LORD DENMAN ON SPORT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2144, 9 May 1914, Page 5

LORD DENMAN ON SPORT

Dtt the occasion of the. farewell banquet to Lord Ue-!!!i:a>i by tho. citizens of Sydney m Town llull lust month, wio &tfi'oruoF-Gcncra.l; l; jii tho course of . s>iidi ''iJoftirG' i eanio to ■Atistfalia I happouet', to be. lalkiiu' to. a d-isttfiguislicd oifiekd ai the 'Colonial OifiOff, and liad ;a(]'vico fro/m Mm; 'ifo.lt a 1" 1)0 wll-:;dvis(!d if when you go t<3 Australm. yfivt tako part ijt tlio .si®r|s of t!:o country.' I- never received j'n'ore . toJ]genial a.dvicn in ai! my liuv-{loiid kiigliter)—-and I think I. can nl.a.tin to have profited by it; I have phive.d polo in Eoiiie- of l!u* .States, golf in' others; I have hunted. the old man kaiirtajori in. Central Quccnslandj have fished for trout in the streams <?f Tasmania; sr,d , . I hnvo raged in ivory State in the. '■ monwealth. I may ndrl that Some of : tlio pleasantest and most enjoyable— aitd I may also say the most expensive . ■ —days o{ my life have been spent upon ' tlio raccfoarses o:f Australia. (Laugh- ■. ter and. applause,) Ox course, as I (laro Say\<au afo a.wine-) vo. licifa? WtiWetis' ■ill. England as in Aiistfa'iia, rnd they Wry i'rcr;uem)y look askaiico at you when you ftg(ju.©ut _ sjtcii. place.?' as those. You may, therefore. imagine my delight that it was a duty expected of me. that I should go-to the races in Australia. Last .year one of iny ta'sos ran second ill a stoeplediaso at Flfiin.ifigtan. Perhaps it .would, he as welt if 1 were to aad that every otW ho'rso in the rite® had faHeu." (Laughter.)