... 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 ...

... Hunting with a Camera FROM the Thursday meet at East Carlton we had two quite good hunts, though a spell of heavy rain did its best to spoil our photographs and ruin the cameras. The fox from Wilbarston New Covert gave a good ringing hunt, racing on fast to within a field of Burgess' Gorse, turning sharp left, and then on to the Market Harborough road. Here he was headed, and came back through ...

... ■KSlSvlf vt. julbjipi ^'%-^iJkBroihi THE FIELD There were a good number out at the Armistice Day meet at Clayhill, near Lewes. The Southdown country is easily accessible from London and also from big seaside towns like Eastbourne and Brighton, where so many people have gone to live since war began. Hounds are meeting Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. *v;ijr -w A ^ZjfntSSm m r*i (Inset) THE ...

... THE Chestnuts' defeat at the hands of their near neighbours and confirmed rivals, Old Kingstonians, was their first this peculiar season. But results at such a time mean little or nothing, for not only have some clubs been more fortunate than others in the matter of players remaining available, but it is the usual practice where more than the bare eleven have put down their names to work a ...

... Cam. Malfroy Married THE BEST MAX R. T. Ritchie, another well-known lawn tennis player, now in the Gunners, was Malfroy' s best man. Left: TWO EX-RUGBY STARS D. A. Thorn {left), the famous London Scottish international, who has played against Wales, Ireland, England and the New Zealanders, and A E. Milligan, the Old Mill- hillian, are now training to become officers. They will spend four ...

... I By Highwayman WHEN it was disclosed some weeks ago that 1,130 persons had lost their lives during the first month of the war by accidents in the streets, the Editor of a little paper Highways and Bridges asked why it was that the Government took such elaborate precautions against the problematical dangers of gas bombing and yet did nothing to protect us from the ever-present perils of the ...

... By Ashley Courtenay A FEW weeks ago, on one of those Torbay mornings when Berry Head was veiled in mist --a prelude to a spring-like day in late October-- I noticed about half a mile beyond the little station of Churston on the Torquay-Brixham road some aristocratic lodge gates and a neatly lettered signboard Lupton Hotel. Ever on the scent of something new in the hotel world I turned in, ...

... Kapier on Kacing With the Jumpers Again News of Old Friends- French Racing Successes in 1939 Was Blue Peter truly the Horse of the Century STABLE doors are creaking and so are a few ancient bones-- equine and human. Come on old friends, whether you are horses or grooms, trainers or riders, and show a leg! The fences have been strengthened and the hurdles have been mended. Jumping is with us ...