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T. L. Lockton in Action Again

... OOMEWHERE in Hampshire there are gathered a number of young men training to become officers in our L9 new Army. They form an Officers' Cadet Training Unit and in their ranks are many well-known athletes from the Universities and Public Schools. Last week they held a team athletic meeting, and though October is not considered the ideal month for the track, this inter-company contest was a great ...

Officer Training Unit Athletic Meeting

... DEAD-HEAT IN THE HALF-MILE: A. M. H. Mahoney (left), C Company, and A. N. E. Waldron (right), D Company, breast the tape together in the 880 yards relay. FINISH OF THE TWO MILES: J. G. H. Paterson, of B Company, comes home in the two miles relay by a street. A BIG influx of men to an Officer Training Unit somewhere in Hampshire has brought a number of very useful athletes from the schools ...

The Bentley Brothers' Next Task

... The Bentley Brothers' Next (Task ARNOLD BENTLEY. HARRY BENTLEY. Burton and I are to meet these famous golfing brothers on level terms at Hesketh on November 19th, in aid of the Red Cross funds. They are a formidable pair on their own course. Do you ever think of getting down the shaft for a heavy lie as Harry Bentley is doing? I think he is going to look up rather quickly. That does not mean ...

Sporting Weddings

... RUGBY INTERNATIONAL G. P. S. Macpherson, son of Sir Stewart and Lady Macpherson, of Newtonmore, who was capped 26 times for Scotland, was married to Miss Bettie A. Smail, younger daughter of Principal and Mrs. James Cameron Smail of Edinburgh LAWN TENNIS PLATER Miss Rosemary Sandilands, daughter of Lt. -Colonel and Mrs. Prescott Sandilands, and 2nd Lieut. David Verey were married at St. James' ...

Film Fan Fare

... I (Left) ELLEN DREW, the candy store Cinderella, who got her big chance as Huguette in If I Were King, with Colrnan, is to be seen now in a real plum of a part. The film version of Terence Ratligan's enormously successful comedy, French Without Tears, had its premiere at the Plaza last week. Any number of top-flight stars had their eye on the role that Kay Hammond played so long and so ...

In the Sporting News

... y DOROTHY WARLT, a glamour girl from the London Casino was married at All Souls, South Hatnp stead, to 2nd Lieut. Peter Davison, of the Honourable Artillery Company. j MICHAEL LTNE, the sporting artist, who is joint-master of the United Cotswold Beagles, is now a private in a Battalion of the Herefordshire Regiment. Last Saturday, while on a short leave, he hunted his hounds and killed his ...

Article

... (F. Slate), which finished third; No. 14 (the grey) is R. K. Mellon s Toolbox (J. Harrison), and No. 3 (on the right) is Court Time, owned by J. Brooks B. Parker (C. Pinn). Farndale, the winner, is on the left, hidden by National Anthem. (Below, right) THE CHINESE WALL: This is the famous thirteenth fence and is so high that it is called the Chinese Wall. Leading over the fence is Wambaw (No. ...

New American Amateur Champion

... New American jf Amateur Champion THE NEW CHAMPION IN PLAT. Marvin ward, of I Spokane, Washing ton, won the American National Amateur Champion ship on the thirty-first green of the wind-swept 7022-yard 1 course at North Shore Country Club, Chicago. He beat R. Billows (New York), the runner-uD in IQS7. bv 7 and 5. Both players 1 visited Britain with the I Walker Cup team last year, Ward, who is ...

Exercise in the Black-out

... By A. Croxton Smith UNTIL the use of torches was permitted those who wanted to give their dogs exercise after nightfall were put to serious inconvenience and many had to take a toss that sometimes had unpleasant consequences. I could not help being reminded of my youthful days on a country farm, when we must have had cat's eyes if we wanted to go out on a winter's evening. My father would not ...

A Morning with F. Templeman at Lambourn

... A Morning with F. Templeman at Lam bourn OUR Racing correspondent, Rapier, spent a few days last week visiting some of the training centres round Lambourn with our special photographer. These pictures of F. Templeman's charges show that there is plenty of work still going on over the Downs. Temple- man was having one of the best seasons he had ever had when the war stopped racing, but he ...

Lord Derby's Fairway

... C1 AIR WAY raced four times as a two-year-old, winning the Coventry Stakes (Ascot), the July Stakes (New market) and the Champagne Stakes (Doncaster). As a three-year-old he won the Newmarket Stakes, the Eclipse Stakes, the St. Leger and the Champion Stakes. As a four-year-old he won the Burwell Stakes (Newmarket), the Rous Memorial Stakes (Ascot), the Champion Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup. ...

Sandown Park-- New Style

... COR the first time, we believe, Rugby football was played on Sandown Park racecourse this was last Saturday, when London University Vandals beat a Royal Artillery side by 2 tries (6 points) to nothing. The R.A. XV had been collected by Dr. Rees Davies, the medical officer, and he ably captained the side from stand-off half. Jenkins, full back, Rees Davies and Marshall were the pick of the R.A. ...