... A COLLECTION OF TRAIL-BLAZERS- -BY FRED MAY The Ambassadors Club, at whose third annual dinner these wonderful portraits were collected, is a circle of nineteenth-century motorists a fellowship of men who owned or drove a motor vehicle on the King's highway before the conclusion of the 1,000 miles trial of the A C G B on April 15, 1900. Brigadier-General Sir Capel Holden is the president, and ...

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... e/Y.o modern dressmaker can vie with the hand-made magnificence of Renaissance dress. Gold lace, rich brocade, flamboyant velvet, crimsons, blues, ana greens of incredibly rich timbre there was no colour in the painter's palette too brilliant, no material in the couturiere's repertoire too opu.ent to be hung on the human form. A first survey of the ...

... FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS-- VII GUY'S HOSPITAL. THE OLDEST CLUB IN EXISTENCE: THE MEN FROM GUY'S. Guy's, the winner of so many Hospital Cups, has a good right to the title of the oldest existing club, for it had a playing organisation in 1843. It is by no means suffering from senile decay, either, and this year includes in its first fifteen the Welsh International, Windsor Lewis, a man with his ...

... . OFF TO CARDIFF: THE ENGLAND XV. CHOSEN TO PLAY AGAINST WALES THIS WEEK. Caricatured by Mel.] that criti 16 names England XV. to meet Wales on the Saturday of this week at Cardiff was received with the usual amount of criticism, no footba!im considerate and well-informed, and the selection committee got at least as much praise as blame than which the above d Se .ctors can hope for more. The ...

... THE UBHTEB SECRETARIES CHUB LUNCMEOK A DISTINGUISHED ASSEMBLAGE- -BY FRED MAY The United Secretaries Club assembles under its roof, or round its board as it would be more convenient to say, a large number of most excellent and bard-working gentlemen secretaries of organisations principally connected with the motoring world, who carry on their onerous duties with a patience which completely ...

... BLUES GENTLEMEN-IN- WAITING: SOME CAMBRIDGE GOLFERS. PREPARING FOR THE HOYLAKE STRUGGLE v. OXFORD A DOZEN MEN FROM THE CAM. [Caricatured by Mel. J though you should never prophesy till you know, it looks as though Oxford University will this year break through Cambridge's winning sequence in the University match, after losing that event for the past four years. Of the ten places in the ...

... BLUES GENTLEMEN-IN- WAITING --No. II: SOME OXFORD GOLFERS. GETTING READY FOR CAMBRIDGE AT HOYLAKE: A DOZEN MEN FROM THE ISIS. [Caricatured by Mel.] P to the time of drawing this cartoon, eight of the twelve Oxford University men shown are Blues, four having been awarded this geaso- There are still two places to be filled and the decision will probably be made from the four players at the ...

... EN GARDE M'SIEU SOME OF THE BLADES AT BERTRAND'S- -BY FRED MAY Though most of these gentlemen are displayed with that excellent and handy weapon the £pde in their hands, the sketches were made at the Sabre Championships. The following qualified for the semi-final pools of the British sabre championship P. G. Wardle, J. Smallwood, S. F. Smith, Commander A. H. Jeffreys, G. Chatterton, Lieutenant ...

... . CARICATURED BY MEL. plavedTn Iteratiolna's TsTh°wn in our picture are Askew, Robson, Waters, Black, and Sobey. Included in the drawing are the following who he Rowland Hill Memorial Match of last October, when England and Wales met Scotland and Ireland Macphgrson, Morgan, Davy, Sugden, Parker, and Allan. MEL. ...

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... HOSPITAL-CUM-BOXING RING. [Drawn by Chas. Grave.] In the Scott Sharkey fight at Miami last week the referee stopped the contest and consulted a number of people as to whether c°tt was well enough to go on. If this way of conducting boxing contests becomes the rule, there seems no reason why a fight should continue until everybody is either cured or dead. ...