... FOOTBALL. GAMES SPOILT BY THE HOLIDAYS. Despite the difficulty of obtaining players during the holiday season there was no lack of interesting football ini the metropolitan district on Saturday. The most attractive fixture was at Richmond to which club the Fettesiali-Lorettonials paid their annual visit. The tour of this vell-known Organization is always interesting, but this year it is more ...

... FOURTH EDITION, . THE BOER REVOLTo POSI'TION ON THE -TUGELA. SI4ELL FIRE AT MODDER RIVER. THE YEOMANRY AND VOLUNTEEkS. THE MILITARY SITUATION, [BY OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.1 The positioia refiiaiils practically unchaulged, as r ikrds our troops in thle several spheres, excepting in a few details. We haveofficifil irfifr- mation respectinog all of them to the 31st of December; but from ...

... SPOKMG De'wLLIGEC]. H}I8T PARR OLUB OLD YKAR SERErI& A MAIDEN HURDLI RACE PAT of 100 oWm; PUM4o to reoceive 10 aovs. Two1t11. M r. R. 13Z. ?? L 41D, ,b. byoh Benbecula. S yes. DUY ?lb ?? ama 1 Mr. ?? U2.LRUG y , 10b -, 3m p 2 Lord ?? E8CTJIUA s yels ,. .Junw S Alao ran; Lun, Biob, Ii5 Msgeel, to Bopow OrvAne Put., Bol ock, adtn te (Oinuer traed by O o) Betting: 2Etns on y 1brpou 5 to 1 t ?? ...

... TOeTBxLU TH LZAGIJE OH.MPIONSHF. With the erce.tvon perxh, of tho 4#fw t Notts Forest by Preston lort Si d o ill' ,fortune this yew-theo coue- of ?? pISY ta the League Championship ws a in acmd- ance with forta. Nhofilold U e A 1 Bvc4 the eay victims they had locked lar, but it is qua. tionable whether ?? expcted sueh . score as e gois to none. 4 Wu a wonrf Victory, by brilliant football, =d ...

... R A C I N G. The meeting at New Barns reccived plenty of patroniage yesterdavy in that respect keeping tip the reputation of the Nev Year Meeting, but unlfortunately the view of the sport was completcv spoiled bv the dleise i; g that settled over the course. Though some of the fields sholwved veak- uess, ia fair number of horses competed in the course of the afternoon, and Some of the runners ...

... I N FLU BOVRIL[ is a pure easilv assimilable, strelngthellilng food as well as a poN nerve stimulant, thus differi ng vitally from ordinary IMEAT EXTKACr and BEEF-TEA, possess merely the Ftimulating propert es of the meat. In BOVRIL are present the most highly concentilated form, all the flsh-forming constituents of prime ox-l et ery elemn nt essential to the reproduction of blood and muscle, ...

... I The Auqtria-Ilungarian .National Tournament was continued after the Christmas holidays according to programme. Maroc7y has practicaily no rival. Among the stronger contingent h-e is really the only active player, or perhaps it would bc more correctly put if we were to say that Schlechter, Marco, &c., are more inactive than hie is. After he ninth round Maroczy was leading wvith a score of 7, ...

... .-- - C HESS. Thle Austria-Hungarian .National Tournament: was. continued after the Christmas holidays- according to programme. Alaroczy has practically no rival. Among the stronger contingent he is e eally the only active player, or perhaps it: would be more correctly put.if ive were to say that Scllechter Marco, &c., are more -inactive than lie is. After the ninth round Maroczy was leading ...

... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE THE TWO THOUSAND AND THE DFRBY. Nothing could be more uninteresting than the sport which has taken place recently under National Hunt Rules. Under the best of conditions the olass of animals competing at the various mee;- ings which provide croscouatry racing is very poor. The unsettled weather haa made matters a good deal worse, frost alternating 'with thaw and iog, so ...

... GOLF. The.Boxiing Day weather was not very ideal for golf. Perhaps it were too muchl to hope of it, at that time of year. Thbaoer a nthro Ineter alike wvere in the wavering Mood. The former did not know whether to give us wvet or dry, nor the latter whlethber it was to be frost or thaw. petiveen them thcy arranged a co po1iC hich, like most of its kind, pleased fe-. It rained in places, an o ...

... spans EmmomaL GAthTgh NOT31. Alo theto 40ths, m Mameschaur to-daf Wu mlismahbly Wet ad dulL, them was a fair muster kin the Now Barita onelasure. for the 4ooxscluding stage Of the fixtitr.. Tho Now Yoears Hurdle Handicap brought out evon oo ptitorg, of whom Cnaaovr, OY-oerus, an ?? Songstress had each &, War iollowing. Neither of these, however, eatilt score, the verdict beingj secured by ...

... SPORTING NOTES AND NEws. CYCLING. THE N.C.U. AND Te SURRry B.C. It seems that the Union and the Surrey B.C. have settled their little differences at last. The hatchet has been buried, and now all is well in favour of possibly a couple of good race-meetings being run as hitherto by the old-time sport-promoting club. It is well for the sport generally that matters have been amicably settled ...