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HYDE PARK as we know it-a well-laid-out and quite tolerably policed preserve where
Cockneys play. Society parades and enthusiasts preach-is quite a modern institution. Comparatively recently the Park was on the fringe of London, and, naturally, no safer than the roads surrounding it; whilstitwas a great resort for duelists, and the famous duel in which Lord Mohun killed the Marquis of Hamilton, which readers of Thackeray particularly will remember, was fought there. Miss Methley will tell some of the history of the Park in those wilder days.

(S.B. from Plymouth)

Rugby football flourishes exceedingly in the Dominions, and the visits here of the South Africans and the New Zealanders have left very memorable pages in Rugby history. The Waratahs, as the team from New South Wales call themselves, bid fair to be nearly as notable a team. They include, also, two of the most popular personalities in post-war football - A.C. Wallace, their skipper, who was one of the famous Oxford three-quarter line that made Scotland such a force a few years ago, and A.T. Lawton, also of Oxford, as brilliant a standoff half as ever wore the Dark Blue. Major Tosswill will discuss the prospects for the tour.

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