... . MANY sportsmen who visit the west of Ireland would seem, by their writings, to miss the fact of the three fold division of snipe shooting in that part of the world. Vet it is of fundamental importance, so that ignorance of it may be the cause of the small measure of success obtained by shooters. They are too prone to regard Ireland as being one vast bog, in much the same way as the comic ...

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... THE LEO E A EDS' L A 1 E. By H. A. Brydsn. GEORGE THURSTON'S hatred of leopards was a healthy one, and from his point of view his inex tinguishable hostility to all the spotted clan was entirely justifiable. He farmed in some wild mountain country in the eastern part of Cape Colony, and upon the hill pastures ran large numbers of goats and horses. Lions have been extirpated south of the Orange ...

... . 1. Lord William Percy's Alnwick Ladu retrieves a dude. 2. Mr. Butter' s Peter of F askally winner All- Aged Stakes. 6. Minor 1 P. Phi 11 in* s Katun, hrtnas m a duel-. 4. Mr. E. W. H. Blag g* 8 Bvy Shew retrieving a runner, H. Walkinn a field nf rants 6. Working a turnip field. 7. Mr. It. Cooke s kestrel of Riverside winner Junior Stakes. 8. Mrs. Turner with Mr. Turner's Park Darkle t third ...

... . By Alan R. Haig Brown. IF I were asked to place the gun-birds of this country in order of merit, I should put the wild duck first, snipe and woodcock second, and the wood-pigeon third; only then should I find room for the more aristocratic game birds. Of course, this is merely a matter of opinion; I trust, however, that its genuineness may rescue it from the realms of absurdity. I am no ...

... . 1. Capt. It. .1/. Grigg's Sal ford, by Diaklta Hex lit. er, winner of Kent Handicap. 2. Returning to scale after the Harbour Plate. 3. The uaddock. 4. The. at. a mis. ...

... SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA.-- DURBAN JULY RACES AND THE S.A. ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS THE tenth amateur athletic and cycling championships of South Africa were held at Lord's, Durban, on Saturday, June 29th, and Monday, July 1st. Apart from the ordinary interests vested in contests for supremacy in the various events on the sports' programme, the probability that a team would be selected to tour ...

... , Br Vedette. IT would be a fallacy to assume that the pudding made out of good ingredients must necessarily be a good pudding. Your currants and raisins and flour and so forth may be all right in themselves, but, as even a mere man knows, your intended Christmas triumph easily turns out a failure, or perhaps not turn out at all. The quanti ties may be wrong, or, what is more likely, the ...

... . By Arthur F. Meyrick. THE death of this well-known sports man snaps another link in the chain which connects the old school with the new. Mr. Edmund Charles Burton, who died at his old home, The Lodge, Daventry, on the evening of the 20th inst., in a long and extended career was indeed a prominent link, and his practical experience in the very many branches of sport he pursued is worthy of ...

... THE SIX DAYS' MOTOR-CYCLE RELIABILITY TRIALS OF 1,000 MILES FROM HATFIELD TO WALES, &c., AKD BACK. Early arrivals waiting outside control at Conway. Leaving Penmaenmawr. ...

... THE CHAMPION BEATEN AT SKEGNESS.-- J. H. TAYLOR BEATS MASSY BY 3 UP AND 2 TO PLAY IN A 36-HOLE MATCH. A. Mass y. Taylor 'putting at the lUlh green. Taylor at 16 th tee. ...

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