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GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... -BY MEL CAME DOWN GOLF CLUB, DORSET- BY MEL The Came Down Golf Club is situated on the downs midway between Dorchester and Weymouth and overlooking Portland and Wey mouth on the south-west and commanding splendid views looking north and east. The course is all downland turf, which always plays well owing to the chalky subsoil, which gives good drainage yet never dries things up. Although ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

MEN OF MIND AND MUSCLE FRATERNISING

... . I' ---mil, M CHAMPIONS AT TABLE THE MIDDLESEX WANDERERS' DINNER TO SPORTING HEROES. The twenty-sixth annual dinner of the Middlesex Wanderers' Association Football Club was held recently in London, and among some two hundred people present the above were guests of honour. They are, or have been, famous people in their various sports, stars in fact, who had shot from their spheres for this ...

OXFORD BEATS R.A.F. BOXERS

... . E Fred May's running commentary gives us a little idea of the fighting ivhich took place at HALTON CAMP, AYLESBURY, when R.A.F. officers took on the Oxford University boxing team, only to be beaten by six ivins to three a good night and some pretty boxing! The HALTON CAMP SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL TRAINING is housed in an original home of the Rothschild family. At the outbreak of ivar the park was ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 140 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

F.B.I. PERSONALITIES: BUSINESS BRAINS OF THE EMPIRE

... . The meeting of the GRAND COUNCIL OF THE FEDERATION OF BRIT ISH INDUSTRIES inspired Fred May to the caricatures on this page. LT. -GENERAL SIR CEORGI MACDONOGH C.B.E., K.C.B. is President, and LORD HERBERT SCOTT, C.M.G., D.S.O., is the President-elect, uho takes over office in April. The British Industries Fair opens at Birmingham and Olxmpia in mid-February. SIR PETER RYLANDS, LORD GA INFORD ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

R.A.F. MIDDLE EAST DINNER

... RAF. MIDDLE EAST DINNER. The ROYAL AIR FORCE (MIDDLE EAST) DINNER CLUB held its fifteenth annual dinner recently. It was started the year after the Armistice, with the object of holding a gathering of officers of the R.F.C., the R.N.A.S., and the R.A.F. who served in the Middle East from August 1914 to January 1919. Those who served in Iraq to, and including, 1923 are also eligible. It is ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

MEL'S SCOTTISH TOUR

... The Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society was formed in the year 1761 and is among the oldest of golf clubs. In 1897 the Club came to its present course, which was reconstructed in 1923. Having some 650 members, the Club is a most popular one, as it stands in part of the old Barnton estate nearer to the Firth of Forth than its neighbour, the Royal Burgess G.S. Some wonderful views of the Firth and ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

TOM WEBSTER'S DINNER

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 171 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

THE NORWICH AND NORFOLK AERO CLUB

... THE MOIRWICH AMD MOSFOLI AEIRO CHUB AT THE ANNUAL DINNER-- -BY FRED MAY The Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club held its annual dinner at the Spring Gardens, Norwich, and it was a very distinguished occasion, both aeronautically and otherwise. The club has a membership of over 500, and of these fifty hold pilots' certificates. The president is Mr. H. N. Holmes, and the chairman Captain R. J. Harmer, ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic