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FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS--II: THE O.M.T's

... FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS-- II THE O.M.T's. THE OLD BOYS OF THE MERCHANT TAYLORS': FIFTEEN PLAYERS OF THIS FAMOUS TEAM. [Caricatured by Mel.] The O.M.T .'s are drawn only from the old boys of the Merchant Taylors' school, so that the field of membership must necessarily be small. This makes it a matter of all the more wonder that their teams should be so continually successful. The club was founded ...

FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS--V: RICHMOND

... ■FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS-Y RICHMOND. A FINE CLUB OF EARLY ORIGIN THE RICHMOND RUGGER TEAM. [Caricatured by Mel.} This year's fifteen for Richmond contains a couple of Asletts, the famous international as a threequarter and the other as a half, another player for England in the shape of the captain, D. Turquand Young, two Cambridge Blues and one from Oxford. The beginnings of this famous club may ...

THE TURN OF THE TIDE: A DARK BLUE BOXING VICTORY

... THE TURN OF THE TIDE A DARK BLUE BOXING VICTORY. A TIMELY SUCCESS: OXFORD BEAT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BY 4 EVENTS TO 3. [Caricatures by Mel.\ The annual Oxford and Cambridge inter-Varsity boxing match was contested at the Town Hall, Oxford, the other day, when Cambridge suffered their first defeat since 1925. Oxford's belated victory was won by the narrowest of margins, the issue only being ...

TILDEN PLAYS FOR GREAT BRITAIN: BOROTRA TRIUMPHANT

... . OUTDOOR STARS INDOORS THE INTERNATIONAL LAWN TENNIS CLUBS AT QUEEN'S CLUB. [Caricatured by Mel The International Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain met the similar club of France at Queen's Club last week-end, when W. T. Tilden, a visitor from America over here in connection with stage work, played for the British club. It was anticipated that his meeting with Jean Borotra, a great indoor ...

THE FIRST TEST

... . i i OPPONENTS AT EDGBASTON SOME ENGLAND AND SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETERS. Most sports have a way of crushing the sapient prophets, but cricket does this more than any of the games in which men meet men. Horseracing stands alone for uncertainty, and will always do so until the horses imitate their trainers by becoming journalists, and sell their intentions at so much a column. No one thought that ...

THE WHITE HOPES OF TWICKENHAM

... . THE CHOSEN OF ENGLAND THE FIFTEEN MEN TO MEET WALES THIS WEEK. Whether or not the darker international colours of Wales are chosen because Swansea and Cardiff are esteemed to be such muddy- places, it is certain that the England white dress shows the mud more, so that, though at the start of this week's Twickenham struggle the term white hopes may be admissible, it will probably soon have ...

FRIENDS AND RELATIONS OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

... . CHARACTER SKETCHES FROM THE GARRICK THE LADY WITH A LAMP. These sketches were made at the Garrick Theatre by Miss Helen Stiebel during a performance of Captain Reginald Berkeley's psychological-cum-chronicle drama. Eight scenes show Florence Nightingale in six different periods of her great life. Edith Evans appears in turn as the gently rebellious girl the organiser of the first nurses ...

BULK IN THE RING: A 19½-STONE BOXER'S SUCCESS AT KENSINGTON

... BULK IN THE RING A 19USTQNE BOXER'S SUCCESS AT KENSINGTON. AT THE ALBERT HALL: THE ITALIAN GIANT AND THE AMERICAN FLYWEIGHT WIN [Caricatured by Mel.] I he huge popularity of Primo Carnero, the Italian giant who disposed of Jack Stanley in one round at the Royal Albert Hall last week, would seem to depend on his bulk and hitting power the public's belief in the latter having by now assumed ...