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j D c E p 1 j s n n at J u n a a , a ; j I c " 1 j , I j ? a 1 ; , ; DEATH AT THE LAST HOUR Grim Harvester Takes Two Noted English Turfmen In Earl of Jer- .sey and Sir Ernest Paget. SPECIAL CABLEGRAM. LONDON, England, Jan. 1. Death in the closing hours of the year 1923 took two noted English turfmen in the Earl of Jersey and Sir Ernest Paget. The Earl of Jersey, George Henry Robert Child Villieres, died suddenly at his Biecester Estate, Middleton Park, Monday, after an illness of two days. In the death of Lord Jersey there passed one of the staunchest of sportsmen of the English turf and a valued member of the Jockey Club. He attended a meeting last Friday and was in good health that time. Lord Jersey had been a member of the Jockey Club since 1907 and several times served as one of its stewards. He was fifty years of age, and of a family that has long been identified with English racing. His best horse was Greenback, which was only beaten neck by Lcmberg in the 1910 Epsom Derby. He was also owner of Scamp, winner of the Gimcrack Stakes, and Arion, winner of the Jubilee Handicap, Liverpool Cup and the Newbury Cup. The great grandfather of Lord Jersey was power in racing and was winner of the Derby three times. In 1825 he won it with Middletonr in- lS27SvithMamelukeJat- iny 183C with Bay Middleton. He was also winner of the Two Thousand Guineas on five differ- ent occasions. His winners were Idleworth, in 1831 ; Glencoe, in 1834 ; Ibrahim, in 1835 ; Bay Middleton in 1S36 and Achmet in 1837. Lord Jersey was one of the largest land- owners in England at the time of his death, and he succeeded to the title in 1915, on the death of the seventh Earl of Jersey. The heir to his title is Viscount Grandizon, his eldest son, born in 1910. Sir Ernest Paget, the octogenarian member of the Jockey Club, died Monday in his i eighty-second year. For forty years a mem-; ber of the Jockey Club, his silks Avere both popular and prominent on the turf. He won the Jubilee and Duke of York Stakes with Paragon; the City and Suburban Handicap with Cornsack and the Cambridgeshire with Recho, in addition to many other notable turf successes. r I . ; ; i i i i
