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... . SHOULD one ask to-day: What is the significance of the word 'crawl' in swimming lore? it would be correct to answer: It is a generic name embracing half a dozen varieties of strokes. Of course, no two men swim exactly alike, so that no two strokes can be identical, but there are being used at present in the United States five distinct varieties of crawl, each boasting a good following. ...

... A ROWING MARATHON ON THE THAMES. PASSING THE HAMMERSMITH TOWING PATH. This long-distance race of Saturday last was from Isleworth to Putney Bridge and back, a distance of over sixteen miles. The winners in the tradesmen' s section occupied 2 hr. 27 win., while the success f ul crew of the amateur section took an extra five minutes both sections having to contend with an adverse tide. THE ...

... WINTER RACING IN NATAL. THE ANTI-GAMBLING BILL. THE first winter fixture of the Durban Turf Club con cluded with all records broken in the matter of attend ance, totalisator receipts, the excellence of the racing, and the class and quality of the cattle engaged. The meeting occupies three days in July, and the total stakes offered aggregated about £7,500. During the three days the totes took ...

... THE HURST PARK MEETING.-- THE CHAMPION SPRINT HANDICAP, &c. 1. .1. J. Joyner, Mediant's trainer. 2. About to unsaddle Mr. J. Buchanan's Diamond Stud after his victory in the Hurst Park Lennox Plate. 3. Mediant O'Neill uu) return in (j to scale. 4. the Champion Sprint Handicap finish. Mediant wins from Galleot, Prospector, Me. 5. The finish of the Yurie r Handicav.--Mr. Buchanan's 1 emeraire ...

... WILL SHE CLEAR AN ANXIOUS MOMENT IN A RACE. --Drawn by C. Fleming Williams. A big yacht, race is always a tremendous tax on the nerves, but at no moment is it greater than when, in tacking, it is necessary to cross and recross the hows of Other yachts. The slightest error of judgment may result in a big accident, and there is often just one anxious minute when it is almost impossible to tell ...

... RINGS ON HER FINGERS AND BOWS ON HER HOSE I BOW STOCKINGED MISS ANNA HELD IN THE 44 VERY LATEST. The lace-insertion stockings and the tassel led stockings have another rival in the form of the stockings here shown* worn by pretty Miss Anna Held, hose that are ornamented with a series of little tows, placed one above the other.- ^Photo^rafhs by £(utling(r,\ ...

... Ih C KTOOTES i- -s Dr. Joachim's Legacy. One of the most interesting series of concerts yet arranged for the autumn season is that of the Classical Concert Society. The society was born of the Joachim Concerts Committee, which itself sought to develop and carry 011 the great work that Joachim started forty years ago in Berlin, and introduced much later into London. The interpretation of ...

... TH^MAN-'ON^> The Lamp Trials Successful 1 The report of the judges appointed by the Royal Automobile Club to act in the pressing matter of the Tests of Headlights for Motor-Cars and Motor-Cycles, carried out at the request of the Local Government Board, was issued last Wednesday. I can confidently recommend it to the perusal of all motorists. The tests have gone far to prove that the dazzling ...

... THE. SEARCHLIGHT IN SOCIETY Lair3 peim IL-Uteir0 Mo. 1LXVIII. ILadly McmMsdl Warre sucter. MY LADY,-- You are by no means widely paragraphed, and yet you are without doubt one of our reigning beauties. And I have heard you described as an all-round good sort, which in the. vernacular means that you are extremely popular. Well now, as usual, I shall give a glance at your life history. You as ...

... Roumnidl amud About Kf@tes0 Self-toning Collodion Post Cards. THE Kodak self-toning collodion paper has met with such a generous amount of appreciation that this firm is now making a special feature of post cards of the same character which give agreeable cold tones by simple immersion in the hypo fixing bath. In addition to the advantage of yielding much colder tones with a simple fixing bath ...

... THE MADDEST, ME3RRIEST WEEI OF THE YEAI Tlh Great IrisH Hours SIhiw arradl 0£lhiiF Att^actiousc FOR the hunting man who would like to see the largest show of hunters in the world or the racing man on the look-out for an Irish bargain to carry off one or more of England's great turf prizes (as many an Englishman has done before now-- think of horses such as Minoru, Glenesky, and Dark Ronald) ...