CHAPTER XXI 



RECENT TIMES AT SOUTH AMERICA 



The Rio Jockey Club The Courteous President A Really Good 

 Time Landing at " B.A." " Jimmy " Getting The Grand 

 Hotel Racing at Palermo Concerning the " Tote "Stables 

 at Palermo The Jehus of " B.A." Our Perilous Adventures 

 thereanent San Jacinto Las Ortigas Tracery The Panther 



I AM constantly asked about the voyage from 

 Southampton to Buenos Aires and back, and what 

 one can possibly do in the six days at " B. A." when 

 returning on the same ship, as I always do. It may be 

 of interest if I give my latest experience, which is one 

 of many. I quote from The Sportsman of 8th March 

 1922 : 



FROM RIO TO "B.A." 



R.M.S.P. Andes. 



I AM on the voyage home as I write this, but my last 

 despatch was from Rio, and I had not then learned how 

 well I was going to be treated there. As a matter of 

 fact, on the afternoon we arrived at Rio I landed with a 

 friend who, being a member of the " B.A." Jockey Club, 

 enjoyed reciprocal rights to use the Rio Jockey Club, 

 and to that establishment we repaired so as to arrange 

 about dining. We were very courteously received by 

 the secretary, who showed us all over the club house, 

 which is being greatly enlarged, and then we drove up 

 one of the mountains at the back of the town as far as the 

 H6tel Internacional. It was desperately hot, but the 



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