... 'v iw .^asa' a ^TEXT Wednesday the Centenary Regatta begins on this famous course, one of the most beautiful and fairest in the world. The course is dead straight I mile 55° yards long and 80 feet wide, boomed from start to finish. ...

... I AM playing in my third Open Cham pionship at St. Andrews next week. The first time I went to this Mecca of golf was in 1927. I was twenty years of age and full of ambition to win golf's premier prize. At that time Bobby Jones was the golfer's idol, and he, with Walter Hagen, held the top places in world golf I thought I could win, but now, on looking back, I realise I could not have done ...

... THE Southern Championships at Motspur Park last Saturday produced one track and two field event records. P. D. Ward (Achilles Club) got his revenge on A. V. Reeve (Poly technic) and won the three miles in 14 min. 23.2 sec., beating A. J. Hughes' 1937 record by 3/5ths of a second. D. R. Bell (Achilles) beat his own discus record with a throw of 139 ft. 6f in., and D. L. Grigg (Metropolitan ...

... A RECORD Jcrowd of 92,000 cheered Highland Rum, an Irish dog, home to a three-length victory in the thirteenth Greyhound Derby at the White City. The time for this 525-yard race was 29.35 seconds, only just outside the record. The winner came from theWimbledon track, which has had a remarkable run of classic successes. HIGHLAND RUM WINS After rounding the first, bend, Mr. Harly's dog clearly ...

... Modes OF THE y Moment By LORNA CAMERON IN A CITY GARDEN JULY can be colder than January, but there is another very good reason for buying your furs now. The City Fur Store, 64, St. Paul's Churchyard, have an interesting col lection of advance models at special summer prices, and will sepd their illustrated list on application. Their skunk coat above, for example, beautifully stranded, tapering ...

... The Clyde Fortnight Scotland's Great Yachting Festival THE Clyde Fortnight, the first of the big racing festivals this season, begins to-day when the Mudhook Y.C. gives a series of races at Hunter's Quay. Thereafter there is a full programme daily until July 11--with one day's rest on July 7--given by the remainder of the Clyde clubs, the Royal Clyde, Clyde Corinthian, Royal Gourock, Royal ...

... COLONEL ALESSANDRO BETTONI, on his fourteen-year-old Italian-bred chestnut gelding Adigrat, receives his rosette from the Duke of Gloucester after winning the King George V. Gold Challenge Cup, for military officers of all nations, at Olympia. This was the first time Italians had competed at the International Horse Show for some years. Colonel Bettoni and the redoubtable Captain Bizard, of ...

... A Busy Week A Folkestone shock Newcastle details -The Northumber land Plate An interesting Sandown Foal Plates Cosaque obliges -Very Game Tumult filly Week-end hints RACING started with a modest two days at Folkestone last week, brightened by the presence of several Ascot failures. Backers had their biggest shock when they laid odds of two to one on Highland Brume to beat the Ann gelding in ...

... THE hundred and first University match begins on Saturday at Lord's, where once again opinion will be divided as to whether the interval of a Sunday between the first and second days is a totally desirable thing. Last year the experiment was not wholly a success, nor yet altogether a failure. As to whether this particular encounter is falling from its old standard or whether public interest is ...

... ONE hundred years ago certain leading townsmen of Henley met in the Town Hall and decided that an annual regatta on the fine Henley reach would bring business to the town. Two trophies were offered the Grand for eights, the Town Cup for fours (since discontinued) and on June 14, 1839, First Trinity, Cambridge, carried off the Grand Cup from three other challengers. In less than ten years the ...

... NOT since Francis Ouimet tied with Ted Ray and Harry Vardon in 19 13 has there been a triple tie in the American open. This year, at the Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, Byron Nelson, Craig Wood and Densmore Shute each tied with 284. In the first play off Shute dropped out with a 76, Wood and Nelson again tieing with a score of 68. Nelson beat Wood over the next 18 holes by ...

... CO GREYHOUND RACING AT WHITE CITY Whether for the Greyhound Derby in June, the autumn O. A. Critchley Memorial Stakes or the dramatic £3,500 White City at the close of the year's racing, training at the G.R.A. Northaw kennels proceeds at the same even tempo the whole year round. Through wooded parkland, over Hertfordshire grasslands the daily exercise takes place, under the supervision of ...