... HE BLEW ON THE WHISTLE A REQUIEM SHRILL. RUFFLED RUGBY OR, HOW TO WORK THE SCRUM A CARICATURIST'S DREAM. [A Caricature by Mel.] There are ingenious kettles manufactured which whistle a warning when they come to the boil, and if you heat a modern Rugby referee till he boils (when the ball does not get properly into the scrum), he whistles too, loud and long and often. Therefore Mel offers ...

... FROM FAR AND NEAR: PLAYERS OF TPIE WORLD-WIDE GAME. A Jamboree is not quite the correct word for the gathering of the nations at Wimbledon, since it actually means a frolic or spree, whereas no experts of sport are in more deadly earnest than are these entrants to the lists of ball and racket. But Boy Scouts still worship the Red Indian, and all the warriors on the Wimbledon trail are out for ...

... A GOOD DAY FOR BRITAIN OUTSIDE THE FIELD ITEMS ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND TAKE 14 EVENTS AT THE A. A. A. CHAMPIONSHIPS. Although on paper the records show that foreign competitors carried off nine out of the twenty-three titles at the ma eur Championships at Stamford Bridge, it is beyond question that the British public are not greatly concerned at losing sue the discus and javelin throwing, the hop ...

... PERSONALITIES OF THE MIGHTY SPECTACLE AT THE COLISEUM ^D-INK IMPRESSIONS OF THE MUSICAL COMEDY WHITE HORSE INN. [Line Wichacl.] The story of White Horse Inn, even for a musical comedy, is bewildermgly vague and in fact °nIy x'sts t°, /^{Iwlie re for the spectacle. The scenes follow each other with extraordinary rapidity and the eye has hardly filled itselt wit colour in one scene when it is ...

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... A Rug bt Supplement. FROM THE FIVE COUNTRIES INTERNATIONALS IN THE FIRST FLIGHT. [Caricatures by Mel.] The above sketches represent three outstanding internationals from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and France respectively. It would be interesting to play them as a XV, and see how, in positions necessarily transposed from their usual ones, they would fare against a team admittedly ...

... While I think of it, old man-- about this binge to night. Is it dinner jackets or tails? (DRAWN BY D. L. GHILCHIK.) ...

... . 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 ...

... LIGHT BLUE OR DARK BLUE CHOOSE YOUR COLOURS 55 THE BOAT RACE CREWS PUT UP FOR SALE: MEL BUYS SOME TOW-PATH MASCOTS. Here are the heroes of the great race from Mortlake to Putney. At the top are the two coxes, E. R. Edmett, who rides 8 stone at Oxford's helm, on the left, and J. M. Ranking, who is Cambridge's 7 stone steersman. The Dark Blues, starting with the first pair at the top on the ...

... . ONLY TWO HOLDERS KEEP THEIR TITLES: THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT KENSINGTON. [Caricatures by Mel.] Five new champions appeared at the Amateur Boxing Association's tournament last week, while a sixth, Corporal Bennett in the bantam weight, regained his title after having forfeited it by his absence through illness last year. Only Tommy Pardoe in the flyweight and Fred Mallin in the ...

... THE LUCK OF THE REVOLVING DRUM: THE ^2,789,696 SWEEPSTAKE. V jjj THE IRISH HOSPITALS' DERBY SWEEP: SCENES AND PEOPLE AT THE DRAW IN DUBLIN. [Caricatures by Mel.] The Dublin Derby Sweep has created such a sensation of late that that little affair of horses running at Epsom last Wednesday seemed almost a trifling appendage to the business in Ireland, rather than the cause of its existence. It ...

... . At the top of our picture are seen G. Richards, in Lord Glanely's colours, and T. Cullinan, who won last year's National on Shaun Goilin. Clinging to the iron on left are A. C. Bostwick and G. N. Bostwick, the American owner-riders while in a similar position on right are Captain R. E. Sassoon, the amateur who rode Pixie at Aintree and R. Everett, who won the 1929 National on Gregalach. ...