The Archive · 1937

A Singing Boxer

Bostock, a boxer, was to have sung at a sportsman's scivice at Golden Hill Chapel, Stoke-on-Trent. But church officials objected both to the idea of a sportsman's service, and to a boxer soloist. Bostock has sung in Lichfield Cathedral said that he thought the church officials were behaving absurdly.

Schoolmaster Clement Frederick Holmes and Mr. George William Boocock, both of Chatsworth-road, Chesterfield, were playing parallel holes at Stanage Golf Club. A ball played by Bootock hit Holmes, broke his leg. At. Deroy Assizes, Holmes sued Boocock alleging that he played 2.golf ball "recklessly, carelessly and negligently." Mr. Justice Singleton said that, many dangerous shots must be played on that course, Holmes must have seen the other man, bui took no steps for his own protection. He gave judgment for Boocock with costs, World's gliding record is claimed by Fraulein. Feodora—Schmidt twenty-three-year-old German pupil airwoman, who Stayed aloft in a fider over the North Sea, near the Island of Sylt, for 23 hrs. 42 mins She held the record beaten on July 1 by Inge Wetzel, who soared for 12 hrs. 32. mins,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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