International Recreation Club Again Receives Unwelcome Visitor from, Hangchow Some few days ago publicity waa given to a paragraph taken from the Chinese press to the effect that an officer was coming from Hangchow to "investigate" the Kiangwan. and Yangtszepoo race courses. Now, of course, there is one in Shanghai so innocent as to think that possibly Hangchow not aware of the purpose of a course; nor yet any one optimistic as to think that in Hangchow there had been discovered one who, without fail, could tell tha difference between' a China pony fand an animal that can run a trifle faster, and that he had been sent as an ambassador of comfort to all racing men, to solve their problems for ever more. Quite obviously the investigating official, strategically lining his visit a few days before the three-day race meeting at Kiangwan during the China New Year holidays, was coming with a large and empty purse which he had every intention of taking back well+ filled. And it was so, Last Autumn's Squecze
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