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THE STAGE OF THE DAY

... T HE STAG K OF T II E U A Y. By Ashley Dukes. ALDWYCH: JAMES THE LESS. ONLY one touch is needed to complete the melo dramatic picture in James the Less, and that is a Victoria Cross. When a hero who has sacrificed his own good name to shield another makes good in the Great War and returns to clear up all misunderstandings, it is customary for stage purposes to bestow this decoration on ...

SEA ATHLETES OF AUSTRALIA

... . RECENT cables told the world what stuff the sinewy athletes who guard Australian beaches are made of. The story of Jack Chalmers, the heroic Anzac who went to the rescue of a mate attacked by a monster shark, swim ming out some fifty yards into the bloodstained surf, fighting with the shark for the possession of its vic tim, actually forcing it to relinquish its hold, and then swimming back ...

THE LADIES' KENNEL ASSOCIATION MEMBERS' SHOW, AT TATTERSALL'S, ALBERT GATE

... . MISS F. A. WHITE WITH HER GREYHOUNDS FLOWER WOMAN AND FORTUNE'S WHEEL, 2 FIRSTS. MISS D. MILLER WITH HER COLLIE GIPSY VILLE BLUE MINX, 3 FIRSTS. MRS. A. A. VLASTO WITH HER BORZOIS MARQUIS OF ADDLESTONE, 3 FIRSTS, AND LEB1EL OF ADDLESTON1S. ...

THE GOLFER'S PROGRESS: RAY ON PRACTICE

... THE GOLFER'S PROGRESS. By Henry Leach. RAY ON PRACTICE. THE worst of setting out on making a close considera tion of an eminent golfer in some personal, practical and analytical way is that the subject, as a human and practical study, becomes so attractive that it is difficult to leave it. Each point, as we discover and make it, leads us to another, and the case of Ray, which our community has ...

RECIPIENTS OF NEW YEAR HONOURS

... . Mr. H. Cunliffe Owen, the new baronet, is the owner of the well-known racehorses, Orpheus, the prominent two-year-old of 1919, King Sol, the winner of the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, and others. Sir George Riddell, Bart., who becomes a baron, is the well-known newspaper pro prietor, who is chiefly associated in golfers' minds with the News of the World Tournament, a competition which comes ...

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... THE BIG SPRINT HANDICAP AT GOODWOOD DEFIANCE WINS THE STEWARDS' CUP. Though Defiance, a 20 to i against horse, was destined to win the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood unexpectedly, his owner, Mr. Paul Nelke, did not succeed out of his turn, considering the number of years during which he has supported thoroughbred racing. This season that other famous handicap, the Royal Hunt Cup, also fell to this ...

BY THE WAY: SPORT & SPORTSMEN: Athlete and Poetess

... VBY THE WAY: SPORT ^SPORTSMEN (jw Athlete and Poetess. Mrs. S. C. Elliott- Lynn, who was down to throw the javelin for Great Britain in the women's trian gular international at Stamford Bridge last Saturday, is a very accomplished woman with many interests in life. First of all she is a traveller who knows South Africa intim ately. Secondly, she has done much to place women s ath letics on a ...

GOODWOOD WINNERS AND INCIDENTS: CLOUDBANK'S FIVE MILES

... GOODWOOD WINNERS AND INCIDENTS CLOUDBANK'S FIVE MILES. THE AGA KHAN'S WINNER, MOTI MAHAL, WHO SET THE BALL ROLLING ON THE FIRST DAY BY WINNING THE HAM PRODUCE STAKES. DISGRUNTLED BOOKIES FORSAKE THEIR STANDS ON THE TRUNDLE: A DISMAL COMMENTARY ON WEDNESDAY'S MIST AND RAIN. THE ]0 TO 1 AGAINST WINNER OF THE GOODWOOD CUP: MR. JAMES WHITE'S CLOUDBANK, BY NIMBUS-- BERENGERE. THE GRATWICKE PRODUCE ...

BRIDGE

... BR.I DGE D y-pv M oQy lena.ee The well-known authority IT is quite impossible to exaggerate the im portance, particularly when you are the de clarer, of forming a definite plan of campaign at the opening of the hand. The player on your left has led a card and the dummy has been exposed. The declarer now knows all about the strength or weakness of the combined hands which he has to play, and ...

ABOARD AND ASHORE: HIS MAJESTY THE KING AT COWES

... . THE ARRIVAL OF THE ADMIRAL OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON THE KING LANDS AT SQUADRON CASTLE WITH SIR CHARLES CUST. mm .V -v ga-. 'I i mil SHOWING MAJOR HUNLOKE AT THE WHEEL: THE KING ABOARD HIS CUTTER BRITANNIA IN THE BIG CLASS RACE AT CALSHOT. A last-minute settlement of the dispute in the coal industry enabled the King and Queen to attend for the Cowes yachting week and one of the chief ...

AT COWES REGATTA: THE HEAVY BRIGADE IN ACTION

... AT CO WES REGATTA: THE HEAVY BRIGADE IN ACTION. ti t THE ART OF JOCKEYING BIG YACHTS ABOUT TO START FROM THE R.Y.S. BATTERY. (Photographs by Sport and General and L.N. A.) The presence at our 1925 regattas of a larger heavy brigade than has been seen out of late years, coupled with the fact that these boats are beating each other from week to week, thus stimulating the keenest rivalry, has ...