... Racing on the Roodeye Highlights of the Chester Meeting THE CHESTER VASE The field passing the stands for the first time during the running of the Chester Vase, a mile and a half race for three-year-olds, which has before now been won by the subsequent Derby winner. Captain Dixon's Southern Port, who was third, is in the lead; in the t\ext rank, from right to left, come An Apple a Day ...

... By B. Benniscn PUGILISTICALLY this has indeed been a week of storm and stress, questions, quibbles, and threats, all because of Mike Jacobs, Lord High Everything of the American ring, who insisted that Henry Armstrong could not fight Ernie Roderick, our champion, in defence of the world's welter title at Harringay, not even for £10,000, unless the challenger agreed that in the event of winning ...

... DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S best-selling thriller about Cornwall in the bad old days before it became the holiday-makers' paradise has been filmed by Pommer- Laughton Productions as a starring vehicle for Charles himself. The story has been altered somewhat to fit film requirements (the wicked parson has become a wicked squire, the smuggler hero a Revenue officer), but the main grim theme of wrecking ...

... Ways of Improving Your Riding No. 3 of a New Series By Bucephalus IN my first article I impressed upon you the necessity of keeping a constant tension on the reins, which must not be confused with a strong tension, and I likened the bit to a ate. I now want to tell you how you can pull up your horse so that he stands properly collected. To do this merely squeeze him with the legs and at the ...

... By Ashley Courtenay READERS are always asking for a health resort near London, a place to which they can slip away without much trouble; possibly somewhere good for rheumatism, for heart trouble; somewhere that will gently brace the aged or restore vitality to the young; somewhere where there is peace but where there are means of employing one's leisure. Many of my correspondents will not, I ...

... QLD Carthusians, by defeating Old Wykehamists 2 i in the second round of the Arthur Dunn Cup at Hurlingham, qualified to meet Old Bradfieldians in the semi-final round on February n. The heavy ground made most of the forwards leaden-footed and most of the time the ball swung like a shuttlecock between the two defences, in which the full-backs and A. T. Wreford-Brown, at right-half for the ...

... By David Livingstone-Learmonth OMINOUS rain began to fall soon after we had started for the East Sussex meet at Scallets Wood, Lunsford Cross, three or four miles from Battle. This continued off and on during the whole day and, with the overcast sky associated with such circumstances, made it dif ficult to photograph moving objects-- a difficulty which large woodlands increased. Hounds drew ...

... Rallying to Monte Carlo Some of the John-o '-Groats Contingent Fords, English and Continental, outnumbered all other makes, and Amy Johnson, the airwoman, and Mrs. J. McEvoy were among the V-8 entries. They were unlucky enough to skid on an icy corner near Bonner Bridge, but fortunately no serious damage was done. A complete home-from-home is B. W. Fursdon's long-wheelbase 25-h.p. Wolseley. ...

... By B. Bennison IF there is a policeman who cannot use his dooks, I do not know him. Which is as it should be; and yet I remember a day when boxing in the Force was not considered respectable. That, praise be, was a very long time ago. These times, the pugilistic bobby is common to all the countries, and bears favour able comparison with the best amateurs in the world. Fittingly, since they ...

... rlayers Prominent at Melbury Next Week's Hard Court Tennis Titles FROM Melbury and Brighton, the scene passes to Bournemouth for next week's Hard Court Champion ships. This time we shall be saying good bye to the West Hants Club, for their long and happy lease of the meeting expires this year, and the L.T.A. have decided to transfer it, for the time being at least, to the handsome Sussex ...

... The Epsom Spring Double Two More Big Handicaps /Von by Outsiders WISHING THEIR MONET WELL: Anxious punters watching their chosen at the start of the Great Metropolitan, the most delightful of Epsom's races from the spectators' point of view, for the horses start and finish in the straight by the stands and part of the course winds over the Downs before joining the ordinary track near the mile. ...

... London Sees its First f ollei Speedway THIS is the very latest craze Roller Speedway. In America and on the Continent it packs big arenas with wildly en thusiastic crowds, but whether it is going to prove a success in England we do not know yet. Certainly many people who went on the earlier evenings to Harringay just because it was something new will pay many more visits before this ...