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These Must Not Be Forgotten: When You Make Out Your Christmas Gift List

... These Must Not Be Forgotten When You Make Out Your Christmas Gift List British Sailors' Society When you sit down to your comfortable break fast these cold mornings, do you spare a thought to those without whose endurance and daring there would be no plentifully spread table for you? British sailors guard your security and bring your food across dangerous seas. They need warmth, shelter and ...

Danahar's Victory Over Ernie Roderick

... RODERICK MISSES: The champion brings over his right, but Danahar is too quick for him. He did land one blow to the jaw in the first round which many thought had ended the fight, but Danahar ice-cool, weathered the storm and jabbed the champion back on his heels. BLOWS TO THE BODY Roderick is looking troubled here, for though he fought with infinite resource he met his master. He tried ...

We Are Still Making Cars

... By Highwayman OUR big car factories are still making cars and, on the export side, are exceptionally busy, with almost as many orders as they can cope with. This rather surprising state of affairs was disclosed to me when I paid a round of calls in the Midlands at the end of the third month of war. Although it was known that the Government were keen to encourage exports, I had expected to ...

CHRISTMAS and the WAIFS

... WEMUSTDOSO- WE CANNOT FAIL. OUR FAMILY OF 5,000 CHILDREN. Wwdkifflik' ffig 'iffi if' IglPlliHH I CTD AV g x sac ilt?% FSiiSTjE^vy^^iffl I KEN N I N GTON S.E.I I, j ...

PLAYER'S NUMBER 3

... w* -m 26-HI house becar I IGH STREET, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. This beautiful Elizabethan s, built in 1596, was the maiden home of Katharine Rogers who ne the mother of John Harvard, founder of the American University. Another famous number founded on traditional merit is Player's No. 3 that well-known cigarette of delightful mellowness and excellent flavour, with the EXTRA quality that critical ...

Hunting the Hare

... An Afternoon with the Horsell Beagles West Surrey and MORE people in these times might well be persuaded to devote an afternoon a week to follow these lively and game little hounds when they hunt the hare. Beagling is grand exercise, the equip ment is in anybody's ward robe, and there is always some knowledgeable person to aid the beginner and point out what he or she should or should not do. ...

Chios Causes Chaos

... HERE is a remark able picture of C. Spares iloint; a hanJ-stanJ one of the best we have seen lately at Cheltenham. The head of his unfor tunate mount, Chios (named from the island in the .-Egean subject to earthquakes), can be seen resting on the fence. Spares fortu nately escaped without damage but the unhappy Chios was fatally in jured. Post Horn, the favourite, ridden by Rimell, won the ...

Rapier on Racing

... The Grand National --Jumping in January and February All Districts well Served Two Good Days at Chelten ham--Death of Colonel Story THERE has been an inordinate amount of fuss and correspondence regarding the possibilities of holding a Grand National next year. Will there be a Grand National at Aintree and, if not, where will the substitute Grand National be held? The answer is that it is most ...

Richmond's More Polished Halves

... RICHMOND'S victory over Blackheath by 3 goals to i at Old Deer Park reflected the more polished play of their half-backs, an experienced trio drawn such are the vicissitudes of the times from three London clubs. Only H. E. Park plays for Richmond in normal times. W. Ritchie, the centre, belongs to Spencer, and will probably be with them again soon, for I hear the club are hoping to start up ...

In the Sporting News

... FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT IV. R. PENMAN, the Scottish Rugby International, is to marry Peggy MacCcrkindale, the lawn tennis player. Penman, who gained his cap as full-back in the match against Ireland this Spring, first met his bride-to-be when she was winning the Sco'tish Junior Lawn Tennis Championship at Peebles last year. MR. AND MRS. AID AN ROARK The first picture taken since the former Helen ...

To Command Our Merchant Navy: H.M.S. Worcester. Now Somewhere in Kent

... To Command Our Merchant Navy H.M.S. Worcester. Now Somewhere in Kent HM .S. WORCESTER, the famous Nautical Training College, which has produced so many of the men who now command our Merchant Navy, is usually moored in the Thames off Greenhithe. Now, for the duration of the war, H.M.S. Worcester is a country mansion some where in Kent, where the training of 145 Cadets goes on. These ...