FRIEND OF KINGS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 8

FRIEND OF KINGS.

AND KING AMONG SPORTSMEN. Friend of kings and a Icing among sportsmen, Lord Lonsdale denied reports that lie is about to give up racing, says the “Daily Telegraph” (London). This year he will be 79 . . . at 17 lie ran away to join a circus as an acrobat . . . at 22 fought the great John L. Sullivan, who had been world’s heavyweight champion (“He gave me a good time, hut I defeated him in the end.”) . . . at 31 he found gold in the Klondyk.e, but did not bother to join the gold rush that followed. . . His chivalry is almost a legend . . . true stories of his fisticuffs in defence of lovely women run into scores . . . his generosity is as well known; even a man who stole his watch he pardoned —and gave £SO . . . the Earl was intimate friend of King Edward V 11. and of the ex-Kaiser and of cockneys and costers . . . a great judge of horses, he judges costers’ “turn-outs” also. . . His golden wedding dinner in 1928 was attended by the King and Queen ... he is the golden sportsman, almost the best-known figure in England; side whiskers, square face, large cigar, button-hole, old-fashioned dropping’of the “lx” in some words—oldfashioned cut in- his long coats . . . a squire of the Old School in Cumboiland, and the type of landed England to all.