South African Pictorial - Volume 17 (Jul-Dec 1923)

OctopEr 27, 1923 The: KING’S HOTEL TELEPHONE 2017 BOX 5492 1S JOHANNESBURG'S BEST One Minute from the Empire. SOUTH AFRICAN PICTORIAL. : 28 LARGE BILLIARD-ROOM FREE TO ALL GUESTS Terms from 10/6 per Day. Special terms for Permanent Boarders, Commercial Travellers and Professionals Proprietor P, Cooke Manager Frank Fillis “BOOKS” IN CLOVER. A Commonsense View of the New Licence. RUINOUS TAXATION. By ‘“‘ONLOOKER.” T one time the Germiston course was wont to be styled A the punters’ paradise. It has long since, and not without reason, ceased to be so termed. These days it might well be set down as the paradise for the other side. Only one straight-out favourite ‘‘ clicked ’’ at Germiston last Saturday; and that one, The Imported Mare Strophe, was extremely lucky to gain the award. Strophe’s race was at seven furlongs and she got home a head from Carry On. The latter was ridden a very weak finish, otherwise the head ‘would have been against the favourite. It was hard lines on Mr. Tyack to have missed the stake, for Carry On has been a mest disappointing customer. | * a ¥ For two odds-on chances to miss in one afternoon means a harvest for the ring; and Germiston supplied such a harvest day. Six-to-four was being laid on Prudens at the close of betting in the second-class event at nine furlongs. Those to compete seemed a poor lot, and Mr. Alf. Beatt was disposed to regard the race as a gcod thing for his filly, an imported four-year-old; a long time in the country and so acclimatised. Prudens would be Small Beer if she could not account for the opposition. small beer. She gave an ignominious showing, finishing out of a place. Roll Call won the race with a lot in hand. Roll Call is at length paying his way. As a three-year-old he entirely failed; and it was only the last race of many starts as a four-year-old that he won. Now as a five-year-old he has to be reckoned with. * * * The other at odds-on to fail was Royal Marine in the last race: the third division of the Pony and GallowayHandicap. Some of the ringmen were content to lay Royal Marine round about evens, apparently to any extent without the tender altering. Of course, having already Won All Along the Line, they had money to play with, so to speak; then again, the Prudens is favourite, a bad horse at the gate, might get left. Royal. Marine got off all right, but still he did not win. The slight interference he met with probably did not affect the result, for Ruddy Mac scored with plenty to spare. | ¥ * % It was generally considered that the course for the chief event, nine furlongs, was too short for the top weight, Gay Tar, to be seen to advantage. The race, however, was run to suit him, for after the first furlong the pace was all on, and one after another of those cutting it out beat themselves, and from half-way up the straight the real stayer, Gay Tar, had matters all his own way, St. Mark following Prince’s horse past the post. | | | aa | € * The measure of the capabilities of Brown Bess was fairly taken in the top-class Pony and Galloway Handicap, run at: five furlongs. Despite her heavy impost, Sst. 18lb., Mr. Forbes’s filly was a strong favourite. She, however, met in HIS MAJESTY’S: Groen Kloof one much too good for her at the weights. Groen Kloof has Come On a Lot since winning at Turffontein, and, as he had only 6st. 11]bs. to put up on Saturday, his owner, Mr. Passmore, was somewhat confident of his coming out on top. Running very straight and true, Groen Kloof had the race in keeping a long way from home, leaving Brown Bess in trouble for the last furlong. The winner, running on, wus well clear of Brown Bess passing the. post. It would take a radical adjustment of the weights to bring the two together. * * * Miss Muggins scored a runaway success in the secondclass Pony and Galloway Handicap, and the connections of the mare are being called upon for the inconsistency of her form as ccmpared with that at Turffontein a week earlier. Outpace, who came to light as the winner of the five furlongs Rose Deep Handicap, is an English-bred filly that has been racing in the country for three seasons. Saturday was the first occasion on which she has earned brackets. BEFORE THE GREAT FIGHT. . Firpo {in gresaing Bown) and Pompey in the ring at the efo Polo Grounds, New York, just re their fight on September 14 for the World’s Heavyweight Championship, which Dempsey retained by knocking Firpo out in the second round. The two sensational incidents of the contest are illustrated on ‘page 13, and the fight is described on page 5. Dempsey received $468,750 and Firpo $156,250. The film of the fight will be shown shortly at the Johanesburg Empire. Topical Press photo. More than ordinary interest attaches to a big race in England when there is a prominent contestant with a local connection. The first favourite for the Cesarewitch was Sir Abe Bailey’s four-year-old Ceylonese, and the colt had been so strongly tipped to win for weeks before the’ race that ‘* VERONIQUE.”