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· LANCASHIRE'S GOLF PRESIDENT
of.
AND ATHLETICS.
AUSTRALIAN'S FIFTY.
THE HOOKEY CURVE.”
many
J. O. Anderson differs from Dr. Vacational diseases are of The choice of Dr. H. Holt as the tralia's first Bity tennis players are knee and writer's cramp to miner's J. C. Gregory'a opinion that Aus-kinds, and range from housemaid's new president of the Lancashire Union of Golf Clubs is a very happy equal to the world's best.
nystagmus. It has been left, for one and will be popular throughout ous tournaments outside national their recreational equivalents-so Anderson has competed in numer. this generation to invent or discover the country, in which he has been championship events in America, that " tennis elbow" is the penalty one of the leading personalities.and he says he knows many fine for too persistent exploits with the both as player and legislator, since the Union was formed in 1911. De players who are difficult to beat, and racket, or the callosities on the Holt has been a member of the many of them we have ever heard hands of the hardbitten, golfer the Lancashire Executive for a number
price that he pays for swinging not of years and has watched it grow players capable of defeating the noted, however, that most of these Australia has to outstanding wisely but too well. It is to be in membership from about 30 clubs to 118, now the largest county union Our leading men need a lot of are discerned in the female sex; it
world's best,' Anderson adds. alleged "recreational diseases in the country. He may be regard- ed as one of the older school. He experience. Five or six years ago there that hostile observers usual
we had champions who gave the ly discover that large feet, thick has had a handicap as low as plus one before the later standardisa,oungsters the necessary confidence. ankies, graceless figures, and, it may tion of handicaps and even
My belief is that the standard in be, displaced interiors, are the re- now Australia is lower now than it was ult of too many games too hardly plays to his allowance of two alteen years ago. The first ten played. And it is not always the strokes. Originally-and still-a member of Hentan Moor, he was layers of tant period would easily male sex which makes these pain- one of the founders of the Reddish have beaten the first ten to-day." Vale club in 1911, through which he has gained a closer association with the county.
recent
GREAT WALKS.
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-FELIXSTOWE TOURNAMENT.. Miss Betty Nuthall made her first Appearance this year in English tournament play when, in the Felix stove Hard Court tournament she beat Mrs. R. Pretty by two sets to none. Miss Nuthall was driving ac curately to the lines in the first set. In the second set she was not so accurate and she served several double faults. G. R. O. Crole-Rees, S. W. Harris, and H. J. Gilbert had little difficulty in winning theired £10,000 that the Irishman would this point, and who replies by matches in the Singles.
feat of the veteran George sult of too much attention to that RENEE ADOREE,
ANGLICISED AUSTRALIANS. "The folks at home will hardly understand us when we get back."
ful discoveries or assertions: for example, it is an Irish schoolmis- tress who has. just declared that Great walks have always had a quite a number of girls had deve- fascination for Englishmen Theloped a hockey curve as a re-
miles between London and Leeds, view of the tremendous number of Cemmings, of Hull, in marching 400 popular bus strenuous game. In recalls the interest created fifty girls who do now-a-days play years ago by the appearance in this hockey, one cannot help thinking, (whose death has just, occurred), menace, that half the young women, country of Edward Payson, Weston if that complaint were really a and the defeat of the American in The match at the Agricultural Hall. all, an impression that is generally one sees ought to be as curved as a a six days' contest by Dan O'Leary question-mark-which is not, after London, aroused enormous interest derived from the England of to- amongst all classes. The Earl of day. Perhaps the medical autho Dudley was reported to have wager.
rity who has been consulted on carrying the war into the camp of the opposite sex, is on the right that he track in such matters, He says
has encountered the i
curve." In short, nearly any game, shuffle" but not the hocker if carried to excess, is liable to pro- duce an abnormality of development or carriage..
win, and, to stimulate O'Leary's energs, he sent his secretary on the him that he would give him a pre- day previous to the finish to inform
aaid Harold Spencer, one of the heat of £2,000 if he won. Weston, golfer's stoop" and the "boxer's Australian cinder artists, who is Astley, was beaten by ten miles, whose chief supporter was Sir John very popular at the White City. O'Leary having completed 520 miles.
Several of us have wintered in
Away back in the eighteenth cen England, and our speech has become tury it is recorded that one John so English we are sometimes mis Batty, who, like Cummings, was in taken for Londoners In Australia his 35th year, undertook to walk we have towns called Ipswich, 200 miles in 14 days at Richmond, Ilfracombe, and lots of other Eng- and it is said he accomplished the lish names, but when we first came task with ease. over here we pronounced them in 'Australian, and nobody understood
113.
TO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA. The following players have been selected by the FA to tour South Africa from May to August, 1999
GREAT HOCKEY TOURNAMENT.
Senor J. A. Macaya, président of the hockey section of the Real. Polo Jockey Club of Barcelona, gives a Pres representative details of the mammoth hockey tournament which is being organised in Barcelona next winter.
"Harold did not like the English winter. Never again," he said. "I just curled up with the cold. Hibbs (Birmingham), Olney (Villa), When I had to drive a car 45 miles. B. S. Bower (Cambridge Univer All the European nations which in a fog and tried driving on those sity), Keeping (Southampton), Osplay the stick game have been in- glassy roads during the frost, I de-borne (Leicester), Hart (Leeds), rited to compete, and special travel- cided a speedway was just about Barrett (Fulham), Harrison (Not-ling facilities will be granted to the safest place in the world"tingham Forest), Armitage (Stoke), visiting tears. Late recruits, like Harold is 25, and started riding Shelley (Southampton), Seed (Shel Czecho-Slovakia and, Portugal, have with the opening of the first Bris- Sold Wednesday), Price. (Ful been enlisted to meet senior sides. bano track.
ham), Landells (Millwall), Turnbull like England and Ireland. He has been second scores of (Leeds), Chandler (Leicester), Hockey is now a popular game, times in the big trophy races, but Pense (Middlesbrough), Williams throughout the Continent, and it has always been unlucky or not quite (J.J.) (Stoke), Davies (Stoke); T. has attracted a very good type of fast enough to win one...
Whittaker (Arsenal), de trainer. player.
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MAINLY FOR THE MEN.
An American in London writes: Water Board's pipes. There are Ten million dollars change hands also municipal drainage tunnels. it the theatres, cinemas, restaur-most of the amenities and neces- The city has let by private contract
ants, cabarets, bars and dance halls sities which are concentrated under of London every Saturday night. the municipal administration in most The average small-towner has no-towns. The' work putting Lon- thing on the Londoner when it don's underground house in order comes to stepping out on Saturday, will therefore be rather complicat Salcons and bars are packed until ed. Meanwhile any workman in the the last minute before closing time. network of conduits and passages Queues stretch for blocks in front beneath and streets may become an of the theatres and cinemas. Streets sccidental Guy Fawkes, and give are jammed by the overflow, who the rond repairers more work to do have nowhere else to go after they after they have finished patching are refused admission to the packed up the present devastated zone. amusement places. When 200,000 || suburban Londoners start for the
The Eiffel Tower has reached middle age but it still holds itself proudly erect as the highest struc ture in the world despite the ever- increasing height of aky-scrapers in America. Parisions are planning to commemorate its fortieth an- niversary this year by placing a memorial to N. Gustave Eiffel, its constructor, under the north side of this straddling four-legged colossus of steel. This memorial will be a bust executed by the famous French sculptor, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, and will be unveiled in the course of the year with impressive cere- monies, the exact date not yet hav ing been fixed. M. Eiffel built his imporing monument, with its 1,500,000 pieces of metal, in 14 25,000,000, rivets holding together monthe, driving home the last rivet even days before the opening of Despite the protests against the the Universal Exposition af 1880.
termed by many writers a useless construction of what was then and ugly metal tower," he started the work in 1887 and finished on March 30, 1889.
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tube and train stations to catch the The merry huntsmen of England 12:20 for Croydon, East Ham, or pondering over the possibility that are just a bit perturbed. They are Hendon, the rush is at the full as Britain's foxes may be exterminat far as London's traffic is concerned.ed before the hounds take the field. The people coming up to London and fox hunting without a fox for Saturday night start by spend would hardly be according to tradi- ing some $30,000 on train, tram, tion. The source of their worry and omnibus fares. Approximately is a notice issued by Mr. Henry
Albert George Wilson (23), a 750,000 Londoners, suburban and Nation, a West Somerset land
timberworker, and Anna Elizabeth regular, spend the evening at the owner and retired farm owner, who
Hillard, a middle-aged woman, ap "pictures" Another 150,000 keep has already prohibited hunting on themselves and their money'
peared, in the Criminal Court at in his lands, which include some of
Melbourne charged with having circulation at public dances. The the best hunting country of the
murdered David Wilson, The dead, theatres do business of $250,000, Taunton Vale Foxhounds, and has and the cinemas top the figure at established a sanctuary for all the French people take off their George Wilson, and, according to The movement in France to have man was the father of Albert $415,000. The Londoner's Saturday hunted animals at Clatworthy clothes and return to nature has the Crown case, the woman Hillard might bill for half a million pounds He now proposes to shoot all the been given an impetus by the ar had lived with David Wilson for of chocolates is $240,000. Rainy foxes in sight, thus saving them the
rival in Paris of the German many years. She was the mother of weather does not deter those whose mental anguish of being chased all apostle of nudity Herr Doktor six children of whom David Wilson regular routine calls for a night out. over the country and finally being Zimmermann. He has come for the was the father.
torn to bits by the hounds. An express purpose of conferring with
Mr. Book (Crown Prosecutor) other West Somerset farmer, Mr. his colleaguer in this country re said that David Wilson Was The Bloomsbury War Brea "isFred Scott, followed Mr. Nation's still a maze of craters and trenches lead, and warned local hunts of garding the establishment of a separated from hiso guarded by barriers and red lan- His land, one of the favourite spot health camp for nudes in France About 18 months ago Albert George
ahortly,
this probably
spring. Wilson and Hillard formed an at- terns which seem strangely out of of the West Somerset Foxhounds. You have no idea of the moral tachment for each other, and the. place when the night lights of the The bounds Frightened his ewes revolution brought about in the desire to get rid of David Wilson West End are turned on. The dis Mr. Boott said, and he had a bad human being by nudism," Dostor indaced the two accused to kill trict suffered heavy damage in De- lambing. 2001 Verre Zimmermann declared in a state him. Hillard shot deceased through cember when & gas main exploded hunters who rode gaily over his ment to the press. I believe that the heart with a shotgun and and ripped up some of the busiest land smashed his fences and broke humanity can only be saved from Albert Wilson assisted in the crime. streets in town. Shop owners took his gates:
evil by the practice of complete The two arranged that Albert naturalism. I also believe that Wilson should take the blame, and trade and several theatres were One of the first practical difficul- this regeneration must be interne say that he had shot his father to closed for several days. A commis- ties facing the new provisory tional. That is the reason I have sion of inquiry blamed a worker, government of the Vatican City is me to Paris to see M. de Mon- protect the women from an assault
by David Wilson. A who died from injuries received in a small scale-problem in eviction. { geot and his friends who are soon
"Sculling for Gun!! the blast, for fashing a cigarette Admission to citizenship in the to open a camp." It was twenty- lighter in the gas main. The com-Fapai State is jealously guarded. | fve years ago that Dr. Zimmer- Anna Elizabeth. Hillard said that mission also recommended
that In consequence some 250 persons, mann founded a camp at Kling the and her children had been un London's basement be regulated mostly minor employees and serberg, near Luebeck, for folks who mercifully treated by David Wil his father scuffling for the gun, so along the lines of modern zoning vanta, living in the precincts of prefer to strell about in the nito son, who beat the children with a she got the gun and it went off. and city planning, Many factors Vatican City have got to find new gether. Since the war the move stockwhip for the least thing. On On discovering that David Wil contribute to the present subter- homes before the end of this month: pent has grown rapidly and is said the night of the tragedy, Albertson was, shot dead she and Albert ranean tangle beneath the city's The ruling is a blow to many of how to embrace 10.000 enthusiasts Wilson was playing the gramophons Wilson got a razor and put it be streets. Between the street surface them who have lived all their lives
The number of for the children, when David Wilside his body. She had no intention Germany, in and the underground railway tubes in their present residences, and people interested in it in France son went to bed. She had some of shooting him.
words "with Wilson kenior and Finding that she had acted under are laid the Post Office tunnels and who up to two months ago had sup has not been estimated but the, cult cables, the gas companies mains, posed they would probably spend is large enough to have a bimonth he sprang out of bed and chased extreme provocation, the jury re the electricity companies' power the remainder of their days in the magazine entitled Live Comber. She saw Albert Wilson and turned a verdict of manslaughter
pletely conduits, and the Metropolitan same abodes.
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