... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE Autumn Puzzles RACING people are now getting right down to the puzzles of the autumn handicaps. Interest has been stimulated by the appearance of the first lists of London Betting on the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. The odds do not strike me as being particularly tempting. For example, we find Lightning Artist at 8 to I for the Cesarewitch, yet it is probable ...

... Racing Notions By CARBINE At Cheltenham AFTER a quiet beginning the big meeting at Chelten ham developed into a huge success. Things went with a wonderful swing on the second day, and nobody appeared to enjoy the exceptionally fine sport more than the Prince of Wales, who was in the paddock before most of the races, critically examining the 'chasers. Several times he went out on to the ...

... T)0PEBRiiDLEy> l^EBRiDLEY JL Ciuii Military Naua/ Jailors of OLD BOND ST LONDON-^ By Appointment to H.M. the King of Spain. S&ytny oF^uczd POST DATES By D. A. B. You can't blame a girl for taking the best market, where it's a question of real importance. And you can quite understand a chap preferring to go to a whoopee party instead of dining as arranged with his aunt. But you can kick at the ...

... Standing By One Thing and Another Bv D. B. Wyndham Lewis QUITE rightly-- as you will agree if you study some of the faces peer ing daily through the railings of Wellington Barracks when the Guards parade-- quite rightly did that honest ex-sergeant who gave evidence in the Fainting Drummer-boy Case scourge some of those cat-calling critics for their ignorance. Emotionalism is making such ...

... D; 'Profiteering j By FITZWILLIAM h^. D EVERY period has its scapegoats; in the days of Titus Oates it was the Plot; in 1820 the waltz was to blame; to-day the profiteer lies at the root of all evil, and whoever seems to make a living is suspect. At every dinner table the owner of a rolling mill is reviled equally with the newsagent who makes a charge for delivering the morning paper every ...

... £>of A I f\ I J A Js ffl^ OUR OWN ELECTION ADDRESS r^ Im Basil NacdonalcL Uastinas. No doubt you have studied with close attention the election addresses of the Conservative, Liberal, and Labour leaders. You have probably come to the conclusion that Mr. Baldwin thinks he can get you a little more tin, Mr; Asquith wishes you to keep what tin you have, and Mr. Macdonald-- (we do wish these ...

... i By JINGLE. THE gentleman in the box office seemed mildly amused at the extravagant idea that he could have any seats to bestow upon the mere Press in view of the very obvious success of this Song Show. So I broke the news as gently as I could to Harris and led the lad into the dreary shallows of the pit. He choked down a sob as he heard the fatal words from the pay box standing room only, ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... EMRNPER COMMENTS Sudden Sunshine SPRING came suddenly, says an observer of modern phenomena; and so, I suppose, we may try to persuade ourselves that Winter will not last until July, as is usually the case. Certainly the observer aforesaid has had every reason for his optimism-- whatever the weather may be at the moment! Singing in the Spring Those jolly old songs that we used to sing before ...

... By CARBINE Newbury Cup WHEN you are marking down your likely horses for the Cesarewitch you will have to take into consideration the fact that the Newbury Autumn Cup is to be run on Saturday. This race fre quently has a bearing on the big Newmarket handicap. Last season, for example, Eagle's Pride ran well enough at Newbury to encourage his owner and trainer to be lieve that he would do ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE A Real Grievance I AM bound to say I sympathise greatly with the bookmakers in their grievance on the subject of the taxation of bad debts. It is most inequitable that they should be called on to pay the betting tax on money which they cannot collect. The law has it that you cannot legally enforce the payment of gambling transactions, so the bookie is hit in two ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE Popular Priory Park I DO not remember ever to have been more confident regarding the issue of an important handicap than I was over Priory Park in the Royal Hunt Cup. I am glad to know that the sanguine selection of this horse made in these Notes last week turned out so happily. There was not a moment in the Hunt Cup when the supporters of Priory Park had any real ...