... TEN years after the rubber-cored ball made its entry into golf, Harry Vardon said that the big difference between the new ball and the gutty was in the run and not in the carry. He said that the carry was the same, but whereas in the old days, as only the carry counted, the ball had to be struck correctly to go a certain distance, with the rubber-cored ball a mishit shot with a low flight ...

... C Shorting [Accessories I By DIANA ,5Ae iAaK have music wherever she goes with this fob and brace let of hand-carved musical charms from Mayfair Gifts, 20a, Berke ley Street. Each instrument is made in a different kind of wood. The card bracelet, for I 8s. 6d., will bring you luck at bridge. Perfect for yachts but good at any crowded party is Mappin and Webb's non-spill cocktail holder. The ...

... Thoughts on the Cars ot 1938 Impressions gained during a Year's Tests By Highwayman IT would be a poor sort of year of which one could not honestly say that its cars showed an advance over those of its predecessor. During the past twelve months I have had for trial 35 different cars from 22 different makers. They have ranged in size from 10 to 42 h.p. and in price from £182 to £1,660. Most, ...

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... By A. Croxton Smith MRS. SOUTHWICK'S Hunston Kennels of smooth fox-terriers are situated in that bracing little town, Hunstanton, on the Wash, which seems an ideal place for dogs. The stimulating dry air and miles of firm sand and dunes are all conducive to their well-being. One would not expect any strange misadventure to occur there, yet recently an incident happened as unusual as it was ...

... ARTHUR DANAHAR has been fighting professionally less than a year. With one accord experts declare that the country's amateurs have produced no such gifted light-weight since Matt Wells and that indeed is a wonderful testimony to his prowess. For Wells, having set up as a whole-time pugilist, defeated Freddie Welsh, who had won a place among the world-beaters. Danahar was holder of the A.B.A. ...

... THE , who are now probably the best-known Rugby club in the country, are the original Hampstead Football Club, which was founded by William Titchener in the autumn of 1866. It had a comparatively unhappy start, for William Alford, an original supporter of Titchener, was unable to agree with him, and, together with several Hampstead members, broke away from the Hamnstead club to start another ...

... 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 ...