... GOLFING AT OXFORD. UNIVERSITY COMPETITIONS ON THE SOUTH IIINKSEY LINKS. AT THE FIRST TEE. AIR. A. J. GRAHAM A T FOURTEENTH GREEN. ON THE FIFTH TEE A DRIVE BY MR. G. LAWRENCE. A DRIVE BY MR. J. O. FAIRLIE, THE SECRETARY. MR. T. M. RONALDSON AT THIRTEENTH TEE. ...

... . ALTHOUGH, in regard to inter-team play, Oxford University golf is less exciting in Michaelmas than in Lent, the club competitions decided during the present term arouse plenty of interest. The chief meeting, that of which the Club Challenge Cup (scratch) and the St. Andrew's Cross (handicap) form the bones of contention, has just been held. Now that golf at Oxford has become such a power in ...

... THE Derby Cup has of late years come to be one of the most important of the back-end handicaps, and now probably ranks in the Turf world next to the two great Newmarket events, the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. Casting back some five and twenty years, it may be said to occupy much the same position in the eyes of the sporting public as for years the Great Shropshire Handicap did at the now ...

... . Twenty years is not a very long period of time, yet I suppose in 1882 a large number of men hardly knew of the existence of St. Andrews, or, if they did, failed to associate the royal borough with any particular sport. Now, to many thousands of men in every part of the country, no name is more familiar, and they look up to it with becoming awe and reverence as the headquarters of the game ...

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... THERE has been a terrible plague of rats in and about stack-yards and homesteads, by reason of excessive rainfall driving these rodents out of hedge bottoms. Our illustrations show a day's ratting in progress at Chilland Farm, upon Sir John Shelley's estate, Avington, near Winchester. Spring wheat threshing had revealed the fact that the stacks were badly damaged by rats. A good many of these ...

... The Bar Golfing Society is now in full working order, and at the end of last week played a most interesting match against a strong side of the Irish Bar on the links of the Formby Club. The home side were unfortunate in being without the services of Mr. Marshall Hall, who telegraphed at the last moment that he was unable to play. Those who have been in the habit of getting up cricket sides ...

... CONCERNING LILIAN B R A I T H W A. T T E. By G. SPENCER EDWARDS. THE joy of living. That's it, said the beautiful Miss Lilian Braithwaite; that's exactly what you find in the second act of Old Heidelberg, which has had a renewed run of pros perity at the St. James's Theatre. And you like playing Kathie What a beautiful part it is exclaimed the actress, who, of course, was not unmindful ...

... T HE BAR GOLFING S 0 C I E T Y v. IRISH B A R A T F O R M R Y THE IRISH BARRISTERS BEATEN ON SATURDAY LAST. The Hon. Eduard Gibson Ireland (defeated by Mr. H. IT. Beveridge), at the first tee. Mr. H. IF. Beveridge (England), approaching the 9th green. numi At the 1th hole. Mr. Crabb Watt (England), winner, and Mr. D. M. Wilson (Ireland). Mr. Hogg in the rounh; playing for Fnrmby v. English and ...

... Tbe Sportsworr)&r?. THE gales of wind that have been so disastrous to the scores in the Easter golf meetings, were at their worst at Scarborough. when the ladies competed in their club and open events last week. There was a special competition of thirty-six holes under handi cap, and this was won by Miss E. Howard, a new player, whose handicap of 60 for the two rounds put her at the head of ...