"Spar boxing" on the CARPATHIA, 1908

photographic print

Photo of passengers on the CARPATHIA "spar boxing," which seems to have involved hitting each other with a pillow until someone fell off. One contestant is falling off the spar onto some matting laid out below, and the other looks like he might fall too. Captioned "Mr. Shorrock vanquished by Miles." We know from the associated passenger list that they are Miles Forwood and Robert Shorrock. From an album of photos from a 1908 voyage to the Mediterranean.