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Show FRIIiCE OF WALES BREAKS OLD PRECEDENT He Is First Heir to Throne ' to Ride as Jockey; Car-j Car-j ries Extra Weight By GERTRUDE LADY OECIES, 8pecial to Universal Service. t LONDON. March (.The Prince of Wales appeared aa a Jockey on an En-I En-I gllsh race track Friday riding Point to j I'olnt In the regimental race at Bicester. Bice-ster. This waa tha first time that an heir to the throne ever participated In an English steeplechsse. He had to '' overcome the opposition of King Oeorge and Queen Marv who were verse to the prince taking risks such as this sporting event offered. Jn or- der to make the stipulated weight nf ! 181 pounds the prince bad to pack a J lot of lead In his saddle. He wore pink ' and rode a hunter which has carried ' him regularly during the English hunting hunt-ing season. . The Duchess of Marlborough's son ! and daughter-in-law, the Mariiula and . aiarchloness of Blandfnrd, contem-I contem-I piste undertaking a racing establishment establish-ment jrlth the object of winning the . perby. Blandford's mother once forbade for-bade her sons to engage In any sort of gs moling, but the young couple , Save decided to take the lead In Brlt-t Brlt-t ish sporting functions. Kit-hard Marsh. King (ioorge's trainer, la glv-1 glv-1 ftig advice to the marchioness and as-' as-' aistfng her In acquiring likely candidates. candi-dates. Lady Cynthia Mosley. daughter of Uie late Lady Curzon. who was one ef the daughters of Joseph Letter of Chicago, has leased luxurious Park Lane apartmente with the object of entertulningly lavishly. Shs Is psy-lng psy-lng the unprecedented rental of $2500 1 is-eekly. Her husband, Oswald Mosley. objected to living In London, but Lady Cynthia overruled him. Hho refuses lo be buried In the country and is Intent In-tent on estshlishlng a reputation as a alayfatr hostess. . Lady Ward, daughter of Whltlaw Raid, la returning to London from the ( Rivleria to resume possession of Dudley Dud-ley house, her Park Lane mansion. It has lately been renovated on a sumptuous sumpt-uous scale with Imperial purple predominating pre-dominating In the color scheme. During Dur-ing the coming season she will entertain enter-tain the Prince of Wales and other . members of the royalty. Her husbsnd, John Wsrd. Is one nf the prince's Intl- . mate friends. Lady Baring, daughter of Pierre sxirillard of New York, has been approached ap-proached by the government to turn over her Irish home In Dublin county tb the military authorltlea aa a real-dence real-dence for officers. The mansion Is situated In one of Ireland's danger aones, but Lady Baring has replied that she is determined to continue her residence there . nest summer. She says she is not affected hy tha dsn- ; gers of the altuation. '. . , i . JNriy Pngi-t, well knosn In Wush- |