THE SPORTING SIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1931, Page 9

THE SPORTING SIDE

JOCKEYS AND JOEL

BURGHLEY BEATS RECORD

LONDON, 19th October.

An amusing feature of the General Election is the number of sportsmen intervening, usually on behalf of the National Party, though Sir Oswald Mosley's engagement of Kid Lewie, the pugilist, is an exception, as is that Of I' 1. J. Perry, the- tennis player, who is assisting his father, a Labour candidate for Kettering.

Steve Donoghuo and Freddie Fox, the jockeys, addressed meetings tonig at Dudley in support of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Dudley Joel, son of Lieutenant-Colonel S. B. Joel.

Lord Burghley, the hurdler, is contesting Peterborough against Mr. Horrabin, a * Socialist cartoonist. Lord Burghley, who is a Conservative, is eclipsing every speed record, dashing round the big constituency in a motorcar and addressing 50 meetings a week.

Even moro novel is the case of Mr. Noel Whiteside, Conservative candidate for South Leeds, who is an airman. He is leading a squadron of aeroplanes piloted by his friends over the constituency on Saturday.

An enterprise on an even larger scale is an air "circus" composed of famous owner-pilots who have cancelled all their engagements for the period of the election in order to "canvass by air" ou behalf of the National Party. Miss Winifred Spooner and Lady Bailey arc among the women pilots who arc giving their services.

Speed boats also have been organised to assist the National candidates in riverside constituencies.'

Finally a flying squad of young motorists set off from Westminster today on so-called "tip-and-run" visits to constituencies where Labour members wero returned at the last election. They propose to park their cars at street corners to attract bystanders. Each <:ar is an open tourer with three or four speakers among tho passengers wlio will deliver brief addresses on the lines of tho "Two-niiuutc Men" in the United States during the World War.

The meetings proiniso to be very lively, but the organisers say the "flying squad" will be well able to deal with Communist roughs.