Irish Guards’ Sports Meeting (1918)

Irish Guards’ Sports Meeting; during World War One. Location of events unknown. Opens with tug of war in progress. Next a shot of guys on another’s shoulders; the men on top try to knock each other off with dust mops — one guy is getting the best of another; a crowd behind a fence watches and laughing soldiers in uniform act as referees. The same sort of unequal match here; in a short shot of a men straddling a pole over water and the other hanging from it by arms and legs and being pummelled with a sack full of something. Cut to another pair in the same ’sport’; one guy falling into the puddle. Ha ha slapstick comedy silly sports etc. Women’s race follows — women in uniform run toward camera & finish line. 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 Pathé also represents the Reuters