... Women and War On and Off Duty BETTY DIX-PERKIN, who was a V.A.D. in Byfleet's special hospital for evacuees, is now taking a W.R.A.F. training. Her golf this year has been a fine tribute to Cox's coaching. MOLLY GOURLAY, an ex-F.A.N.Y., won the Swedish golf championship in August. How she is working with the Women's Transport at Aldershot, with the rank of quartermaster-sergeant. CECILIA ...

... By Ashley Courtenay IN adjusting our lives to the new conditions of war, we must bear in mind that French saying Autres temps, autres mœurs. No longer shall we be able to use our cars, except with a rigid eye to our allotted limits of petrol. No longer are we able to run out on winter's evenings to a bacon and egg supper at some wayside inn. Our excursions and diversions will, in consequence ...

... Rosslyn Park just b Hospital too st re -lequins Guys Catford Bridge A CHEERT RE UNION Rugby men in every sort of uniform met on the Old Deer Park last Saturday seme to watch an excellent game, and quite a number to shed their uniform ar take hart in it. Left KINDLY CRITIC Lt. Com mander P. K. Kemp, yachting authority and well-known writer on the Rugby game, was there to watch Rosslyn Park's ...

... AT Carntyne, Glasgow, last Saturday, Jackie Paterson delighted his home town supporters by knocking out Paddy Ryan, of Manchester, in the thirteenth of their scheduled fifteen-round contest for Lons dale flyweight belt. Paterson, who has had a remarkably quick rise to the top of the ladder, always seemed to have the fight safely in his keeping. A BAD MOMENT FOR PATERSON Paddy Ryan in the fifth ...

... LACK of petrol, lovely weather and the need for recreation and exercise have given the horse a new importance in our daily war time life. A number of horses have been purchased by the Army, but the position is nothing like it was in 1914, when there was wholesale requisitioning all over the country. The Institute of the Horse is to continue the examinations for instructors' certificates, and ...

... KING CHARLES THE SECOND lived in troubled times. He had heard the mobs storming up White hall he had seen his father's head roll into a basket of sawdust, and he lived through the most terrible of wars, in which brother fought against brother. But when in 1666 he instituted the Newmarket Town Plate, to be run at noon on the second Thursday in October, he added for ever. This country is at ...

... Where the Police War Reserve Hold Their Own Middlesex Cricketers in the Force Entertain the Regulars THE Police War Reserve invited the Regular Police to Lord's last week for a game of cricket, which was rather cunning. The Regulars, quite naturally, can make rings round the Reserve on the beat, and they are no mean cricketers either, but the Middlesex County team and ground staff have gone ...

... Rapier's Good News We Shall Soon Go Racing Again Newmarket and Newbury Bright National Hunt Prospects A Visit to Lambourn THE racing news is even better than I had hoped it would be. It is, of course, news that there are to be two autumn meetings at Newmarket on October 18 and 19, and November 1 and 2, and two at Newbury on October 25 and 26, and November 15 and 16. The situation as regards ...

... How John Cobb beat the World's Record A Magnificent British Achievement Overshadowed by the War JOHN COBB, the British motor-driver, set up a new world's land- speed record of 350 miles an hour last year. This honour was short-lived, for a few days later Cap tain G. E. T. Eyston had achieved 357 miles an hour. Now Cobb is again the fastest man on earth, and his 36975 m.p.h. looks like remain ...

... On the Home mm Front UNDER your hat, have a practical hairdressing that can stand up to a helmet or a uniform peak. It is not so easy as it sounds, but Vasco, 16, Dover Street, has solved the problem with the short curls shown above under a forage-cap. The hair is, first of all, permanently waved by a new wireless process. It can then be combed out or arranged in Bubbles curls all over the ...

... By A. Croxton Smith AS far as one can judge by personal observa tion, the scare that set in at the outbreak of war has not affected to any appreciable extent the number of dogs kept in ordinary households. In my own particular neighbour hood just outside London I have not come across any people who have had their dogs destroyed, though some of them, who had more than one, have given several ...

... By B. Bennison ON Monday, and hereafter twice weekly, the Stadium Club, Holborn, will be given over to boxing under the direction of Mr. Sydney Hulls. When I heard this good news I fell to browsing among old books, aged prints and musty records to renew acquaintance with, among other celebrities of my youth, Jem Smith, who in the winter of his life held a once a week court high up on the ...