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froni 1751 to 1769 (the latter year not inclusive), and 

 then (for he too was mortal) slept with as many 

 fathers as he may be supposed to have had. Again 

 a struggle took place for the succession, between a 

 Mr. B. Walker (who published a volume for 1769) and 

 Messrs. William Tuting and Thomas Fawconer (who 

 jointly also published a volume called ' The Sporting 

 Calendar' for 1769). Poor Mr. Walker went to the 

 wall against this combination ; no matter of surprise, 

 inasmuch as Mr. William Tuting described himself as 

 'Keeper of the Match-book at Newmarket,' and 

 Mr. Thomas Fawconer described himself as ' Secretary 

 to the Jockey Club.' Messrs. Tuting and Fawconer 

 therefore triumphed together, and together carried on 

 the publication for a year or two ; but in 1773 Mr. 

 Tuting was dead, and Mr. Fawconer (who, after the 

 first year of the joint publication ceased to describe 

 himself as ' Secretary to the Jockey Club,' having 

 apparently either assumed a title to which he had no 

 right or been deprived of it for some reason) published 

 a volume for that year on his own account, with a pre- 

 face in which he makes serious charges against his 

 late partner and ' Mr. James Weatherby,' for conspir- 

 ing to defraud him and for forcing him into a 

 Chancery suit. This suit seems to have killed poor 

 Mr. Fawconer : at any rate, he was in his grave before 

 another volume was due, and Mr. James Weatherby 

 (who had published an opposition volume in 1773) 

 reigned supreme and sole in 1774, having succeeded 



