Scottish Athlete and Titled Wife

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 1

Scottish Athlete and Titled Wife

NEWCOMERS TO AUCKLAND OXFORD WING-THREEQUARTER CINCE the New Zealand longJ jump record is 23ft 3Jin., the arrival in Auckland of a young man who has covered 23ft 6jin is of some athletic interest. The newcomer is C. E. W. Macintosh, capped for Oxford and Scotland at Rugby, and the possessor of a remarkable sporting record. He and his wife are an interesting couple. Lady Jean Macintosh is the eider daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, Scotland’s premier peer. Before her marriage she was Lady Jean Douglasi-Hamiiton, and her brother is the Marquess of Clydesdale, the clever amateur boxer known to the sporting world as “the fighting Marquess.” Mr. Macintosh and Lady Jean come to Auckland on a visit to the former's aunt, Mrs. Seegner, of St. Stephen’s Avenue, and, finding they like New Zealand, have taken a house with the intention of staying. As Mr. Macintosh is a first class threequarter, the fact that he intends to turn out here, probably for the Auckland University team, will interest all followers of the Rugby game. He played for Scotland in 1924, and for Oxford outside A. C. Wallace, cap-

tain of the Waratahs. His associations with New Zealand Rugby are already fairly strong, as he played two seasons with G. G. Aitken, for London Scottish, other New Zealanders in the same team being R. N. McCullough and R. Park, who formerlyplayed for Auckland University. ALL-ROUND ATHLETE A fine type of athlete, tall and evenly-built, Mr. Macintosh has exerted his speed and skill in many directions. He toured South Africa with an Oxford track team, from which the New Zealander, A. E. Porritt, was excluded by a broken collarbone. Porritt captained a combined Oxford-Cambridge team against the American and on this tour Macintosh met the crack Negro athlete, de Hart Hubbard, and did his best jump. 23ft 6Jin. In 1924 he represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games at Paris, where Porritt represented New Zealand. “I hope to continue my track work in Auckland,” said Mr. Macintosh yesterday, “and intend to join the Auckland Athletic Club.” Another pioneering effort with which he hopes to be associated is the proposition to take a ski-ing team, representing the Ruapehu Ski Club, over to the snowfields of Mount Koseiusko, New South Wales, next winter. Mr. Macintosh has not yet seen the Ruapehu fields, but is anxious to do so. He captained the British ski team in 1926 on the first occasion in history when Britain beat Switzerland, and on the historic Murren course he won the famous. Kandahar Cup on several occasions. The race for this trophy is generally won at a speed of something like 46 miles an hour, over a two-mile course, and involves most exacting tests of skill and physique. As if the fine record of one of the couple is not enough, the other, LadyJean Macintosh, is herself a proficient alpinist and a fine horse-woman. In the past two or three years she has won at least ten point-io-poiqt races on her well known horse, Cavalier, and with her husband she motored across Australia before; coming to New Zealand.