... 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 ...

... By David Livingstone Learmonth WHEN I left the heights of the United the air may have been crisp,; but the sun had been shining all day and it was warm. When I got down into the vale the temperature had fallen so much that even the blazing log-fires of that famous Eliza bethan hostelry, kept by a former secretary of the Ludlow Hunt, could not keep the cold out. At Hereford Bridge the next ...

... Racing Held Up-- St. George II Impresses at Cheltenham Newbury Details Eclipse of Ramtapa Smart Young 'Chasers Bahuddin's Promis ing Debut Gatwick Hints THE frost and snow played havoc with our Christmas racing. First Birmingham had to be abandoned, then all the Bank Holiday fixtures went West. It was bad luck for everyone connected with the game, and par ticularly for Kempton Park, who had ...

... m M Mmsmm \VMF5 1 '^v ^ii Pacific by Lady Drummond Hay NO women, no cats, no dogs. Forty- three men, thousands of rats, hermit crabs, and myriads of birds on a coral island one mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, more than thirteen hundred miles from the nearest land. No soil, no water save rain pre served in underground cisterns. Supplies brought by ship twice a year. The only means of ...

... FLrWG THROUGH SPACE This is the Olympia Leap at St. Moritz, and not for the novke. The jumper, Willy Paterlini, will land on a slope out of sight of the point where this photograph was taken but his speed on landing will carry him between the stands. This leap was built at St. Moritz for the 1928 Olympic games and the drop in height from the top of the in-run down which the necessary speed is ...

... ASCOT Mr. H. G. Blagrave's Couvert won the Royal Hunt Cup by half a length from Galsonia (Mr. C. Jarvis) with Carlisle (Brig. General Charles Lambton) a length away third. The Gold Vase was carried off by Mr. P. Beatty's Foxglove II. Mr. J. Westall's Frawn won the Ascot Stakes and Flares (Mr. W. Woodward) the Gold Cup. This was one of the best Ascot meetings ever held, with the weather fine ...

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... [A Page From Mexico] TT is pleasant, these wintry days, to turn to a new world of warmth and sunshine. Here are golfers about their business at the glorious Cueruavaca Country Club, in Mexico. But those not accus tomed to heights have to go gently till they have become used to the rarefied air, for at 6,000 feet strenuous exercise makes you puff. The second green of the Cueruavaca Country Club ...

... MODES OF THE Moment By LORNA CAMERON CHRISTMAS and New Year are over, but the gaiety goes on in the South of France and on sunshine cruises. This delightful frock is more practical than it may appear, for the spotted net an Edwardian revival packs easily and takes up very little room. Swirled frilling gives a slim line to the skirt, emphasised by the very full-blown rose at the waist. The ...

... JONES: Sorry, old chap, but I'm looking for a little financial succour again. Smith I'm afraid you'll have to look elsewhere. I'm not the little financial sucker I used to be. The Editor had died and gone below. Scarcely had he arrived when he received the most colossal slap on the back. Turning, he saw a contributor who had pestered him on earth. Well, sir, said the free-lance, I'm here ...

... THE annual match between English schoolboys, selected by the Richmond club, and Scottish schoolboys, selected by London Scottish, was played at Richmond last Friday and won by the English side by 2 goals and a penalty goat (13 points) to 2 tries (6 points.) Several reputations were enhanced during the game, especially that of the English captain, P. R. H. Hastings, who showed promise of ...