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MAINLY ABOUT WOMEN: ITEMS FROM HERE AND THERE

... MAINLY ABOUT WOMEN ITEMS FROM HERE AND THERE. AT THE SOUTHERN SECTION TRIALS FOR THE OLYMPIC DIVING TEAM AT HIGHGATE: MISS BELLE WHITE, THE FAMOUS LADY DIVER. PRESENTING THE FLAG TO THE AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TEAM FOR AMSTERDAM: ADMIRAL SIR DUDLEY DE CHAIR, THE N.S.W. 'GOVERNOR. YACHTING AT HARWICH: LADY FRANK, WIFE OF SIR HOWARD FRANK, ON BOARD THEIR NORADO DURING THE REGATTA. TO INDIA AND BACK ...

MAINLY ABOUT WOMEN: ITEMS FROM HERE AND THERE

... . A STAGE WEDDING MISS ELLEN POLLOCK, RECENTLY OF HIT THE DECK, AND MR. F. HANCOCK, OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. WOMEN ARCHERS AT OXFORD A GROUP OF THE LADY COMPETITORS AT THE RECENT ARCHERY MEETING AT ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. ENGAGED TO MISS GRANT RICHARDS W. J. TAYLOR, THE RUGGER INTER NATIONAL. WORKING A WARWICKSHIRE STREAM FOLLOWERS OF THE BUCKS OTTER HOUNDS FORM A STICKLE ACROSS THE RIVER NEAR ...

THE NEW WIMBLEDON CHAMPION: JEAN RENÉ LACOSTE

... 1 .-un i.iu-- 11 THE NEW WIMBLEDON CHAMPION JEAN REN6 LACOSTE. It could have caused surprise to few people when Rene Lacoste wrested the Wimbledon title the other day from Henri Cochet, whom he beat in the final by 3 sets to 1. Despite Cochet's great record, Lacoste's is greater. A young man in the early twenties, he has built up his reputation by a scientific study of the game, combined with ...

A BIRD OF PREY IN HIS WESTERN EYRIE: SPREAD EAGLE

... 75 A BIRD OF PREY IN HIS WESTERN EYRIE SPREAD EAGLE. inough not immediately recognised as such, Spread Eagle, at the New Theatre ic a tradition as to what money can buy. In America, we are told, it can buy anything. In this case a certain hi>d' nf h .P? 5. interests in Mexican mines, for the safety of which it is necessary that America should make war on Mexico So iTha F son is sent to be ...

WHO'S WHO AT ST. GEORGE'S HILL: This article on St. George's Hill and its players supplements the caricatures ..

... WHO'S WHO AT ST. GEORGE'S HILL. This article on St. George's Hill and its players supplements the caricahtres to be found on the two preceding pages. BY A ROVING PLAYER. WHENEVER I go to St. George's Hill I imagine that I have been suddenly transported to Switzerland. When the course itself is not lost to view in a vast forest of fir trees it peeps out from hill-tops, and then away it goes ...

GREAT FIELDERS OF TO-DAY

... . By P. G. H. FENDER. FEELING as strongly as I do about the extreme importance of fielding, I am hoping that it may not come amiss if I devote a second article to this branch of the game, with more especial reference to present-day persons and things. There can be no question about the fact that, while blessed with a few brilliant individuals, the general standard of fielding throughout the ...

Graphic

... ROWED OUT AFTER THE LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE FINAL: SELWYN (CAMBS.) LOSE TO JESUS (CAMBS.) BY HALF A LENGTH. THAMES ROWING CLUB TRIUMPHANT: THE ALL-CONQUERING CLUB BEAT TWICKENHAM R.C. IN THE THAMES CUP FINAL. THE FINAL OF THE GRAND FIRST TRINITY (CAMBS.) LOSE TO THAMES, WHOSE EIGHT IS PROBABLY THE EQUAL OF ANY THAT HAS BEEN SEEN, PAST OR PRESENT. HELPING THE DIAMONDS WINNER AFTER THE FINAL: J. ...

GREAT ATHLETICS AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: WORLD'S, BRITISH AND CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS BROKEN AT THE A. A. A. CHAMPIONSHIPS

... GREAT ATHLETICS AT STAMFORD BRIDGE WORLD'S, BRITISH AND CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS BROKEN AT THE A. A. A. CHAMPIONSHIPS. The proximity of the Olympic Games accounted for the presence of a greater number than usual of overseas athletes at the Amateur Athletic Championships at Stamford Bridge, where the high class of the performances gave us an indication of great deeds to come a Amsterdam. A crowd of ...

Worthingtons

... 0C orthingtons, Crouching figures steel springs waiting the release of the trigger Bang Human rockets soaring over the sticks outstretched arms back-tilted head, the winner breasts the tape Scraps of paper that flutter across the green fields hurtling figures that plunge into the green waters And afterwards the dressing room the exhilarating shock of the shower the quick change two please ...

MAINLY ABOUT WOMEN: ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM HERE AND THERE

... . Mrs. Stephens's Mushroom, ridden by Mr. M. D. Blair, won the Sprint Stakes and the Scurry event at the Roehampton Pony Races. Mr. Blair also won a third event, the Roehampton Stakes, at this meeting. Australia has a very young team to represent it in the women's swimming races of the Olympic Games at Amsterdam. Miss D. Thompson is their breast-stroke champion at 18 years of age, Miss Bonnie ...

FROM LADIES' TEES: The County Championship: Cheshire, Cumberland, and Northumberland: Scarborough Week: What's ..

... FROM LADIES' TEES. Tlie Comity Championship Cheshire, Cum berland, and Northumberland Scarborough w ee k Wdiat s 111 an Initial. By ELEANOR E. HELME. CHIEF amongst events in the golfing world during the past few days has been Cheshire's win from Cumberland by 6-- I and 7-- o. Cheshire's position in the northern division was critical. It had to win those two matches to tie with Lan cashire and ...

FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT: Motor Days and Ways; THE TWENTY SUNBEAM

... FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT Ad. o tor JL/liy S Ujh J TV ays By JEHU. THE TWENTY SUNBEAM. THERE is almost a proud boast of heraldry in such a fancy title as Sunbeam, for it shows that the same firm that to-day makes cars was alive and very much kicking in the days before cars were ever heard of, and when the bicycles that answered to that name were blazoning the fame of England far and wide. From ...