MR DAVIDSON DALZIEL 



[ had fondly hoped they would. Before a week was 

 3ver 1 found myself having a little bit each way and 

 ^oing to the meetings. 



The question was getting into harness again, and 

 I approached one of my old papers, the Evening 

 Standard, and was appointed straight away. It was 

 thought better by Mr Davidson Dalziel and Mr 

 Kilpatrick, the editor, that some new nom de plume 

 would be advantageous, so " The Judge " was the 

 happy thought. It was agreeable to get among old 

 confreres of the Press, and to be greeted by old friends 

 both on and off a racecourse. There were some early 

 successes with regard to tipping, a part of the work I 

 had been a little nervous about on account of my 

 prolonged absence. 



Mr Dalziel, whom I had known only by name, had 

 taken over the controlling interest of the Standard 

 during my absence. He is one of those men from 

 whom one word of appreciation is a spur to distinctive 

 effort ; truly a man who knows men. I have to 

 thank Mr Ralph Blumenfeld of the Express for put- 

 ting in the glad word that I had helped make the 

 Express, etc. Mr E. H. Johnstone, too, whom I had 

 !} been wdth on the Express and Standard for many 

 I years, was also a director of the Standard, and his 

 kindly interest has also to be marked by a most 

 remembering word. 



There was no intention of entirely binding me to 

 the Evening Standard, although, of course, other 

 daily paper work could not be considered. I 

 therefore took over for a time that old-fashioned 

 paper, the Jockey, which had come down to a pretty 

 low ebb. It was a hard fight, for capital had been 

 exhausted ; but I think it can be admitted by all 

 those who know the trade that it was made again into 



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