JOCKEY DEPORTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

JOCKEY DEPORTED.

ARREST AFTER BIG WIN.

RACE VALUE© AT £IO,OOO.

ADVENTUROUS CAREER.

Alleged by the United States authorities to have twice entered America without the necessary papers, James Burns, a jockey who had been deported from America, tpld a remarkable story when he lauded at Liverpool from New York a few weeks ago Burns said that on the second occasion he was recognised and givon away by another jockey. He waited for his trial throe months in Now Jersey, and received a sentence of two months' imprisonment at Philadelphia, the charge against him being that he entered America after having been previously deported. Burns, who is 18, is a fair-haired, trim youth. " I was taken out to Canada by a married sister when I was three years old," he stated. " When I was 11, I ran away from homo and went to Spokane, near Washington, and as I looked older than my ago, shortly got a job at exercising racehourses.

After two years of this 1 went to Tijuana, Moxico, and before I was 14, 1 was riding horses on tho race track at San Francisco. Then tho emigration authorities caught mo through an accident I had on tho racecourse, which sent

mc with two other jockeys to hospital. 1 was deported to England. " I returned home to Newcastle, and at the end of two weeks I shipped in a cargo boat as a galley boy, ana eventually arrived in Philadelphia. <1 went on to Miami, Florida, started riding again, but I was unlucky enough to be recognised by a jockey, who gave me away to the emigration officials. I was going pretty good then, winning races, but American jockeys are not too friendly disposed to English riders. " I was arrested on January 7, and accused of entering the country after having been deported. I sought the help of a lawyer, but was kept waiting three months before I was brought to trial in Philadelphia and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. 1 shall never forget the awful experience. I was lodged m Moyoninsing Prison, where there wero murderers and all classes of criminals.

" A further unenviable experience was on Ellis Island, where I was kept from May 23 until July 18, before I was tie ported. In the meantime my lawyer was trying to help me by appealing, as I was anxious to continue my career." Burns added that he had won nearly 20 races after returning to America for the second time, and it was after he had won a race valued at £IO,OOO that he was recognised. " I hardly know what I am going to do hero, for I feol like a stranger in a strange land, and I have no racing connections here," Burns added. " I would, of course, be delighted if I could get a chance here."