... KJ EARLY 200,000 people saw the 40 matches in the eight regional competitions last Saturday. This is not as many as were expected for real competitive football but 4,000 at a match will give a gate of about £200, which is enough to allow clubs to pay their way. No doubt gates will get bigger when the regional scheme has been working a little while. A Match of 12 Goals at Tottenham COMPETITIVE ...

... HENRY COTTON ON GOLF My Match with the Open Champion AT Sale last week, Richard Burton and I played a 36-holes exhibition match; not one of those advertised £5000 world-supremacy affairs, but just a friendly 36-holes game, with both of us playing as well as we could. In support of such a cause as the British Red Cross funds about 2500 spectators turned up, and with a fine, dry October day to ...

... -1 T THE CARDIFF CLUB D. J. Rees is driving, and Cotton, in the extreme left of the picture, seems to be saying to himself That's a pretty useful one to beat. Rees, playing seme of his best golf, won this 36 holes match by one hole. CO TTON PLA TS AN IRON SHO T It was sparkling golf by both men-- particularly at Clyne on the Saturday, for Cotton was round in approximately 64 10 shots fewer ...

... British Boxing Board Behind the Times An Irate Australian Farr and Manuel Abrew A Reminder to Harvey-- Strickland Joins Up By B. Bennison FRED HENNEBERRY, the Australian middleweight, will probably hear on his journey home to join his country's forces, that the British Board of Control have agreed to recognise a match between him and Jock McAvoy, our champion, as a fight for the Empire title. ...

... Day and Night Service When you Travel wear a three-piece and save luggage space. Companion tweeds are newer than an all-matching outfit, so Jay's have planned the ensemble above in a mottled, tweed for the suit and a herringbone pattern for the coat, all in black and white. Black accessories make it right for town, coloured scarves and gloves for the country. This outfit costs eleven guineas ...

... By Ashley Courtenay The Granby at Elms Cross, Bradford oil-Avon. OF recent weeks I have been faced with the upheaval caused by so many of our best hotels being taken over by the Government. So much has been written of the wrongs that hotels have suffered in this respect that no useful pur pose would be served by enlarging on it, though I have heard of many instances of hardship caused by ...

... THE fjo Dfvtt TripIeX -tU0flcLotU iZd d-afcA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1939. The Illustrated SPORTUtd and DRAMATIC News ...

... Rapier on Racing Newmarket a Heartening Start Excellent Attendance Lessons of the Sales Serious position of Breeders The Two Cambridgeshires Future Meetings IT was expected that the resumption of racing, after seven weeks in the doldrums, would be met with appreciation. Few, however, could have anticipated that the Newmarket meeting would have been such a success. The novelty of the situation ...

... St. Mary's Hospital Draw with the Wasps Fine Game Eetween Lively Forwards and Clever Backs AT Sudbury last Saturday the Wasps enter tained St. Mary's Hospital. Neither side was at full strength but it was a really good game. The Wasps forwards fought grandly against the clever Hospital backs, and a draw at six points all was a very fair result. F. M. MiCrae was the most dangerous of the ...

... Rosslyn Park Outstay the Police Fine Second-Half Recovery METROPOLITAN POLICE Back row (I. to r.) The Referee Mr. L. H. F. Sanderson the Hon. Secretary Metro. Police, J. H. Preece, G. J. Whitfield, A. W. Masters, T. W. Cranfield, R. H. Williams, C. A. Pridrnore [captain), G. Evans, D. M. Irvine, N. Heppenstall and Mr. A. W. Ci.ndey (linesman). Front row (I. to r.) F. A. Coutts, W. A. L. ...

... OUR photographer, cub hunting with the Warwickshire the other morning when they met at Sherborne, was lucky, for he got two remarkable photographs. The cub broke covert from the woods in the top left-hand corner of the picture and ran down the cinder track between the hedge row and the field, then decided to turn right through the hedge and make good his escape. Notice how he is making good ...

... Evacuation to Tonbridge does not seem to have upset Dulwich College Rugby, and this season they look like having a very good team. In their first match of the term at Ton- bridge they had Brighton College as their visitors and won by 32 points to nil. Dulwich held the advantage at three-quarters and their forwards were better in the loose, Brighton generally holding them in the tight scrums. ...