... By A. Croxton Smith CROWDS of exhibitors are now hard at work preparing for Cruft's great show on February 8 and 9. Those who are old hands at the game leave nothing to chance, realising the importance of putting down their dogs to the best advantage. Most of them will get the extra exercise that hardens the muscles and tightens up the feet, and they will be groomed intensively, according to ...

... Weather Upsets Hockey Plans International Team Building Under Difficulties SO seriously has the severe weather of recent weeks interfered with the hockey pro gramme, not only in this country but in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, that it is no longer safe to say any match will be played. Last Saturday the East v. Combined Services game was postponed; so were the Lancashire v. Yorkshire fixture ...

... THE first big golf event of the year, the Pre sident's Putter, was played at Rye last week, and won by J. O. H. Greenly, the young Oxford Blue. He beat D. H. R. Martin, the old Oxford captain, in the final by 4 and 3. The mixed weather was a feature of the meeting. Sunshine on the first day, iron-hard ground on the second, torrents of rain on the third, warmth and wind on the final. WONDERING ...

... Number Six Another Wallace Thriller Adapted for the Stage MAKE-BELIEVE MURDER The police stage a little shooting to try and get Ctesar Valentine to betray himself. Franklin Dyall, a very well-dressed arch-crook Gordon Harker, nobly portraying surprise Bernard Lee, a loafer from the streets; and the corpse (Detective-Inspector Bonnard), Michael Logan. POISONED BRANDY?: I am a descendant of ...

... The Mikado Screened IT is fitting that the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera ever to be filmed should be The Mikado, that prime favourite of audiences all over the world and dramatic societies wherever English is spoken. The Technicolor production, adapted, conducted and produced by Geoffrey Toye, had a suitable send-off at the Leicester Square Theatre yesterday. Of the players, Kenny Baker ...

... TWO barristers were engaged in a heated argument. Finally, one exclaimed, Is there any case so low, so utterly shameful and crooked that you'd refuse it? 1 don t know, replied the other, pleasantly. What have you been up to now Smith was bragging that he could name any brand of spirit, and an onlooker, taking a flask from his pocket, asked the connoisseur to taste that and tell him what it ...

... Rapier on Racing Frost and snow again Argental falls at Manches ter Santayana in d i sg r a c e P r o m i s i n g L'Estaque St. George ll's good trial Windsor meeting hints FROST and snow have again interfered with racing. The Clerk of the Weather spared Manchester and then descended on Haydock Park and Gatwick with a heavy hand. Still, it was good for the Manchester hotel busi ness, so I ...

... Professional Squash Week A Professionals' Week will be held at the St. John's Wood Club from May 1 to 8, during which the Professionals' handicap tournament (singles) and the Professionals' doubles tourna ment will be decided. Both events will be played on the knock-out system, best of five games. Only professional members of the Squash Rackets Association may enter. Butcher's Come-back I ...

... (Sporting ^Accessories By DIANA Hedgerow flowers make an unusual and charming cluster on a simple frock for an early spring dance. The honey suckle here is especially interesting, as this is the first time it has ever been so perfectly copied. From the well-known Mayf air Flowers at Marshall and Snelgrove's, Oxford Street. A travelling iron that really does travel is not always e'asily found, ...

... MISS HAZEL FRANKLIN, the thirteen-year-old British skater who has made such a furore of a success in New York, in this series of pictures is performing one of the several spectacular jumps invented of recent years. Briefly, travelling at speed on a back edge, the toe of the free foot strikes the ice, and the body being in position to turn, a com plete revolution is accomplished in the air, ...

... England versus South Africa The First Test Match at Johannesburg Results in a Draw THE first Test match between England and South Africa, played on the Wanderers' ground at Johannesburg, was drawn, England had a good first innings total of 422, with valuable contributions from P. A. Gibb, 93 Paynter, 117 and B. H. Valentine, whose free hitting delighted the crowd, 97. South Africa replied with ...

... The Professor: id Others at St. Moritz Well-known Riders of the Bob-run Racing Motorists and Jockeys in a new role THE Winter Sports season is now in full j swing, and St. Moritz I has drawn its usual T quota of celebrities in U the sporting and other I worlds. Here, there t are a dozen skating I rinks, and matches I are going on almost 1 continuously on the I six curling rinks, i Then, too, ...