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... . ONLY TWO HOLDERS KEEP THEIR TITLES: THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT KENSINGTON. [Caricatures by Mel.] Five new champions appeared at the Amateur Boxing Association's tournament last week, while a sixth, Corporal Bennett in the bantam weight, regained his title after having forfeited it by his absence through illness last year. Only Tommy Pardoe in the flyweight and Fred Mallin in the ...
... OVER THE BOARDS AT HURLIN GH AM A WormVEye View of a Few Players and Their Odd Little Ways From Sketches by Captain W. O. CARRUTHERS ...
... Glorious winter-sporting is at hand By D'EGVILLE ...
... . A NEAR THING FOR THE TWICKENHAM RECORD: ENGLAND 6 POINTS, IRELAND 6 POINTS. Although England has never yet lost a Rugby match to one of the home countries on the Twickenham ground, her fifteen representatives had to fight the Irishmen tooth and nail last Saturday to avoid defeat, with such consistent fierceness did the visitors storm the English line. A draw was the proper result to such a ...
... . BY ELECTRIC LIGHT: THE ANNUAL COVERED COURTS LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Caricatured by Mel.] After over a week's play, the lawn tennis tournament by artificial light was concluded last Saturday at Queen's Club, with the results as shown above. Mr. J. D. P. Wheatley had a very hard match against Mr. S. W. Harris, the Rugby footballer, in the Men's final, before winning at 5-7, 8-6, 7-5. Both ...
... THE HISTORY THAT DIDN'T QUITE REPEAT ITSELF. DRAWN BY L. R. BRIGHT WELL. ...
... . WITH A SKI TAKE-OFF AS PLATFORM: TOBOGGAN-JUMPING IN THE ALPS. Toboggan jumping is done on ordinary luges, and the platform is a ski-jump of mild proportions. Provided the snow is well packed, surprisingly little shock is felt on landing however, it is advisable to have a cushion to sit on, in case of a bad impact. Flat Canadian toboggans are really best for this game, which is quite ...
... ■FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS-Y RICHMOND. A FINE CLUB OF EARLY ORIGIN THE RICHMOND RUGGER TEAM. [Caricatured by Mel.} This year's fifteen for Richmond contains a couple of Asletts, the famous international as a threequarter and the other as a half, another player for England in the shape of the captain, D. Turquand Young, two Cambridge Blues and one from Oxford. The beginnings of this famous club may ...
... . ONE OF THE MODERNS ENDEAVOURING TO PERSUADE THE RUGBY UNION TO ADOPT REFORMS. [Drawn by H. M. Bateman ...
... The annual pilgrimage to Goodwood begins next week, and it will be a rare thing indeed if the majority of these enthusiastic sportsmen are not among the probable starters. CARICATURED BY THE TOUT. ...
... THE LUCK OF THE REVOLVING DRUM: THE ^2,789,696 SWEEPSTAKE. V jjj THE IRISH HOSPITALS' DERBY SWEEP: SCENES AND PEOPLE AT THE DRAW IN DUBLIN. [Caricatures by Mel.] The Dublin Derby Sweep has created such a sensation of late that that little affair of horses running at Epsom last Wednesday seemed almost a trifling appendage to the business in Ireland, rather than the cause of its existence. It ...