Several of the events at the S.V.C. closely contested that the judges had mounted sports on Sanday were so to take into consideration the most] minute details—for instance in the limbered wagon, it is reported that the Suffolks were returned winners by the mere fact that the driver's} rifle was placed just so. Another} report has it that the judges decided canes decane of th sapere on the brakesman's bayonet. Whether either or both of these ae-counts are true is unimportant, but the fact romains that entrants were 0 keen and zealous, that the judges in coming to a dee sion had to can-sider minor qualifications,—which would easily oseapo the casual spectator. For instance the Coldstream "Guards vehicle's hub cap bolt heads equally were Durnished, while the Suffolks had reatitched' every inch of ther
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