Lord Lonsdale Reminiscent.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 197, 9 August 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

Lord Lonsdale Reminiscent.

Lord Lonsdale opened at Pontypridd, Glamorgan, on May 29th., his throe days’ tour in Wales to raise £l,OOO for endowing a Lonsdale bed at the Cardiff Infirmary. In a reminiscent speech, according to a London writer, at a civic reception given in his honour, ho recalled how, under an assumed name, he beat the great John L. Sullivan, and that he had also beaten T. P. Weston, the American ehampion walker, by doing 100 miles in 17 hours 43 minutes. Remarking that he had had < roving life, Lord Lonsdale said that in 1874 he wns driving sheep and cattle in Canada. He nad -oughed it in many parts of tho world. This story does not say how he “beat 1 * John L. Sullivan. Golfer: Terrible links, caddie, terrible! Caddy: Sorry, sir, those ain’t links —you got off them an hour agtib * • e Winning an open golf champion ship is like kissing a girl. It yon can get one the rest come easy. • • • It isn’t the number of clubs in the bag thnt make.) the golfer; it’.’ the number of shots in tho system.