... Rapier on Racing Frost and snow again Argental falls at Manches ter Santayana in d i sg r a c e P r o m i s i n g L'Estaque St. George ll's good trial Windsor meeting hints FROST and snow have again interfered with racing. The Clerk of the Weather spared Manchester and then descended on Haydock Park and Gatwick with a heavy hand. Still, it was good for the Manchester hotel busi ness, so I ...

... Professional Squash Week A Professionals' Week will be held at the St. John's Wood Club from May 1 to 8, during which the Professionals' handicap tournament (singles) and the Professionals' doubles tourna ment will be decided. Both events will be played on the knock-out system, best of five games. Only professional members of the Squash Rackets Association may enter. Butcher's Come-back I ...

... (Sporting ^Accessories By DIANA Hedgerow flowers make an unusual and charming cluster on a simple frock for an early spring dance. The honey suckle here is especially interesting, as this is the first time it has ever been so perfectly copied. From the well-known Mayf air Flowers at Marshall and Snelgrove's, Oxford Street. A travelling iron that really does travel is not always e'asily found, ...

... Circus anc Pantomime The Famous Bertram Mills Show at Olympia I Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane Theatre CIRCUS and pantomime time has come round again, and at Olympia the Bertram Mills Circus provides a spectacle as brilliant and thrilling as ever. Apart from the clowns and the almost uncanny obedience of the performing animals, there are feats of daring that really do take one's breath away ...

... THE South-West v. South-East 1 match at Osterley did not look much like an international trial, though it ranks as one. At least three of the wing forwards might as well have stayed at home for they never saw the ball except by chance, and with the attacking forces thus virtually reduced to three instead of five a side, neither defence had to be more than steady and reliable, and both were ...

... CLOSE-UP OF AN IRON SHOT: At a time-interval of i/6ooth of a second between exposures. This shows the distortions of the shaft. Hete there are six pictures of the ball to ten of the dub-head. The club-face seems to have remained shut here. STILL FASTER A close-up of a driver just before and after impact, when the time-interval has been quickened to if6ooth of a second. The ball, moving faster ...

... Committee Challenge Cup at Deal Qualifying Rounds C. A. Hue Williams' Success THE annual competition for the Royal Cinque Ports Committee Challenge Cup at Deal, postponed from the Christ mas holidays, was played off last week end. C. A. Hue Williams, who qualified with 79 (80--1) was the winner; conceding four shots he beat D. A. Davies (6) by 2 and 1 in the final, which was played in ...

... A Day at a Hockey Tournament Midland Counties at Ramsgate THE New Year is always a great time for women hockey players, for they gather at various centres in their hundreds for their divisional tourna ments. These pictures of the Midland Counties at Ramsgate are typical of the other tournaments at Clacton (The East), Weston-super-Mare (The West), Scarborough (The North), or Worthing (The ...

... Hockey Trials Starting THE selection of the English hockey team is an exceedingly protracted business. It begins usually on the first Saturday of the year and continues week by week without a break till the end of February, or later, there being nine trial matches. This season the first of these trials, South-East v. South-West, took place on the last Saturday of the old year, and the final ...

... Now tor International Rugby Probables-- Possibles and Others By Our Rugby Correspondent IN a fortnight's time we will all be flocking down to Twickenham to watch the first of the season's International matches-- England v. Wales-- and we are also pleasantly aware that the Services are busy team-building in preparation for their annual tournament and that the County championship has reached an ...

... THE popularity of French films grows apace, which is only fitting, con sidering their increasing ex cellence of technique and photography, the subtlety and distinction of their acting. In London now French productions are doing good business in the Mayfair Curzon and Berkeley cinemas, the Oxford Street Studio One and Academy, as well as in outlying theatres, like the Hampstead Every man. The ...

... A PARTY of actors put up for the night in a primitive village. Next day one of them observed wearily to a colleague as he rose about noon: Where does one wash? In the spring, replied the other. Laddie, said the first, I said where,' not c when.' The clever boxer, who knew prac tically every trick of the game, finally met his match. In the third round he found himself flat on his back, ...