Next came Ulta Pulta, according to the programme, but by this time the announcer was in such a state of excitement that it was hard for the spectators to determine whether it was Mah jong or the Epsom Derby. There were numerous disqualifications, but of the few left in, there is no doubt that the last "ran" home, Mrs. Harrison, was the rightful winner, on her husband's Tractor.
Up to this point events had been run at such a breakneck speed that spectators and competitors alike were only too glad when a fifteen minutes interval was called for.
The only people who appeared to be the slightest bit disappointed were the hordes of youngsters who had turned up to watch the fun. Their annoyance, however, quickly turned to glee when Maitland organized a handicap race, for children under' thirteen, Even' Admiral Rous would have quailed had he been requested to handicap twenty youngsters, of both sexes, ranging in age from four years to thirteen, without previous form, at catch weights, on foot, over fifty yards, but the handicaps were worked out in no time and no one could behold young Helga Eggers, who won, with pigtails flying, and a smile on her face that must have delighted spectators as much as it did her father, without saying that this impromptu event was one of the best on the programme.
The competition concluded with a novel event in which competitors, whilst mounted, had to pick up a hat from {he ground. They were a bit mazed, on being given the word "go", to find amongst them no less a person than that promising steeplechase jockey Alee White, who, mounted on the smallest pory that Shanghai can boast (a Szechuen, which presumably is Chinese for Shetland) had to lean but a few inches to pick up a very seedy looking hat which was his objective. The judges, amidst wild enthusiasm in which the competitor himself joined, immediately disqualified him—not for winning, but for reaching the finishing post before the judges had had time to light their cigarettes,
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