Sport
Found in 281 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 23 Mar 1901
(Untitled), [03] [Jul] [1891]
Letter from WSC (The Head Master's, Harrow School [Middlesex]) to "Mummy" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he entreats her to allow him to go to Lords cricket ground.
(Untitled), 29 Nov [1894]
Letter from [Frances, Duchess of Marlborough] (50 Grosvenor Square [London]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that the boys [WSC and John S Churchill] are well although they were disappointed that the cricket at Lords was cancelled, reports that "Ferdy" [Ferdinand de] Rothschild is to marry Miss Peel, and comments on a dinner given by the Duchess of Manchester and preparations for the royal christening [of the later King Edward VIII].
(Untitled), [Mar 1929]
Memorandum on the racecourse betting bill by the stewards of the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee summarising the advantages of the bill as the establishment of totalisators at racing tracks and increased regulation of bookmakers at racecourses and outlining proposals to establish a central authority under control of the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee, funds for which would be used to support horse breeding and the sport.Printed pamphlet.
(Untitled), 26 Jun 1936
Letter from The Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, Indian Cricket Tour to Britain, Great Central Hotel, London to WSC, regretting that he had been forced to cancel lunch with WSC. They had found it necessary to hold an urgent meeting to send one of the team members back to India for disciplinary reasons. Hoping that they could meet later in the season.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1927]
Newspaper cutting: photograph of Sir Abe Bailey and two ladies at a horse racing meeting.
(Untitled), 04 Aug 1928
Letter from Lord Hamilton of Dalzell (Dalzell, Motherwell, Scotland) to WSC praising the role of Ralph Glynn and WSC in the passage of the Tote Bill, which Hamilton believes will make horse racing fairer and more honest, and expressing the wish to get Lord D'Abernon on the Betting Control Board.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1928]
Parody of the "to be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet praising the role of the Tote in regularising betting on horse racing.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question on rating relief for amateur cricket and sports club grounds.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1924]
Proof of a statement by WSC on his interest in the tour of the New Zealand rugby team and his belief that sport served a good purpose in bringing together men from every part of the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/136/121.
(Untitled), 31 Jan 1931
(Untitled), 27 Apr 1924
Letter from Paddy Longfield (Longueville, Mallow, County Cork, [Ireland]) to WSC stating that he has no desire to get involved in politics in Ireland but is willing "to fight an English seat as a Winstonian or whatever your party is to be named". Discusses the supply of polo ponies and race horses.
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1924
Letter from William Flood, secretary of the New Scotland Yard Athletic Club (Scotland House, [London]), to WSC (Chartwell) thanking him for his gift of a challenge trophy for their annual competition.
(Untitled), 26 Aug 1924
(Untitled), 26 Sep 1911
Letter from George Wilson (Laleham, Middlesex) to WSC marked "private" concerning the forthcoming fight between Wells and Johnson. He is concerned at the effect on the "native mind" of the conquest of a white man by a black man. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 12 Oct 1926
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1926
(Untitled), 05 May 1904
Letter from H J Emrys, secretary of Cheetham Cambrians Cricket Club (670 Rochdale Road, Manchester), to WSC (House of Commons) soliciting a donation to club funds.
(Untitled), 09 Dec 1904
Letter from A H Crosfield, Liberal candidate for Warrington (Barremman, Hoylake, [Cheshire]), to WSC repeating the invitation to address a meeting in Warrington. Mentions that he (Crosfield) has been asked by the "Grand Duke" to be captain of his golf club at Cannes [France]. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 11 Dec 1905
Letter from Gordon Wilson (Rotherby, Leicester,) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and enclosing a letter (not present) from a former correspondent for the Times in Mafeking, Manchuria [part of China] and Central Asia. Refers to the Quorn pack hunting in the Belvoir Vale.
(Untitled), 23 Mar 1906
Letter from Rev J Stratton, [honorary secretary of the sports committee of the Humanitarian League] (Wokingham, Berkshire), to WSC thanking him for being prepared to support the Spurious Sports Bill.
(Untitled), Mar 1906
Printed letter from Rev J Stratton, honorary secretary of the sports committee of the Humanitarian League (53 Chancery Lane, London) to Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone], Home Secretary, on the need to strengthen, by means of the Spurious Sports Bill, the law against cruelty to wild animals. Includes the text of the bill. Originally sent with CHAR 2/26/34.
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1906
Printed letter from Rev J Stratton, [honorary secretary of the sports committee of the Humanitarian League] (Wokingham, Berkshire), to [WSC] enclosing a letter to the Home Secretary on the Spurious Sports Bill [see CHAR 2/26/33] and a pamphlet describing the practices the bill is designed to outlaw [see CHAR 2/26/35].
(Untitled), 1906
Pamphlet: Sports legitimate and illegitimate by Rev J Stratton (Humanitarian League, 53 Chancery Lane, London) 15, [1p] Originally sent with CHAR 2/26/34.
(Untitled), 04 May 1904
Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to Percy Lawrence approving the influence of debating societies such as the one of which Lawrence is a member: "People are nowadays far too much inclined to think about football and far too little inclined to think about social and political questions." MS copy in the hand of Annette Anning.