... AFTER the war, when Squash Rackets became a popular game for men, a few sisters and cousins started playing as well. It was a small band, but these ladies were so enthusiastic that they held their first championship the same year as the men. This was in 1922. Ten years later the Ladies' Committee of the Squash Rackets Association was formed, with Lady Aberdare as the first Chairman. Now the ...

... A Mixed Bag of Sport Not too Old at Forty THE long run of foreign victories in the Diamond Sculls by German, Austrian, Swiss and American scullers is becoming a sad and monotonous story. Not for years has there been an Englishmen who has had the faintest chance of competing successfully against them. Now comes a ray of hope. Jack Beresford, the famous Olympic sculler and oarsman, is seriously ...

... Competitive Play Not So Popular Fewer Entries for Championships and Tournaments THE cause of the decline in the number and quality of entries for many of the cham pionships and tournaments this season is the subject of considerable speculation. Various reasons have been advanced to account for it. Some people, pointing to the steady increase in the number of competitive events in recent years, ...

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... 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 ...