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Show MARSHALL HELD A SPORTSMAN ; v Grandson of Chicago Mer- j chant Prince Develops Tiste j For Horse Racing j London, March 14. Although still an undergraduate at Cambridge university uni-versity young Marshall Field, grandson grand-son of the Chicago merchant prince, has developed quite a taste for horse racing, and if he continues In his present strain he will soon become one of the most prominent figures ou J the English turf. ; On the second day of the annual 1 University Winter Steeplechase, young Field won future eveut of tho card, the Athenaeum Challenge cup, or a steeple chase of three miles with the five-year-old Canon. Later , in the afternoon his Buck Pp was among, the also rans for the Drag Challenge Cup, a flat race of two i miles. Field also rode Canon In the. an- , nual three mile steeple chaso for the University Challenge Whip on the ; first day's racing, coming In second, after negotiating the particularly difficult dif-ficult course. ; Thanks to the generosity of this young blood from far-away Chicago, the 'varsity steeplechase course and tho country road to It have liecn put Into decent condition and rendered comfortably passable In wet weather for the first time. The course "never had a real stand only some bleachers bleach-ers until young Marshall Field had one built last fall at his expense as. a return compliment for being elected Master of the University Hunt club, which maintains a fast pack, .of t hounds for hunting the nimble anl- i seed bag whenever a good gallop across country sems the right anti-date anti-date for class-room headaches and cne boredom of classical lectures, mathematical mathe-matical wranglers and. other high-browed high-browed professors. |