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BEATING THE SKI-JUMPER AT GSTAAD: GLIDING AS A WINTER SPORT

... BEATING THE SKI-JUMPER AT GSTAAD GLIDING AS A WINTER SPORT. If ski-jumping becomes too easy which we are inclined to doubt and therefore monotonous, perhaps this bold experi ment will be taken further. Granted that the jumper can clear an extraordinary distance, we back the glider to give him a long start and a beating every time. But when are we going to see the glider-cum-ski combination ...

BOOTS PURE DRUG COMPANY LTD

... CAMERA PORTRAIT BY DOROTHY WILD I NO Soiree perfume is adorable. I am usually very fastidious about scent, but Sonce has a subtle delicate fragrance not too strong, but lingering which appeals to me very much. c Wme Soiree 2/6, Parfum Soiree 12/6, Poudre Compacte 1/6, Poudre de Riz 2/3, are obtainable only from the branches of Boots The Chemists 7cM ...

THE IRON DUKE

... THE IRON DUKE. THE IRON DUKE, none too popular a historical figure considering what a halo he would have worn had he fallen at Waterloo, is the subject of A. J. Talbot's published play of that name. It is in cluded in Ernest Benn, Ltd.'s series of Contem porary British Dramatists. The Iron Duke is a chronicle play in seven scenes, starting with the Peninsula campaign and ending in 1831, ...

J. C. VICKERY

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FRIDAY TO MONDAY-AND ANGERS

... 1 jr I FRIDAY TO MONDAY -AND ANGERS. I I By A GRASS WIDOWER. if Jl? t*Jb> WELL, it was not so bad as I had ex pected! The drunks were few and far between, and, no doubt on account of the heat, which was certainly terrific, had resorted to the ditch instead of staggering about the hard high road as I feared they might do. In deed, on the whole, the National holiday is quite a good day for ...

SHORT SHRIFT FOR SHORT LEG: THE THRILLS OF THE BOX

... SHORT SHRIFT FOR SHORT LEG: THE THRILLS OF THE BOX. J. S. RYDER (AUSTRALIA) TAPS ONE WIDE OF A. W. CARR, THE ENGLISH CAPTAIN: AN INCIDENT OF THE THIRD TEST MATCH. G. O. ALLEN PASSED: E. TYLDESLEY GETS A SHOT THROUGH SHORT LEG DURING ONE OF HIS INNINGS AT LORD'S THIS SEASON. RON '1 AIRD COVERS UP WHEN HENDREN HITS TO LEG: AN INCIDENT AT LORD'S WHEN HAMPSHIRE WERE THE VISITORS. WHEN H. W. ...

Women in Sport

... A DOG SHOW RECRUIT LADY SHOLTO DOUGLAS WITH CRAGWOOD DARRAGH. Lady Sholto Douglas is here shown with her Irish Wolfhound Cragwood Darragh, a winner of several first prizes and a championship at the recent Richmond Dog Show. She has only recently taken up dog showing. Lady Sholto Douglas, who is a keen motorist and racegoer the latter chiefly on the Continent is the second wife of Lord Sholto ...

FROM LADIES' TEES: GOLF ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST

... ^ROM Ladies* TEES E.E.Helme GOLF ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST. ON the golf of the Yorkshire coast I do not pretend to be an authority. Too many other delightful pre-occupations have always intervened, from a blizzard to a heat wave, when a kindly fate has spelt a Yorkshire visit for me, for me to be in a position to pronounce judgment on the respective merits of those courses which may be found from ...

THE LINCOLN AND LIVERPOOL COURSES

... The Lincoln and Liverpool Courses By RAPIER. Ililriraui --i --ng- i LINCOLN, at any rate about the time its Lincolnshire Handicap is decided towards the end of March, cannot very well be recom mended as a health resort, and because it may not have the attractions of a spa few people, in comparison with the great many who are interested in the racing which takes place there, have any personal ...

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SELLING RACES

... . PERHAPS on no class of event is there more speculation than upon sellers, at any rate in pro portion to the value of the stakes. We know that many animals whose value is many times the stakes plus the entered selling price are put into these events for the sole purpose of gambling, and if we could only hit upon those that are thus of a higher class than ever were meant to run when the ...

DOGS OF THE DAY: A QUESTION OF JUDGES

... DOGS OF THE DAY. By Major Harding Cox. A QUESTION OF JUDGES. A MATTER has been brought to my notice which calls for immediate attention. It will be remembered by those who have the temerity to wade, through these weekly articles that I raised my voice in protest against the policy of a certain specialist club in forc ing the executive of a leading show into humiliating a well-known judge whom ...