... THE LONDON INVERNESS-SHIRE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DINNER- BY MEL This was the fifty-eighth annual gathering of the men of Inverness condemned to live in London, the Association having been constituted in 1881. It was held at Grosvenor House. Lochiel, K.T., Chief of the Association, took the Chair, and filled that responsible position with honour and distinction. For the benefit of the ...

... GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFEMS THE ROYAL WEST NORFOLK GOLF CLUB A little gallery of celebrities who, thanks to the admirable efforts of the highly expert artist, will have no difficulty whatever in recognizing themselves. The Royal West Norfolk course is at Brancaster in one of the prettiest parts of the county, and is an 18-holes one with a membership of round about seven hundred, an excellent club ...

... WESTGATE-ON-SEA AND BIRCHINGTON GOLF CLUB BY MEL Westgate-on-Sea and Birchington is easily accessible from Margate, a frequent service of buses passing the Club-house. It is within 300 yards of Westgate-on-Sea railway station. The visitor can be sure of excellent greens and a not too strenuous test of golf. Mel gathered the above gallery on the day after the Club's annual dinner (which does ...

... PURLEY DOWNS GOLF CLUB By MEL The Purley Downs Golf Club, at Sanderstead, Surrey, seems to have come into being round about 1890, when a few of the local residents obtained permission to mark out a 9-hole course on the Downs, which had hitherto been used for sheep grazing. The club itself, consisting of only twenty-five members, was formed in 1895, but this was greatly increased in 1903, ...

... SANDHURST'S COMMANDANT AND HIS OFFICERS I-- BY FRED MAY Major-General Eric Stanley Girdwood, C.B., C.M.G., has been commandant of the R.M.C., Sandhurst, since 1927, and he is seen here amongst other impressions of those whose task it is to manufacture that very fine thing, an officer of the King s Army. The same thing is done, of course, at two establishments which specialize, The Shop - ...

... --By MEL THE BOGNOR GOLF CLUB MEL The Bognor Golf Club is a popular resort for golfers holidaying on the pleasant West Sussex coast, and at this time of year has many visitors. The club was founded in 1919, and three years later its present attractive course at Innerwyke was constructed by F. G. Hawtree to the plans of James Braid. While it is not tigers' meat, the course provides ...

... -By MEL EAST RENFREWSHIRE GOLF CLUB- MEL The East Renfrewshire Golf Club is situated on the Kilmarnock Road some nine miles from George Square, Glasgow. James Braid designed the course in 1922, and it was opened for play in 1923. Two of the founder-members are included in the above page. There are now over 500 members, among whom there are miny first-class golfers, notably Robert Neill and ...

... HAYWARDS HEATH GOLF CLUB BY MEL This delightful course lies in the midst of beautiful wooded country near the picturesque old Sussex village of Lindfield, a little over a mile from Haywards Heath station. Glorious views of the Sussex Downs and Ashdown Forest are to be seen from the higher points on the course. The Club was started in 1922 and it now has about 330 members all told. The course ...

... GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFEBS 'PORTERS PARK GOLF CLUB- -BY MEL The Porters Park Golf Club is considered one of the best around London, with the finest park course in the neighbourhood. The ground is well adapted to the purpose of golf, consisting as it does of beautiful old park turf on light loam over gravel, and sand. Yet it is not more than fifteen miles by road from Marble Arch, and within half ...

... THE BRITISH CHARACTER As seen by PONT introduction by F M 'nTfu £0nt havc been colIected in book form by Collins, the famous publishers, and there is a most ,nnrnnr Picture more clooi.e ti But who really 0311 want any introduction to the British character as displayed by Pont' Never h Nannie with the ma k °!d 'tS, story Think of that dentlst Think of that ungallant little bov Th nk f that ...

... LOOKING BACK-- A RE-ECHO OF THE PRESS CLUB DERBY LUNCH. BY MEL MEL In this little retrospect of what happened at the Derby lunch at the Press Club, the artist catalogues his sitters like this Slip On, Captain Lionel Montagu Major the Hon. J.J. Astor, M.P., President of the club, who was in the chair Flyon, Sir Laurence Philipps Bois Roussel, The Hon. Peter 1 ieatty Portmarnock, Sir ...

... By MEL GERRARD'S CROSS GOLF CLUB MEL Gerrard's Cross Golf Club is in Chalfont. Park, between Gcrrard's Cross and Chalfont St. Peter, about nineteen miles from London by the Uxbridge Road, and within easy reach by rail from Marylebone or Paddington to Gerrard's Cross station. The Park formerly belonged to a nephew of the great Duke of Marlborough. The course itself is laid out amid some of ...