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race at the Championship Meeting, and a little later was 

 the winner of a rather sensational match at York, Clare 

 Vyner was entertaining a party at Newby for Thirsk 

 Eaces, and Mr. " Charlie " i Fox having been considerably 

 chaffed by some of the guests about his performance in a 

 race he had been riding, retorted that if they could beat 

 him on a horse he could beat them on his own 

 legs, and offered to run any man in the room for 

 £50. Clare Vyner instantly took him up, saying 

 he would name someone to beat him, and then named 

 my brother. Fox had really forgotten that there was a 

 high-class athlete in the room, but he was too proud 

 to draw back, and though Vyner offered to let him off the 

 match he insisted upon going through with it. The race 

 was run from Buckle's Inn towards York on the Tadcaster 

 Eoad, and a large number of people came to see it. Lord 

 Neville — now Marquis of Abergavenny — and the late 

 Lord Wenlock each brought a coach-load of people, and 

 there were numerous carriages besides. The race was a 

 foregone conclusion, and although Mr. Fox was attended 

 by two professional runners, whom he had engaged to 

 train him, and ran gallantly in front at a great pace, for 

 the first three furlongs, the result was never in doubt, 

 and he was beaten very easily. 



The two Whips in the year of my brother's master- 

 ship of the Eton beagles were Algernon Turnor and 

 Sandbach, and the trio were succeeded in the following 

 year by C. S. Newton, master, myself as first Whip, and E. 

 Eoyds second Whip. Newton was in the Eight ; I won 

 the Fencing, the 200 yards race, was second in the 

 hurdle race, and, making the highest score for Eton at 



^ The Honble. Charles Lane-Fox, brother of Lord Conyers, 

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