... 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, ...

... m z- m H HH The Women (Lyric, 8.30) I DO not for one instant believe that Miss Clare Boothe, author of The Women, now at the Lyric Theatre, after a pro digious success in New York, believes that all rich American women have barnyard morals and no manners at all. But it has pleased her to pretend that this is so for the sake of her play and, possibly, also for the sake of her bank ing account ...

... America's foremost golfers, Ralph Gul- dahl, National and West ern Open Champion, and Sam Snead, who won more prize-money than anyone else in the U.S.A. last year, were in mag nificent form during the recent Masters' Tourna ment at Augusta, Georgia They were joint favourites and lived up to the level, for there was never more than a stroke or two between them Both broke the previous record for ...

... or ALL BOOKSTALLS AND NEWSAGENTS EVERY WEDNESDAY ONE SHILLING FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS Over 25,000 delightful 'snaps were entered in The SKETCH Amateur Photographic Coin- petition during the past year, and again this season The SKETCH is awarding £10 for the best amateur picture selected for publication every week. In addition, for everv other competitive photograph which the Editor con ...

... WORLD RECORD Piero Taruffi of Italy cornering at speed z£i/z£tt he set up a world's hour record on the goo ex. super charged four-cylinder Gilera on the Brescia-Bergamo road. In an hour he covered 205.252 kilometres beating his own previous record. Left OUT FOR 200 MILES AN HOUR Major A. T. G. G oldie Gardner the British racing driver w ojf to Germany to make an attempt to better his world's ...