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Public Schools' Rackets' Championship

... WINNER AND SEMI-FINALIST Right, L. G. H. Hingley, Rugby's cricket captain for this season, won the annual Senior Handicap at Queen's Club from the owe 3 mark. It is hoped that he will become a second Milford. In the semi-final Hingley beat (I.) F. G. Stewart (Radley) {owe 3) by 17 14,15 7. RUNNER UP AND SEMI-FINALIST: Right John Drinkall (Haileybury) owe 3) was runner-up to Hingley. He beat ...

WHERE TO STAY

... BRITISH HOTELS AND RESORTS DORTHLEDDEN Hotel, St. Just, Cornwall. Telephone St. Just 10. Unique position overlooking Cape Cornwall and Atlantic. Comfortable rooms. Good food. Club licence. Also furnished houses. Full particulars and brochure on request. HUNTING, RIDING GUESTS, ETC. TVARTMOOR. Farm House as Private Hotel, C run by Naval Offirer and wife. Own stables and riding school. Resident ...

Hunting North of the Tweed

... LORD BURGHLET, M.P., took a day's holiday and went out with his brother-in-law, the Duke of Buc- cleuch's hounds. He gave up his private pack, which he revived in 1935, at the end of last season, and is now Joint-Master, with Mr. F. A. Cox, of the East Sussex. He in tended to hunt the latter pack him self, but, owing to pressure of war work, is only able to get down for an odd day here and ...

One Hundred and Thirteen Runners at Windsor

... ROMAN CHIEF PITS HIS FEET WRONG AT THE WATER: Mr. W. P. Nicholson's Roman Chief, ridden by H. Nicholson, was made favourite for the Boxing Day 'Chase but did not jump well enough and finished tenth. Behind Roman Chief is Bel et Bon (G. Wilson prominent for most of the race and finishing fourth. No. y is Miss Paget' s Knight of the Border (G. Archibald), last of the fifteen runners, and the ...

WOMEN AND UNIFORM: TAILORED DETAILS

... Women and Uniform TAILORED DETAILS THE Women's Auxiliary Air Force is a young Service with no traditions of the last war to draw upon, but it is rapidly proving its worth in this one. The uniform is attractive as well as practical, as can be seen in the photo graph below from Moss Bros., of King Street, Covent Garden. The cloth is blue barathea, the same as for R.A.F. officers, worn with a ...

Rapier on Racing

... Final N.H. Fixture List A Score of Horses to Follow Thrills at Windsor Notes on Gatwick and Leicester THE remainder of the N.H., season has now been mapped out. Fixtures have been granted from the first of March to March 25, which is Easter Monday, and there is also, of course, the Aintree fixture on April 4, 5 and 6. The Grand National will be held on Friday, April 5. The season, therefore, ...

Women in Sport

... THE HOPMANS, present holders of the Australian Mixed Doubles title and reckoned one of the best combinations in the game were beaten in the final of the Victoria Championships by the Sydney pair, Joan Hartigan and Vivian McGrath. Miss Hartigan was Australian women's champion in 1933, 4, and 6 McGrath men's singles champion in 1937 UNDER WATER PIN WHEEL These three members of the Pasadena ...

ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS

... ELLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS TO MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. AND H.M. FORCES SERVING IN FRANCE, AT SPECIAL REDUCED RATES 6 Months 19/6 (Post Free) 3 MoiltllS 10/- A subscription to The ILLUSTRATED SPORTING DRAMATIC NEWS will be a gift well appreciated by a friend in the Services stated above. Even postage is included in these special terms so just fill in the form below and we will ...

Animal Welfare in Air Raids

... By A. Croxton Smith CONSIDERING the great eco nomic importance of animals apart altogether from the senti mental value attaching to some of them, particularly such as dogs and cats, it may not be out of place to refer to the arrangements that are being made for their welfare in the case of air raids. The majority of people have but a vague idea about what is being done, and some gathered the ...

Lahore Races and Hunt Gymkhana

... Lahore Races i and Hunt I Gymkhana MEERUT HURDLES The first hurdle looks like being the last for the leader here unless the jockey makes a remarkable recovery. The winner was Widden Hill, No. i, on the left. THE FINAL HURDLE McGowan taking the last obstacle on Ukraine in the Sialkot Hurdle Race. 1 1 n mL at as .m a. --iimwi^-- H.E. THE GOVERNOR Sir Henry Craik, Governor of the Punjab, chatting ...

Good Sportsman

... Good Sportsnrif AT a Royal Aii Force College somewhere in Eng land, A. J. Holmes the famous Susses County Cricket Cap tain, now a Squadrot Leader, is the Chief Flying Instructor. There young pilots are being trained for their future work with the Royal Air Force. Their living quarters are comfort able, their work com prehensive tactics n avigation- engines gunnery- all have to be mas tered ...

Nondescripts Beat United Hospitals

... JG. W. DAVIES' XV., soon reduced to fourteen, did very well at the Richmond Athletic Ground to beat United Hospitals by a dropped goal, kicked by G. J. Reynolds, and three tries (A. M. Rees, J. G. W. Da vies and R. E. Prescott) to a penalty goal (B. W. T. Ritchie) and a try (H. D. Cockburn). The match was on Boxing Day in aid of the Red Cross and a big crowd turned up. A FINE PAIR OF HALF ...