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The Pony Club at the Enfield Chace's Cheshunt Park Meet

... The Pony Club at the Enfield Chace's Cheshuni Park Meet CHESHUNT PARK, the home of Miss Christine Debenham, is on the edge of the Enfield Chace country. The hunt has a very enthusiastic Pony Club, under the secretaryship of Miss N. Christie, of Hoddesdon, a large section of which turned up for this meet by special invitation of the Joint-Masters. THE PACK moving off. E. Cox, Iht for several ...

South Public Schools beat North

... THE frost was so out of the ground at the Old Deer Park at Richmond in the middle of last week that the School boys were able to carry out some of their holiday matches. On the Wednesday, the South Public Schools beat the North by 20 points (a goal and five tries) to 16 points (two goals, a penalty goal and a try). Pictures of the game between Rosslyn Park Public Schools against the Club are ...

Playing the Game: Famous Sportsmen at an R.A.F. Depot in England

... Playing the Game Famous Sportsmen at an R.A.F. Depot in England. Left CRICKETERS Pilot Officer R. W. V. Robins, the old English and Middlesex County cricketer, Squadron Leader Bradbury, and Pilot Officer Barnett Gloucester an England opening batsman. A TRAINER TRAINED: Pilot Officer Whittaker, the famous England and Arsenal F.C. trainer, is himself now under the eye of a physical instructor. ...

The Economical Sharpshooter: Tex Corey demonstrates how to hit two targets with a single bullet

... The Economical Sharpshooter Tex Corey demonstrates how to hit two targets with a single bullet THE TARGET go feet from the sharpshooter stands Fae Toby described as a go-lb. Texas beauty holding the knife target steady. Corey uses a '22 Remington rifle, shooting from an under-arm, off-shoulder position. FINDING HIS RANGE Tex Corey is ready to fire at the edge of a knife blade, to divide the ...

Four Leading Rhodesian Amateurs

... Dear Mr. Cotton, As a very keen reader of your golf notes in The Sporting and Dramatic, I am taking the liberty of writing to you to tell you how high a place golf occupies in the sporting activities of Rhodesia. Every town and village has its eighteen or nine hole course. Here in Salisbury, the capital, there are two courses. The leading one is the Royal Salisbury Club, but the other, the ...

MOSS BROS

... f MOSS 6RQS ) Officers REGULATION GREAT COATS for All the SERVICES , can supply everyth i ng READY for IMMEDIATE WEAR. ..or m a d e t o measure in -3° nours We have such a large and comprehensive stock of UNIFORMS and EQUIPMENT that Officers can be completely outfitted in one visit Post Orders are fulfilled S goods dispatched without delay r* COVENT GARDEN V /0 Corner of m E KING ST. BEDFORD ...

The First Tay Salmon: Mrs. Will Fyffe Has the Luck

... The First Tay Salmon Mrs. Will Fyffe Has the Luck AFTER an eleven-hundred-miles dash from the Western Front, where he had been entertaining the troops, Will Fyffe arrived in Perth for the opening of the Tay rod salmon-fishing season. Mrs. Fyfie and Will were fishing the Lower Scone beat of the river, and it was Mrs. Fyffe who had the first fish. Will insisted on wearing a steel helmet, as a ...

Switzerland Still Carries On: A Few Visitors Still Gather for Winter Sports

... Switzerland Still Carries On A Few Visitors Still Gather for Winter Sports Where there were iooo ski-tracks, to-day there are but twenty, for the fear that the war may spread even further, the difficulty of getting exit permits and money export licences has kept thousands of winter-sports enthusiasts from their usual holidays in Switzerland. Funiculars and ski-lifts are still running, despite ...

Merton Beat Surbiton by 2 to I

... rlerton Beat Surbiton by 2 to I WITH reports of cancelled fixtures all over the country, Surbiton, after a number of abandoned games owing to the hard ground, decided to play but were only able to field a much weakened side, owing to calls to the Ser vices. Boys, their goalkeeper, was indisposed. Merton had a fairly representative side, but of their forty odd members only fourteen can still be ...

Billiards Shots by Joe Davis

... AT Billiards, as well as at Snooker, Joe Davis remains supreme in Britain, and possibly the world, for he and the Australian, Walter Lindrum, have not met since the World Championship of 1934, which Lindrum won at Melbourne. Certainly there is no one apart from Lindrum who can even approach Davis in skill. Owing to the war the United Kingdom Championship will not be held, but the World's ...

Lapland in Peace and War: Where the Finnish Ski-Patrols are Making Their Heroic Efforts

... Lapland in Peace and War Where the Finnish Ski-Patrols are Making Their Heroic Efforts THE exploits of the Finnish ski-patrols which time and again have cut the Russian lines of communication, have thrilled the civilised world, though few people realise how hard it is even to keep alive in winter above the Arctic Circle with no other enemy but the cold. These snapshots from an English ...