The Archive · 1933

WELL-KNOWN NATIONAL HUNT JOCKEY KILLED

London, Dec. 2.

Roland Norris Fawcett Well-known amateur" National Hunt jockey, wax killed ina motor-car accident to-day while he was returning from" the Havdock Park races.—Reuter, the other seasons being 1926 1928. Before contracting a illness in 1927 he made the highest score ever pat up on the Cambridge University ground: 254 not out for [Cambridge v. Middlesex.

The first "occasion upon which England enlisted his services was in 1920" when he 9] against South Africa at Birmingham, but he was not chosen for any of the has other Tests, and his omission provoked considerable comment, However, "Duleep" went on tour with the SCC. to Australia and New Zealand in 1929-30, when tests were played against New Zealand.

Duleepsinbjt is aged 28.—Reuter.

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