BIPLANE AND DESERT COLD.
PROPOSAL THAT THEY SHOULD MEET. SYDNEY, March 3. 1 A proposal which has been mooted to arrange a meeting between Biplane and Desert Gold in Australia is arousing considerable interest. The Sun states that a cable to Mr Greenwood brought the reply that after Biplane's defeat by Estland that colt was at present unfit to compete with Desert Gold. Mr Lowry, interviewed in Melbourne, raised the difficulty of getting two such performers fit and well at a given date. He did not at present feel disposed to consent to such a proposal, because anything might happen before the actual day of the contest. The suggestion was that a special meeting should be arranged at Randwick, one event being a match between the champions. This it is claimed would be such an attraction that it would provide ample recompense to both owners and yield a large profit for the patriotic funds. One difficulty is that the Commonwealth Government has decided to grant no new racing dates, and the A.J.C. has no spare dates, and under a new decision could not, without special Government sanction, look for a new one. _
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Otago Witness, Issue 3338, 6 March 1918, Page 43
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