The Sporting Times
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The Sporting Times was a weekly British newspaper devoted chiefly to sport, and in particular to horse racing. It was informally known as The Pink 'Un, as it was printed on pink paper.
John Corlett, first editor of The Sporting Times, caricature in Vanity Fair, 1889
A Reader of The Sporting Times by Joseph Clayton Clark, c. 1900
The death notice which first named the Ashes
Bertie Wooster
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Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P. G. Wodehouse. An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears al
The Sporting Times
…Colonel Bodger develops his theory that these bloody nationalists should be boiled in oil. In P.G. Wodehouse's short story "Bingo and the Little Woman" Bertie Wooster reveals that, "bar a weekly wrestle with the Pink 'Un and an occasional dip into the form-book, I'm not much of a lad for reading". The paper ceased…
Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, 1922 illustration by A. Wallis Mills