igS SOLDIER AND SPORTSMAN 



fail for the reason that they have some constitu- 

 tional weakness, either lack of sufficient nerve 

 force or some undetected physical disability. 



NATIONAL HUNT. MALTON, 1886 



Thursday, lith March. — The National Hunt 

 Steeplechase of ^^277. About 4 Miles 



Mr D. J. Jardine's bay Why Not by Castlercagh out of 



Twitter, 5 yrs., 12 st. 5 lb. . Mr C. J. Cunningham i 

 Mr J. H. Stock's Canteen, 5 yrs., 12 st. i lb. 



Mr Wilmot Smith 2 

 Mr W. Wilkins' Corny Black, aged, 12 st. 10 lb. 



Capt. Scott 3 

 Mr J. M. Brooks' The Captain, 4 yrs., 10 st. 10 lb. 



Mr VVatkins 4 

 Lord Cholmondeley's The Fawn, 4 yrs., 10 st. 10 lb. 



Capt. Jones o 

 Mr Robinson's Sky Blue, 5 yrs., 12 st. i lb. 



Mr W. R. Brockton o 

 Mr Iguigue's Sasunnach, 4 yrs., 10 st. 10 lb. Mr Kennedy o 

 Mr C. Archer's Orcadian, 5 yrs., 12 st. i lb. Mr Brooks o 



Betting 3 to i each against Why Not and Orcadian, 

 4 to I against Blue Sky, and 8 to i others 



Won by distance. Bad third 



In 1899, on the outbreak of the South African 

 War, I had made arrangements to join the staff 

 of the correspondents of T/ie Daily Telegraph, and 

 wrote to this effect to my friend, Mr Peter Purcell 

 Gilpin, wishing him good-bye. He was then 

 training at Lan^ton, near Blandford, and wired: 

 " Come and see us before you go." I accepted the 



