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THE GOLFER

... By Follow Through. ANATOMY is a science that does not appeal to all golfers, most of whom prefer to think of themselves in the normal make-up of plus fours and coat or jumper rather than disguised as a skeleton. Mr. George Beldam, who has already given us some definitely in structive and pleasant works on both golf and cricket, has now broken out in the most scientific treatise on golf. I ...

AROUND THE SHOWS: DUBLIN, IMBER COURT, AND LYNTON

... . v A. _ l -1 Mt.jr M. v _£ WELL OVER THE WALL IN A JUMPING COMPETITION AT THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY'S SHOW AT BALLSBRIDGE. THE LY'NTON, LYNMOUTH, AND EXMOOR SHOW AT LYNTON A LADY COMPETITOR IN THE EXMOOR PONIES JUMPING CLASS. v. ty, v- j' _ r=if-5-dS. 'ill- i%v. A BRILLIANT DISPLAY OF EQUITATION AT IMBER COURT P. C. KING TAKING A FENCE STANDING ON TWO MOUNTS. THE IMBER COURT SHOW AT THAMES ...

THE STAGE OF THE DAY: ON TOUR: THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH

... n The Stage or the day fO ON TOUR THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH. CLOAK and sword, ruffles and thigh boots, costumier's dialogue and slow music, re sounding consonants and posed gestures: these are relics of the days before theatrical became a term of reproach. Ever since cups and saucers, real doors and real door-knobs, changed the fashion, the English school of acting has made what is natural ...

APROPOS THE BIG FIGHT: SOME PURELY PERSONAL PICTURES

... . WITH MB. EUGENE CORRI, THE REFEREE (L.), AND LEAVING THE STADIUM AFTER THE FIGHT: TOM GIBBONS. AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE GREATEST CROWD ETER GATHERED IN EUROPE AT A BOXING MATCH: THE STiDIUM FROM THE AIR. WITH HIS FIANCEE, MISS RAY FRANCIS, AND HIS BROTHER JOE: JACK BLOOMFIELD (R.) EN ROUTE FOR WEMBLEY TO MEET GIBBONS. A COMPARISON OF TEMPERAMENTS-- (1) BLOOMFIELD MAKING HIS WAY TO THE RING FOR ...

THE KING TAKES THE HELM OF HIS GOOD, TALL SHIP

... BIG-CLASS RACING AT COWES HIS MAJESTY ABOARD BRITANNIA. Although the weather conditions were scarcely as much in Britannia's favour as in the case of some of her lighter rivals in the big class, the Royal cutter again added to her long list of successes during Cowes Week. In the course of the regatta the King himself took over her helm from Major Philip Hunloke, who is usually at Britannia's ...

SIR THOMAS LIPTON'S CUTTER AT COWES: SHAMROCK'S MISHAP

... . FORCED TO RETIRE ON ACCOUNT OF AN ACCIDENT TO THE RIGGING SHAMROCK. Photographs by Illustrations Bureau and Central Press.) On the second day of last week's racing at Cowes Sir Thomas Upton's cutter was forced to give up in the big-class event owing to her throat halyards being carried away shortly after the start, which prevented her from taking any further part in the races ot that and the ...

NON-STOP FLIRTING-AFTER OVER 500 PERFORMANCES

... . MISS ADELE ASTAIRE, THE ACCOMPLISHED DANCER OF STOP FLIRTING. Although the musical comedy at the Strand Theatre is called Stop Flirting, that amiable form of recreation has already been indulged in for well over five hundred performances without anyone calling a halt. This outstanding success is principally due to the fascinating dancing and acting of the two Astaires, Miss Adele and her ...

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... By the Shaker. SOME fellows are like riotous foxhounds. They don't know how to keep a scent. AN Englishman had spent a fortnight's A golfing holiday at North Berwick. His play had been consistently bad, and, to cover his own personal deficiences, he consistently cursed the course. His slicing was chronic, and he invariably went out via the sands and came back by the garden wall. The caddie ...

A CHAT ABOUT CRICKET

... fj Q3 Dy r. J. Sellieks. AUGUST is the cricket holiday month par excellence and its weather is of the utmost importance to cricketers. One does not refer solely to the elect few who appear for first-class counties, but to the thousands upon thousands unknown to fame who play for their own amusement, and who are in truth the backbone of the game. Not for them the glory of a century at Lord s ...

REMARKABLE RUN-GETTING AT THE OVAL: STRUDWICK'S BENEFIT

... . STEERING A LATE CUT THROUGH THE SLIPS: LEE, OF MIDDLESEX, WHO BATTED FOUR HOURS FOR 128. MR. WARD FALLS IN REACHING FOR A LEG BALL PLATED BY MR. FENDER: SURREY v. THE SOUTH AFRICANS, AT THE OYAL. LEE OVERCOMES THE LEG THEORISTS BY CLEVERLY PLACING A BALL OUT OF MR. KNIGHT'S REACH: MIDDLESEX Y. SURREY. The feature of the recent cricket at the Oval has been the remarkable consistency shown by ...

THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: WITH ROD AND GAFF ON SCOTTISH SALMON WATERS

... THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION WITI tOD AND GAFF ON SCOTTISH SALMON WATERS. *mL mim -jt >1/^/ Ji: AN EXCITING MOMENT JUST BEFORE GAFFING A SULKING FISH. TWO FINE SALMON FOR THE ICE-HOUSE: RIVER FINDHORN. m jtinhir HHn^ TOUCH AND GO: A WADING ANGLER IN DIFFICULTIES. THE GAFF GOE SAFELY POME. WHERE WADING DEMANDS CAUTION CASTING OYER A QUIET AND DEEP POOL. A CHARACTERISTIC STUDY A SCOTTISH ...