... . NOTES BY RAPIER. I MUST begin this week on a sad note, an expression of the sincerest regret at the news of the death of Major Charles Beatty, D.S.O.-- a distinction which it seems to have been universally agreed by those who knew the facts of the case should have been the V.C. He was a friend for whom I had the warmest regard. It is now well over twenty years ago since he helped his ...

... WANTED, A HUSBAND BY CYRIL IIARCOURT, AT THE PLAYHOUSE. 1. Mabel Fere's athletic friend Maude Bray (Miss Doris Lytton) disposes, by jujitsu, of a truculent Colonial (Mr. Henry Wenham), who has made himself un pleasant on turning up in answer to Mabel's adver tisement for a husband. Mabel had only advertised for a husband to get copy for her novels. 2. Mabel Vere as an amateur cook. 3. Two ...

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... . THE match of last Saturday was that won by the R.M.C.. Sandhurst, at Woolwich, by 3 goals 2 tries to a dropped goal-- a result which leaves no doubt whatever. The form of the Woolwich fifteen in several matches against weak teams gave them a false reputation, and they were undoubtedly favourites when the teams took the field. But a very good Sandhurst pack, very well led by the best forward ...

... B Why not give a Swan ji Wm A S a gift The Swan Fountpen is useful, gg|| 1111 appreciable, and lasting. It meets a need gpl llll and fulfils a purpose. It is needed by the soldier, llll the sailor, and the nurse on Active Service. It is 18 most acceptable to men and women carrying on pif in business. The professional man, the student, the schoolboy they need Swan Pens too. The Swan pen is ...

... . i 1. OVER THE OLD DOUBLE IN THE CONYNGHAM CUP RACE. 2. HILL OF CAMAS AND PRINCESS COMING OVER THE STONE WALL IN THE PRINCE OF WALES'S PLATE (w ON BY PAY ONLY). 3. CAPT. DIXON'S LORD CHARLES TAKING THE BANK WHEN WINNING THE KILDARE hunt cup. See p. 263.) 4. OVER THE DOUBLE IN THE DOWNSHIRE PLATE. ...

... . 1. Cpl. Elliott Irish Guards) winning the Open Mile Handicap. 2. .-1 beauty show alter the mop fight. 3. The mop fight with soot and whitewash. 4. The Open 100 Yards Handicap finish. J. S. Bailie (on right) winning. He is the Harrow School champion who is now a Sandhurst cadet, and he heat Donald son, the famous sprinter, after receiving 12 yards start. 5. The Regimental 100 Yards Handicap, ...

... T HE GO L FEE'S P 11 O G 11 E S S. By Henry Leach. FORMS OF ZEAL. SOME recent occurrences make it seem desirable that when some really thorough form of war government appoints another hundred controllers of all descriptions, one of them should attend to certain matters associated with this sport, for there exist, or are about to exist, some absurd inequalities and injustices. While on the one ...

... SMILE, THE REVUE AT THE GARRICK THEATRE. f 1. Miss Haidie da Ranee, who sings, and plays the violm. 2 and 3. Fifteen Miles Apart. A conversation between [No. 2), Miss Maidie Hope, and [No. 3), Mr. Fred Duprez, during which the man tells the maid the usual next-morning lies. 4. Miss Phyllis Bedells in the scene On the Square. 5. Miss Phyllis Bedells in the scene, A Charity Concert. 6. Mr. ...

... . 1. The Eitjht Miles Open Comrades Belay Rare.- /hi liners enter in// Derby course near starting gate. 2. Runners passing the Derby finishing post, in tile Six Miles Relay Race. 3. The Six Miles Comrades Relay Race for soldiers under 19 years of aye. The finish, of the final lap. Privates Marlborough and Sturman winning for the 29 t/i Training Reserve Battalion team. 4. Passing through a ...

... . 1. SIR ARTHUR NICHOLSON'S SEVEN-YEAR-OLD STALLION, CHAMPION'S CLANSMAN 1ST AND CHAMPION. 2. SIR ARTHUR NICHOLSON'S FIVE-YEAR-OLD MARE, ROYCROFT FOREST QUEEN 1ST AND CltAMriON. 3. SIR WALPOLE GREENWELL, BT.'S, TWO-YEAR-OLD STALLION, MARDEN DAGNAM 1ST AND JUNIOR CHAMPION. 4. MR. T. M. E. BLISS'S GELDING, VICTOR 1ST AND CHAM PION. 5. SIR WALPOLE GREENWELL, BT. S, SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MARE, MARDEN ...

... THE WORLD'S SPEEDIEST SWIMMER.-- DUKE KAHANAMOKU. ON this page we give a photograph of Duke Kahana moku, of Honolulu, the fastest swimmer in the world. A well-proportioned young man of twenty-six years of age, he might be described as a human fish, from the fact that he appears to be more at home in the waters of the Sandwich Islands, than on land. At a very early age he spent most of his ...