SPORT IN BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 131, 4 June 1923, Page 5

SPORT IN BRITAIN.

A DERBY SENSATION. CLOSE GUARD ON TOWN GUARD. SARAZEN -WINS GOLF TROPHY. (By Oable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) IX)N'T>ON. June 1. There hare been dramatic rumours owing to Town Guard's sudden decline from first favourite for the Derby spending his final days in impregnable seclusion. Nothing has been left undone to ensure bis safety. Men arc sleeping in the top of the loose box and police are patroling near by. Though the owner declines to give a reason," it is officially stated that Town Guard met with a slight accident, but baa now thoroughly recovered, and is certain to participate. Billy Palmer, son of Pedlav Palmer, exchampion of England-, knocked out Symonds, ex fly-weight champion at the "ring" in the twelfth roundMre. Mallory had another decisive victory over ifrs. Clayton, 6— J, 6—l, in the Middlesex championships, qualifying for the final round on Saturday, when she meets Miss McKane. Mrs. Mallory hit hard, and kept a telling length, but has not acquired accuracy consietent enough to win big championships for England. Mies McKane will thoroughly teat her. Gus Sarazen, by virtue of third and fourth rounds of sixty-eight and. seventythree, and giving aggregate of 290, won the Northern Golf Championship at Stannes, followed by Hagen 292, Gandin 293, Walton 293, Hallam 204, Ball 295, Brews, Wingate and Kirkwood each 300.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)