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The Woodland Pytchley

... Hunting with a Camera FROM the Thursday meet at East Carlton we had two quite good hunts, though a spell of heavy rain did its best to spoil our photographs and ruin the cameras. The fox from Wilbarston New Covert gave a good ringing hunt, racing on fast to within a field of Burgess' Gorse, turning sharp left, and then on to the Market Harborough road. Here he was headed, and came back through ...

Armistice Day and Opening Meets

... ■KSlSvlf vt. julbjipi ^'%-^iJkBroihi THE FIELD There were a good number out at the Armistice Day meet at Clayhill, near Lewes. The Southdown country is easily accessible from London and also from big seaside towns like Eastbourne and Brighton, where so many people have gone to live since war began. Hounds are meeting Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. *v;ijr -w A ^ZjfntSSm m r*i (Inset) THE ...

Chestnuts Beaten by their Old Rivals

... THE Chestnuts' defeat at the hands of their near neighbours and confirmed rivals, Old Kingstonians, was their first this peculiar season. But results at such a time mean little or nothing, for not only have some clubs been more fortunate than others in the matter of players remaining available, but it is the usual practice where more than the bare eleven have put down their names to work a ...

Well-known People in the News

... Cam. Malfroy Married THE BEST MAX R. T. Ritchie, another well-known lawn tennis player, now in the Gunners, was Malfroy' s best man. Left: TWO EX-RUGBY STARS D. A. Thorn {left), the famous London Scottish international, who has played against Wales, Ireland, England and the New Zealanders, and A E. Milligan, the Old Mill- hillian, are now training to become officers. They will spend four ...

Tackling the Pedestrian Problem

... I By Highwayman WHEN it was disclosed some weeks ago that 1,130 persons had lost their lives during the first month of the war by accidents in the streets, the Editor of a little paper Highways and Bridges asked why it was that the Government took such elaborate precautions against the problematical dangers of gas bombing and yet did nothing to protect us from the ever-present perils of the ...

A Lordly Devon Mansion

... By Ashley Courtenay A FEW weeks ago, on one of those Torbay mornings when Berry Head was veiled in mist --a prelude to a spring-like day in late October-- I noticed about half a mile beyond the little station of Churston on the Torquay-Brixham road some aristocratic lodge gates and a neatly lettered signboard Lupton Hotel. Ever on the scent of something new in the hotel world I turned in, ...

Rapier on Racing: With the Jumpers Again; News of Old Friends-French Racing Successes in 1939-- Was Blue Peter ..

... Kapier on Kacing With the Jumpers Again News of Old Friends- French Racing Successes in 1939 Was Blue Peter truly the Horse of the Century STABLE doors are creaking and so are a few ancient bones-- equine and human. Come on old friends, whether you are horses or grooms, trainers or riders, and show a leg! The fences have been strengthened and the hurdles have been mended. Jumping is with us ...

A Rugby Occasion: Major Stanley's XV at Oxford

... A Rugby Occasior Major Stanley's XV at Oxford HIGHLY POPULAR With no internationals in prospect the time-honoured visit of Major Stanley s XV to Oxford proved one of the highlights of the Rugby season, and a grand crowd turned out last Saturday afternoon to see how the University would shape against a team of 10 internationals and five others only a little less distinguished. The Combined ...

The Women

... THE long-awaited film version of Clare Boothe's stage success which, incidentally, is still touring provincial playhouses is due at the Empire within the next week or so. Stars are Norma Shearer (Mary Haines, the only nice woman), Joan Crawford (Crystal Allen), and Rosalind Russell (Sylvia, the cat- de-luxe), and according to reports from Hollywood, the last-named walks away with the ...

Sisters as Joint-Masters

... THE Misses May and Violet Wilson (left and centre) are carrying on with their very successful Joint-Mastership of the Woodland Pytchley Foxhounds. They took over the pack from Sir Julien Cahn in 1937. With them is Mrs. John Burgess, of Carlton Grange. Hounds met at her home at East Carlton, on the north-west border of the Woodland country. It was quite a good day, with one hunt of an hour and ...

Newnham and Girton Hockey Flourishes

... CAMBRIDGE is one of the few places where more hockey matches could be played now than before the war. One student said, If only we had the time we could play matches every day. The influx of colleges from Portsmouth and London has made this difference and Girton and Newnham both have full and most interesting fixture lists. The pictures on this page were taken during matches between Girton ...

Dulwich in Their New Home at Tonbridge

... w.. ■_ w .-jw/.r* -V trgucn wsxxvz ks .-.'r? i f DULWICH V. TONBRIDGE is always a school Rugby occasion, and this year specially so. for these two great Rugby-playing schools are now in the same town. All masters and boys of both were there, packing the touch-lines five deep, to watch Tonbridge beat Dulwich by 13 points to 6. DULWICH COLLEGE XV. (L. to r.) Front row R. F. Jones, T. A. Roper, ...