- the naval forces who show markeri son it's good to know that Gerry efficiency in tighting practices. Wilson is again to have the hand- Ung of the horse on the 27th:
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and an outing of useful length. Single mile stretches at a time during the first month, in my opinion, are of no use whatsoever to a crew who one day have to row four and a quarter miles at top pressure.
CIVIL APPOINTMENTS The Rev. J. T. Jones, of the Manse, North Road, Milford Haven, has been appointed officiating minister to Baptist and Congregational personnel of the Royal Navy, vice the Rev. W.H.
What will "the Miller" do this time? He is the problem horse or the race as well as the favourite. Two horses who have finished second in previous Grand Nation-Jones. als, J. B. Snow's "Delaneige” and Lady Lindsay's "Blue Prince," will again be in the field. Sturdy and dependable leppers both, they can be relied upon to put up formid-date January 15, 1936. able efforts again,
One of the most interesting com- petitors is Mrs. Violet Mundy's "Avenger," a young fencer pur- chased for a big sum with the ob- ject of winning a National --one day. He has never tackled a task of this magnitude, but already boasts many friends. His trazier, Tom Rimell, turned out "Forbra“ 155 eta.. to win the race a few years ago.
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That ever-enthusiastic optimist, "Jock" Whitney, has travelled from the United States in the hope that he may see victory achieved by one of his three nominations "Rod and Gun, Double Crossed and Royal Ransom." Three times have his colours been carried into third place, and it is considered likely that "Double Crossed" will at least run into a place.
Mr. D. A. Donald, 31.0, of “St. Helens," North Berwick, has been appointed Admiralty Surgeon and Agent for North Berwick, vice Mr. L. C. M. Welderburn, deceased, to
WHAT 1836 GAVE US
Three celebrated humorists were born in 1836: Bret Harte, W. 8 Gilbert and Francis Burnand.
The same year also produced Joseph Chamberlain (the states- raan), Lombroso (the criminolog- ist), and Mrs, Beeton (who com2 piled a cookery book).
The Morse Signal Code from. 1830 and so does Mr. Pickwick,
It is 400 years since the deaths of Tyndale, the translator of the Bible, and the scholarly Erasmus.
MISHAPS TO KING CAROL'S TRAIN
Delay Causes Anxiety
Paris Feb. Considerably anxiety was caused in Paris early this morning by the fact that the special Royal train in which King Carol of Rumania was travelling from Calais had not arrived by one o'clock, although due at the Gare du Nord at midnight.
It was not until 1.45 that the train The Radley course is nearly draw in, and it was discovered that a ideal, for, with the 'exception of a
bogey had caught fire, and that when the damage had been meaded and the sharp bend in the middle, a stretch train was starting off again the engine can be obtained equal to the Uni-had suddenly run out of water. versity course, and, moreover, on a stream which is more compara-
blc in liveliness with the Tideway.
TEACHES WATERMANSHIP
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The Cam, usually known as muddy ditch, has at least the sav Ing grace that three and a quarter miles non-stop can be rowed, and the three practically rightangle
bends all serve to teach the crew watermanship and boat control.
The outlook for Oxford would. therefore, seem most bright, for with a crew of very even com- position, together with its pre- sent outstanding qualities, the Cambridge coaches in charge of
manently preserved at South Ken- sington and forms, part of this exhibition.
WEEK-END PILGRIMAGE AT WINDSOR
Windsor, Feb. 2.
The pilgrimage to Windsor Castle to see the wreaths sent for King George's funeral continued throughout yesterday and to-day, and it is estimated that to-day nearly 130,000 took part in it.
By 8.30 this morning there was a fair number of visitors at the Castle gates, and by 10 o'clock the queue was 4 quarter of a mile long. In the middle of the afternoon the line reached from Walk and as far as Frogmore, a the side streets of Windsor to the Long
dis King Carol, who is accompanied by tance of a mile and a half. Coaches M. Titulescu, the Ruspanian Foreign from London and local omnibuses were Minister, will to-morrow be entertain crowded, and so were the trains of the ed at a luncheon by President Lebrun Great Western and Southern Railways. at the Elysee. On Monday the King Cay parks, temporary and permanent, will receive members of the French and the side streets in which parking Government at the Rumanian Legn was allowed were full, and long before tion.
dark every cafe in the town had sold out ite refreshments.
To-day Marshal Franchet d'Esperey
When dusk fell the waiting line way and Gea. Denain had audiences with the King, who otherwise spent the only a little shorter than it had been day quietly resting. On Sunday the in the middle of the afternoon, and it Rumanian Minister of Finance, M. was decided to let the people through Antonescu, will arrive in Paris to sign even after it became dark, when it was the Franco-Rumanian financial and almost impossible to see the wreathe. commercial agreement, negotiations The public will be allowed to see, the for which have been conducted for wreathes. some time.
President, J. H. T. Wilson, is mak- it should, be capable of turning ing them most proficient in tricks! out an ight which will keep the They would do credit to Bertram
Mills himself! odds in the balance,
As everyone must agree,
the
But... joking apart, it is a pity that more coaches do not show his number of consecutive Cambridge initiative, for, apart from beina wins has attained a degree (12 in great fun, it really teaches a crew all that, from the psychological to learn to balance their craft, point of view, every year makes it easler for Cambridge to lose, and gives the more encouragement to Oxford to win,
years Cambridge have had at least In nearly every one of these
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many crews only possess an artificial control. One of their tricks is to "easy,” Jam the car handles in the saxboards,
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SCOTTISH EDITOR'S.
APPOINTMENT
Loudon, Jua 31. The following official announcement is made by the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company:-
"The directora of the London Mid- land Scottish Railway Company have appointer Sir Robert Bruce, LL.D. of Brisbane House, Hellshouston, Glas gow, to be a member of the Scottish Local Committee of the company."
Sir Robert, who is in the twentieth year of his editorship of "The Glasgow
through a form of Swedish drill that newspaper dating from the year Herald," has had a distinguished. and, with beautiful balance, sojournalistic career, his aaaociation with when he became a member of the Parliamentary
staff, since when he has been in succession London editor, assistant editor, an
and editor, from which position he is shortly to retire. He is ná 'LL.D. of the Universities
1898,
of Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Toronto,
Many of the 54 entrants have no pretentions to appear in this exalt ed company, but mention must be Another American Visitor is made of Lord Penrhyn's grand two first-class oars, and this year
they have a most formidable £ve: The boat is again fitted · with. "Pete" Bostwick, who is to ride his fencer, "Belted Hero; of Hillsbrook," Wilson, Laurie, Kingsford, Lennon swivel rowlocks, and, being taught own horse, "Castle Irwell, a fine owned by Lord Derby (Lord Derby and Burnford. But, on the other more on discdework and legwork stamp of chaser that has already has probably won more dat races hand, it frequently proves difficult principles, they are a good deal distinguished itself by the way het Liverpool than any living own- has tackled Aintree jumps,
er); of "Reviewer, owned by Mar- to weld together the varying per- oliler in their movements than Ox- sonalities of successful cars, hail-ford. The latter still remain faith- “Bagatelle II" owned by Antoutin Benson, of "Windsor Lading from various colleges, into one ful to orthodoxy under the success Untermyer, comes from America fame.
"ensemble."
ful Cambridge coaches of the late We in with a splendid record.
It may be assumed that Martin'
So that although an eight of regime. England know nothing about him Berison is desperately keen to win except from hearsay.
a Grand National, since he owned paper may appear invincible, an Once again, therefore, we are The Marquis, 'de San-Miguel, a both "Sergeant Murphy and Shaun eight of less imposing names could to see the result of what I re- Spaniard, has nominated a French Spadah," but sold them both be easily beat it by being more per- gard as the true orthodoxy of Steve Fairbairn pitted against horse, "Oell de Boeuf," and the 1-fore they achieved fame by win-rectly together."
those of the old English ortho- ternational aspect of the race is ning the great race at Aintree,
dox school. I wonder if we shall "And how old are you, Feggy?". ever and two crews the move"]="" "Bix; "and mother says if' I; eat. merits
everyone all this porridge I shall be seven praises!
further emphasised by the pre- sence of Hathfriland," a mare who can claim a victory in the Irish Grand National,
The winner should come from one of those I have named. But do not forget that "Lottery" "chris- etned", this marvellous race!
PROFICIENT IN TRICKS
The usual practice of "mileage makes champions" la again being. pursued by Cambridge, and the
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and a Deputy Lieutenant of the City of Glasgow. In 1996 he was president. of the Institute of Journalists.
Sir Robert has a wide knowledge of all Scottish afairs, and in his new sphere he will be a decided acquisition to the London Midland and Boottish Railway Company.
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