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... THE man who first said two heads are better than one couldn't possibly have known the hangover. He's a self-made man, a horrible example of unskilled labour. Mistress I wrote your name with my finger in the dust on the dining-room mantel-piece this morning. Maid I know you did, mum. An' you spelt it wrong. Business before pleasure, as the man said when he kissed his wife before setting out ...
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... Racing on the Roodeye Highlights of the Chester Meeting THE CHESTER VASE The field passing the stands for the first time during the running of the Chester Vase, a mile and a half race for three-year-olds, which has before now been won by the subsequent Derby winner. Captain Dixon's Southern Port, who was third, is in the lead; in the t\ext rank, from right to left, come An Apple a Day ...
... By B. Benniscn PUGILISTICALLY this has indeed been a week of storm and stress, questions, quibbles, and threats, all because of Mike Jacobs, Lord High Everything of the American ring, who insisted that Henry Armstrong could not fight Ernie Roderick, our champion, in defence of the world's welter title at Harringay, not even for £10,000, unless the challenger agreed that in the event of winning ...
... DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S best-selling thriller about Cornwall in the bad old days before it became the holiday-makers' paradise has been filmed by Pommer- Laughton Productions as a starring vehicle for Charles himself. The story has been altered somewhat to fit film requirements (the wicked parson has become a wicked squire, the smuggler hero a Revenue officer), but the main grim theme of wrecking ...
... Ways of Improving Your Riding No. 3 of a New Series By Bucephalus IN my first article I impressed upon you the necessity of keeping a constant tension on the reins, which must not be confused with a strong tension, and I likened the bit to a ate. I now want to tell you how you can pull up your horse so that he stands properly collected. To do this merely squeeze him with the legs and at the ...
... West Indies a real game of cricket, free from unnecessary clinches and with each side offering the other something to go for. Fast Wickets Cynics have already been at work saying that the Surrey Committee's decision to instruct that the Oval wickets shall be fast is the logical outcome of having Gover and Watts to bowl on them. This is to imply that no other county has any bowlers of pace, and ...
... AT THE MILE-POST The field, ajter covering four furlongs, Larchfield is in the lead, followed by, from right to left, Heliopolis, H Blue Peter and Casanova then, in the next rank, from right to left, come Wheatland, Eogerstone Castle, Fairfax, Hypnotist and Major Brackey. In the third rank, from right to left, are Buxton, Mauna Kea and Dhoti. Behind Buxton is Ortiz, and next to him Fox Cub. On ...
... ONDON University regained the U.A.U. Championship at the White City last Saturday with a score of 89 points. Oxford, the holders, were second with 59, and Loughborough beat Cambridge (winners in 1935 and 1937) out of third place by 37 points to 32. Edinburgh were fifth and Liverpool sixth among the twenty competing universities. Olympic scormg prevailed 6 points for a wm, 5 for second, etc., ...
... WOMEN AND SPORT University Women Tennis Players Want Own Courts CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY women's lawn tennis team avenged their defeat in 1938, when they beat Oxford recently on the famous Cock's and Hen's ground, by ten matches to five, with two unfinished. Owing to rain, which flooded the Newnham courts on the first afternoon, half the rubbers were decided on an en-tout-cas surface. Oxford had ...
... By Highwayman FOR four successive days I was driving about with the hood of my drophead coupe as fiat as it would go, and if I never have it down again this summer it has earned its keep. Four days of May sunshine with the countryside as beautiful as it is this Spring are something to warm the heart in these days of shadows and shocks. Not for years, they say in the Chilterns, Fas the fruit ...
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