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Few people at the present day remember what 

 the danger then was, and few indeed understood even 

 at that time, but under the judgment of Mr Justice 

 Hawkins the Prince of Wales or anyone else was 

 liable to be arrested and searched at Goodwood be- 

 cause someone had laid the odds in the same enclosure. 

 The scheme for overriding the decision of the Court of 

 Crown Cases Reserved was entirely Mr Stutfield's and 

 my own, and it was not until this -test case had been 

 carried to the House of Lords that the position was 

 made entirely good. I do not know that anybody 

 thanked Mr Stutfield for this, and I am quite sure no one 

 ever thanked me. I am not clear whether Mr Stutfield 

 still flourishes, but anyhow his book on betting law is 

 by far the best that exists, and his information on such 

 questions was, and I hope still is, the best available 

 authority. 



The strenuous conflicts with Mr John Hawke and 

 the Anti-Gambling League need not be gone into, but it 

 may be mentioned that the " National " Sporting League 

 is really the North Country branch of the original body, 

 of which the late Mr James Lowther was the great 

 spokesman, and Lord Durham also was a leading sup- 

 port. I had practically all the stewards of the Jockey 

 Club on the executive of the Sporting League at that 

 time, together with Lord Hawke, Mr Guy Nickalls, the 

 present Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, and other notables. 

 A very great influence was exercised over the elections 

 of that period and most of the faddists were ousted, 

 though others infected by the microbe managed to 

 get in. 



However, I have told the plain truth about how 

 racing was saved from the judgment of Mr Justice 



