... Betore the Amateur Championship began at Hoylake last Monday THE HOLDER: Chart:: Yates, aged 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, is favourite for the Championship, and odds of 7 1 have been laid against him. He punches the ball good and hard, and is a very formidable opponent on and around the green. (Right) Yates is seen driving off, and (below) an amusing picture of the holder changing his socks in ...

... 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 ...

... Hours of Play Freak Declarations One- Day Rules IT is the practice on some grounds, especially those in the South-Eastern counties, to play from 11.30 to 7 on the first day, and from 11.15 to 7 on the second, so that if the game goes its full course, the end will come on the third at a time when most people are thinking about tea. A good deal has been said against this arrange ment, and many ...

... A Lovely Ship Mr. W. H. Collins' 457-ton Wilna WILNA' the largest yacht of the year from a British shipyard, has just undergone her trials in the Solent. These pictures show her beauty and her comfort. But as her designer, Mr. Charles Nicholson, said She is not merely a gentleman's toy, for in time of war she would prove a most useful auxiliary. She has been designed for Mr. VV. H. Collins ...

... THERE was a tie for first place in the 36-holes professional and amateur better-ball medal tournament held at Bram- shot, Hampshire, last week. The winners were F. V. Smith (10) and G. W. Mcintosh (scr.), and J. D. Stacey (3) and A. Perry (plus 2). They had aggregates of 136 for the two rounds. Professionals played from plus two, and assistants from scratch, the amateurs playing from their ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THIS year celebrates the eightieth anniversary [of the first dog show that ever was, an event that has had far-reaching conse- quences, as our example has been followed in every part of the civilised world. It was natural that foreign countries should come to us for judges at their shows and field trials in the early days when their ex perience was not so great as ours, and ...

... :'wK ^flB For Fifty-year-old Golf Clubs TO celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the Stinchcombe Hill Golf Club at Dursley (Glos.), Mr. Percy Lister, the captain, presented a cup for competition among teams from clubs of fifty years and more, the competition to be held on Stinchcombe Hill course this year, and there after on the course of the winning club. Stinchcombe Hill, represented by ...

... By B. Bennison JOCK McAVOY, real name Bamford, Lanca- shire to the core, as becomes a Rochdale man, remains British middleweight champion. Last Monday, at Manchester, Ginger Sadd of Norwich attempted to wrest the title from him which he has kept for six years, and failed because he had not a punch powerful enough. Sadd gave a polished display ■of boxing, but he was fighting on the retreat and ...

... The Royal Tournament Afternoon and Evening Performances at Olympia until June 3rd THE LIFE GUARDS Thirty-two men of this famous regiment, which was formed by King Charles II. in 1660, carry out a Musical Ride as their part of the performance in the Royal Tournament. Mounted on their black horses and wearing Mounted Review Order uniform, they present a magnificent spectacle. FANFARE AND TRUMPET ...