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...officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, D. S. O., who was universally regarded in Andover as "a gentleman, and by gad a sportsman, Sir!" is in fact a transvestite? one of the most remarkable of modern times...
Bidding began. Big-boned Miss Muffet went to a Captain Petry for $3,675. Degomme, which won the Guards point-to-point for the Prince, went for $1,730 to Victor Emanuel, a U. S. sportsman who hunts frequently at Melton Mowbray. Another American, Mrs. Adamson, who hunts with the Quorn, got a beautiful hunter, Lady Doon, for $1,750. One horse, Just an Idea, the Prince could not bear to part with, and it was withdrawn. The sale brought $20,000 in all, a ridiculous sum as U. S. prices...
...important thing about Van Ryn is that he is well-to-do. He will scarcely be tempted to flirt with trouble by writing for the newspapers. His family likes having a first-rate sportsman in the family and he is afforded ample time and allowance to play and practice. He arrived at the Brooklyn tournament fresh from four months of serious tennis training in California. "The only thing," said an oldtime linesman watching the Van Ryn-Tilden match, "that can stop that lad is some blame girl. I hope he's a constitutional bachelor...
Died. John Walters, 58, of Brooklyn, N. Y., most famed of U. S. racetrack bet brokers ("bookies"), onetime protege of the late sportsman William Collins Whitney; of heart disease; in Paris. Commissioner Walters handled millions with only oral promises, no receipts...
...painted by Burne-Jones, Watts, Poynter, Millais (whose title "Jersey Lily" became her nickname). Langtry hats, shoes, gowns, coiffeur (knot at nape of neck) were standards of fashion. The Earl of Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwynd went fisticuffing for her sake in Hyde Park. Frederick Gebhardt, U. S. sportsman & socialite, built her a Manhattan mansion which still stands. Passing through a little Texas town, to which she had once been invited for the opening of a Lillie Langtry saloon, she was welcomed at the poker table, and the town was renamed Langtry...