The event was won, once again, by a section led by Paul Welch, the same section—Welch, Alec White, Alec Siemssen and J. F. St C.
Ford—winning at the last gymki The third jump was a very narrow one, hardly wide enough for four ponies and it was this more than anything else, that caused so many leams {o lose points as very few completed the double round of the school without at least one of the section running out, The third event proved to be the thriller of the afternoon, This was the bareback steeplechase, over eight jumps, and two sections—Mrs, Andrews and Captain Hogaboom and the brothers Yuan were so close that no one amongst the spectators knew who had won until the judge and timekeeper, W. B. O. Middleton, announced that Mrs. Andrews and Hogaboom had beaten the others by a very narrow margin, "Buffy" Maitland's Special The last event was the always popular Musical Chairs, once again under the efficient management of Maitland, and it 's no fault of his if a number of spectators are not very stiff this morning. TO begin with competitors rode bareback and on top of this he had them mounting on the "off" side, lining up in sections, half sections and all sorts of ways and finally, when only R. M. Harris and Alec White were left in he made them rün for the last ball (Competitors had to pick balls from the ground, not sit in chairs) and White did the length of the school in a way that suggested he would be a very dangerous competitor in a hundred yard dash! It is interesting to note that he proved to be the winner of the same event at the last gymkhana, An excellent gymkhana ended with a parade of all prize winners, Herbert Spence handing out prizes, in the form of cups, ash trays and whips, to those who had run "into the money", It seems that all is necessary now is for a few more of these really sporting events to be organized as there were few of Shanghai's keener horsemen who were not there, either Participating or watching, and as there were practically no delays everyone went away voting the afternoon one that had been very well spent.
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