THE CALL OF AMERICA 



wards. I had always been a regular reader of the 

 New York Morning Telegraph, and two weeks after my 

 arrival they published an appreciation of mine of New 

 York food and chefs. Mind you, thanks to the hospi- 

 tality which had been extended to me, I had eaten of 

 the very best which New York provided, and was thus 

 able to be pretty comprehensive in the story. Reading 

 it many months afterwards I saw no occasion to alter 

 a line of it. The time this came out I had approached 

 the editor of the Sunday supplement of the same 

 paper, and he had agreed to take one or two of my 

 short racing stories. In the meantime I had also made 

 the acquaintance of Mr Lewis, the managing director 

 of the Morning Telegraph, and we had various long 

 talks about racing ; he had confirmed an order for 

 twelve more stories after the first one or two had 

 appeared. He also outlined an arrangement with me, 

 for I had become wedded to America, that in the 

 event of the race-tracks being reopened in April then 

 he would fix up a permanent job with me to do a real 

 live racing article on independent English lines. With 

 all this prospect in view, and being tired of various 

 English troubles which had been profitless and worry- 

 ing, I wrote and resigned my position on the Express. 

 It was a serious regret, but there was always the 

 satisfaction that I made room for my son, who I 

 have explained I had brought on the staff of the 

 Express some years before for general sporting 

 work. 



Fortunately or unfortunately the bar was not re- 

 moved from racing in New York, so, looking about, 

 there was the chance given me of regular contribu- 

 tions to Town Topics, and eventually a page to a page 

 and a half a week on that excellent illustrated news- 

 paper. Town and Country. I had written for it before, 



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