Sports Carnival For Bank Holiday AKA Bank Holiday Sports (1914-1918)

Sports carnival for bank holiday. Location of events unknown. Sports. Recreation; entertainment. Bank Holiday sports carnival; held as benefit for disabled veterans. Good shots throughout. First, of guys on a football field doing exercises with rifles (not like rifle drill; more keep-fit and stretching; such as lunging with rifles held up in both hands . Children’s sports: 2 little boys boxing; with gloves; in the ring; etc.; throwing lots of punches and doing little defence; spectators in BG. Next 2 sprinters running toward camera in a race. Another race: jockeys riding mules. First; pre-race; a few riders on mules. Then race starts; and the mules come trotting along the track toward camera looking pretty silly. Contests. Dupe neg ON 385 O. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British P
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