... l^APIER ON RACING THE miracle of Goodwood this year was the weather. Monday was poisonous; on Saturday again there was another of what those clever weather fellows describe as a deep depression. A most excellent description, to be sure. On alb four days of the meeting the con ditions were astonishingly good. On Monday the grand old course must have been lost in a heavy blanket of dense rain, ...

... A MEDLEY OF SPORT ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM HERE AND THERE. THREE TIMES WINNER OF THE SURREY SWIMMING CLUB'S MILE RACE IN THE THAMES: MRS. COLSON, WHOSE TIME WAS 18min. 49SF.C. CO WES AS SEEN FROM THE AIR A GENERAL VIEW OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON. A SPECTACULAR FINISH TO THE SCOTTISH SIX DAYS TRIAL ON BLACK FORD HILL AT EDINBURGH: MR. DANCE WITH FEET ON THE SADDLE. ...

... . TOM GIBBONS IN HIS TRAINING QUARTERS AT THE LONDON COUNTRY CLUB AT HENE JACK BLOOMFIELD AT SHOEBURYNESS-- AND ENJOYING FISHING AT SOUTHEND. Jack Bloomfield will have the critical contest of his career when he meets Tom Gibbons, the St. Paul light-heavy weight, at Wembley Stadium against Bloomfield's very modest one. Gibbons has not only beaten Carpentier with considerable ease, but he has ...

... COMPETING AT CO WES REGATTA: THE BIG FOUR-- THE QUARTETTE )F FAMOUS CUTTERS IN RIVALRY THIS WEEK ON THE SOLENT. I. H.M. THE KING'S BRITANNIA AND MR. H. WELD'S LULWORTH (EX TERPSICHORE) (R.). 2. BRITANNIA, ONE OF THE GREATEST RACING YACHTS EVER KNOWN. 3. SHAMROCK AS SEEN FROM THE DECK OF WHITE HEATHER. 4' A VIEW OF WHITE HEATHER AS SEEN FROM THE DECK OF SHAMROCK. IN THE FOREGROUND WILL BE ...

... . MR. J. W. H. T. DOUGLAS. A. SANDHAM. m M. TATE. B H A. P. FREEMAN. MR. J. L. BRYAN. H. STRUDWICK. I E. HENDREN. gg R. KILNER. j MR A. P. F. CHAPMAN. 1 R. TYLDESLEY. J H. SUTCLIFFE. a J. W. HEARNE. as MR. C. H. GIBSON. MR. A. E. R. GILLIGAN, CAPTAIN. m F. E. WOOLLEY. J The M.C.C. team which will visit Australia this winter has met with general approval. Mr. C. H. Gibson is perhaps the only ...

... WHEREIN I SPAKE OF (AL) MOST DISASTROUS CHANCES U. P. MEAD PUTS UP A DIFFICULT CHANCE TO SHORT-LEG MR. D. J. KNIGHT FALLS, WHILE MR. FENDER RUNS ACROSS FROM THE SLIPS. BILLITCH NEARLY TAKES MR. SHIRLEY OFF HIS SPLICE. MR, FENDER FUMBLES A CATCH FROM MR. AIRD. Although the feature of the drawn match between Surrey and Hampshire at the Oval last week was the brilliant batting of both sides, our ...

... O /TV l qTw ienace The well-known authority LAST week we made some little investiga tion of the principles which should govern pre- emptive bidding. Curiously enough there arrived immediately afterwards a letter from an officer serving in India, enclosing a hand which is of special value in its bearing on this particular subject. My correspondent sent it for a criticism on the bidding, but I ...

... i^APIER ON RACING I SHOULD like to put a brief note on record of how deep and sincere was the sorrow when it became known on the first day of the Windsor meeting last week-end, that Mr. T. P. King was dead. Until illness struck him down he was always racing, summer and winter, in fair weather or foul. He knew everyone, owners, trainers, and jockeys, especially, to an extent that the ideal ...

... QUAINT RIVER SPORTS AT MARLOW A CANOE POLO MATCH. THE LIGHTER SIDE OF HARLOW REGATTA: A GENERAL TIEW OF THE CANOE POLO HATCH. A GOAL IS SCORED IN THE CANOE POLO HATCH: SHOWING A SECTION OF THE AH USED SPECTATORS. (Photographs by Sport and General and Central News.) One of the features of the recent Marlow Regatta was a canoe polo match, which afforded more amusement to the spectators and ...

... AS THEY DO IT IN DEUTSCHLAND CANOEING AND DIVING. A COLLAPSIBLE CANOE, WHICH CAN BE EASILY CARRIED FRAULEIN IRENE DUSCHANEK AT TRAVEMUNDE REGATTA. EXHIBITION D LYING BEFORE A GREAT CROWD IN BERLIN SOMER SAULTING FROM THE TEN-METRE BOARD. KTTTNTTNO FROM THE SPRINGBOARD. A STRIKING PICTURE OF A TEN-METRE DIVE. Pholographa by Sport and General and Central News.) These very remarkable diving ...

... FROM COCKTAILS TO POET By the Shaker. THE junior clerk came to business one Monday morning with a perfect black eye which had just reached the decorative stage of taking on a few delicate shades of blue and green. Good Lord! muttered the cashier, how did you pick that up. Brown? I must have been born unlucky, Brown explained dolorously. I was watching the test-match at the Oval on ...

... A lawn Tennis Log fiv A.W.M. POOR Buxton! In vain is the feast spread in the open for the delectation of the guests. The Pennine range always seems to block the passage of Derbyshire clouds; they pour their vials of wrath on the heads of the peaceful lawn tennis players below. As it was before the war (though not every August, for I remember one week when steel points never pierced sodden turf ...