... A UTUMN SHOOTING 1X VIRGINIA. TrTHE WILD TURKEY. Tir late Mr. Herbert (Frank Forrester), who most deservedly has a great STOCle in Transatlantic sporting annals, calls the wild turkey the noblest of Anmerlcan game-birds; though he himself, like most sportsmen of his class, paid but little attention to its pursuit, denouncing it as pot-hunting and ?? of the name of sport. And right no doubt he ...

... THE entries for the spring handicaps are made this month, and, as the appended table will show, the eight races which may be termed the chief of them are well supported, so far as numbers are concerned; while a more detailed examination leads to the conclusion that there is a fair amount of quality rej resented as well. These entries, taking them in chronological order, are- l879- 1880. ...

... SKA TING. TIE Origin of skating, as of so many interesting things, is lost in the night of ages, Authorities, however, are generally agreed in regarding it as of Scandinavian birth; and it must evidently have proceeded from one of the frozen countries of the north. Not that skating is by any means a northern pastime. There are probably at this moment more skaters at Paris than at Stockholm, ...

... THE two winters which have driven hunting-men to desperation, and made havoc of all the sports in which horseflesh is engaged, have pro-- vided skaters with an amount of amusement and exercise which the oldest of them cannot remember and the most sanguine could never have hoped for. They will be long remembered in the annals of the skating clubs which now exist in considerable numbers all over ...

... THE UNIVERSITY BOA TRACE. TRE Isis presented a curious appearance last Saturday. Opposite the, barges there was open water, a stretch of about a quarter of a mile down to Saunders's Bridge. Up and down this strip tub pairs were. being paddled assiduously, as the only means available for training the majority of the College torpid crews. Thence from Saunders's Bridge to Sandford there was ...

... THE UNIVERSITY BOA TRA CE. TI3E frost which for some days broke the practice of the Cambridge crew has left its mark behind it in a bad cold which has temporarily laid up Baillie, of Jesus, who had previously been rowing stroke, His place is meantime filled by Davis, of First Trinity, who rowed in that seat last year, but had this year been placed at No. 4. The vacancy thus caused in the ...

... AMVERICAN HORSE-RA CING. A DAUNTLESS chronicler might well shrink from the task of compiling a Record of Races run in the United States and Dominion of Canada, and by American-bred horses in England and British Guiana; but the appalling work has nevertheless been accomplished. That it is perfect is not to be supposed; indeed the compiler himself, in his record for r87q-S3, remarks that ...

... TIJE race for the Chester Cup was deprived of nearly all its interest when Parole and his stable-companions were withdrawn, and when it was 2,onounced that Advance, who had run second to him for the Liverpool spring Cup, would not run. With one or two other expected starters in reserve for the great race at Manchester a fortnight hence, the field dwindled down to ten, being of the same ...

... TIIERE can be no doubt that the French three-year-olds are, collectively, of very moderate calibre; and it may be taken for granted that none of the great English races will go to France, unless it be the Epsom Oaks, for which Count de Lagrange's Ocdanie and M. Lefbvre's Versigny, in the enforced absence of the winner of the One Thousand Guineas, seem to have the strongest claims to support. ...

... THE RA CE FOR THE DERB Y. 'ji'u Derby has more than once been won by a head only, but there has rarely been a more exciting struggle than that of which the Duke of West- zinster's Bend Or ultimately got the better yesterday; and it is not too much to say that a triumph more popular than that of the Duke of West- ..inster'S unbeaten colt could not have been achieved. In the first place, Bend Or ...

... THE RA CE FOR THE OAKS. ALTHOUGH the field for the Oaks was much larger than had been expected, the race being generally regarded as a three-cornered match between Versigny, Evasion, and The Song, the favourites held their ground to the last; and when Mr. Walker's Elizabeth, winner of the One Thousand Guineas, cantered in an easy first for the Royal Stakes on Thursday the prospects of the two ...

... Ti has come to be an article of faith among those who hold that a ,gentleman is nothing without his amusements that the solemn funcion of Ascot is much more than a mere race-meeting-that it is of the nature ,of a courtly ceremonial, in which the Master of the Buckhounds is the Lord Chamberlain, the sacred office of Mr. Ponsonby-Fane is delegated to less well-known persons, and the work of ...