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October 1939
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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

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 ...

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... (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. ...

An Army XV Beat Rosslyn Park

... AN Army XV and Rosslyn Park had a rattling good game at Richmond last Saturday, the Army winning by 29 points to 19. The hard ground was in favour of open play and many of the attacks developed at a remarkable pace. A. F. Dawkins for the Army made one of his three tries at track runner's speed, and a passing movement with R. G. Oxborrow from his own 25 yards line with Dawkins going on to score ...

P.C. Cox

... WJ. COX, the Wimbledon Park golf professional, makes a very jolly policeman when you are on the right side of the Law. Like quite a number of our other leading professional golfers, he has joined the Police War Reserve, and is lucky enough to be on the beat not too far from his home, so, when off duty, he can play a few holes on his own course. Cox, besides looking the part, should be able to ...

The Fitzwilliam's Veteran Huntsman

... OLD TOM AGUTTER is still in the saddle pitting his wits against the cunning of the fox. Over thirty years ago he was made second whip to the Pytchley, and except for the four years of the Great War, when he was on active service, he has spent his life in various countries trying to offer the best days possible to those who ride to hounds. For fifteen years he has been huntsman to the ...

Another £400 for the Red Cross: Cotton and Adams at Killermont

... Another £400 for the Red Cross Cotton and Adams at Killermont HENRY COTTON is continuing his good work for the British Red Cross, and his trip to Scotland last week-end at his own expense brought another £400 to the Red Cross funds. Like everyone else, Cotton is most anxious to do something, but we are glad that he was persuaded to offer his services to the Red Cross rather than to the Police ...

An Afternoon with the Navy

... By B. Bennison THE gymnasium was bright with colours. In it some three thousand sailors sat and stood around. They laughed and quipped and cracked, and sang with gusto, as a full- throated, deepc-chested choir, swinging the while, now the songs of the barracks, so that we lived anew with Kipling; again, Lily of Laguna, and 'Gene Stratton was back with us to start feet a tapping, even my own, ...