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MAYTIME VERDICT

... Maytime Verdict DIGGING for victory has its effect on beauty as well as the vegetable supply, for gardening can take inches off your hip-line. Preparing the soil, pushing a barrow full of rubbish, lifting the watering- can, all exercise just those hip muscles which tend to become set. For weeding or setting seeds, your weight will be on your knees, so it is a good thing to use a pad. The one ...

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 ...

Next Week's Work in the Garden

... Vegetables Pinch out the tops of runner bean plants when they have reached the top of the stakes. Corn salad (an excellent vegetable for autumn and winter use) can be sown now in drills 6 in. apart. Continue sowings of lettuce, radish and winter spinach. Don't neglect the mint bed-- cut down the old coarse growth and so secure a fine lot of young shoots for later use. Above all, don't forget ...

IN THE AIR RAID SHELTER

... WHATEVER song the sirens sing, this suit, from Bur berry's in the Haymarket, is ready for anything. It is made in a very fine angora material, soft and extra ordinarily warm, cut like a ski-ing outfit to shut out draughts at wrists and ankles. There is a pocket for chocolate, handkerchiefs, first-aid outfit, and the suit can be slipped on in a moment. They have it for 79 16 in lovely colours ...

Henry Cotton on Golfing for War Charities: Maureen Ruttle Makes a Big Impression

... Maureen Ruttle Makes a Big Impression ONE often hears about women who hit a golf ball like a man, but when you come to see them play you know that your informant, if he has seen the players in action, has judged them by his own game or by comparing them with a male player who in the same game possibly has been pressing in order not to be out driven by a woman. Last week I played with a ...

Producing the Egg-Layer: The Work On a First-Class Breeding Farm

... Producing the Egg-Layer The Work On a First-Class Breeding Farm Later an assistant releases the hen and collects the eggs noting the number on the leg- band and writing this on each egg. Trap nests are used as shown in the photograph. When a hen enters the laying nest a catch is released. The door drops down and so imprisons the hen. Some of the specially pedigreed birds have to be hatched in ...

Up and Down the Land

... CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Percy Green, of Coleshill, Birmingham, on his slogan: More waste means less waist. Fines and costs imposed on farmers who have not complied with the Ministry's orders amount to £1,621 8s. 9d. There were 49 prosecutions. In Germany it would have meant 49 executions. Children at Penistone St. John's Council School claim to have pulled up 270,000 weeds. A near-by rival ...