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...appeal to a million sportsmen and sportswomen to send ten shillings [about $2.25] each to dispose of absolutely at my own personal discretion." Such last week was the amazing proposition of the Duke of Atholl, a proposition which he promised to keep open until Sept. 30. For months His Grace has been trying to start a British Sweepstake for charity which would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit...
...code might better have been labeled one of etiquet instead of ethics. One of its two genuinely ethical precepts is pointed, obvious. The A. K. C. recognizes that not all dog exhibitors are sportsmen Some are not above tampering with judges If that is attempted the judge should report at once to the Club, which promises drastic punishment...
Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island. Sportsmen know it as a good place to go for fishing and duck-shooting. And once a year, during its Volunteer Firemen's Carnival, Chincoteague stages the East's only wild horse roundup. Last week came this "Pony Penning...
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...
...France, has been dipping his Wisconsin-haunted nose in hagiography. This little (215 pp.) anthology of saints' lives, at least one for every day in the year, is "not a learned work" nor a book for the devout, but "a simple picture of a crowd . . . blessed degenerates, mere sportsmen of asceticism, man-sized infants, a demigod or two, politicians, fearful beauties, awful fools, and, of course, those for whom there simply would have had to be some such word as 'saint' even if Christianity had not come to pass...