... VERY appropriately, the winner of Newbury's first big race since war was declared was saddled by Captain R. Laye, now once again Pilot Officer of the R.A.F. This was Rodeo II., who ran with the utmost game- ness to win the Newbury Autumn Cup by a short head. This very happy snapshot shows Mrs. R. A. L. Cohen, wife of the owner, Rodeo II., the winner, and P./O. Laye, the trainer, after the ...

... Features of the Surbiton v. Richmond Match AT Sugden Road last Saturday Richmond and Kingston Hill showed Surbiton how to play hockey in heavy rain on a pitch that cut up quickly. The Richmond players all hit the ball hard and this, coupled with their superior speed, usually had the Surbiton defence on the wrong foot. Only the great goal-keeping of K. B. Boys kept the Richmond score down to 5 ...

... By A. Croxton Smith AFTER the alarms of the first week or two, which were foolishly stimulated by some who ought to have known better, people are beginning to take a saner outlook, and many are deploring the haste with which thev nut their Dets away. I was put to a lot of labour in the endeavour to reassure over anxious correspondents who wanted to know if they should have all their dogs ...

... ST. MART'S HOSPITAL OUTPLAY ROSSLTN PARK After F. M. McRae had been carried off with a dislocated shoulder, A. C. Lusty had been helped off with an injured ankle and C. M. Squire had gone off with a broken thumb, St. Mary's left the Old Deer Park worthy winners by ig points to 3. Here R. H. Reeves, the Park wing-threequarter, has got pretty near to the Hospital line, but he will be down in ...

... Oxford University's Lively Fifteen Gloucester Well Beaten GLOUCESTER paid a visit to Oxford last Saturday, and the University, with only one old Blue, G. A. Hollis, who captained the side, and M. J. Davies, the Welsh International, who is not a Blue, won by three goals and two tries (21 points) to three tries (9 points). Seven Freshmen were included in Oxford team, and their form was most ...

... Stowe Beat Rugby School by 1 1 Points to 3 at Stowe STOWE (Front row, I. to r.) M. I. Atkin-Berry, J. C. Drew, A. V. Farnell- Watson, J. MacTait (captain), J. M. Henry, P. J. Oiggle, C. F. B. Newport- Tinley. (Back row) R. Backus, C. M. Musgrave J. D. Le Bouvier, A. D. Thomson, A. M. Mitchell, M. Cenenport, C. D. Drew, D. K. Murdoch. RUGBY (Front row, I. to r.) R. E. A. Bowdler, G. M. Toplas, ...

... HENRY COTTON describes- IT is the last week of August 1936, and a small number of professionals, in- cluding Auguste Boyer, Marcel Dalle- magne, Joe Ezar, and myself, arrive at Sestriere in Italy to play in the Italian Open Championship. We stay in one of the famous tower-shaped hotels, better known to winter-sport holiday-makers than to summer tourists, as Sestriere is primarily a winter ...

... Danahar and Craster in a Classic Fight The Lucky Three Hundred-- Contrast in Men and Methods Boon's Injured Hand By B. Bennison THERE was room for no more than 300 of us around a little improvised ring of the National Sporting Club at their Picca- dilly headquarters, when Arthur Danahar came from his Bethnal Green home to fight Harry Craster, a Middlesbrough steel worker. The one was straight ...

... THE reopening of more and more West End theatres is gradually making for a thoroughly varied choice of entertain- ment. We have farce Tony Draws a Horse, at the Comedy), very serious stuff (Music at Night, at the Westminster), large and spec- tacular revue( The Little Dog Laughed, at the Palladium) and also intimate and not at all spectacular revue (at the Little and the Ambassadors) A ...

... LES ROIS DU SPORT teams two of France's best comedians, Fernandel and Raima, in a story about a couple of Marseilles waiters who win 5000 francs in a waiters' long-distance race. Raimu wagers it all on a football match, and here he and Lisette Lanvin his daughter in the film, are watching Fernandel, who is goalkeeper on the side they have backed, nearly lose them their money. THUNDER AFLOAT ...

... MRS. KEITH WINSER, with her catch of a 1 6 lb. rock cod, which she took at St. Lucia, the f sherman's paradise, 180 miles from Durban. ELEPHANT FISH: This extremely rarefsh was caught by an Indidn in Durban Bay last month. It is over 30 years since one of this species has been landed. 25 lb. GARRICK Once a year Durban is visited by shoals of sardines, and in their wake follow many game fish, ...

... By Ashley Courtenay I MUST admit that I have never stayed a night at Branksome Tower nor have I even had a meal there. But as one who can sense instinctively the feel of an hotel as soon as one enters, I know I am right in saying that those who frequent and enjoy the environment of hotels Uke the Majestic at Harro- gate will be in their element at this five-star luxury hotel, tucked away ...