... 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 ...

... rlayers Prominent at Melbury Next Week's Hard Court Tennis Titles FROM Melbury and Brighton, the scene passes to Bournemouth for next week's Hard Court Champion ships. This time we shall be saying good bye to the West Hants Club, for their long and happy lease of the meeting expires this year, and the L.T.A. have decided to transfer it, for the time being at least, to the handsome Sussex ...

... The Epsom Spring Double Two More Big Handicaps /Von by Outsiders WISHING THEIR MONET WELL: Anxious punters watching their chosen at the start of the Great Metropolitan, the most delightful of Epsom's races from the spectators' point of view, for the horses start and finish in the straight by the stands and part of the course winds over the Downs before joining the ordinary track near the mile. ...

... London Sees its First f ollei Speedway THIS is the very latest craze Roller Speedway. In America and on the Continent it packs big arenas with wildly en thusiastic crowds, but whether it is going to prove a success in England we do not know yet. Certainly many people who went on the earlier evenings to Harringay just because it was something new will pay many more visits before this ...

... IT does not do any golfer, whatever his class, any harm to analyse his game from time to time, as the secret of being consistent at golf is to keep the pro portions right. When you have played for a while it is simple to correct faults as they creep in, but it is difficult to correct them on the spur of the moment, and not go to another extreme. For example, having missed the green on the ...

... 1HE AND^MATIC Sews T 1 I QJL KUtd 6c 6afr. H I L L M A N da FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 ine illustrated SPORTING fT- and DRAMATIC News ...

... HAMPTON SONS HAMPTON SONS 6, ARLINGTON STREET, ST. JAMES'S, S.W.I. Telephone: Regent 8222 (15 lines). Telegrams: Sclanlct, Piccy, London. ARMSCOTE MANOR. The Subject of Article in Country Life. Attractive Small Manor House, in Fine Hunting Centre, Bet ween Strut ford-on- A von and Moreton-in-Marsh. Beautiful stone built Tudor House. Remodelled regardless of cost. 3 reception, 9 bedrooms, 3 ...

... By A. Croxton Smith IN later Victorian and Edwardian days it was a common thing to see dachshunds in the West- End or parks, and they did very well on the show bench. After the inevit able prejudice occasioned by the war, fashion has again swung round in favour of the little Teckel, which has never been as popular as it is to-day. Taking the three varieties together, they are only exceeded in ...

... B NORMAL SPENDING MEANS EMPLOYMENT i fp^ |l| jjjjl| 1^ ■jmmm. TAILORED FROCK in Amazon quality washing TAILORED WASHING FROCK in striped crepon, A USEFUL FROCK in crepon with stitching at collar, silk, trimmed pockets at yoke and white pearl attractively cut with fine pleats in skirt. Navy/ pockets and belt, bone buttons to tone. In white, buttons. Colours include wine/white, AO/, fuchsia, ...