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With a B.C Pedigree: Arabian Gazelle Hounds

... . THE END OF THE CHASE BRIGADIER-GENERAL LANCE'S ARABIAN GAZELLE HOUNDS IN PALESTINE. M 'I DESCENDANTS OF A NOBLE LINE SARONA KELB, SARONA SHERIF, AND SARONA SHAGGI (L. TO R.). THE KENNELS AT WROTHAM DINNER-TIME. WITH SARONA KELB, SARONA TORR, SARONA ECHO. AND HIS TAME EAGLE BRIGADIER-GENERAL LANCE. GENERAL LANCE WITH SARONA KELB, SARONA SHERIF, AND SARONA HAGGI. BRED AT BAALBEK SARONA KELB, ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Golf Patient and his Doctor: Job's Job

... The Golf Patient and his Doctor 1|J f fiy Endersby Howard. Job's Job. It is an obvious truth in golf that the best person in whose hands to place oneself when the shots insist on going agley is a professional of sympathy, understanding, and playing ability. It is his business to know the causes of all the evil visitations to which the golfing flesh is heir, and without know ledge of causes, it ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1116 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

A Society Puzzle -- and an Amorous Adventurer

... A Society ruzzle and an Amorous Adventurer. CAN YOU SPOT LADY DIANA COOPER, LADY CHURSTON, LADY MAUD WARRENDER, OR ANYONE ELSE? THE TITLED WAITS IN THEIR MASKS, DENNIS NEILSON-TERRY READS THE ARLEQUIN PARTS MOYNA McGILL, VIOLA TREE, HON. LOIS STURT, AND EDITH KELLY GOULD (L. TO R.). REHEARSING HIS ROLE OF ARLEQUIN, THE AMOROUS ADVENTURER' MR. GODFREY TEARLE AND MISS MOYNA McGILL. Photographs ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WINTER SPORTS PROSPECTS

... By Carine and Will Cadby To prophesy as to the coming Swiss winter conditions would be only a degree less foolish than to attempt a forecast of our own fickle climate, say, during the Christmas holidays. During the last few years Christmas weather in the Alps has been disappointing, and those who are bent on ski-ing, and can choose their time, would be wise not to go before the middle of ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1035 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

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... MISS EDNA BEST AS PETER PAN. Miss Edna Best again appears as Peter Pan this Christmas. The revival took place this week at the St. James's Theatre. ...

BY THE WAY: A Cobbold Story

... BY THE WAY. A Cobbold Story. Holiday football, with its upsets and surprises, is with us once more-- for the professional a strenuous, serious time; for the amateur a slight diversion. Christmas tours are stilt indulged in uy some oi yie big amateur clubs, though the programme of a club like the Corinthians is nothing like so heavy as it was in the old days, when eight important matches were ...

HUNTING BIG BUSTARDS BY AEROPLANE

... . THE big bustard (Avis tarda) belongs to the species of long-shanked wading birds, one variety of which, and the largest (Otis tarda), is found in small groups of eight or ten birds all over the central and southern plains of Spain, and during the warmer months is also met with in the northern zones. This bird is the largest in Europe, some of the males weigh ing 42 lb., while many weigh over ...

THE CHESHIRE, NORTH WALES AND SHROPSHIRE SPANIEL AND RETRIEVER SOCIETY'S TRIALS

... . 1. MR. II. BUSHELL's ENGLISH SPRINGER GLASNEVIN REX, 3RD IN OPEN STAKE. 2. MRS. QUINTIN DICK'S LIVER AND WHITE BANCHORY MICK. 1ST IN OPEN STAKE. 3. MR. J. H. GIBSON'S COCKER HEATHMYND RAMUS, 2ND IN OPEN STAKE. 4. MAJOR G. N. HEATH S ENGLISH SPRINGER FIELDBANK DUSTER RETRIr. 1M, l\> OWNER. O. DOGS ENTERED IN THE OPEN AND NON-WINNERS STAKES, WITH THEIR OWNERS AND HANDLERS. ...

FROM THE HUNTING FIELD

... . By Scarlet and White. AT no period of the hunting season are fields larger and more representative than during that epoch around the end and the beginning of each year, which has come to be known as the festive season. Country houses are full in anticipation of the innumerable func tions which will take place during the next week or two; the public schools, now in vacation, have sent ...

OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE, CROSS COUNTRY

... . ALTHOUGH the success of Oxford against Cam bridge in this year's cross-country race between the chosen representatives of those two 'Varsities was not entirely unexpected, the margin of points by which the Dark Blues gained their victory caused great surprise. Both sides fancied their chances. Oxford, towards the week-end, became the more confident of the two, but neither expected to beat ...

THE GOLFER'S PROGRESS: A BOX OF BALLS FOR CHRISTMAS

... THE GOLFER'S PROGRESS. By Henry Leach. A BOX OF BALLS FOR CHRISTMAS. THE hours left for shopping before the Christmas holiday are now so few that we must imagine that the present for the good golfer has already been pur chased, and that there is nothing left to do but await the effusive thanks and, in the meantime, glow with satisfaction upon one's thoughtfulness, one's warmth of spirit and ...

FENCING: THE DOYNE MEMORIAL CHALLENGE CUP

... FENCING. THE DOYNE MEMORIAL CHALLENGE CUI'. AS was the case in the corresponding event last season, the second annual competition for the above trophy proved vastly popular, twenty-two entries being received for the London pools, which were all held at Bertrand's Fencing Academy in Han over Square. The eliminating stages were contested on December 7th and 8th. The penultimate round, in which ...