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TOM WEBSTER tells you What You DON'T
Know about
the Grand National
at
Which was run
Aintree yesterday
T
HE Grand National Steeple- chase was instituted at Aintree in 1839.
We believee the idea came
from a bookmaker.
The bookmaker was then sent Phones for by the Government of Monaco, 27778/9 where he succeeded in inventing a roulette table that contained nothing else but "Zeros."
ANDRADE-A 6.15 um, on March
Hating, however, to give
a "sucker" even a portion
25, 1939, at the Queen Mary of a break, the bookmaker
Hospital, Francisco
Andrade, returned to England and
aged 59 years. Funeral will pass
the Monument to-morrow, at 4 invented a lot more horse- p.m. (Macao and Lisbon papers please copy).
The
racing as well.
Hongkong Telegraph of no chance, such
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 March 25, 1939
A Juggler's Lot POLAND HAS stepped onto the
Herr Hitler's reported schemes in
In his leisure moinents this book-maker put out other games 119 loaded dice, the confidence trick, and Find the Lady. Although he put more load into the dice and eventually had no Lady at all in the three-card trick, the book- maker never succeeded in dupli- cating his masterpiece-the Grand National.
Guesswork
THE Grand National, indeed,
proved itself such a magni- ficent piece of guess-work that the first horse that won Aintree was called Lottery.
were:
5
at
+1
GENTLEMEN RIDERS."
I'VE GOT A
POOR OWNER AND A COUPLE OF STARVING STABLE BOYS AT HOME.
"PLEASE HELP A HORSE ON
HIS WAY TO AINTREE."
a look at the records and see how-many times Mur- Sergeant phy had a "go" at it. For years and years and Recount
after account Mr. Murphy went scampering eight through fences so that he could slide into the cana!
at the turn.
went
Old Murphy into the canal so many times that after
#
while they didn't saddle him. He had a bathing CO.8- tume.
Apart from Welshers, the fastest time in this race -be-
20
that, of course, was before the longs to Golden Miller. In 1934 he did a Russian Ballet round Adelphi was built.
"No rider to open a gate or the course in 9 minutes ride through a yateway, or more seconds. than one hundred yards along any road, footpath, or drift- way."
In the Guard's Van
L'
Fright
*Deli-
End Column, Has A Moral
T
HIS IS POSSIBLY a story with a moral-- Recently, in the grim crisis through which Britain is passing, I, surely in common, with many mem- bers of the British Commonwealth of Nations, have been heartened by the assurances given by the various Governments of British Dominions and Colonies, that should the Mother Country be, attack- ed, they will all rally to her support.
LET'S GO back to the dark days of 1914.
At that time I happened to be in Australia-that wonderful. country of which the average Briton knows so little
I had been living there for some two years before the sud- den crisis arose.
At first, I was driven to the con- clusion that as a people, the Austra lians were almost anti-British.
They criticised this, and they cri- ticised that, and seemed to bu generally against the British polley which supplled them with Governors for the various States. And not only the State Governors, but the Gov- erhor-General as well.
And then the crisis dawned.
Some year or two previously, they had insisted upon having their own Navy, just because Canada thought otherwise, I suppose. The Royal Australian Navy gave good account of itself, as witness the rounding up and sinking of the "Emden."
*
THAT, HOWEVER, is all by the way. When war was announced, the sudden wave of fervent patriotism and love for the Mother Country- England-was one of the most wonderful experiences I have ever had the privilege to enjoy.
Leading Clubs which were inter- notional in character, lastantly dis- played notices that only those of allled nationally were permitted to retala membership,
The streets of the Capital cities were crowded with multitudes of stalwart youths parading in their cager-desire-to-join-up-to-defend England. They realised that the future of the Empire was at stake. and publicly announced their willing- ness to place their lives at the dis- pasal of the Mother Country.
international stage na one of Europe's busiest jugglers-with four big balls, Russia, Germany,
IKE going to the dentist, France and Britain, in the air. The
Golden Miller wanted to geographical position of Poland has
get it over quickly, and did it always required of that country the
HOW
JOW wise they were in 1839. through sheer fright. most dexterous handling of balance
Without that regulation we The slowest time was made of-power matters, but since Ger-
should see a sensible rider of in 1911 by Glenside. many has gulped down Moravia,
And this, of course, should to-day, after one look at the berately feeling his way, and ransacking cach Bohemia and Memelland, the pos- have been the name of the race water jump, opening
gate, thoroughly sibility of a clash between larger yesterday.
riding along the footpath of fence, Glenside lurched past the powers which fie on either side of
Lime-street, getting on to the winning-post in 10 minutes 36 Polish territory and the increasing Not feeling in the mood, we driftway of No. 1 platform, and seconds,
The highest weight carried pressure on Poland of some of their cannot recall the 1839 race, but being in the guard's van on his' claims-have- kept-Polish-statesmen we-rend-that--the conditions way to London long before he to victory belongs to four horses at the starting- only: Cloister, Manifesto," "Jerry was missed more than occupied.
post.
M, and Poethlyn. They all It is, of course, a well-known carted 12st. 7lb. round the the Ukraine could mature only at a "A sweepstake of 20 sous,, cach big cost to Poland, where live mil- sors. forfeit, with 100 fact that the horses just adore course.
National. They Cloister slung his lot across lions of dissatisfied Ukrainians who added; 12st. each, gentlemen the Grand
simply cannot wait until March his shoulders (or wherever they presumably would welcome support riders; four miles acТ088 from Germany for an independent j country; the second horse to comes round, and when they are put it) so well that he won by poll, nor the Western Front. Ukrainian state. Poland also is save his stake and the winner for the night by a stable-ind Three years later he was involved in plans which have long to pay 10 sovs. towards ex- their favourite fairy story is taken for a weight-lifter been under consideration among
penses. No rider to open a "The cow jumped over the moon was handed 13st. 3lb. smaller European states to form a
gate or rule through a gate, and then fell at the first fence. bloc to bar German expansion. Un the other hand, Poland long ago saw a need to conciliate its power- ful neighbour who now, if you count Lithuania as falling under its domination (as is most likely
In 1839 the race seems to have; after Memel), hedges it on three
been worth about 1,200 sovs. sidoa. Long before Germany's aggrandisement in Czecho-Slovakin compared with 13,000 sovs. to- and Memelland, Poland entered day. But even the 13,000 sovs. into a non-aggression pact which is nothing like equal to the spelled the first break In the "ring" number of sovs. the gentlemen which French diplomacy hud con- on the rails take or the number- structed around the Reich,
of soya, we've been fold since
little colts and are being changed 40 lengths.
Into the Canal
.
and
Cloister didn't run this time. He gave them just a sly way, or more than 100 yards
whinny in case they wanted along any road, fuotpath, or driftway (fifty-five 8,ub- IF you don't think the horses him to take the four horsemen
like the Grand National, have of the Apocalypse as well. scribers)."
Since Czecho-Slovakia, France 1910 to put on first ditchers. has been desperately attempting to
mend diplomatic fences on all sides.
After taking the opportunities which
Out of Sovs.
the Munich agreement last Septem-AS a matter of fact, we have
ber offered to annex Polish sections
often wondered how many
(apart
of Czecho-Slovakia, thus seeming to more Grand Nationals it will place Haelf in the German camp, take before everybody Poland immediately turned away to
from bookmakers) has run out strengthen its relations with Ger- many's chief antipathy, Soviet of sovs. Russia. Now, after this week's events, it is significant that the
The forfelt in 1839 does not
Polish press is almost unanimous seem too drastic: 5 sovs. only.
in its discussion of the possibility Nowadays we pay that forfeit of improving relations with France.
The expenditure of diplomatic to the railway company before energy that has gone on in Warsaw we get there.
since the beginning of the week la
aiming at results that never can bej
But. 6 sovs, in those days was
quite certain. It in, in fact, thoa lot of sova. We could, if we price Poland must pay for a were old enough, remember geographical position which can be made comfortable only by a suc- many a time in 1889 seeing
through cessful system of collective security.horses who,
their Whether Poland believes in the owners' lack of sovs., had to security offered by the contemplat hold out their hats from town. ed Four Power Declaration, In which it is being asked to join Great to town: "Just spare a sov., Sir, Britain, France and Soviet Russia, to help, a poor horse on his way Is a question the settling of which
to-Aintree." may have a momentous bearing on the future of eastern, or, indeed, the whole of Europe.
And just 10, 'sova,
from tho winner "to pay öxpenses,”
".. But
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"I get a slight twingo here occasionally, Doc. I thought maybe off- hand, you could tell me what to do about it-just so I got
an idea, you know!"
I am not going to talk about Galli-
The Colonies of the Empire, the sons of India, gave their all when dunger threatened.
And they will do it again!
*
WHAT I AM driving at is the amazing indifference which exists amongst some of the British com- munity in this, possibly the smallest Colony of the great British Common- wealth of Nations.
True, there are handful of patriots who render yeoman service, but in the opposite scale are so inany who fail to realise their responsibi- lity, and the debt they owe to the Empire.
Young men, some of them even in Government Service, shun the idea of Joining the Volunteers as the devil shuns holy water..
It is particularly noticeable that many who do serve are those who stood by the Empire during the inst crisis.
PROMISED an anti-climax, when
I commenced this effusion, Well, here it is..
I irangine that most people will agree that there was never more need to rally to the moral and material support of the Empire than to-dny,
What then can be the feeling of the majority when it ia publicly rumoured akrond that British Arnis have lost the opportunity to supply the needs of Chinese refugees, even remembering that British people have subscribed the money.
In short, some $50,000 have been passed to commercial representatives of a country whose Government's present altitude
only described as hostile to England!
con
be
I wonder whether this cort of thing would happen in any other part of the Empire to-day?.
There may be a reason for placing the order through German channels instead of British, but I for one, can- not imagine what it is,
-R. B. A.
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