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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 

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 

GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... THE EXETER GOLF CLUB BY MEL Although the present course of the Exeter Golf Club is a modern development, the Club itself was founded as long ago as 1895. For more than thirty years its members kept to their original nine-hole course on the top of Pennsylvania, but the old course was quite inadequate to the needs of Exeter golfers. A site for an eighteen-hole course was acquired on the Wear ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

DISTINGUISHED RACKETEERS

... RACKETS CELEBRITIES AT QUEEN'S CLUB BY MEL The greatest celebrity in this page of portraits is Major-General Seymour Sheppard, who is Sheppard the Sapper to anyone who has ever had anything to do with the region in which quite a big spot of bother is boiling up at this moment. General Sheppard has been connected with practically every unpleasantness that has occurred on the North-West and ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... THE YORK GOLF CLUB, STRENSALL-- By MEL The club of the famous city is really quite close to the ancient walls, only a matter of about six miles out, a mere nothing in these times, and not much more in about 1890, when the club was first founded at Knavesmire. The original site was not ideal, as it was subject to all the disadvantages of land open to the public passers-by, cattle, and such ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... -By MEL THE BRANKSOME CHALLENGE CUP AT PARKSTONE GOLF CLUB- MEL Some sixty competitors took part recently in the annual competition for the Branksome Challenge Cup (thirty-six holes, scratch) and Branksome Challenge Trophy (thirty-six holes handicap), promoted by the Branksome Tower Hotel at the Parkstone Golf Club. This is the eighth year that this very successful and enjoyable ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

SOME YORK PROBABLES

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... 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, ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

SOME POWERS OF PRESS AND PUSH

... BY MEL The Solus Club is a gathering of those connected with the Press and Advertising. The ubiquitous Mel was at their recent dinner and above are the fruits of his gleaning. The subject for discussion upon this occasion was a resolution that an appropriation should be set aside from the National Defence Loan for the purposes of advertising, publicity and propaganda to (a) Prevent War, (b) ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic