The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-07
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BOBBIE BERESFORD
ALWAYS KEEPS FIT

Famous English Sportsman
Went to War With His
Shot Gun
Lord Decies' Brother Disap-
pointed at Finding Base
ball Out of Season-Han-
dy with the Gloves.
s. r. (Bobbie) Beresford. brother of
| Lord Decies and cousin Of Lord Char
les Beresford, is one of those men who
| always begin the day with q cold tup
and fifteen minutes with the dumb
bells He does this no matter what is
on the program-whether it be his
brothers wedding or a little friendiy
go with the gloves. or bachelor din
ner soon after Ave o'clock tea Bob
bic Beresford keeps in condition. AS
/ he puts it. he keeps fit.
! Any morning. up in his room in the
Waldorf the Bnglishman may
be found clad in very heavy white
sweater. white flannel trousers. and
| still whittier pipeLclayed slippers. with
| a pair of iron dumb-bells with a
spring attachment for developing the
grip. lying within easy reach on the
| table.
He is well-built. stands Just short Of
six feet. and walks with a springy
easy stride that suggests the college
athlete crossing the campus. His col
lege days are long since past. OF
! course. for Beresford is In his fortieS
now. and he stayed in Cambridge only
| long enough to win the amateur
heavyweight boxing championship of
England-a feat which did not re-
quiro q four-year course of instruc-
! ton.
There are several unopened trunks
that is to say. in his luggage-is
Bobbie Beresfords best friend. his
shot gun. for. you know. he is a bit
Of a narksman. is this visiting Irish
Briton. Observe that large gold
medal dangling from his watch chain:
| it is the medal he won in 1901 at Monte
Carlo in the annual pigeon shoot.
They do play other games at Monte
Carlo
But the gun goes wherever Beres-
he went to South Africa and sent dis
patches from the front for English
newspapers; he carried his shot gun.
He always has it with him. He had
it strapped across his back when he
entered Kimberley. thereby winning
the distinction of being the first man
| to break through the Boer line, and
| incidentally scoring a beat" on his
| rival correspondents.
| He used it last year at San Sebas-
| tan. Spain. when he won the inter-
national championship by dropping
eighteen out of string Of twenty live
pigeons. In that match he shot
| against marksmen from America,
France. Spain. Portugal, Austria. Italy
/ and Germany.
/ lyon know I am NOT at all good
| with the rifie.'' said he today.
| Beresford is still nursing his disap-
| pointment over not being able to see
| this American game called baseball.
match on when he reached New York
| last Friday.
"Tell me. do they play with hard
ball?" he asked.
you. know: you Americans are
much better throwers than we. We
] have no throwing games in England.
You know. in cricket we don't throw
! the ball. We bowl it. so''-and here
he made a wide, stiff-arm swing over
his head-"but you Americans all
most anxious to see how the felders.
as you call them do it. They don't
| take few steps forward before throw
ing, do they? All in one quick mo-
ton. is 1t? really would like to see
! The simplest way to find out what
/ sports Beresford has gone in for is to
| ask him what ones he never has tack
led. There are few on the list he has
not tried at one time or another. One
1 of these is polo.
"I never went in for polo" is the
way he expresses 1t.
Another is rowing. But there are
many left. and most Of them he has
gone in for He has even tried that
BASQUE game they call pelota, al
though he admits he didn't make a
go" of it. If he were asked to name
his favorite game he might have some
difficulty but 1t would probably be
rink hockey. He played forward on
| in London. and he knows what it is to
| go against a Canadian team
1.-THE Canadians invariably beat US
when they come over" said he. "and
now they want. us to come over to
Great game, hockey Rink hockey.
that is. you know. Oh. very fast,
| very fast. don't know faster game
| for man to play than half-an-hour
| of rink hockey-ffteen minutes each
| way. you know. 1t is the finest game
I ever PLAYED.
Il hope We may arrange a match in
Toronto though it looks rather doubt
| full. There was chap on the Toronto
! team-Seagram, they called him-and,
my word, but he was a good butt
| was very determined hitter, OH, a.
very determined hitter
Beresford is a member of the Ather-
| stone Hunt club, but his riding is con-
| fined chiefly to taking part in the gen.
! clemens point-to- point steeplechase
each fall He won one of these events
in Yorkshire last year. It was a four
and-one-half mile course across coun-
! try. and there were no flags to mark
/ the way.
| When the season opens in May. he
! goes in for cricket. He is very fond
| of cricket, and is a member of the
| most conservative cricket club in all
| England, the Marylebone always
spoken of as the NJ. c. Co. Cricket
club. to become a member of VIII CHI
| requires a fifty-year sojourn on the
waiting list unless one Is a tip-top
| cricketer. He took the team on a Wis
| it to Portugal and to the Brussels Ex-
position, and he Is planning a trip to
| Egypt to play against some of the
| English army teams this summer
He has played err cket on all sorts of
teams, and against all sorts of teams
/ In England. amateurs and profession
| ais play on the same team. Sometimes
| a team will be made up one amateur
| and all the rest professionals; some
! times three or four professionals and
| the rest amateurs and sometimes only
one professional. They usually have
| at least one professional