'The Shanghai Yacht Club's race for the first leg on te Challenge Cup was won by Ingomar, with 'Viking second, and Mignon' third, while in "B* class Spook took first The Byrne boats had an awful dusting in the Seven Mile Reach and thes Resr-Commodore, on the Pi vowed he would never sail a Byrne boat again after the bumping he went through.
Home Corrected!
Spook 1.1700 305.00 Sheila Pile Hobgoblin London, May 30 Two hundred years ago a cricket match was "played between the Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex, In the words of a newspaper of the Period: ~"The game ended to a very rear nicely in favour of the Kentish Gentlemen, but bad so many diverting turns in it that the lovers of the diversion esteem it the best that has been played for many' years."
'This match is to be revived and will take place on July 21, at Sevenaks, of part of the local' bi-centenary week from July 16 to 21, In order to recapture "the atmosphere of the" period it will be played in the costumes of 1794 and as nearly Jas may be according to the rules and Jeustoms then prevailing To show to what extent history is repeating itself, the following an-pouncement was made concerning the original game:—"Lord Middlesex, Lord John Sackville, ete, played foF Kent, and Sir William Gage, ete for Sussex." The match which is played on July 21 is described as being "between Major-General and Lord Sackville and ten other Gentlemen of Kent, and Captain the Vis-Jeount Gage and ten other Gentlemen employing all the brilliant strokes at hhis command, annexed the championship.
Another champion was humbled in the women's singles, when Miss Helen Jacobs, America's Wimbledon hope, was defeated by Miss Pegay Scriven, of England (the holder) by
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