... 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 ...

... By H. M. Bate-man ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PERSONALITIES IN THE DUCHY-- BY FRED MAY The fortieth annual dinner of the London Cornish Association was held at the Cecil, Mr. Justice Hawke, the President of the Association, being present, and the gathering entirely characteristic of those who in the strenuous hour when Philip of Spain designed to make England one of his provinces left their skiffs on Tamar's glittering waves and poured to ...

... A KEY TO THE PICTURE n t e left Mr. Eric Piatt, the owner of the impetuous Kingsford, who was entered for the National and subsequently scratched; t°tt was (and is) his jockey; Mr. Dawkins, the well-known handicapper Mr. Topham, clerk of the course and handicapper at intree Captain J. B. Powell, who trains for Mr. Gordon Selfridge and others W. Parvin is the stable jockey Sir Keith raser, ...

... A (B)EOADWAY MELODY By Hynes ...

... THE GOLD-DIGGER By S. C. Martin ...

... THIS SOCIETY OF DYERS AMD COLOURISTS AMONGST THOSE PRESENT LY FRED MAY °f this estimable^ a' tlle Soc'ety Dyers and Colourists was held at the Metropole, and if it is permissible to say so every shade Eastman is pre6'^ W3S r?Presente(D There were no colourable imitations but the true blue as well as other tints. Mr. Cyril and the generalS' soc'etY> whose objects are the promotion of ...

... TYPICAL CHARACTERS to be found on a Brazilian Coffee F agenda Taken jrom Lije by TONY WYSARD On the left is O JO AO, the fiscal a sort of sergeant- major whose job it is to keep the workers on the fazenda from go ing to sleep. He doesn t bel ieve in back- chat CHICO, a member of the house hold staff, with a cacho of bananas I A BRAZILIAN STIRRUP.CUV-- COFFEE. Note the umbrella, univers ally ...

... ALL THE CHAMPIONS-- -BY FRED MAY om Webster's dinner at the Ambassadors Club last week in honour of Walter Lindrum, the Australian Billiard Champion, whose ?ats 'n .'his country have witched the whole world, was the most remarkable gathering ever convened. With Lord Lonsdale in be chair and Harry Preston at the other end of the table, and the host making a speech which was as witty as his ...

... THE BIVOTEE By H. M. Batemau ...