... JAPAN is still pressing on with plans for the Twelfth Olympiad at Tokyo in 1940; indeed, I have before me the actual day-to-day programme for the Winter Games which come first in February of 1940. But I wonder if it is labour in vain. No decision can be made before March, when the International Olympic Council meet at Cairo. Egypt is arranging great festivities for the Council, and from ...

... , tTbis fEnglanb The Suffolk Wold between Lavenham and Bury St. Edmunds SINCE we cannot see forward (and remember but a little way back) we must not be too ready to resent all change. This wide-skied Suffolk with its endless fields of wind-rippled grain was once more famous as a dairy county until the wars begotten of the French Revolution put grain to such a price that much of its broad ...

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... H. Graham Sharp BRITAIN has made remarkable progress in figure-skating during the last lew years, and now our young skaters can hold their own against the pick of the world. Here is H. Graham Sharp, Champion Free and Figure Skater of Great Britain in 1934-5-6 and 7. He is not yet twenty-one years old and became British Champion when he was sixteen, two years after he began to skate. But he is ...

... South of England Coursing Club Waterloo Cup Possibles on View at Mentmore LORD ROSEBHRY pro- tided plenty of hares for the meeting at Mentmore most of them giving long working trials and a genuine test of met it. The going, too, in the Parkland was perfect. Of special interest in the two excellent days' sport was the form of Lord Rosebery's own puppy, Runcorn, and Mr. E. C. L. Bradley's Coffee ...

... Left: ST. MORITZ REGULARS: Mr. Michael Weaver, another crack ski-er, seen with Mr. Billie Rear don (in plus fours). PERSONALITIES IN OTHER SPORT ING SPHERES: L. to r.-Brig.-Gen. A. C. Critchley, first-class golfer and pillar of the Greyhound Racing Association, Miss Ann Critchley, Miss E. Martin, Miss Audrey Sale-Barker, captain of Great Britain's ladies' ski-ing team in 1934 and 1933, and Mr. ...

... palaceX I HOTEL TORQUAY V where you can really enjoy January You wouldn't recognise it for the same month. There's a warmth about Red Devon that amply justifies the phrase, The English Riviera. And at Torquay's Palace, the finest hotel on the English Coast, you can enjoy Summer in all its Summer fulness. The spacious luxury of its apartments, the quiet efficiency of its personal service, the ...

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... Airgead Sios's Great Win Backers Lose at Kempton Good Young 'Chasers Newbury Details Silver Lance Beaten Gatwick Choices IT often happens at this time of the season that bad weather stops racing; so that it is proper and fit that it should be recorded that all of the holiday meetings were held and that, although, once more, the weather at Newbury was nasty the other meetings could not have ...

... THE eagle eye of the press camera reveals many things which we humans watching from the stands may miss. Here is how the champion steeplechase jockey, Gerry Wilson, parted company from Lt.-Colonel P. D. Stewart's Ostend at the last fence in the Lambourn Handicap Steeplechase at Newbury. First we see an early stage of the trouble, though what has caused Wilson to come off in this particular ...

... A Mixed Bag of Sport Continued Rowing and Fitness The first sporting appointment made by the National Fitness Council should be popular, for rowing is one of the three or four sports in which the sham amateur does not flourish, as there is no gate money. It might seem strange that a National Amateur Rowing Association man should be put over the whole rowing world, but the Amateur Rowing ...

... I Killed The Count A Deftly Constructed Detective Play at the Whitehall Theatre MERIEL FORBES as Renee La Lune and George Merritt as Divisional Inspector Davidson. Miss Forbes' performance is so charming that one wishes that there was more feminine interest in this play. ATHOLE STEWART (on left) plays Viscount Sorrington with a deft touch uf nobility, and Mr. Alec Clunes, as Detective Raines ...