... 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 ...

... cccss&vies r By DIANA Ready for a round this player carries her tees on a neat leather wrist strap, which costs js. 6d. On her left wrist is a golf scorer, for 6s. 6d., an in genious device with a knob at the side for altering the figures. Both from Rivoli, in Gooch's, Knightsbri dge. It may rain, but it will not affect the golfer protected by this umbrella from Spald ing's, 318 High Hol- born ...

... £AMBRIDGE did well al Addington last Saturday when they were beaten by a very strong team, from one of the strongest clubs near London, by nine games to seven. In the foursomes over the New Course, the club were two points to the good. In the singles, on the Old Course, the University players held them to the tune of five all, which was a notable achievement. THE SHOR T NINTH was played from ...

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... LAUNCH OF THE KING GEORGE V Britain's First J\[ew Battleship for Fourteen Tears about to Enter the T yne after being Named by the King; While Mr. Chamberlain was addressing the House of Commons last Tuesday afternoon and telling members how the long period of effort, preparation, and organisation of our defence programme is at last beginning to bear visible fruit, the King, accompanied by ...

... 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, February 22, 1939. THE COST.-- Only the other day the nation gasped to hear that a five-year plan of defence rearmament was perhaps to cost the country £1,500,000,000. The inconceivable figure was gradually digested. This money might be spent between 1937 and 1942. We are now at the beginning of 1939 and by the end of the year we shall have spent just ...

... Britain's Greatest Estate The Story of the Crown Lands How George III Gave Them to the People's Keeping --By^= NOEL THOMPSON CROWN lands are not controlled by the King. The greatest estate in the country provides money for the people. There is a widespread idea that if you have a Crown lease, or are a tenant of Crown lands, you are bound by all sorts of curious restrictions. Before I set out ...