NO TROUBLE WITH CROWD
United Press Association—By , Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Eeceived^June 25, 12.30 p.m.) .: ; - ' , / PAEIS, June, 24. v The crowd at Longchamp on Grand Prix day today was -well behaved and the services of extra police were' not required. , '
An'earlier, message stated1, that at Longchamp on Saturday a crowd> belligerently invaded the paddock, because the favourite in the second race did not run. The police intervened, and a free fight ensued. Hooligans set fire to the pari-mutuel booths, bushes and grass, tore up railings, destroyed thev starting gate, cut electric wii?es, smashed bottles, and scattered glass ..over,-; hundreds of yards ;of the racecourse;:'before i they were chased pfi by reinforcements of police from Paris. Eventually the meeting was abandoned and money returned. The. authorities'were faced ' with- the problem of restoring iorder and picking up the glass before, the Grand Prix the following day, and theyv ha"d to *brk throughout the' night. ' ■ " .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 11
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