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Promising Featherweight from Ireland: Next Thursday's Big Night at the Stadium Club

... Promising Featherweight from Ireland Next Thursday's Big Night at the Stadium Club By B. Bennison JACKIE SAUNDERS, presented in London for the first time, last Monday, by the National Sporting Club, proved an especially promising featherweight. He is as good as any of his poundage produced by Ireland within recent years, in fact, a possible champion, if it be that Spider Kelly is the best of ...

Daimler's Latest Sports Saloon: How Motoring Tastes Have Changed in the Last Ten Years

... Daimler's Latest Sports Saloon How Motoring Tastes Have Changed in the Last Ten Years By Highwayman A TENDENCY to look back may be a sign of advancing years, but it can be interest ing if it does not delve too deep into the dusty past. We can all, for instance, look back ten years without strain. In motoring one of the curious changes is the way those qualities which used to belong almost ...

Foreign Dogs at Cruft's

... By A. Croxton Smith THE stage is set for the opening of the great show of the year, and on Wednesday and Thursday next the Royal Agricul tural Hall, Islington, will be thronged with devotees. I love the old familiar scene with its serried rows of benches tenanted by the finest dogs of all breeds that we have to show, the stalls of game farms, manufac turers of biscuits and requisites, of guns ...

Rapier on Racing

... Deep going at Birmingham- Snow Stops Racing-- The Grand National Weights Kempton details A strange dilemma Sandown Hints ON Saturday night I dreamt that I owned Macmoffat and had persuaded Nicholson to ride him in the National. I was just cheering him to what seemed certain victory after jumping the last fence when I woke up and my wife complained that someone had hit her on the nose. we nave ...

The East Essex

... By David Livingstone Learmonth BRILLIANT sunshine greeted us when we arrived at Bulmer Tye, near Sudbury, for the meet of the East Essex Hounds, and I hoped for some first-rate pictures. This did not prove an altogether unmixed blessing, as on one or two occasions the sun got in the camera's eye rather badly. However, it was a thoroughly enjoyable day, with a good pack of hounds and a friendly ...

Hunting in the Shiny: Scenes with the Quetta Hounds

... Hunting in the Shiny Scenes with the Quetta Hounds THE FIELD Moving off after a meet, a view which gives a good impression of the country in this part of Baluchistan. Indian packs meet very early in the morning, before the hot sunr gets up. TYPICAL COUNTRY The Master, in the foreground, and one of the whippers-in, Mr. Mappin, of the Royal Deccan Horse, with the hounds, showing the kereges, ...

WOMEN AND SPORT

... SKI-IMG Our leading women skiers are practising hard just now for the World Championships, which open at Zakopane, in Poland, to-morrow week, and last eight days. The picture shows Miss B. Armitage, one of Great Britain's reserves at last year's World Championships, getting away at the start of a slalom race at Wengen. Other competitors waiting their turn watch anxiously to see how their rival ...

MODES OF THE MOMENT: SPRING IN SIGHT

... MODES OF THE MOMENT By LORNA CAMERON Spring in Sight PEOPLE who travel from town to the country and back again can alter their clothes to suit their sur roundings by cleverly chosen acces sories. Shoes are, of course, lower and often lighter in colour ice calf and all the tan shades go well with tweeds. Many have thong-stitched mudguards or sturdy platform heels for easy walking. Winter ...

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... A FORWARD RUSH R. G. Stovell away with the ball during a Navy rush. Some oj the Navy's foot rushes were excellent being well-controlled and full of fire but they were well held by a remarkably sound Blackheath defence which never faltered under pressure. ...

Royal Navy Beaten

... ALTHOUGH the Royal Navy were beaten fairly comfort- ably by Blackheath on Saturday, they played well enough to show promise of developing into a remarkably strong side. The forwards have yet to settle down into a pack on Satur day they were badly out-scrummaged and out-hooked but with a little more practice they should be able to co-ordinate their energies and become a remarkably powerful ...