... WOMEN AND SPORT I First Outdoor Lawn Tennis of the Season A COMING STAR Youthful Miss Jean Nicoll showed in the tournament that one day she may win the Women's Singles at Wimbledon. She is seen here playing in the final against Miss A. M. Yorke, whom she beat g 7, 3 6, 6 2. MRS. LITTLE'S COME-BACK Better known as Dorothy Round, Mrs. Little made her first appearance in competitive tennis at the ...

... By Ashley Courtenay THIS week I should like to dis prove the old saw that one has to be off with the old love before one is on with the new-- at least as far as hotels are concerned; for here are two Surrey gems which are both loves of mine, the one old, and the other new. Take the new one first of all new, as you will see, only as far as my knowledge of it goes. Drive along the Portsmouth ...

... By Rapier THE fellow who said that second thoughts were best never had to write an article like this. However, here are my final opinions. With one exception, I find them pretty well the same as when I first tackled the problem. The exception is Brendan s Cottage, who comes right into the picture after his win at Cheltenham. If Morse Code were really the Morse Code we saw defeat Golden Miller ...

... il EYES ON THE BALL Miss B. Campbell in goal, and the rest of the Irish defence, played splendidly against England at Chiswick on Saturday, and only desperate efforts by the home team in the last 10 minutes brought them victory by 7 goals to 3. England, who last year scored 50 goals to 5 in the International lacrosse series, beat Scotland by 12 goals to 2 the previous Saturday. LONDON ...

... Paris on the Screen Grace Moore in Louise L'Ecole Dramatique as Holly wood sees it LOUISE This screen version of Charpentier's opera is the first film Grace Moore has made in France, hut not her first film in French, for back in 1932, when she was not so slim as she is now, Grace made Jenny Lind in French for M.-G.-M. in Hollywood. The Julian of Louise is Georges Thill,, leading tenor of ...

... By Ashley Courtenay LAST week I read a fascinating book, the life history of Cesar Ritz, written by the one who knew him best his wife. I question whether many of the present genera tion realise that there was even such a man as Ritz, for to-day the name has become a generic one for luxury. Yet it was Cesar Ritz, born ot humble Swiss parents, who did more than anyone to establish the luxury ...

... By Ashley Courtenay WITH all the talk which one hears-- and how true it is-- of the glory of the Lakes, the Yorkshire Moors, the Scottish High lands, and the other districts which are renowned as beauty spots and playgrounds, one hears surprisingly little of the New Forest. Yet Southerners, if they did but appre ciate it, have here a beauty spot and a playground which is unequalled and ...

... THE R.A.C. 850-mile motor-car rally, which ended at Brighton last Saturday, delighted the competitors. The road sections provided the most pleasant driving ever experienced, and the various tests were well devised for testing car and driver. In the acclera- tion and braking tests and in negotiating the severe corners, including hairpin bends which had to be taken at speed, sports cars were ...

... r The York Meeting A Great Yorkshire Cup Career of Lightship Puzzling Sprinters The Trustful colt runs Salisbury and Lingfield Whitsun Hints YORK is always regarded as a more im- portant meeting than Salisbury, and rightly so as the prizes there are con- siderably larger. Yet many people who were at York wished they could have been at Salisbury on the Thursday to see Mr. Rank's fabulously ...

... BY the time these notes appear the British Davis Cup team will be in the throes of their battle with France at Wimbledon-- and after seeing what the Frenchmen did to China in Paris last week-end-- I think the odds are heavily against us, even though the match is on turf. The last-minute inclusion in the French team of Y. Petra and P. Pellizza, who have ap parently been given extended leave ...

... 2 COMPLETION OF THE CAST, including the shoot, for all the line has gone. Notice that the left hand does not go through. LEARN TO CAST WITH EITHER HAND, it is very useful. Here is the back cast left-handed. THE REWARD OF SKILL: 4} brace of trout from the Enlon waters at Milford, Surrey. THE STEEPLE CAST (right): When you cannot back cast owing to trees, etc., behind you, then try the steeple ...

... I ALWAYS seem to drift back periodically to the subject of head down. A few photographs similar to the ones which accompany this article bring my mind back to this key of the golf-swing, or to the fact that I have been forgetting to do it myself. It is a funny thing that golfers can play superb golf for a long period and never keep their heads down properly. I know this is true from my own ...