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THE EBOND OF SPORT. KINDLY GRIP ON MEN OF ALL
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[BY D. LA. JEPHSON, EX-CAPTAIN SURUKY XI.]
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Religion, philosophy, and science have never yet produced a fellowship as universal as the bond that is created by a love of sport. It "hooks and eyes" the world. Regardless of sect, teaching, or knowledge. it embraces and holds, in a kindly grip of steel, men of all nations, all creeds, all ranks, from kinga to dustmen, from presidents to pedlars. «
Of course they don't do it nowadays, but pace upon a time they did. Just in case. you know. It might have been easy for some one who disliked the reigning monarch of long ago to drop some prussic acid into the royal soup, and everyone will agree that it would have been much better for a member of the King's Bodyguard to sample the soup and die, that for the poisonous 'stuff'
I use the word "sport" in its widest to find its way to the royal table and in-sense, to include not only hunting, fishing, terfere, perhaps fatally, with the royal and shooting, but all games and athletics - digestion.
football, cricket, lawn tennis, golf, rowing, racing, boxing, and all the rest which mostly originating in England, are now so rapidly being introduced into many parts of the globe.
And the member of the bodyguard who met bis death through tasting the king's soup would perhaps have sufficient time, before speeding to the Great Beyond, to
A love of sport creates a new existence, realise what bad happened, and would be
new ideas, new friendships, and the path of able to take with him to the next world the comforting knowledge that at any rate he those who love sport, and especially of those had lain down his life for his sovereign. -
who are lucky enough or clever enough to excel in any one athletic pastime, is made MARCHING DOWN THE MALL...
easy and pleasant; wherever he goes it is Tasting the royal dinner was once an imHail fellow," well met." It is the "open portant part of the duties of the Yeomen of resume" to many a club, pavilion, or smok the King's Bodyguard, who recently gave ing-room-free pass to confidence and London a glimpse of their old-world splend- companionship in many a place where with our by marching bravely down the Mall for out it he would be left, a miserable, solitary their annual Inspection, in all the glory of pebble on some unfamiliar beach! their centuries-old costumes of red and gold, with gay rosette at knee and instap, low-crowned hats of purple velvet, and scarlet stockings, with the gold tassels of their glittering halberds gallantly a-toss in the breeze.
Poisoning kings has long gone out of fashion, and so the Royal dinner is no longer tried on the Bodyguard before it comes to table.
In the same way the members of this ancient force-it is the oldest military force in the world are not now called upon to make the king's bed.
A cricketer goes to Australia, South Africa, the West Indies, anywhere where there is a cricket ground, and he straight way passes into a charmed circle of friend. ship. A golfer or a lawn tennis player or aborer has only to travel to links, court, or ring, however distant, and the hand of comradeship is heartily extended to him. "
And this fellowship that the devotees of any one sport extend to each ether they extend in almost the same degree to lovers of every other sport.
A cricketer will play a round at Walton Heath and the followers of the little white ball receive him "courteously; and when At one time during those good old James Braid jourveys to Lord's or the 'times for which some moderns sigh-Oral, or Duncan to Chelsea or Tottenham, a when cut-throats had a habit of lurking seat is sure to be found for him. behind the arras with knife and dagger, the Yeomen of the King's Bodyguard were sole ly responsible for the elaborate ceremonial known as "making the king's bed."
ILL-DISPOSED VARLETS.
No one else was allowed to touch the Royal couch. Every portion was separa tely examined, and each sheet or coverlet was laid with the greatest ceremony. In fact, the Sovereign could not retire to rest until the bed had been reported "well und truly laid.
There was always the possibility that some ill-disposed or forgetful varlet might have left a poniard with the business en sticking upwards through the mattress.
This great fellowship, this bond of sport that exists everywhere, is a very splendid, a very living thing aport is essentially democratie, is followers stand on the same level. The noble lord is bowled out by his butler. Well bowled, Hicks," he cheerily remarks us he wends his way back. The baronet is beaten three lengths by the
table boy.
Well ridden, Jack," he laughs as he accepts defent. The parson, after being counted out, gets up smiling to shake hands with the Battersea baker who has knocked him out.”.
And so through the gamut of the games. Lovers of each and every sport are bound with these golden bouds of fellowship. They are sportsmen in the largest and truest sense of the term, that is to say, Even at the present time the existence of they are gentlemen, for as Chesterton says: the bed duties is still acknowledged though "They obey statutes that are not found in never carried out by the initials Y.B.G.any moral text-book, and they practise and Y.B.H.-Yeoman Bed Goer and Yeo- strange virtues, untamed since the begin- man Bed Hanger-afixed to the names of ning of the world." certain yeomen on the roll of the guard.
But the King's Bodyguard long since caused to perform any but occasional care- monial duties, and the only state and religións functions. now allotted to it are the yearly searching of the Houses of Par- liament to make sure no Guy Fawkes is lurking in the cellars-the State opening of Parliament by the King, attendance at the Epiphany offerings of gold, frankin- cense and myrrh, and at the distribution of "Maundy Money" to the poor at West- minster on the Thursday of Holy Week:
FAMOUS CAMPAIGNERS.
In the course of their long and interest- ing history the Yeomen of the King's Bodyguard have taken part in fabrous bettles in nearly every country of Europe. They made their final appearance on the field of battle at Dettingen in 1743, armed attendants an George II., and after that their duties became purely ceremonial and domestic.
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When the Great. War broke out, how- ever, the guard, by the King's command, resumed its ancient duties as guardians of the Royal Palaces, thus releasing the civil police for the fighting line. Taler, the King placed the whole force, which had volunteered for active service, at the dis posal of the military authorities for the training of the new armies at home and for service abroad, and many earned further honours and.distinctions on the field of battle.
All the members of the guard are old soldiers, whether officers or yeomen, and medals for every, campaign of the last 60 years, almost every order and decoration, may be found on the breast of one or other of them.
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Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister, in a written reply to Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes, gives the following figures regarding Royal Air Force flying accidents between April 1st, 1924, and May 31st, 1925:→
Number of Accident Causes Home. Abroad. Total Engine or installation
failure o
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Error
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Defect in aircraft coné-
traction-
Defect in aircraft desigu Defect in aircraft main-
· teranca................. All other cauSOR....
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