Yellow Earl

Yellow are the racing colors, the motor cars, and the silk hats of footmen in the service of "The Yellow Earl," Britain's beloved sporting peer the Earl of Lonsdale.

Because he ran away from his family to become a circus acrobat in Switzerland and a cowboy in the U. S. before his father died and an earldom descended heavily upon him, Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and the Empire was shocked when His Grace, at the climax of hilarity, boasted: "I remember Denver when it was only one shack. When I first saw Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, there was only one shed there. Some of my friends went out to hold up the Denver stage coach. I was with them. All the others are now dead so there is no reason any longer why I shouldn't reveal it." Denver oldsters took the Yellow Earl's revelations calmly. They recalled that the holdup was a practical joke by the Earl and cowboy friends who heard that a party of Englishmen had taken the Denver coach and decided to scare them. They held up the coach right enough but. suddenly discovering some U. S. mail under the driver's seat and realizing the possible consequences, they scattered like scared jackrabbits.

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