... 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 ...

... Circus anc Pantomime The Famous Bertram Mills Show at Olympia I Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane Theatre CIRCUS and pantomime time has come round again, and at Olympia the Bertram Mills Circus provides a spectacle as brilliant and thrilling as ever. Apart from the clowns and the almost uncanny obedience of the performing animals, there are feats of daring that really do take one's breath away ...

... THE South-West v. South-East 1 match at Osterley did not look much like an international trial, though it ranks as one. At least three of the wing forwards might as well have stayed at home for they never saw the ball except by chance, and with the attacking forces thus virtually reduced to three instead of five a side, neither defence had to be more than steady and reliable, and both were ...

... CLOSE-UP OF AN IRON SHOT: At a time-interval of i/6ooth of a second between exposures. This shows the distortions of the shaft. Hete there are six pictures of the ball to ten of the dub-head. The club-face seems to have remained shut here. STILL FASTER A close-up of a driver just before and after impact, when the time-interval has been quickened to if6ooth of a second. The ball, moving faster ...

... Committee Challenge Cup at Deal Qualifying Rounds C. A. Hue Williams' Success THE annual competition for the Royal Cinque Ports Committee Challenge Cup at Deal, postponed from the Christ mas holidays, was played off last week end. C. A. Hue Williams, who qualified with 79 (80--1) was the winner; conceding four shots he beat D. A. Davies (6) by 2 and 1 in the final, which was played in ...

... A Day at a Hockey Tournament Midland Counties at Ramsgate THE New Year is always a great time for women hockey players, for they gather at various centres in their hundreds for their divisional tourna ments. These pictures of the Midland Counties at Ramsgate are typical of the other tournaments at Clacton (The East), Weston-super-Mare (The West), Scarborough (The North), or Worthing (The ...