... Holding the Reins and Sitting Correctly No. 5 of a New Series- By Bucephalus WE have now gone very roughly through the various stages from walk to canter, leaving out, it is true, many things which are important, as they require the rider to know more than I have told him at present. r propose not to advance any iurtner at the moment, but to go back over the ground, filling gaps which had to ...

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... £\XFORD beat Cambridge at the White City last Saturday by the unexpectedly large margin of 35 points 76 to 41. Actually Orford won ten of the thirteen events and in four of them the two hurdle races, the half-mile and high jump they scored the first two places. Nevertheless it was a closer match that the score suggests, Oxford winning the 100 yards by inches the weight by less than two inches ...

... (To Finish the Season) By David Livingstone- Learmonth THE weather was delightful when we drove from the asparagus to the mistletoe country for the meet of the Ledbury at Corse Lawn and the many harbingers of Spring almost inspired us to the poetical language used by untutored peasants in Irish plays. It also seemed likely that scent would be poor, a great help in hunting photography. However, ...

... __| THE -second Test match against South Africa at Cape Town, like the first at Johannesburg, was drawn, and here are Hutton, back again after his injury in the match against the Transvaal, and P. A. Gibb, who did so well in the first Test, going out to open our first innings at Newlands. England started badly, for Hutton was bowled by Gordon at 17 'and Paynter, who made two centuries at ...

... Owners and Club Admission Leicester Details Perfect Part's Double Success An in teresting Sandown Macaulay's Great Win Bahuddin keeps his Reputation Dark Way Impresses Newbury Hints RACING last week, particularly that at Sandown Park, was most interesting. As so often happens, the age-old dispute between certain racecourse executives and owners who are refused admission to the Club enclosure ...

... UNTIL Foxborough II's brilliant display in the Middle Park Stakes, many people regarded Panorama as the best two-year-old of last season, although he never met Portobello, who is put above him in the Free Handicap, although also of sprinting blood. By Sir Cosmo out of Happy Climax (a winner of three races and some £1300 herself, and dam of three other winners of small races in England and one ...

... AN infra-red photograph of the first flight of ducks over the line of butts at Lord Rothschild's -famous duck shoot on the Tring Reservoirs, in Hertfordshire. A day with the guns there is illustrated on the following pages. ...

... To Henry Cotton, cjo Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, I have been reading your article in the Sporting and Dramatic News for 6th inst. and thought it might possibly interest you that many years ago the carry of the tee shots in a match between Douglas Rolland and Hugh Kirkcaldy was measured at every hole. This match was played over the course of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club (now ...

... A BELL-BOY passed through the lobby of the exclusive hotel. Young man, remonstrated the manager sternly, you should know that it is against the rules of this hotel for an employee to whistle while on duty. I am not whistling, sir, replied the employee, I'm paging some body's dog. It's certainly a cold winter, isn't it This is nothing. When I was born it was so cold the stork couldn't make ...

... KNIGHT, FRANK RUTLEY KNIGHT, FRANK RUTLEY THE ESTATE SALE ROOMS, LONDON, W.l. BY DIRECTION OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE Mr. R. S. SLIGH. SPUR OF THE CHILTERNS 600 FEET UP BETWEEN CHESHAM AND GREAT MISSENDEN PEDNOR HOUSE Part dating from the XVIth Century, of small Elizabethan bricks and mullioned windows. An exceptional Property, built regardless of expense; full south aspect, enjoy ing ...

... GODDARD SMITH JODDARD SMITH Telephone I WHITEHALL 2721 22, KING STREET, ST. JAMES'S, S.W.I. Telegrams GODDARSMI. LONDON. FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS IN THEIR ESTATE AUCTION HALL, 3, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, S.W.I. UNLESS PREVIOUSLY SOLD PRIVATELY. On Wednesday, June 7th, 1939, at 3 p.m. On Tuesday, June 27th, 1939, at 3 p.m. By direction of the Executors of C. B. WYLDE (deceased). direct io °f the ...