The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-27
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one bookmaker in England who left
as much as s100, coo behind him. and
that man combined book making with
The scribe continues
as follows: Betting is now so close
that if the bookmalzer is not very
shrewd man the hacker will beat him
L our young days such a thing as
man making a good living by backing
horses was never dreamt of. The first
professional hacker we ever knew was
time lightweight jockey to the Duke
of Bedford. For years he had the
game to himself, $1,000 won on Lord
Stamford's Walloon when that horse
carried off the Champagne Stakes at
Doncaster being his start. At one
time he was worth from twenty to
thirty thousand pounds. All at once
he seemed to go out, and no one knew
in what way the money went. PROB
ably it was through reversing the proc
ess and laying against something that
he did not fancy, or thought was safe
It was doing this over Muscovtte that
knocked Lifeboat' Shelley out. The
professional hackers are now reported
to be richer than the book-makers. We
do not see book-makers nowadays win
ing Derbies and st. Legers, but it was
common enough in the old time
The Hon. c. S. Rolls, one of the best
motor racers in England, has been con-
tributing some of his experience to a
London journal.
II think about the narrowest squeak
ever had when travelling 1t racing
speed on a motor-car," said Mr.. Rolls
was when 1 was driving a car in the
great Paris Vienna race. At one point
in the race We were whizzing along
finely at about 20 miles an hour, and
all was going well until. on rounding
a corner, the two outside tires pune
tured and the car naturally sWerved
off the track. 1t made straight for a
big tree on the side of the road, and
we seemed to be in for a most ter
rife smash and a very probable term
ination to our careers, when away went
the tree as if it had been merely an OPP
teal delusion on our part or had fallen
down on hinges. The car knocked it
clean away as if it were nothing but
a straw, and the next thing We knew
was that we were almost buried in
a bank, but very little the worse for
what had happened"
With the we'll known timekeeper, Mr..
D. K. Hall, to verify the performance,
the Rev. B. H. Davies. an amateur
according to London
Sportsman, set out on a private re-
trial. Oxford was made the
central point, and the runs extended
to Taunton, Derby, Shrewsbury, Lud-
low, Grantham, and Bournemouth,
more than 200 miles being covered
each day. At the end of six con-
secutive days the total distance travel
ed was 1879 miles. The same sparkling
plug and the same belt were used
and only four involuntary
stops We're made-one for a puncture,
and the others for arrangements of the
piston rings. The cost of running the
complete distance was less than 25s.
r
An amusing race took place at
Marienbad recently, the competitors be-
ing corpulent visitors who are taking
he cure" to reduce their rotundity.
No one weighing less than 13st Slb
was allowed to compete. Every addi-
-ional 5lb. entitled to time handicap
IF a minute.
Thirty racers" including three
ladies', the heaviest of whom is lost,
started on the hiIly four mile course.
They were not allowed, however. to
do,
IN effort, as the medical advisers of
he committee had insisted upon three
with intervals aggregating
IN hour, during the race.
The route was lined with many hun
1reds of spectators, who greeted the
'acers with humorous comments The
winner was Herr Chaser, of Vienna,
who weighed 15st. 5lb., and covered the
distance in a net 55min. Ten competi-
-ors covered the course in 9Omin., OF
at the phenomenal pace of two and
wo-thirds miles an hour
In referring to high jumps in the
hunting field, an English paper says
hat perhaps Trunk Bartlett, huntsman
o Lord FitZwilliam, has the credit of
making one of the biggest jumps that
nave been measured. 1t was on the
0erbyshire side of the country, at Mas
inc, near Chesterfield, and he was rid
ng Whimbrel, a thoroughbred mare
10 hands l inch. Lord Fitz-
williams hunters We're all trained in
Ireland, so when big Irish bank with
| stiff laid hedge on the top of it pre-
tented itself, Bartlett went at it with
'ut hesitation. though it was out Of
dough. But the mare. instead of jump
ng on to the bank. flew the lot. and
hOugh she pecked badly on landing.
'he did not fall. The height of the
ence was 1T. Ain and the farmer real
zed nice little sum in charging a
mall fee to people who went to see it.
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