... . By RAPIER GOING to press before the Epsom Meeting is pecu liarly vexatious this week. When the present number is published discussion on what has happened in the Derby will be simmering down, and those who knew all the time that the winner could hardly be beaten and were nevertheless persuaded into backing two others will have recovered a trifle of their equanimity. What sort of comment ...

... A NEW COUESE FOE LONDONERS.-- THE OPENING OF HADLEY WOOD GOLF CLUB. This new coarse lies in picturesque country, and is reached from King's Cross Station in half an hour or so. Some details of it appeared in our last issue. 1. THE CLUB HOUSE. 2. W. B. SMITH, THE CLUB PROFESSIONAL. 3. FAIRWAY OF SECOND HOLE. 4. THE PLAYERS AND GALLERY APPROACHING SECOND HOLE. ...

... . One of the most important races in the rowing calendar was decided at Putney on Saturday, and yet it was only a junior event the Tideway Fixed-Seat Junior Eights, which is under the auspices of the Vesta R.C. The importance lies in the fact that it gives to a good many juniors, fifty-six from six clubs on Saturday, an extended period of training in the foundation of the art of rowing. There ...

... PUBLIC SCHOOLS S P 0 It T S. By Pollex. WE must complete this week our record of athletic sports and the football season before passing on to cricket prospects, our next concern. The track for the Blundell's School sports was heavy after forty- eight hours of rain, and this naturally affected the times. But in the preliminary events, when the turf was better, three good performances were ...

... ATHLETICS. THE ROAD- WALKING CHAMPIONSHIP. ENTIRELY free from gate-money influences, the championships promoted by the National Road Walking Association bear the hall-mark of amateurism in its purest sense. Saturday's event, over a twenty miles' course, consisting of six circuits of Richmond Royal Park, plus a short stage to East Sheen gate, attracted 108 entries; and of that number 70 turned ...

... THE EPSOM SPRING MEETING.-- PARAGON'S CITY AND SUBURBAN. 1. FINISH OF THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES, WON BY AN OUTSIDER, MR. JOSEPH BENSON'S SANGRAIL, FROM FLINT JACK AND ADORN A. 2. MR. I. MOSS VERNON'S DOUBLE COURT WINS THE GREAT SURREY HANDICAP. 3. PARAGON (ARCHIBALD UP), THE CITY AND SUBURBAN WINNER, RETURNING TO SCALE. THIS WAS ARCIII- c BALD'S FIRST WINNER IN THIS COUNTRY. 4. SIR ERNEST ...

... THE GOLFER'S PROGRESS. By Hexry Leach. A SERIES OF SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES. WHAT the driving competition at Sandwich began, the rain that has descended from heaven copiously within the last few days will complete, that is, the stifling of much of the agitation-- to call it so-- for further changes in the official golf ball, on the plea that we drive top far, when not only does the average man ...

... . 1. TAKING THE FIRST HURDLE IN THE SUNBURY FOUR Y.O. HURDLE RACE, WON BY MRS. G. MORRIS'S AIR QUEEN. 2. THE WEYBRIDGE SELLING STEEPLECHASE. MR. T. R. HIGGINS'S BEDFORD ROW, THE WINNER, AND MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLKY's TURAKINA, SECOND, AT THE LAST FENCE. 3. mrs. j. putnam's general saxiiam, the winner, leading at the open ditch IN THE AMATEURS' STEEPLECHASE. 4. THE FIRST FLIGHT IN THE KEMPTON PARK ...

... BILLIARDS. THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. THIS competition is attracting some capital attend ances when any of the cracks are playing, but it must be admitted that some of the sessions have been terribly long and monotonous. This would not have applied to the heat between J. G. Taylor and Sam Mayo had the Midland representative been in some thing like his best form, but this was far from being the ...

... the STAGE OF THE DAY. By Ashley Dukes. ST. JAMES'S THE BAT. SOME people will tell you that plays like The Bat require no brains at all from their audience. This is a great mistake. They call for an alert intelligence, a thorough knowledge of the world, and espe cially a retentive memory. Unless you know all about crooks and detectives there is no hope of fol lowing the plot, and unless ...

... THOROUGHBREDS OF THE PAST SEASON. VIII.-- KING'S IDLER AND SERVICE KIT. KING'S IDLER. This horse, by Lomond out of In Sight, was originally 'named Sunofagun. He was by no means lucky in his two-year- old season, as he [ailed to earn a bracket, and wound up with three consecutive seconds, whilst his last race at that age proved him to be nearly 281b. behind Paper Money. In the following year he ...

... . By Pollex. ALL the schools may now be said to have got into their athletic stride again, for the boys have been back a fort night, many of them undoubtedly satiated with the amount of Rugby football provided for their benefit (or otherwise) during the holi days, both in London and the provinces. Lhere is no- doubt tnai this sort of thing can be overdone, and when boys are found playing ...