Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. pg230
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Sports Carnival at Elm Park
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. pg230 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1917 |
| Page number | Unknown |
| Publisher | Reading Standard |
| Description | 239 pages bound volume |
| Horizon Number: | 1246255 |
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SPORTS CARNIVAL AT ELM PARK
One very popular enterprise in aid of the Reading Care and Comforts Committee, which looks after the soldiers in the Reading War Hospital, was a sports carnival and military tattoo at Elm Park. The entertainment was of generous proportions and rich quality and well worthy of an attendance of estimated at 5,000. Football in sacks, donkey racing and tilting the bucket were only some of the items in the sports programme; the artistes and orchestra of the Palace Theatre performed, bands of the Royal Berks Regiment and the 263rd and 264th Companies of the A.S.C., M.T., played, and there was an auction sale of a donkey, which was sold and sold again and was the means of adding £75 to the funds.The net proceeds were £202, a result which entitled the committee and all other concerned, especially the hon. secretary (Mr J. H. Hyslop) to the heartiest congratulations.
[photo, sporting event] Tilting the bucket was one of the most amusing items, and (as the picture shows) the soldiers as often as not had their enthusiasm damped.
[photo, large posed group] The splendid organisation of the Sports Carnival was a matter for much favourable comment. These are the business-like officials whose efforts resulted in the Fete being such a pronounced success.
[Photos by C. E. May.