... ORGANISED by the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, the Thames Estuary Race, over a course of about 95 miles, was held for many years in October, but the short days and rough weather deterred many from racing, so, in 1936, it was decided to hold it in May, since when there have been many more entries, and this year a record of 23. The chief prize is a Laurel Wreath Trophy with a Silver Replica for ...

... By Ashley Courtenay WITH all the talk which one hears-- and how true it is-- of the glory of the Lakes, the Yorkshire Moors, the Scottish High lands, and the other districts which are renowned as beauty spots and playgrounds, one hears surprisingly little of the New Forest. Yet Southerners, if they did but appre ciate it, have here a beauty spot and a playground which is unequalled and ...

... r The York Meeting A Great Yorkshire Cup Career of Lightship Puzzling Sprinters The Trustful colt runs Salisbury and Lingfield Whitsun Hints YORK is always regarded as a more im- portant meeting than Salisbury, and rightly so as the prizes there are con- siderably larger. Yet many people who were at York wished they could have been at Salisbury on the Thursday to see Mr. Rank's fabulously ...

... BY the time these notes appear the British Davis Cup team will be in the throes of their battle with France at Wimbledon-- and after seeing what the Frenchmen did to China in Paris last week-end-- I think the odds are heavily against us, even though the match is on turf. The last-minute inclusion in the French team of Y. Petra and P. Pellizza, who have ap parently been given extended leave ...

... 2 COMPLETION OF THE CAST, including the shoot, for all the line has gone. Notice that the left hand does not go through. LEARN TO CAST WITH EITHER HAND, it is very useful. Here is the back cast left-handed. THE REWARD OF SKILL: 4} brace of trout from the Enlon waters at Milford, Surrey. THE STEEPLE CAST (right): When you cannot back cast owing to trees, etc., behind you, then try the steeple ...

... I ALWAYS seem to drift back periodically to the subject of head down. A few photographs similar to the ones which accompany this article bring my mind back to this key of the golf-swing, or to the fact that I have been forgetting to do it myself. It is a funny thing that golfers can play superb golf for a long period and never keep their heads down properly. I know this is true from my own ...

... Holding the Reins and Sitting Correctly No. 5 of a New Series- By Bucephalus WE have now gone very roughly through the various stages from walk to canter, leaving out, it is true, many things which are important, as they require the rider to know more than I have told him at present. r propose not to advance any iurtner at the moment, but to go back over the ground, filling gaps which had to ...

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... 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 ...