"Snowy" Baker's Troubles.

NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 3

" Snowy" Baker's Troubles.

.Sending. Snowy Baker 'ome on the amateur ticket seems to have been as . big an uncertainty as punting 'mid the ticket snatchers outside a pony course. .Besides letters of introduction to Hingland's best sports, Snowy carried written eulogies that recommended .him ■- all along the route. Notwithstanding all this, Australia's amateur pride has struck trouble, - physical and financial, m Jarge nuantities. ; ; First of all it was cabled that the count was on him, through enteric fever getting him with a right cross. There was, however, every likelihood of him being on his feet at " eight,." Now pomes word that the cental Showy has been rooked of all his ready money, and must, desnite a letter of credit on the London Bank, have about him an " Alone m London " sort of feelins:. At best, Snowy must feel Somewhat frozen. There is grim humor m the 'fact of i/his first class amateur athlete being helped over the. ocean, by very superior sports, who wouldn't touch professionalism with a, role, only -to have his . plans and' specifications well nigh 'hopeless-' ly ir>s>t, because of a mess up m nioriey matters. It is- to be hoped that Blewden is not m the" same deadly stew.