... 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 ...

... By Ashley Courtenay AVERY popular place for those who wish to live outside London is Esher, and to de scribe Moore Place Hotel as a gate way to beautiful Surrey is as apt a definition as one could give. Esher, of recent years, has grown from a small village into a budding town, and it is not until one passes through the main street that con stitutes a part of the Portsmouth road and reaches ...

... London's Professional Lawn Tennis Carnival Burlesque, Table Tennis and Badminton EIGHT of the world's finest professional lawn tennis players finished their fortnight's tournament at Olympia last Tuesday. The tournament was magnificently staged, yet this feast of professional talent did not draw the expected crowds. The tournament for £1500 in prizes was an American one, with each game ...

... A NINE- YEAR- OLD brown gelding by Cottage-- Cariella, by Craiganour's Argen tine son, Caricato, Workman was bred by Mr. P. J. O'Leary. He was not thought a lot of as a foal, and changed hands for a trifling sum. Later Mr. R. de L. Stedman and Mr. T. Gorman acquired him, and with him won the four-and-a-quarter-mile La Touch Memorial Steeplechase at Punchestown in 1936. In the spring of 1937 ...

... The Worcestershire With Lady Dudley's Cup THERE was the usual huge crowd at the Worcestershire Point to-Point atCrowle,thehill looking like a giant colony of ants when viewed from a distance and, although the class of entry in Lady Dudley's Cup must be considered the worst for some years, the racing was good throughout, the Adjacent Hunts' Race being particularly excit ing. Captain Currie fell ...

... JAMES ADAMS twice has been runner-up for the Open Championship, in 1936 and last year, and is bound to be among the Professional prize-winners this season. His approach play, as expected of one whose favourite shots are an iron and a mashie-niblick, is magnificent in its accuracy. Adams was born at Troon in 1910, and from 1932 has represented Scotland every year in the professional ...

... Branksome Foursomes Successful Week-End Meeting at Parkstone BRANKSOME HANDICAP: W. R. Skinner (left) and H. F. Benka (Brookmans Park) won the Branksome Foursomes Handicap. PARKSTONE PANORAMA Sand, pines and gorse lie on every hand to snare the unwary. A view from above the yth green. SCRATCH AND HANDICAP WINNERS The 36 holes Branksome Scratch Cup was won by J. H. Thompson (left) and Lord ...

... THE SCOREBOARD after Jour rounds had been played in the Daily Mail £2,000 Golf Tournament at Queen's Park, Bournemouth. Cotton headed the list with 2Q2 only to be caught by Compston, who also returned a last round of 71 to lie with Cotton for first place. Third was D. Curtis Queen's Park, Bournemouth) with a total of 296, four strokes behind Compston and Cotton. GALLANT LOSER A Compston ...

... THE Central Council of Recreative Physical Training, which is working closely with the National Fitness Council, has arranged a series of courses for the training of men and women leaders and organisers of outdoor and indoor recreation. A three months' residential course for men will be held at Loughborough College, Leicestershire, from April to July. there will be Summer Schools for women at ...