... ALEC NELSON has coached the Cambridge University Athletic Club since 1907, and during that time such distinguished athletes as P. J. Noel-Baker, H.S.O Ashington, D. Macmillan, R. S. Woods, H. M. Abrahams, H. B. Stallard, G. M. Butler, D, G. A. Lowe, Lord Burghley, R. L. Howland, R. M. N. Tisdall, J. St. L. Thornton and A. G. K. Brown have passed through his hands. These men may have had ...

... Finding the World's Fastest Miler Sydney Wooderson takes on American Cracks at Princeton To-morrow lYlfe TO-MORROW Sydney Wooderson, world record-holder at 880 yards and one mile, runs over one mile against the best of the United States' performers at this distance. Wooder- son's opponents will probably include Glen Cunningham, L. Zamperini, and Charles Fenske, and the winner will be ...

... Comments on Notable Players of the Week RICHARD CHAPMAN, the American who reached the last eight in the British Amateur, won the French Amateur Championship at St. Germain, near Paris, this week. When commenting on his style two weeks ago, I mentioned the speed at which he swung the club--he has a slashing swing which is fast up and down. He hits the ball a long way and is inclined to rely on ...

... AT Templenewsam, Leeds, last week, Dai Rees, of Hindhead, won the Yorkshire Evening News £750 professional tourna ment, beating Jack Hargreaves (Walmley) at the 37th hole. Most of the leading British professionals competed (Henry Cotton was a notable absentee) and the Argentine golfers were also in the field in force. Two of them reached the last eight. Rees' victory in the final was a triumph ...

... THE decision to hold the 1944 Olympic Games in Great Britain raises the question whether our existing sports stadiums, such as the White City or Wembley, will be considered adequate to stage a meeting of such magnitude or whether a new stadium will have to be built. The decision rests with the British Olympic Committee and they will have to take account of all sorts of factors quite apart from ...

... What the Critchley-Elvin Axis Means To Boxing Next Month's World Title Fight May Not Be Broadcast By B. Bennison THE Greyhound Racing Association and Wembley have joined hands, and under their direction Len Harvey and Jock McAvoy will fight for what our Board of Control have decided shall be for the light-heavyweight championship of the world, Mike Jacobs and his works notwithstanding, on July ...

... , , ftble England MM. i.,. I I I I I 1 r-- I Pelyut, Cornwall THE weather-lore of the people has centuries of experience behind it, though perforce it is but local just as Authority's decree is general. The sunrise tells much, strong colours, high dawns or over-much clarity portending rain or storm. As do indeed the movements of the beasts^ 'do they not say that madly-squeaking swine can see ...

... ;dj K! ml In (Aldwych, 8.30) MUCH of the preliminary hullabaloo which the announcement of the public pro duction of that fine play Of Mice and Men involved was that part of the plot is that a dog is killed. It was not suggested that a dog was really going to be killed at every performance or even just on the first night (to give the show a good send off, as it were), but the mere suggestion ...

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... (5rtin5 o 4 By DIANA Wtoz it's tennis in the garden, pastel-coloured pullovers and socks relieve the monotony of an all-white outfit. Spalding's, 318, High Holborn, have these sleeveless slipovers, for 12/11, in pale blue and lemon, with socks (2/11) to match. They are also made in white for tournament play. Keep the water away from your waves with Kleinert's Rcxy- Viking swim cap, which is ...