... FRENCH DERBY WINNER 1 BEATEN: Lord Milford's Challenge E. Smith up), on the right, beating Cillas, the French Derby winner, and A Tout Change in the Kingsclere Plate. D. Smith had to bring Tout Change on the outside of Cillas to challenge Challenge and only failed to get up by three quarters of a length. (Left) DANEBURY NURSERY This was a thrilling race. Fallen Star filly (right) (C. Miles) ...

... First War-Time I Fencing Match FENCING history was made last Saturday at the old Salle Grave in Kensington, when the first war time match, initiated and carried out by Grave's, was fought eight a side between the home team and their tradi tional rivals, the Salle Bertrand. For the first time for some years Grave's defeated Bertrand's, the one British Salle d'Armes senior to them selves. They ...

... Athletics Still a Most Popular Sport at the Universities Oxford THE Iffley Road Ground has been open each afternoon this term, for athletics has proved one of the most popular of the sports still going on at Oxford. Both the President and Secretary are away on National Service, but their deputies decided to hold Seniors' and Fresh men's sports over three afternoons, and there were a large ...

... BACK to Fulwell again. I have been back several times since I first started my professional career under genial George Oke, some sixteen years ago, and I even remember my first pro fessional round. I wonder if my patron does-- it seems a very long time ago to me. This visit, although my last was only three years ago, in the qualifying rounds of the Daily Mail Southern Section Tournament. ...

... Winter Miscellany BE a turn-coat with this attractive lamb's-wool and alpaca reversible coat, lined with ocelot fur fabric. The plain surface can be black, blue, navy or brown, and on sunny days the ocelot side can be worn outwards. Harrods, of Knightsbridge, have this model for 7 1 guineas. If you feel the cold, look at their boucle coats, fur- lined but not at all bulky, for 16 guineas. This ...

... A YEAR ago St. Bees School talked of closing down after 355 years of existence unless some help were forthcoming. To-day the old school houses are full again, for Mill Hill have left their comfortable London heights for the wilds of Cumberland, and so one of our most flourishing and one of our oldest Public Schools have joined forces. But the schools, though such close neighbours, live a ...

... The .ast of Cub lunting THE SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE Captain R. G. Fanshawe, who became Joint- Master with Mrs. A. G. Elliot in 1338, is continuing to hunt hounds. General Sir Robert Fanshawe commander of the 48th and 6gth Divisions during the last war, was also out. THE MASTER'S WIFE: Mrs. R. G. Fanshawe. wife of the Master of the South Oxfordshire, at the meet at Forest Hill. This pack meet on ...

... I FEEL I must devote this week's space to thanking the thousands of golfers who have supported the Red Cross matches which have already been played up and down the country. When I first had the idea of beginning a series of games to collect money for the Red Cross Funds, I thought one thousand pounds would be a handsome sum to hand over before the weather dampened the courses and the ...

... By Highwayman THERE may seem little more than academic interest for us in the American cars of 1940 that have just been making their bow in the New York Automobile Salon, since it is not unlikely that we may never see anything of them, but I have got some amusement out of reading the specifications and looking over the pictures of these new miracles from Detroit. However, I am quite sure ...

... By Ashley Courtenay MOST people must be aware by this time that the Govern ment have commandeered a large number of hotels, whilst others have been taken over for use as business premises, schools, and other uses occasioned by the vicissitudes of war. Unfortunately, the censor for bids any list being given of what hotels have been commandeered, and as a consequence Dame Rumour has been ...

... 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 ...