... OXFORD ATHLETIC PRESIDENT ENGAGED Vernon Scopes with his bride to be Mis; Kitty Tenison, you iger daughter of Lieut. -Col. W. P. C. Tenison, D.S.O. and Mrs. Tenison of Wimbledon. Scopes is in the Royal Artillery and did not go up to OxftrJ last October. He was the Athletic Club hon. secretary in 1938 and was elected President of the O.U.A.C. last May. A damaged ankle kept Scopes from running ...

... By A. Croxton Smith A COUNTRY member, who is not a regular frequenter of one of my clubs, chanced to take a seat at my table in the luncheon room the other day. The usual conversational gambits followed: Nice day for a change. Better than the Christmas fog. Club's very thin to-day, and so on. We might have been as ships that pass in the night had not the stranger, very properly tired of ...

... MOSS BROS CO LTD. OFFICERS' REGULATION GREATCOATS I FOR ALL THE SERVICES can be obtained at Moss Bros. READY FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR or made to measure in 36 hours). British Warms and all uniforms are also ready for instant wear. MOSS BROS, have such a large and comprehensive stock of Equipment that Officers can be completely outfitted in one visit. POST ORDERS will be fulfilled and goods ...

... A- Hunting We Will Go! WHILE the very youthful follower of the Oakley Hounds turns to admire Lady Melchett as she rides by, his pony, a little jealous, looks the other way. Our small friend is a workmanlike little fellow and we hope that he enjoyed the sport from the meet at Colworth House, Lord Melchett's home. Pictures of the meet are on pages 45, 46 and 47. ...

... Revue des Allies (Prince of Wales, non-stop from 1.30) THE idea that Parisian revues are delectable mixtures of nudity and naughtiness, spiced with devastatingly wicked wit, persists. There is little in any of them of these things beyond the nudity, and except that London's degree of nudity is strictly rationed, Revue des Allies at the Prince of Wales may be taken as a fair sample of the ...

... LAST week there was bearing ice in the Fens and the National Skating Association (Fen Centre) were able to decide a number of their events on the famous Lingay Fen, near Cambridge. The Duddleston Cup (one mile) for amateurs was won by H. B. Tipper, of the Aldwych Speed Club. Tipper set up a record of 2 min. 58'8 sec. in a preliminary heat. C. W. Horn, the amateur champion, retired in the final ...

... F CLOSE, who was National cross-country champion in 1935 and in the British Olympic team of 1936, won the Surrey County A.A.A. senior seven miles race over Wimbledon Common last Saturday. Close was round about or in the lead from start to finish and won easily by 300 yards in 38 min. 29 sec., good time con sidering the difficult conditions, for part of the course was waterlogged and the ...

... P.C. Cox, the Wimbledon Park professional, who has been a policeman since the outbreak of war, assures Mrs. L. G. Pearson that the ice is safe. Cox himself preferred goloshes to skates. Mr. T. Stanley Perry secretary to the Wimbledon Park Club, was on the ice looking very much at home. These pictures were taken on January 3. ...

... THE at the Polytechnic Extension Gymnasium proved an excellent curtain raiser for the national event, since there was a fine entry of both English internationals and foreign stars now resident in this country. Two of the latter, Bergmann the champion and A. Leibster, the former Austrian captain, have been doing good work giving exhibition matches to entertain the R.A.F. The English ...

... Lovelies I to Look At BETTT GRAB'LE, Mrs. Jackie Coogan that was, has temporarily deserted Hollywood for Broadway, where, according to the New York critics, she is dancing like a piece of thistledown in a new musical. But film fans needn't despair, for if they missed the release of Man About Town last month they can still see her in Million Dollar Legs, one of Para- mount's brighter co-ed. ...

... By Highwayman ALREADY it is all too easy to think and talk of pre-war motoring, so sharply have war conditions cut across civilian life. But we must not forget the cars of the current year, for when the war ends these will still be the current models, which are likely to remain current (with few exceptions and additions) for many months after. So a review of the cars of the past year, such as ...

... Finland's Standi Loot Captured from the Soviet Forces How the Finnish Soldiers Keep Fit CAPTURED SOVIET TROOPS WEAR A VARIETY OF HEADDRESS During the past three weeks the Finns have made very considerable captures. The latest enemy drafts are ill-clad as compared with the Finns. The prisoners wear a woollen headdress with a little peak, suggestive of a Tamerlane helmet, interspersed with any ...