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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

DECEMBER 21, 1934.

FINE PROSPECT FOR NEXT TURF YEAR

TH

HIGH LIGHTS OF PAST SEASON'S SPORT

BY J. H. FREEMAN

THE end of the flat race season is an appropriate time to lank ahead In the world of sport. The road in front Is lighted, in many places vividly, by the events of the past few months; there are a few black patches, but the rays of common sense and good sports manship can banish the deepest gloom.

No. racing season in the post- war period has containsch more solid elements of confidence in the present and of faith in the future, The factors which a few seasons ago decided some. of the best of our racing owners to reduce their commitments have disappeared.

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and Doncaster sales should be appraised at approximately twice the value of twelve months be- fore? The ranks of owners in the year ahead will include a number of men and women recraita who, in these days of cheaper money, will find an outlet for their speeu- dative inclinations in the ponsCH- Jsion of thoroughbred stock.

What appeal is there in "apare" money earning 2 per cent, com- pared with the thrills nud delights of ownership of a horse that may win one of the Turf's great prizes?

Gallant old Brown Jack has gone 4-hunting. Steve Donoghue, his inseparable companion on the racecourse, is fifty years Soung. Gordon Richards, for the second time in his career, has ridden more than 200 winners. The totalisator han stood up to its must formid- able assault and justified its claim to receive off-the-course money through agents,

No phase of our aporting activi ties is more sensitive than the Turf to general economic depres sion or

Increased national capacity to earn more and the consequent ability to spend more: From practically every race- course in the country-particular- ly from the more enlightened ones where public amenities have been improved by a fargeeing executive

comes the same tale of cheer-the fulness and hope.

The men who ten years or go age put thousands of pounds into the thoroughbred Industry are be ginning to reap the reward of their

Can one view these things, even from afar, without feeling some of

romance of the past and shar ing in the erver-increasing opti- mism of the future?

ONE REGRET

Cowboys at North Dakota round-ups still "çote six guna" and sing the old range songs.

BROKE LAW TO

SAVE WIFE

BURNED BODY OF

DEAD BABY

UNUSUAL DUAL PERSONALITY

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

Medical evidence suggesting that But there in one matter of In-Manchester, who was found not a soldier had a dual personality, and direct yet intimate rincern with guilty at Manchester Assizes of that he spent a week at Brighton racing that is causing

murdering BR infant

of three without his other self realising ft. thoughtful people real regret and months, appeared in the same a deep-rooted anxiety. It is that Court recently before Mr. Justice was given at an Aldershot: court opportunity Wits not taken by

Atkinson, Parliament when discussing the Betting and Lotteries Bill to clear up the middle of our effete and unfair betting laws,

many

accessory after the fact, and with He was charged with being an 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

He pleaded guilty to

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with modern conditions and modebarges, and was sentenced to 16 ern thought we 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,

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

entary sanction a form of bet-face:pted his story as the truth. ting that is dangerous socially. morally, and financially.

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

HASTY MEASURE

Mason had been placed in 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- teet her from the trouble. He had broken the law. The Judge thought mest men would have done the same.

company with whom Mason had

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

I have written on a number of Governor Cannabal of Tabasco, occasions of the urgent need for Mexico, is a-teal 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 cab when discussing The wife, Elizabeth Mason, died betting reform. In the present in Strangeways Jail while awaiting hasly measure, which has given trini. It was stated, that she was

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foresight and their judgment.football pool betting a legal status,viry ill when she came home after The fact that the Aga Khan after a wise but stupendous expenditure spread over many seasons has had successes, particularly with his two-year-olds, almost beyond be Hof, will be both a justification and an Incentive.

GOOD PROSPECT

It is a sign of the times too that so comparative a newcomer to the ranks of breeders as Mr. M. II. Benson should be prepared to pay £50,000 for the Derby winner. Windsor Lad, before the 3-year-

seeds of incalculable mischief.

believe Parliament has sown the the birth of the child. 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.

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

own interests.

But to end on a more pleasant note. Circumstances never likely

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martial, when Company Quarter.

that if he could get to London, where hla battalion Waa then stationed, he could refund the money.

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

tumorous brain. Major

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Pool betting allied to racing or football or any sport should be For if the season's two-year-permitted only when the public is olds, expecially the colts, are of assured of the strongest possible on English cricket in the past (32), of the 2nd Battalion Cameron epilepsy, a patient frequently' pass- to be repeated conspired to impose master-Sergeant James Taylor Dixon added that in cases of Auch unusual quality dnes not the safeguards. It is incomprehensi-summer one of its most emphatic season of 1935 promise to be of ble to me that a Parlament which amazing excellence?

imposed the most stringent guar-is made infinitely more hopeful by charges of fraudulent conversion dual personality, in which he might. defeats. But the immediate future Highlanders, pleaded not guilty to fed into a state of automatism or antera, including a definite limits-the decision reached this week by of £32 belonging to the sergeants without his other self realising he lun of the percentage deduction the Advisory Committee of

do ridiculous or criminal things from stake money, when setting up M.C.C. the Racecourse Belting Control

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was doing wrong. Board should permli

I regard the experimental change leave for six days. the un- restricted touting of the footballing step in the re-education of our in the .b.w. law as an epoch-mak- old and confirmed his brilliant public by private syndicates with cricketers, If with its permanent Taylor gave himself up at East. received a hend injury in a motor

The prosecution alleged that

In its half-hearted attempt to the natural wicket, we should have that he had been on the drink, and

adoption we could get a return to bourne as an absentee, and said since had occasional attacks of accident seven years ago, and had avoid "class legislation," Parlia- nothing to fear from any country that a wallet containing £20 was. ment has given greater opportuni-propared to play cricket as a game stolen from his hip-pocket in a

petit mal. and not as a test of physical en-

The finding of the Court will be dorance.

'Brighton dance hall. He added promulgated.

success by currying off the St. Leger,

Is it not also an encouragement that bloodstock at the Newmarket

out any safeguards whatever.

It was also stated that Taylor

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ROBERT T. KANE BIRECTED BY LEN CHARELA From a story by Bielchior Lengyel Musle by Werner Kichard Heymann