Ex-Jockey Now an Inventor of Humane Equipment Well-known throughout the Far East, and especially in India, the Straits Settlements, Hongkong, and Shanghai, that bustling little man, Mr. A. J. Robertson, again has turned in the Settlement, more than ever with enthusiasm for anything connected with horseflesh and ideas for racing improvements. It is a far to the days when he built up a reputation as a steeplechase rider and Jo jockey on the flat, and followed that by working up' another as trainer, starter, handicapper, planner jot tracks, and, in fact, anything to }do with race courses.
Mrs. Ruth Driskell is now convalescent at home and able to give a definite statement of her accident early Sunday (Sept. 23) morning.
She states that after attending a party at the Del Monte Cafe she rolumned to her residence where she discovered that she had neglected to take her latch key. As she hi could spend the night, te, while proceeding along Rue Bourgeat, which is under repairs, the coolie slipped and overturned the rickshaw, throwing Mrs. Driskell to the ground, "Her head struck a sharp stone which caused a severe head, injury and a state of semi-consciousness which lasted for many hours 'Mra. Driskell desires it to be known that there were no conflicting cit= cumstances' attendant to her accident.
'Advancing' years—though even now he does not look greatly older than he did ten years ago—called a halt to his more active life, and now he is concentrating on inventions im equipment, all with a view to securing more humane treatment for horses.
Mr, Robertson now is trotting round wriging for the full protection of patent rights.
After a summer season in which she covered 2,500 miles in. salt water, the Shanghai yacht is back once more, little the worse for two for three dustings, with her owner, Aust, offering' a denial to the Fecent telegram. from Japan which said that the craft thad been badly damaged in the typhoon, As Reliable as a The Rolex "PRINCE"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.