... 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 ...

... Life and Laughter The Sincere Verger. A SCOTTISH minister, who had worked hard in his parish for a long year, was feeling the effect physic ally, and saw that unless he took a holiday he would have a breakdown. This holiday was not forthcoming as several sources of his income were still outstanding --pew rents were in arrear, and he could not afford to no away. The sympathetic old verger, ...

... £>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 ...

... . The First Swallow. THE action of Messrs. John Brinsmead, the hundred- year old piano manufacturers, whose name is known all over the world, in closing down their works on account of the demands of labour for high wages without relative production, and for unskilled labour to be paid entirely out of proportion to the highly skilled men, is perhaps the first of a great many similar happenings. ...

... _ cx> IMIosil of She Game By RALPH RUMBLE. THE whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 is very much like Mr. Baldwin in 1923. Both were tempted into a premature election, and both have suffered the consequences of their rash ness. When Mr. MacDonald went to the country he was assured by his party managers that everything was ready to the last gaiter-button, and ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Publicity, Please. A gain the country is threatened by the appalling menace of a coal strike. The claim of the miners of an increase of 3s. per day in wages has been refused by the Government, and the Government's offer of Is. 6d. per day rejected by the delegates of the Miners' Federation. The issue is now in front of the men for balloting purposes, and if two-thirds of ...

... Tjh Passlini|| 83 IBefttl^ Da^Ss, aft ftlhe ILonadloim M i p p> dl 2° ana At the London Hippodrome. HOW producers of revues must long for that impossible thing, a concertina proscenium. For if the stage be a very large one, dramatic sketches seem like watching something happening at the wrong end of a telescope, and a singer, singing all alone on an empty stage rather like the only one ...

... A Lawn Tennis Log. The French Championships Borotra returns to the lists and unhorses the holder Til den's new hook and its praise of the French game. >c5y A .W. M. THE French championships lasted fifteen days, but that was not the fault of the weather, which was consistently kind. On the thirteenth day, the executive drew up a centre court programme which under estimated the length of matches ...

... . A well studed page from our artist's sketch book, which includes a number of celebrated sportsmen. Lord Wavertree wao formerly Colonel Hall-Walker, who temporarily adopted the title of Lord Osmaston CARICATURED BY FRED MAY ...

... . The Strike. A t the time of writing the miners' delegates have rejected the Government's final offer to the miners, and this strike, which is paralysing British industry and imperilling our future prosperity, seems likely to go on until ruin is reached. We agree with The Times in its reference to the rejection last week when it said that what is really wanted is the opinion of the miners ...