... . The death of Mr. Clement Scott at the comparatively early age of 63 may perhaps be attributed to overwork in middle age. When he was most to the front the dramatic critic, who was also a general writer, was continu ously at high tension, and the strain was tre mendous. The new journalism has relieved the writer, and perhaps without greatly edify ing the public the reader as well, a few ...

... . Fon a good many years past Mr. W. G. Craven had dropped out of the racing world, in which he was for a long time so prominent a figure. Men are soon forgotten on the Turf, and there is, indeed, no particular reason to remember Mr. Craven, who never owned a really good horse unless Vespasian can be so regarded, and the attempt of some of his biographers to represent him as a species of ...

... . Mr. F. S. Gulstox, who died at Salcombe last week, was one of the most famous of the old school of Metropolitan oarsmen, and he had a wonderfully successful career at Henley and other regattas at a period when the chief Putney clubs were always well to the fore in the most important of open races. Mr. Gulston's name is referred to in the Badminton Bowing as being as well-known upon the ...

... . The death is announced of G. H. S. Trott, captain of Australia at cricket. He was in his fifty-second year, and was one of the greatest all-round cricketers Victoria ever produced. He made a good and a most hard-working captain as he played in every match but one of the thirty-four engaged m by the Australian team of 1896. of which he was captain. He had the in stinct for the post, for it ...

... THE LATE CAPT. M. A. LA INC. The death of this member of the Jockey Club took place last week at his London residence. Capt. Malcolm Alfred Laing was a son of the lata Mr. Samuel Laing, for several years Chairman of the London and Brighton Rail way Company. The deceased was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the 14th Hussars when eighteen years of age. From his earliest days ...

... We regret to say that there occurred suddenly in London, a few days since, the death of Mr. Dunbar W. J. Duncan, the old Hampshire cricketer, who was :born in 1852. After his best cricketing days were past, Mr. Duncan turned to golf, on which sport he became an authority, and wrote (above the signature Niblick for many years a weekly article on the game in The Illus trated Sporting and ...

... . THE death last week at Shepperton of Sir Peter Wyatt Squire is a great loss to river sport Succeeding the late Mr. Henry Faija as hon. secretary of the Thames Punting Club, Mr. Squire, as he then was, worked tre mendously hard for the success of the club, and for punting generally. He made the T.P.C., kept the amateur side of the sport at the highest level, and was also 'responsible in great ...