... By CEORGE BELCHER, A.R.A. How did you like your trip to London and to the Zoo Oh, Miss, my sister didn't 'alf make me look small. She said out loud, Look at that seraph!' and it wasn't a seraph at all, Miss, it was a camelmile. By GEORGE BELCHER. A.R.A. ...

... SOME YORK PROB ABLES A FEW CELEBS BY THE TOUT The industrious Tout has not taken much risk in presuming that all the celebrities in his gallery will be at the York Sum mer Meeting, one of the pleasantest of all the fixtures on that famous battleground, the Knavesmire. A short catalogue goes like this Mr. J. L. Dugdale is a steward of the meeting, a well-known owner and breeder, and a member ...

... OPEN MIXED FOURSOMES AT WESTGATE-ON-SEA GOLF CLUB BY MEL On Sunday, August Bth, at Westgate-on-Sea and Birchington Golf Club, thirty-seven couples competed for the Eccleston Cup over thirty- six holes under handicap. The meeting is increasing in popularity, this entry being the largest so far. Competitors come from near and far to take part in this very cheery contest over a course which is, ...

... -By MEL THE BRITISH SPORTSMAN'S CLUB LUNCHEON- MEL his luncheon at the Savoy was given by the British Sportsman's Club to hold out a hand to all the people who have come to play e polo game with us this year, and some of whom, no doubt, hope and probably will give us a pretty good hiding. Lord Decies, one-time light-weight G.R. and 7th Hussar polo specialist, was in the chair, as he has ...

... GORING HALL GOLF CLUB, ANGMERING, SUSSEX- -BY MEL Angmering is one of those pleasant places along the Sussex Coast and lies a few miles to the west of Worthing. The Goring Hall course is laid out on the Ham Manor Estate and is a park course, although within a mile of the Channel shore. There are some testing holes and there is a stream to lay watery traps for the unwary. The President of the ...

... -BY MEL Wanstead G.C. is on the borders of a corner of historic Epping Forest, the history of a part of which, at any rate, is intimately connected with the picturesque character in history Dick Turpin, no less who hid there many a time and had a pied-i-terre in an old inn at Harlow. As the crow or the Moth flies, the course is only seven miles from the Bank of England, but even then you ...

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... GULLANE GOLF CLUB BY MEL The Gullane Golf Club, on the South Bank of the Firth of Forth, is some five miles from North Berwick and fifteen from Edinburgh. The Club was founded in 1882. Until 1900 they had only one eighteen-hole course then another was made, and in 1910 a third course was constructed. There are many notable members in the list of 550, some of whom Mel was fortunate in ...

... 1 tit 1 A 1 ttK ANNUAL DINNER OF THE ROYAL BLACKHEATH GOLF CLUB- -BY MEL The Royal Blackheath Golf Club, which was founded as far back as 1608, held its Annual Dinner recently at the Park Lane Hotel in London. The dinner is noted for its traditional ceremony, such as the march-past of the Field-Marshal and past captains, the installation of the Captain Elective this year Mr. John Burrell ...

... -BY MEL THE MAGISTRATES' GOLFING SOCIETY-- MEL The newly formed Magistrates' Golfing Society held its first meeting at Ranelagh recently when about forty of its 200 members took part. To see some of the beaks on the golf course was indeed amusing, yet among their numbers they have some very good golfers. The winner of the Hughes-Hogbin Cup was Mr. T. Atkinson, J. P., of Brentford, ...

... A PAGE FROM MEL'S BUSY SKETCH-BOOK At this time of year there are so many golf dinners that Mel is practically living in full dress order as hinted in the picture in the lower right-hand comer. Among such affairs recently held have been those of North Middlesex Golf Club, Hendon Golf Club, the dinner to the England-Scotland Rugger teams and the Vaudeville Golfing Society's annual dinner ...

... -By MEL1 BUSH HILL PARK GOLF CLUB ANNUAL DINNER-- MEL There was an excellent muster of members and their friends at the annual dinner and dance of that delightful club, the Bush Hill Park Golf Club, at the Connaught Rooms recently. The course is one of the most charming to be found near London, and abounds in numerous varieties of beautiful trees. The dinner and dance was a great success, ...