... A MORE exhilarating game than that between Repton and Rugby, at Repton, could not be wished for. Heavy showers having curtailed the play, Repton declared at 91 for nine and left Rugby 50 minutes in which to get the runs a sporting decision, in view of Rugby's batting feats this season. Rugby's opening pair, L. G. H. Hingley and M. R. Holman, put on 50 in 25 minutes, but both left at that total ...

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... ALIPPIZAN stallion and a Russian ballerina are the outstanding features of this film about the fall of the Hapsburg dynasty, which had its London premiere last week, and will be generally released next Monday. The Lippizan is one of four that the Austrian Government presented to opera-star Maria Jeritza, wife of Winfield Sheehan, the producer the dancer is exquisite Irina Baronova, lately of ...

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... IN the surroundings of its war-time home at St. Bees, Cumberland, the Mill Hill School's O.T.C. is find ing opportunities for tactical exercises which were out of the question in Greater London. The seashore with a good beach, the moorlands and the mountains provide field experience of immense value. On the moors the problem of taking cover from enemy troops and aircraft assumes more difficult ...

... By A. Croxton Smith SOME correspondents, indulging in the pleasures of anticipation, are urging that when the war is over and things get back to normal, we shall confine ourselves to British dogs only and ignore those of foreign extraction. This sounds very much like an effort to plough the sands, for it will take a lot of propaganda to persuade people not to import foreign breeds that happen ...

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... Home-Made Sil OS A Selection for the Gentleman Farmer 8/ Our Agricultural Correspondent Demonstrations of ensilage given by Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., who have placed the services of their technical staff at the disposal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, are already having a profound effect on farmers of all classes. The demonstrations are being well attended and it is noticeable ...

... DEDUCED to a one-day match by the exi- r* gencies of war, the meeting between Eton and Harrow produced the sort of cricket that is a joy to the carefree spectator but painful to the purist. Eton won by a wicket after many breathless moments which kept the rival sup porters at a high pitch of vocal excitement. They had put Harrow out for 185 this was mainly due to A. D. Gibbs who took seven for ...

... Wellingborough's I Memorial to W.G. 3 A DOORSTEP from W. G. Grace's old home at Downend, Bristol, now reposes at the foot of the steps of Wellingborough School's sports pavilion ■as a memorial to the Grand Old Man of cricket. It was obtained from the owners of the property by Mr. Murray Witham, the school's sports master, before W.G.,'s old home was pulled down and the ceremony of laying the ...