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Northern Advocate, 22 January 1927, Page 11

E. W. (“Slip”) Carr, one of the greatest amateur sprint runners Australia has produced, has retired from the cinder and grass tracks, and is making money out of a seven and ahalf acre vegetable producing property up Normanhurst way, and other propositions (says a Sydney paper). He still finds time for tennis—in which he is so proficient that there are instructors who would like to take him under their wings—and fof watching champions play golf, but now and then ho is seen at Randwick, or on a suburban racecourse. He was at Warwick Farm, recently, and a sequence of three losing bets made the day look back for him. Then came the Moorebank Handicap, engaged in which was an imported horse named Colcsburg, by Son-in-Law, from Slip. Overlooking form and most other things which are considered when winners are sought, Mr Carr backed the son of his namesake (Slip), and won enough to make the meeting profitable.