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for the staff ; in the latter the only thing to do was to 

 shut the door and slog in to work. They were all 

 pleasant to work with even in ups and downs, and I 

 shall always hope that the good sportsman who holds 

 or held the debentures will get his money back and 

 eventually make it pay. 



Amid all the incidents on the return to England 

 was the joy of racing work on the paper I had been 

 connected with for so many years — in fact, over eleven 

 now (I am writing in the spring of 1914). Formerly 

 it was six days, then once a week, then twice and 

 afterwards three times a week. It became in 1911 

 the daily story again — on racing. The Evening 

 Standard to me has always represented the solid 

 evening authority ; there was in quite early days 

 the real idea that it was the evening planet of finality 

 to the day's doings, in politics, sport and — the world. 

 In no other country is there the same equivalent. 

 Other evening papers rise up ; are active in many 

 respects, ably run and interesting, but the real racing 

 man is, as I have said, a lover of tradition, and, what- 

 ever the other changes may be, his racing results 

 must be — as he has had them since he began to read 

 racing. Mr Davidson Dalziel has had experience of 

 more than one country and enterprise. Dominant 

 ideas of business, combined with administrative 

 capacity and politics, ensure for his papers a per- 

 manency of conviction to an enormous public. 



There were one or two ideas after returning to 

 England of starting another weekly paper if sufficient 

 backing could be obtained, but I remembered, fortun- 

 ately, the little lecture of Mr Bottomley one day at 

 luncheon, that he was so surprised that an otherwise 

 reasonable man like myself, with an assured income, 

 should want to do something for nothing — i.e. sweat 

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