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A NEW SWISS WINTER SPORT

... . WITH A SKI TAKE-OFF AS PLATFORM: TOBOGGAN-JUMPING IN THE ALPS. Toboggan jumping is done on ordinary luges, and the platform is a ski-jump of mild proportions. Provided the snow is well packed, surprisingly little shock is felt on landing however, it is advisable to have a cushion to sit on, in case of a bad impact. Flat Canadian toboggans are really best for this game, which is quite ...

FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS--V: RICHMOND

... ■FAMOUS RUGBY CLUBS-Y RICHMOND. A FINE CLUB OF EARLY ORIGIN THE RICHMOND RUGGER TEAM. [Caricatured by Mel.} This year's fifteen for Richmond contains a couple of Asletts, the famous international as a threequarter and the other as a half, another player for England in the shape of the captain, D. Turquand Young, two Cambridge Blues and one from Oxford. The beginnings of this famous club may ...

GOODWOOD CALLING

... The annual pilgrimage to Goodwood begins next week, and it will be a rare thing indeed if the majority of these enthusiastic sportsmen are not among the probable starters. CARICATURED BY THE TOUT. ...

THE LUCK OF THE REVOLVING DRUM: THE £2,789,696 SWEEPSTAKE

... 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 ...

WEST INDIAN HURRICANE FUND

... . Sir, It lias occurred to me that many people who xvould willingly subscribe toxvards the West Indian Hurricane Fund are (let tered from doing so because they cannot contribute any large sum. I have, therefore, begun a shilling subscription among my friends. No one minds being asked for a shilling, and if others would do the same, and collect in their oxvn households and among those they meet ...

A GLANCE BACK AND AROUND: SOME JUMP AND FLAT PERSONALITIES

... . 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. ...

The Organisation of a Farm Sale

... The Organ isatio of a Farm Sale ALTHOUGH modern custom tends to a public sales, there is much to be said fo where the animals can be seen in their hoi informal conditions than are possible at thi also a far more intimate atmosphere at a d inspected, before the sale commences, wit buyers wandering at will among the farm bu are working among their charges. Then tl farm-sheds helps to create a ...

INTERESTED IN THE LAST CLASSIC OF THE SEASON

... . CARICATURES OF SOME WHO WERE CONCERNED IN THE GREAT DOINGS AT DONCASTER. The people sketched on this page were associated with the great meeting last week at Doncaster, which included not only Salmon Trout's St. I.eger on the Town Moor but also the important sales held by Messrs. Tattersall. (Drawn by The Tout.) ...