... By A. Croxton Smith IN the United States they have a Women's Field Trial Club, of which Mrs. Morgan Belmont is president, and last month it held a meeting at Huntington, Long Island. In this country women are so success ful with their gundogs that they, too, would be capable of running trials of the highest class, but they prefer to compete against men on terms of equality. Lorna Lady Howe has ...

... Tr rriWiMTTTfiilP'^ iBBHBiTTWwTii i*TTMrY nm^r v AN A. -A. Battery, somewhere in Kent, could make a great show in Sport and Drama as well as in gunnery if it had the chance. Heather Thatcher, at the moment without her monocle, has sacrificed her highly successful stage and film career to run the Battery's canteen. On her right is Captain the Hon. Anthony Mildmay, the amateur steeplechase ...

... (OLE Archie Compston is putting, he same distance from the hole good its to miss. Both sides got their fours here. A HIGH ONE George Oke plays a pitch shot over the bunker guarding the 12th green. The ball looks as though it will sail over the trees. Actually it was very high, but did not overrun the green. Oke and Cotton lost this one 5 to 4. OTH GREEN: Cotton has taken no chances ie green ...

... My thoughls grow in the aroma of that particular tobacco. (Earl Baldwin, Dundee, 1925) Few tobaccos could inspire such praise in a public speech, yet all the cool sweetnessand nleasureof this slow burning tobacco may fill your pipe at a cost of only l/4jd. per oz. in Britain. Sold only sealed, in packets and tins. A. GALE Co. Ltd., GLASGOW THE LITTLE LONG PAPER once again This popular name ...

... SIR ALFRED BUTT'S filly Cantatrice II. being led in after winning the Cesarewitch last week in a canter. Rarely, if ever before, has the Newmarket long-distance handicap been won with greater ease, and no winner has started at such short odds 7 to 2 since Sanctum, in 1916. Cantatrice II. was bred in France by M. Volterra from the successful French sire Fiterari out of Queen Iseult, and was ...

... s rN z j T Towards the Making of an Offi ce ON THE WAT TO THE GYMNASIUM These are some of the young men now under the pitiless eye of the Regimental Sergeant-Major at an Officers' Training Unit somewhere in England. It is a strenuous life, but they enjoy every minute of it. Their bundles contain a towel gym. shoes and shorts, for they are on the way to the gymnasium. RUGBY FOOTBALLER: G. M. ...

... FENCING STILL FLOURISHES Though there will be no meeting with Oxford the University Fencing Club is carrying on its activities though Fenner's has become their headquarters for the time being. CLOSE PASSING AND MARKING J. H. Steeds (St. Cath's a University forward who played well is brought down by J. B. King but manages to pass to M. G. Webber Caius another forward. THE MARKET Stalls still ...

... A Day with the Beagles Fine Old Berkeley Sport THE Old Berkeley Beagles are hunting two days a week and after being out thirteen times had caught 4J brace of hares. This meet near Amersham showed hounds to their best advantage, for scent was very cold, yet hounds gave followers (those who kept up) a splendid two hours' hunt, ending with a kill. The pack's first whipper in, Captain Hugh Fraser, ...

... AFTER a brilliant first day, when only two beats were needed for more than 60 courses, the second and last day proved very disappointing at Thanet. The cover was so heavy that hares were difficult to drive and after 6.1 hours only 27 courses had been run through. There had to be a division of 13 in the Sussex and Thanet Derby and 10 in the Oaks. The Thanet Stakes were shared and the ...

... Coats Against the Cold AND, OF COURSE, ACCESSORIES CERTAINLY mink is a luxury. But, as prices stand at present, it is also a gilt- edged investment. The lovely coat on the right, a perfect antidote to uniform, comes from the National Fur Company, 193, Brompton Road, where an interesting and practical collection is being shown. Notice especially their shining white beaver lambs, their snow ...

... Round the New Shows Under Your Hat Again THE list of theatres open or about to open makes a long and cheerful show in the advertisement columns of the newspapers. One welcomes the contrast with the cessation of all forms of theatrical activity when the war broke out. But it was not until I revisited the Palace for the resumed run of Under Your Hat that I recaptured the careless pre-war ...

... 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 ...