... By A. Croxton Smith OF the exhibitors at Cruft's great show the other week, one of the most delighted was Miss Constance Carpenter, the actress. Her Maltese, Invicta Jack Frost, became a champion, an honour to which all aspire and so few, com paratively, attain. She was not alone in her pleasure, for others that came under my notice as reaching the House of Lords were Mr. W. F. Holmes's ...

... COR once in a way attack was at least the equal, if not the superior, ol defence in the University hockey match, and few minutes passed without an incident to encourage the hopes of one side or the other Cambridge won by 3 goals to 2 mainly because they were unexpectedly the bettei balanced side. Their defence, which was regarded with some suspicion even in the neighbourhood of Barton Road, ...

... THIS season the Rugby Football Club are celebrating their jubilee and they can look back with some pride on their fifty years of service to the game. One uses the word service, for have contributed much, both in players and tradition, to the enjoyment of those who follow Rugby football to-day. In 1888, the Carlton and Redland Park Rugby Clubs were merged into the Rugby Football Club, and ...

... From the Water-Colour Drawing by J. C. Harrison Reproduced by Courtesy of Messrs. Vicars Bros., 12, Old Bond Street, W.x. ...

... Oxford Well Tested Strong Professional Team Wins at Southfield LAST Thursday, A. J. Lacev took a formidable team of professionals, including a number of Walker Cup players, to Southfield, and giving the Oxford University players a start of three holes, the visitors won by '6 matches to 3, with six games halved. It was a grand day for golf, and the play generally was equal to the day. THE ...

... THE Territorial matches ended with Midlands as the winners, followed closely by West. East achieved only a wooden spoon. Midlands had a great game with West on a lovely ground at Cheltenham and lost by 5 goals to 3. This was their only loss. Later they played and beat South at Stafford by 2 goals to o. The final game, in which North beat East, was at Old Trafford. The English team to meet ...

... LIEUT. -COLONEL SIR JOHN AIRD and Lady Priscilla Willoughby, whose engagement was announced recently, photographed at Pillerton Priors in the Warwickshire country. Lady Priscilla Willoughby, a daughter of the Earl and Countess of Ancaster, is a pioneer of women's polo, and to her efforts and those of Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay must be attributed much of the progress which ladies' polo has made ...

... The Boat Race of 1939, which all the critics thought to be safe in Oxford's keeping, was stolen by Cambridge, who slipped away from their rivals with a rare burst of speed at the start, and established such a lead as gave them all the best of the course, and the tide, and made re covery impossible for any but a really great crew. And Oxford were not that, though in the early part of their ...

... By B. Bennison OUR amateur boxing championships remain unexampled. And after 55 years! There is nothing comparable to them in any country, whether as a magnificent parade of youth, or sport for sport's sake. They teach the world: they are open to the world. An A.B.A. title is the most coveted of all the prizes to be won in the amateur ring. Some thirteen hours had gone before the last punch ...

... Idiot's Delight Shearer and Gable in the Film of Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize Play When Harry Van and Irene first meet in Omaha they are small-time vaudeville artistes, he a mind-reader' s assistant, she a trapeze artist who swings by her teeth. Robert Sherwood him self wrote the script, giving the first two reels of the film to flashbacks of incidents in the early life of Irene and ...

... Professionals at Sunningdale Qualifying for the £2,000 Tournament THE first big professional golf o the season in the South wa played at Sunningdale last weel when 150 professionals compete in a 36 holes stroke competition fo places in the Southern qualifyin section of the Daily Mail £2,00 tournament. Thirty-seven of thes players won £10 each and will not go for the £500 prize at Queen Park, ...

... By David Livingstone-Learmonth /CONDITIONS were perfect when we went to the meet of the Surrey Union at Chaffolds Farm Gate on the road between Newdigate and Rusper. It was warm and soft, and although rain threatened, it did not come. There were several foxes on foot in Jordans and we viewed the first and, I think, the one eventually hunted as fine a specimen as I have seen and equal in size ...