... . Few men, it may be safely said, have done more, both on and off the links, to advance the best interests of the game of golf than Sir. A. J. Robertson. To him perhaps, more than to the large majority of men, the rise and progress of the great game in England must have come as a huge surprise. Most of Mr. Robertson's early golf was learnt on the old links at Bruntsfield, Musselburgh and ...

... . THE JUVENILE HURDLE RACE A BACK VIEW. TIIE OLD YEAR HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE SWEET CHARLOTTE IN A Pr.ELIJlIXAKY JUMP. rcra^isr. THE PARK TO THE STARTING POST. LORD WM. BERESFORD's UNCLE JACK (WINNER) TIIE WATER JUMP. THE OLD YEAR HANDICAP STEEPLECHASES. .-■.(it p/iV''' H AT 0rE!' DITCH, last jump from, home-- the brooklet SELLING STEEPLECHASE PLATE. SELLING MERRY MOOD (WINNER OF WOLSBY HURDLE ...

... o, I yoo. SUSSEX SENIOR CUP FOOTBALL. EASTBOURNE SWIFTS BEAT LEWES BY THREE GOALS TO ONE. IN MID FIELD. THE GOAL TO LEWES. A CORN Eli. ...

... THE V.R.c. SPRt] 11 i-v' rnr V E T I N G, 18 9 9. i n M GOING TO THE ELMS IN THE TROPICAL DOWNPOUR. VOYOU WINNING THE Y.R.C. HANDICAP. THE MELBOURNE CUP PASSING GRAND STAND FIRST TIME ROUND. N.S.W. OFFICERS IN STEWARDS' ENCLOSURE. Lord Tennyson. ,r Mr. H. Power. LADY BRASSEY PRESENTING ME Lady Brnssey. ^cCP^toMB'H'P°WER- THE VICTORIA DERBY OF 25 SOVS EACH, WITH 1,000 St ,irBS MERR1WBE> 8sT. ...

... The new Duke of Westminster, up to the time of the death of his grandfather, was known as Viscount Belgrave. Ho was bom March 19th, 1879, and therefore does not come of ace until next March. . He is the eldest son of the late Earl Grosvenor, who married Sybil Mary, daughter of the ninth Earl of Scarborough. His father died in 1884, and his mother is now the wife of Mr. George Wyndham, member ...

... MISS ISABEL JAY (AS THE ROSE OF PERSIA AT THE SAVOY THEATRE). ...

... . THE announcement that Mr. John Ball, jun., of Hoylake, the golf champion, has passed the medical examination for service in the Yeomanry for the front gives further proof, if it were needed, of the happy association of sport with patriotism. Mr. John Ball, jun., won the premier golf honours for the fifth time last year, and the fact is all the more interesting to recall from the circumstance ...

... MELBOURNE CUP. THE recent importations of such crack Australian race- horses as Newhaven, Maluma, Merman, the Grafter and many others, and their performances in this country have drawn such attention to Antipodean horse-racing, .and have done so much to familiarise the Australian Turf to English followers of racing, that it is by this time pretty well known that the Melbourne cup, besides ...

... ON ACTIVE SERVICE -Part IX. TWO VIEWS OF FRERE RAILWAY BRIDGE, DESTROYED BY THE ENEMY, WHO THEN RETIRED. DYNAMITE WAS THE EXPLOSIVE us From. photograph* by oar Special Correspondent, Sir Bryan Leiyhton. ...

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... SPORTSWOMAN'S TR^GF 11 11 ii u cpA, V^-°u-- -g ONE of the best-known of lady golfers, both for her remark ably good play and for the interest which she takes in the development of the game, is Mrs. Ryder Richardson, of Hoylake, Cheshire. Learning her golf from the Badminton Book and from watching the performances of good players, Mrs. Richardson, by constant steady practice, rapidly came Her ...

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