HERR BECKER'S DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 13

HERR BECKER'S DEATH

Everyone who appreciates knowledge and ability, and courage and tenacity in expounding views based on practical experience and study, would regret to, hear of the death, in July last, oi Friedrich Becker, at Blankanese, Germanyv . ..■ '••■, ■•••-.. '"'.'■■■■; For the past 30 years Herr Becker had been recognised as one of the world's outstanding authorities on bloodstock breeding and thoroughbred lines. He possessed an encyclopaedic knowledge of thoroughbred .families, and was a forthright^and often vitriolic controversialist. Sometimes his writing was marred by prejudices against certain British blood lines, but there was never a doubt about his knowledge—a knowledge gained the school of practical experience. He was a great admirer of the Musket line, and had a high oninion of Australian bloodstock. Whether . one ; agreed with him or not he was always both interesting and entertaining, and ' he marshalled his arguments with trenchant effect. , v ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Wager."—Le Toquet was scratche<s,at 2.50 p.m. on October 7 at tht Hawke's Bay Meeting, and Pakanui at 2.55 p.m. on the same day. R.E.G.—Rockbound won the WellMley Stakes at Trentham in 1915, H« was the rank outsider in the field of twelve. B.O.N.—At Tattersall's, 4 to 1; at Randwick 2 to 1 and 4 to 1, J. Olive, in charge of F. D. Jones's establishment at Riccarton, has started two of his two-year-olds in sprinting tasks. One is Iceland Spa, a chestnut colt by Excitement from Galclte, and the other is Moorsotis, a colt by Myosotis from Moorbird. CONCEAL YOUR BREATH. REMOVES odours of food, smoking, at»d alcohol. New German discovery. It's red—it's new—it's better. Trump.- laJ T»» bacconiste, hotels,, chemists.