... the North and South match the Rugby Union of England actually selected four three-quarter backs in the team to meet Wales. This is a somersault of the Rugby Union with a vengeance. When Wales defeated England at Cardiff last year, some of the Rugby Union ...

... drinking heavily when they got into such abject depression that they broke the Bank of England and created an entirely artificial crisis.' Mr. G. B. Shaw at a meeting of the World Temperance Federation. J.B.P. A NEW PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN Taken after the wedding ...

... Ascot Gold Cup takes place two days later. The Eclipse Stakes, which should be a good race, is fixed for July 19, and the Liverpool Summer Cup for July 26. Goodwood will open on July 30, when the Stewards' Cup will be run for, the Goodwood Cup being contested ...

... succeeded in carrying off the two cups open to competition-- the Murray and York and Lancaster Cups. The Murray Cup (on the left in the photograph) is the gift of the Hon. T. K. Murray, C.M.G., Minister of Lands and Works for the Colony, a generous patron of ...

... asking the services of several of the best batsmen in England for his England eleven who visit Australia next month. Of course, it is almost inevitable that Mr. Stoddart should ask the best batsman in England to accompany him. Need I say that this is Brockwell ...

... sportsman, and, with Mr. Bryant of King Williamstown, donor of the Charity Cup. The question of professionalism in Rugby football is the one topic at present agitating the Rugby world. Already three Lancashire clubs, Leigh, Salford, and Wigan, have been suspended ...

... ritual of tea- drinking were restored to us as part of our birthright. As indeed they should be. While we linger over the combined delights of good tea in a fine cup, like the ladies of Jane Austen's polite little world, we can first give thanks to that fortuitous ...

... a very small cost. The race for the Royal Hunt Cup will produce the usual anyount of excite ment. I know of one or two animals that have been specially saved for this event, but it would serve no useful purpose to name them until after the weights have ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. I am not given to looking on the dark side of things, but the unfortunate circumstances which attended the opening ceremony at Lord's, the other day, when English cricketers entered on the first-class season, were sufficient ...

... heads of African elephants, the trunks bending down to the body of the cup, giving excellent handles. The cover is surmounted by a horse and jockey in full racing panoply. The cup was manufactured by Elkington and Co., of Birmingham. ...

... It is our part here at home in England just to give and to endure. Theirs to fight and fall for us and England. But one has wondered sometimes, in the hush and the waiting of these heart-breaking weeks Is the whole world gone mad Youth is the one thing ...

... Nothing in the world really, I do believe, so completely becoming to most of us as black though, of course, such early Victorians as still survive among us find it too gloomy and funereal for words and write to all the papers every day to tell us so. m 55 AT ...