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POPULAR BADMINTON: THE SHUTTLE GAME AT SYDENHAM

... . AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS. (Drawn by Will Owen.) The game of Badminton grows in popularity every year, being an excellent winter pastime demanding great skill and not incurring any great expense or undue expenditure of time to the player. The South of England championships, which concluded last Saturday at the Crystal Palace, suffered through the ...

A GOOD DAY FOR BRITAIN OUTSIDE THE FIELD ITEMS: ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND TAKE 14 EVENTS AT THE A. A. A. CHAMPIONSHIPS

... 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 ...

A TROPICAL TALE

... 1 TOPICAL TALt I RULEP TM/iT TRIPE YOU CHN PELT TMEY WHO A TRICKY LOT, i chunnep up with a nepicine nTin wot tolp he wot who wot THL IOLHNP WHO A VOLCHNO OUPPOOEP TO BE EXTINCT BUT ON N Y THRONE ONE PHY I 'EHRP A RUHBLE HOOT PIOTINCT. QUITE OUPPEN WE WHO BLOWN OKY-HIGH 8, HO I FELL I OE E NY FHITHFUL BUT PEOERTED OHIP CONE BHCK TO REOCUE HE. SA/I I CWN^El. r-WQ ...

MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF A CLUB DATING BACK TO 1608

... . THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE ROYAL BLACKHEATH GOLF CLUB Caricatures by Mel The Annual Dinner of the historic Royal Blackheath Golf Club was held the other day at the Hotel Metropole, when the proceedings included the ceremony of installing the new captain, Major-General Sir Charles Mathew. Accompanied by pipers, the past captains marched round the tables. The captain-elect then kissed a golf ...

GETTING UP SPEED: THE BOAT RACE CREWS WELL TOGETHER

... . WARE PUTNEY AUTOGRAPH FIENDS BIG-GAME HUNTING ON THE TOWPATH. Our artist infers that however it may be with their arms, the Oxford and Cambridge crews for this week's Putney to Mortlake incident are putting in plenty of good eg work in escaping the autograph hunters. Indeed, he suggests that whichever of the two crews was chased home by these youthful zealots in a motor craft would catch the ...

HITTING 'EM OFF IN HIT THE DECK

... IVY TRESMAND, STANLEY HOLLO WAY AND OTHERS AT THE HIPPODROME. \Caricatured by Hynes.) Hit The Deck continues to prove very popular at the Hippodrome, showing that stories of the King's Navee, with appropriate music, have not declined in public favour since the far-off days of Pinafore's first appearance. In his sketches, Mr. Hynes shows (in centre) Miss Ivy iresmand and Mr. Stanley Holloway, ...

THE TAMING OF MISS EVANS

... Pictured by Stanley Parker Below ANTHONY IRE LAND contributes as his share to the evening's frolic a positive battery of artless charm, a cast- off profile of Ivor Novello's, and a pair of legs I seem to have seen on Dorothy Ward. I I Below: MARK DALY, I believe, has never before played Shakespeare an omission which his appearance here can scarcely be said to rectify. Above: THE THREE STARS ...

BLUES & GENTLEMEN-IN-WAITING--No. II: SOME OXFORD GOLFERS

... BLUES GENTLEMEN-IN- WAITING --No. II: SOME OXFORD GOLFERS. GETTING READY FOR CAMBRIDGE AT HOYLAKE: A DOZEN MEN FROM THE ISIS. [Caricatured by Mel.] P to the time of drawing this cartoon, eight of the twelve Oxford University men shown are Blues, four having been awarded this geaso- There are still two places to be filled and the decision will probably be made from the four players at the ...