GORE CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 154, 27 December 1924, Page 20

GORE CLUB

Ul "I-lORAPH.-PBBSS AgSOCIAriOM.) tv n -r, GORE > 26th December and before a good attendance. : The totahsator investments were £17 037 10s as^agamst £16,995 i Os ]aßt «.,™fc

Novico Handicap, of 150 soy«- «„» "•Mo 3,! *£ A^&fr ™ 1, Morning Chimes, scr, 2; -yVe e Spark 4mlV3.5 8se re., W°nbyalength- Time > Croydon Handicap, of 140 soys; one mile and a half.-Buck-up, scr, 1; Lazarus scr, 2y Blue Thorpef 36yds behind, v,ood Bell Kerrnell, Zingiber* Nyapuna, Thistlewood scr, Underwriter 12yds. behind,. Stray Child. 36yds . behind, Roger &.W. b\W°d, Anvil 'Chides Ipda behind. Won by two lengths. No time was taken as thY race commenced before scheduled time • Trotting Club Handicap, of 500 boys - two miles.—Hustler, scr, 1; Donside 60yds behind, 2; Jolly Chimes, scr, 3! Also started: Generator scr, Ada Bell scr, Lucky Harold scr, Bonanza 12yds behind The Shiek 24yds behind, Fashion Queen 120 yds behind, Dark Rosine 24yds behind, 48yds behind, Kommy Direct 60yds behind, Lady Embrace 72yds behind. Won by two lengths. Time, 4min 44sec. Christmas Handicap, of 225 soys; one mile and five , furlongs.—Our Nurso, 12yds behind, 1; First Glance, scr, 2; Dark Stream, scr, 3. Alao started: Day pointer, Nelson Fay scr, Forbury 12yds behind, Bricklayer 24yds behind, Homer 24yds behind, Wee Daphne 24yds behind. Won by six lengths. Time, 4min 0 l-ssec. , ,

Telegraph Handicap, of 250 soys; one mile.—Lucky Dillon, scr, 1; Kanunot 12yds behind, 2; Firelight, 36yds behind, 3. Also started : Better JOays ecr, Etlieldona scr, Landlady scr, Te Peka scr, The Monkey scr, Quick Match scr, Glen Wilkie's Ngareta 12yds behind, South Star 12yds behind, Dome 12yda behind, Stan Wilkes 24yds behind, Glen Farg 24yds behind, First . Toll 36yds behind, Lenamhor 60yds behind. Won by a length. Time, 2min 2lsec. Southland Juvenile Stakes, of 300 soys ; one mile and a quarter.—Brentloc, scr, 1; Logan Hanlon, scr, 2; Queen BeTty, scr, 3. Also started: Colehill, Four Bells. Won easily. Time, 3min ssec. Mataura Handicap, of 196 soys; two miles.—Lazarus, scr, 1; Kerrwood Bell, scr, 2; Young Tom,. 24yds behind, 3. Also started: Eastern Star, scr, Jim Soon scr, Ngapuna scr, Opihi Lass scr, Underviewer 12yds behind, Lady Evelyn 24yds behind, Blue Thorpe 24yds behind, Real Lady 72yds behind, Wallacetown 96yds behind. Time, smin 2 l-ssec. Final Handicap, of 240 soys; one mile and a quarter.—Cottage Girl,' 24yds behind, 1; Kanunot; Bcr, 2; Pointalena, 48yds behind, 3. Also started: Darkstream scr, Wee Daphne scr, Glen Wilkes scr, Dome 12yds behind. Fashion Queen 96yds behind, Dark Rosine 36yds behind. Won by a length. Time, 2min 55 l-ssec.

Matches have freod the Christmas se»son of a serious nuisance of the old tin-d«r-box days. In the North of England it used to be rogarded as most unlucky to allow any light to leave the lioush between Christmas Eve and Sew. Year's Day, and a traveller in 1836 recorded the difficulty he encountered, on the night of Christmas Day when driving to Leeds from a. town a few miles away. Wishing to light a cigar, ho ased for a light at a cottage, and.was told, "Thou'lt get no light here to-night." At a. toll-bar milo or two farther on he received an even ruder rebuff, and at a second toll-btr was rofused again. The second toll-keeper, howover, was polite enough to explain. He dare not lot a light leave his house at that season under penalty of Dringing illluck upon himself and his family for a twelvemonth.

Third-class passengers in Britain have no legal right to enter a first-class carriage, however crowded the train, unless they are told to do so by a railway official.