4 APRIL 1970, Page 4

Sporting chance

CHRISTOPHER HOT LIS 'Fair winds from Ayrshire fill the sky.

Up Jenkins, up,' the comrades cry.

'Election day should be in June, And now's the time to call the tune,' Says Roy, 'It's best to play it cool, Is it not plain to any fool, Having rebuked all expectation The tiniest sop will rouse elation, While if there's a bonanza budget, Tories will cry "The scoundrels fudge it"?.

It would be statesmanlike and sober To hold our horses till Oc.tober, Or even, if there seems good reason, Till '71's flat racing season,'