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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

'DECEMBER 21, 1934.

FINE PROSPECT FOR NEXT TURF YEAR

HIGH LIGHTS OF PAST SEASON'S SPORT

BY J. H. FREEMAN

THE end of the flat race sonson and Doncaster salos should be

to at approximately

shand in the world of aport. The rond in front is lighted, in many places vividly, by the events of the past few months; there are a few black patches, but the raya of common sense and good sports manship can banish the deepest

gloom.

No racing season in the post- war period has contained more solid elements of confidence in the present and of faith in the future, The factors which a few HORSя ngo decided some of the best of our racing owners

commitments have disappeared.

the value of twelve months be- fore? The ranks of owners in the year ahead will include a number of men and women recruits who, In these days of cheaper money, will find an outlet for their specu lative inclinations in the possĘS- slon of thoroughbred stock,

What appeal is there in "sparo" money earning 2 per cent. com- pared with the thrills and delights of ownership of a horse that inay win one of the Turf's great prizes? Gallant old Brown Jack has gone reduce theirn-hunting. Steve Donoghue, his inseparable companion on the racecourse, is fifty years young: Gordon Richards, for the second time in his career, has ridden more than 200 winners. The totalisator has stood up to its most formid- able assault and justified its claim to receive off-the-course money through agents,

No phase of our sporting activi tles la more sensitive than the Turf to general economic depres- sion or an increased national capacity to earn more and the consequent ability to spend more:

From practically every course in the country-particular- ly from the more enlightened ones whero public amenitica have been Improved by a furneeing executive-

comes the same tale of cheer- fulness and hope.

race

The men who ten years or no ago put thousands of pounds into the thoroughbred Industry are be ginning to reap the reward of their

1. Can one view these things, even from afar, without feeling some of the romance of the past and shar- Ing In the erver-increasing opti-. miam of the future?

ONE REGRET

Cowboys at North Dakota round-ups still "tote six guus” and sing the old range songi. -

BROKE LAW TO

SAVE WIFE

BURNED BODY OF

DEAD BABY

UNUSUAL DUAL PERSONALITY

that if he could get to London, where hia battalion Was thon stationed, he could refund the money.

Major II. B .F. Dixon, R.A.M.C., of Queen Alexandra'a Hospital, Millbank, London, who was called by the defence, said that Taylor had been under observation for had been examined by an eminent three months at the hospital. He neurologist and a brain specialist, and they had formed the opinion epileptic automatism, and probably that Taylor had suffered from

STRANGE EVIDENCE AT COURT MARTIAL Arthur Mason (44), a railway employee, of Great Ancoats Street,

Medical evidence suggesting that Manchester, who was found not a soldier had a dual personality, and guilty at Manchester Assizes of that he spent a week at Brighton murdering an many

infant of three without his other self realising it, months, appeared in the same Court recently before Mr. Justice was given at an Aldershot court Atkinson.

marthul, when Company Quarter-had

But there is one matter of in-

direct yet intimate concern with racing that is causing thoughtful people real regret and a deep-rooted anxiety. It is that opportunity was not taken by Parliament when discussing the Betting and Lotteries Bill to clear up the muddle of our effete and unfair betting laws.

He was charged with being an accessory after the fact, and with having obstructed the Coroner in Instead of a firm and all-embracing the body of the Infant.

the execution of his duty by burn- ing measure that would have brought the whole subject in line with modern conditions and mod-charges, and was sentenced to 10 ern thought wo have seen added days' imprisonment, the sentence to the Statute Book an Act that to date from the beginning of the has already caused nation-wide Assize. That meant his immediate confusion and that will lead to release.

He pleaded guilty

Lo both

endless legal battles. It has The Judge said he had taken placed within the scope of parlin- the same view as the jury, who had mentary sanction a form of bet-accepted his story as the truth. ting that is dangerous socially, Mason had been placed in a morally, and financially.

terrible predicament. He had had to choose between giving up his wife for what might be murder, and with doing what he could to pro- tect her from the trouble. He had broken the law. The Judge thought most men would have done the sams,

The position of football pool betting has nowhere caused more concern than in the higher legis lative bodies connected with the winter game.

HASTY MEASURE

company with whom Mason had It was stated that the railway been for the last 20 years would to make a new start. take him back at once to enable him

I have written on a number of Governor Cannabal of Tabasco, occasions of the urgent need for Mexico, a real dictator, with fairness to both the man In the private army of 30,000, and a war with Sheffield factory and the man in

the Church on his hands. the Pall Mall club when discussing The wife, Elizabeth Mason, died betting reform. In the present in Strangeways Jail while awaiting foresight and their judgment.football pool betting a legal status,very ill when she came home after hasty measure, which has given trinl. It was stated that she was I believe Parliament has sown the the birth of the child needs of incalculable mischief. 1 have been given evidence that in less than one week the number of gambling-for gambling it is-has firms dealing in this form of multiplied a hundred fold.

The fact that the Aga Khan after wise but stupendous expenditure sprend over many seasons has bud successes, particularly with his two-year-olds, almost beyond be lisf, will be but a justification and an incentive..

GOOD PROSPECT

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ties than ever for the exploitation able, economically, to defend its of that section of soclety least

own interests.

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Pool betting allied to racing or football or any sport should be For if the senson's two-your-permitted only when the public is bide, especially the colts, are of assured of the strongest possible on English cricket in the past

to be repeated conspired to impose master-Sergeant James Taylor Dixon added that in cases of such unusual quality does not the safeguards. It is incomprehensi summer one of its most emphatic (32), of the 2nd Battalion Cameron epilepsy, a patient frequently pass- season of 1935 promise to be of ble to me that a Parliament which defeats. But the immediate fature Highlanders, pleaded not guilty to ed into a state of automatism or amazing excellence?

It is a sign of the times too that antecs, Including a definite limita- the decision reached this week by

imposed the most stringent guar-is mate infinitely more hopeful by charges of fraudulent conversion dual personality, in which he might so comparative a newcomer to the

of £32 belonging to the sergeants'

do ridiculous or criminal things ranks of breeders as Mr. M. H. from stake money, when setting up Benson should be prepared to pay the Incecourse Betting Control £50,000 for the Derby winner, Board should permit the

leave for six days. Windsor Lad, before the 3-year-restricted touting of the football

ut old had conflemned his brilliant publie by private syndicates with success by carrying off the St. out any safeguards whatever. Leger.

Is it not also an encouragement that bloodstock at the Newmarket

tion of the percentage deduction the Advisory Committee of the mess funds, and absence without without his ether self realising he

M.C.C.

was doing wrong.

that

It was also stated that Taylor received a head injury in a motor accident seven years ago, and had

I regard the experimental change in the ... law as on epoch-mak- cricketers. If with its permanent Taylor gave himself up at East- ing step in the re-education of our

The prosecution alleged

adoption we could get a return to bourne as an absentee, and said

petit mal..

avoid class leglsintion," Parlia-nothing to fear from any country

In its half-hearted attempt to the natural wicket, we should have that he had been on the drink, and since had occasional attacks of ment has given greater opportuni-prepared to play cricket as a game that wallet containing £20 was

and not as a teat of physical en- stolen from his hip-pocket in a The finding of the Court will be

Brighton dance hall. He added promulgated.

durance.

KING'S:

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AN ERIK CHARELL

CARAVAN

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EMRECTED BY ERIK CHARELE, GRASA

· From a story by Bielchiné Lazgjed Minile by Werner, Richard Hrymä),

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