... IN AND OUT OF DOORS. ATHLETICS AND CYCLING. London Athletic Club. IT is always worth one's while to go to Stamford Bridge grounds when the premier athletic club of England is hold ing a race meeting, if only to gaze on the champions of a past generation there assembled. On the occasion of the summer meeting last Saturday there were more giants of athleticism there than usual. Walter Slade, ...

... WITH THE CULM STOCK OTTER HOUNDS. THE pursuit of the otter, like that of the fox, is largely dependent upon the weather, for unless there he a certain amount of warmth, hounds cannot hunt, and it must be acknowledged that although the season is yet young there has been more cold than otter-hunters care for. At the moment of writing, however, matters have improved in this respect, and the water ...

... DEVON AND SOMERSET STAG HOUND S-- 0 PENING MEET. MB. R. A. SANDERS. MOVING OFF. WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL. LOOKING TOWARDS EXMOOR. ...

... DEVON AND SOMERSET STAG HOUND S-- 0 PENING MEET THE WALK ROUND. LOOKING DOWN THE COVERTS. THE PACK. ...

... STAG HUNTING ON EXMOOR. LONG before any other pack thinks of active work, the master, for the time being, of the Devon and Somerset Stag hounds is busy making his arrangements for the opening of the season. The Devon and Somerset pack is in the almost unique position that no hounds are bred at the kennels. Former masters set the precedent of using dog hounds only, and those of the largest size ...

... MISS JESSIE BATEMAN (AS CONNIE MAKK1IAM IN A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE). ...

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... . PUTNEY is now in the very thick of the practice for the Inter-Univer sity Boat Race, and the towpath is crowded every day with people who like to look at the crews whether they know anything of rowing or not. As recorded last week, J. A. Tinné, of University, who had been rowing two, was displaced in favour of C. W. Tomkinson, Balliol, just before the crew left Cookham. The Oxford men ...

... HOC K E Y-- E NGLAND v. IRELAND. So far as hockey players were concerned, all roads led to Richmond last Saturday. The occasion was the fifth annual match between England and Ireland; and the fact that quite 3,000 persons were present says much for the development of the game. It was an exceptionally good match-- the periods at which the play was not fast and exciting were very few and far ...

... . THERE were some capital horses-- entires, mares, young stock and riding horses-- at the Agricultural Hall last week; but hunting men were not present in such great numbers as were the admirers of the Shirebred and Hackney in the two previous weeks. Possibly the hunting season kept them away. As usual, the Queen's Premiums, under the auspices of the Royal Commission on Horsebreeding, occupied ...

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... . THE show of harriers and beagles at Peterborough proved as interesting as ever; but this year it was very apparent that the hounds brought into competition were further from the old types and nearer to the foxhound than in any previous year. It is no use admirers of the old-time harrier and of the true beagle lamenting over the fact that the foxhound has usurped the position once held by the ...