... v RY THF WAV: SPORT ^SPORTSMEN MY „.TSV 4SD£v.n. Goodwood's Open ing Crowd. Most people, regular attenders at the meet ing, thought that there were fewer people than usual pre sent on the opening day at Goodwood. One racegoer, who has been to Goodwood for twenty-five years, told me he calculated that there were fewer people who had paid to go into the stands and in the paddock, but reck oned ...

... K THE STAGE Of THE DAY0 'rr F=WP y Ashley elves CASTLES IN SPAIN. A FAVOURITE pastime with theatre reformers is the imaginary erection of a model playhouse. Sometimes it is called a National Theatre, and is pictured standing four- square in marble majesty on the finest site to be found in a metropolis. Its broad flight of steps is imagined ascending from an ample frontage. Its tall, ...

... 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 ...

... THE APPROACH OF THE TWELFTH THE GREAT FESTIVAL OF ST. GROUSE ON THE MOORS A SIESTA AFTER LUNCH Gillies with their ponies on the grouse moor. A GAMEKEEPER'S IMPROVISED VERMIN BOARD To it are nailed fox ...

... Rnngaj iacMarATwaa BraBlB TaHIM CHAPTER XXI-- continued. Ill 5 p.m. to about 7.30 p.m. IT was a good hour before he came. I had guessed rightly, and he had made the deduction. I hoped for. He was foll ...

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