Sporting Collection (page 8)

GOLFING WOMAN 1907
An elegant young golfer about to take a swing at the ball. Date: 1907

HUNTING WOMAN 1907
An elegant young woman in riding gear, all set for hunting the fox. Date: 1907

Motoring Woman - 1907
An elegant young woman in a warm coat, all set for a motoring trip in an open- topped car. Date: 1907

FALL / STANDARD POODLE / 45
SANDY OF PIPERSCROFT A white dog with a Sporting clip. This style of clip is not used in the show ring. Owner: Boyd Date: 1945

Lords and Ladies
Fashionable ladies join their menfolk at Lords on a Ladies Day - as much a social as a sporting occasion Date: 1902

COACHING CLUB MEETS 1914
The Coaching Club meets in Hyde Park - a fashionable social event for the upper classes Date: 1914

GLAMOROUS AVIATRIX
A glamorous blond Aviatrix, sporting red goggles and a cream flying helmet and jumpsuit enjoys a well earned smoke in between flights Date: 1933

COSTUME / NECKTIE 1861
A rather dashing middle-aged Victorian man wearing a necktie, top hat and sporting mutton chop sideburns. Date: 1861

MALE SPORTING TYPE 1930
A rather aggressive-looking man guards the goal. Date: 1930

Sporting Spaniel Societys Field Trials, 1907
The Sporting Spaniel Societys Field Trials near Mansfield, Notts. Date: 1907

Girl sporting a heart-shaped kiss curl
Pretty portrait photograph of a girl sporting a heart-shaped kiss curl Date: circa 1910s

Studio photographic portrait of a young girl in white dress, sporting a pretty circular hair clip Date: circa 1908

Albert, Duke of York with Parachutist John Tranum
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) pictured with the famous Danish parachutist John Tranum (?-1935) at a unique exhibition of Sporting Trophies held at Shell-Mex House

Lily d Alvarez wearing her Schiaparelli tennis culottes
Lili d Alvarez, Spanish tennis player, pictured modelling her famous culottes, or divided skirt which divided opinion when she wore them at Wimbledon in 1931

India - Hunting Elephant with Sporting Howdah
Black and white. An Indian elephant with large carriage on its back, and a man sitting in front of the carriage between the shoulders of the elephant

Female skier with her ski poles
A smiling woman with patterned neck scarf, bright yellow jumper and patterned glove, holds on to her ski poles, looking forward to a session on the slopes. 1937

Don Bradman wrestling
Australian cricketer and batsman, Don Bradman enjoying another sporting pursuit, wrestling with Jim Deakin, a well-known Australian wrestler. Date: 1931

The Empress Hall, Earls Court, 1948 London Olympic Games
The Empress Hall at Earls Court was the venue for Olympic wrestling and weight-lifting. Date: 1948

Foretunate by William Heath Robinson
Some close shaves at St. Andrews. A golfer strikes a ball which, through incredible good luck, manages to miss everyone standing in its path

Where Wicked Sportsmen Go - The Huntsmans Purgatory
Several huntsmen stuck in snowy purgatory surrounded by a number of vengeful foxes. Date: 1903

May Sutton Bundy, tennis champion
May Godfrey Sutton Bundy (September 25, 1886 October 4, 1975) female American tennis champion who was active during the first decades of the 20th century

Advert for London Shoe Company 1898
A selection of victorian boots, real whale skin for shooting, ladys field boot made from tan or blacking calf, button or lace, smart toe brogues

Alex Aberg - Estonian Wrestler
Aleksander Richard Aberg (1881-1920) - Russian-Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling world champion of the early 20th century. Date: circa 1910

Cricket Blazers by Fougasse
This is the photograph of our cricket eleven; but I cannot think it really...does us justice. A world of colour neglected by black

Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny
An English country gentleman wears a brown checked jacket & matching waistcoat, jodhpurs, high black riding boots with spurs, brown leather gloves, a bowler hat & cane. Date: 1901

Photo of Miss Billie Shaw and Mr Barrie Oliver
Black and white photo in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 24th October 1925 of Miss Billie Shaw and Mr Barrie Oliver who were appearing at the Cafe de Paris in London in a revue

Greyhound racing - Cover of Sporting & Dramatic News
Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the new sport of greyhound racing. Top left photograph shows Be Sporty, an outstanding hurdler and top right shows Tall Oak

Nature will Out - golf cartoon by Fitz, 1927
Golfing Styles on the Tee drawn by Fitz. Date: 1927

Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Birmingham
Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Belmont Row, Birmingham, Guns and Rifles. 1890s

Photo of Rudoloh Valentino painting
Black and white photo in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 5th December 1925 showing actor Rudolph Valentino in full evening dress with an oil painting he had completed on a recent

The Duke of Edinburgh plays hockey for HMS Chequers
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (wearing dark glasses) pictured in action in the midst of a hockey match in which his ship, HMS Chequers, took on HMS Forth in Malta. Date: 1950

Hurlingham Club, Hurlingham, Argentina, South America
Hurlingham Club, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, South America. A sports and social club, it was set up in 1888 and hosts a wide range of sporting activities. Date: circa 1905

Roman sporting combat - jousting in chariots
Roman sporting combat - jousting with spears in chariots - one of the many varied entertainments available at ones local amphitheatre

Daisy Fellowes and the Marchese Strozzi
The Marchese Strozzi, head of the noble Florentine family, pictured with the Hon. Mrs Reginald (Daisy) Fellowes at a Monte Carlo Sporting Club gala evening. Date: 1937

Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes, tennis at Wimbledon
Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes as " gentlemen in waiting" on the weather at the 1914 Wimbledon tennis championship in July 1914

Suzanne Lenglen and Queen Mary, Wimbledon 1926
French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen pictured meeting Queen Mary on the Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1926. Lenglen had won the ladies singles championship the previous year. Date: 1926

Miss Modern Christmas August 1932 by Wilton Williams
Front cover of Miss Modern magazine featuring an illustration showing women surf-riding - a sort of forerunner of water-skiing. Date: 1932

People at a comic sports event in a field
People taking part in a comic sports event in a field, which involves each man being blindfolded and apparently guided by a woman with a piece of string. Date: circa 1910s

Premiere of Pygmalion in London, 1914
Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the premier in London of a new play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw with Mrs Patrick Campbell in the role of Eliza Doolittle

Rugger Personalities - Rugby 1920
Rugger personalities by H. Crowther Smith. Includes G. Rowland Hill, Lieut-Colones S. S. D. Craven, B. S. Cumberlege, C. J. B. Marriott, C. N. Lowe, F. C

Jack Dempsey versus Georges Carpentier
William Harrison " Jack" Dempsey (" The Manassa Mauler" ) (June 24, 1895 May 31, 1983), American professional boxer and cultural icon of the 1920s

Tennis champion Anthony Wilding & C. T. Craig
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion 1910-1913, pictured with Mr C. T. Craig, managing director of the firm Messrs

Statue of the tennis player, Anthony Wilding
Physical Energy, a figure sculpted by Paul Troubetzkoy and based on the New Zealand tennis player, Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding. Wilding was Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913

Professional golfers in Sportsmens Battalion
Five professional golfers who had joined the Sportsmens Battalion. From left; H. Fulford (Bradford), R. Jacobs (Bedford), E. Jones (Chislehurst), Jas. Bradbeer (Porters Park) and Pl

Eley Kynoch gun cartridges by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for Eley-Kynoch gun cartridges featuring silhouettes by the artist H. L. Oakley. Date: 1936

King Edward VIII, George V and Duke of Gloucester
The three elder sons of King George V pictured together, at what looks like a hunt meeting, sometime in the 1920s. From left to right, Edward

Lord Burghley winning the 400m hurdles at 1928 Olympics
The final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, showing Lord Burghley silhouetted against the concrete banking of the stadium racing his way to a gold medal victory

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

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