... . INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT AND THE CAPTAIN: PERSONALITIES OF THE MANNINGS HBATH GOLF CLUB. Caricatures specially drawn for The Sketch, by H. F. Crowther-Smith. The Mannings Heath Golf Club is situated in the heart of the beautiful county of Sussex, some 2J miles from Horsham. The course was originally laid out in 1914, but almost immediately afterwards was ploughed up for agricultural purposes ...

... . 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 ...

... U P IN THE AIR. AMONGST THOSE AT THE R.A.F. PAGEANT- -BY FRED MAY To the lay onlooker, who, in spite of the great progress of aviation for the million, is still one of an overwhelming majority, the Air Pageant was a succession of gasps mainly of blue funk; but to the people whose motto is Per Ardua Ad Astra it was nothing at all out of the ordinary. Things which before the War were regarded ...

... THE BRAINS BEHIND THE ALDERSHOT TATTOO- BY FRED MAY The Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo, which took place this year on June 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22, was if possible a better show than ever, and was luckier where the weather was concerned than it has been very often in the past. All the officers on this page ot portraits have done a man's job in making the Tattoo the success it has been, ...

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... SOME BUEMINGIHIAM MAGNATES. THE BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL- BY FRED MAY The title of Lord Mayor was granted to Birmingham's Mayors as long ago as June 3, 1896, and many distinguished citizens of the place which sheltered Mr. Joe Chamberlain-- for one-- have filled that high office in the intervening period. The present Lord Mayor, whose picture appears on this page, is Alderman W. B. Kenrick. Sir ...

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... . -BY FRED MAY SOME POTENT, GRAVE, AND-- SO-FORTH SIGNIORS- FRED MAY In this gallery of striking portraits are the Lord Mayor, his secretary, and several well-known members of the Bristol City Council. Alderman A. Dowling, Alderman Sir Wm. Howell Davies, and Alderman Sir John Swaish, K.B.E., are all former Lord Mayors of the Gateway of the West. Bristol's Royal Charter was granted in 1373, and ...

... TME MESFOT PINNER. SOME OF THE MESPOT AND PERSIAN FORCES-- -BY FRED MAY That blessed word Mesopotamia is to be perpetuated by an annual banquet of those who served there and in Iraq, and are still serving there. The first dinner a year ago was such a success that they had a second one, and now it has been decided to have it annually, which is quite as it should be. The dinner owes its ...

... THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE BANQUET BY FRED MAY --BY FRED MAY The Royal Naval Reserve Banquet was held at the Hotel Victoria and was a brilliant success in every kind of way. The President of the R.N.R. is Captain Sir Walter de M. Baynham, who is also Marine Superintendent of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. and a Younger Brother of Trinity House. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden responded ...

... . AMONGST THOSE PRESENT LY FRED MAY The Newport Chamber of Commerce Banquet was held at the King's Head Hotel, Newport, Mr. Wilson-Bartlett, J.P., the President, taking the chair and doing it extremely well, supported by, amongst others, Mr. Percy Phillips, O.B.E., one of the Vice-Presidents and incidentally the Belgian Consul, and what some people may consider even more important, a former ...

... THE GREEN HOWARDS' DINNER-- -BY FRED MAY The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) was raised in 1688 as Colonel Francis Luttrell's Regiment of Foot. It was first known as the Green Howards about the year 1745. Numbers were introduced in 1751 when the Regiment became the 19th in order of precedence, and it was styled the 19th 1st York North Riding in 1782. The ...