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... KING LEGEND'S FIRST SUCCESS At the distance in the i\ miles Payne Stakes at Newmarket D. Smith had King Legend in the lead and Cliff Richards on Constitution (No. iff), did not give Sir Abe Bailey's good horse a hard race when he found King Legend had his measure. Lovely Trim who finished second is the third horse. Mr. James V. Rank's four-year-old son of Queen Iseult was an even-money chance. ...

Trapping the Destructive Turtle

... THE lakes and rivers of England are far too chilly for the turtle, and the European Tom Tortoise, which flourishes in various parts of the Continent, is the only reptile akin to the turtle which is found in large numbers outside Australia and the Americas. We are probably rather fortunate, for turtles are highly destructive of fish and game, which they kill in astronomical numbers every year. ...

Branch's Brilliant Putting

... WHEN I arrived at Leicester to play a thirty-six-hole match against W. J. Branch over his home course, an official of the club said he hoped I would not be too disappointed with the course and the financial result of the day. I have to report that the day was a huge success, approximately £400 being collected for the Red Cross Fund. The course of the Leicestershire Golf Club is only three ...

Motor Cyclists and Airmen in the Making

... C PEED WAY racing is not every- body's idea of sport, but the young men who indulge in it make magnificent despatch riders, motor cycle machine-gun troops and airmen. These pictures were taken at the Oxford Stadium at Cowley last Sunday, when the Oxford Motor-Cycle Speed way Club, a purely amateur-run club, decided the final of the Bolton Trophy. As can be seen from the tiny tanks fitted to ...

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... Regan, the water-front bully, fearing that the new steamboat will wreck the shibbuildins industry, stirs up the moo to set fire to the ship when it is only half-completed. Fulton s friends help to extinguish the Jlamcs and work is started again, although money is difficult to obtain. The Barkers, Jack and Daphne r are painting the town blue at the Cafe de Paris. Tou Don't Have to be Old to be ...

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... ON SALE NOW AT ALL BOOKSTALLS AND NEWSAGENTS i d Captain of a U-boat in the last war yet free to roam through Britain because his country was NEUTRAL GATLING looked up at the sky his chief had told him that a Heinkel had passed over the course while Lopke had been playing the day before. Remembering his chief's suggestion that a message might have been dropped in a golf ball, Gatiing decided ...

Happy Families

... B A. Croxton Smith MAN has always toyed with the idea of a Utopia in which the lion should he down with the lamb and the sword be turned into a ploughshare. That the lion should lie down with the lamb is sometimes a matter of education. Take a cub of one of the big cats and rear him with a lamb, the two would probably grow up into good friends, for a time at any rate. These incongruous ...

Trustworthy advice..

... Trustworthy Mrs. D I know it was my husband's intention that the boys should benefit from my legacy when they come of age. It's not a great sum as you know, only £1,000, and the important thing is that it should not diminish. Executor Precisely. We must find an investment that is safe and profitable. You say you have the full quota of Savings Certificates Mrs. D Very nearly, and the boys have ...

Up and Down the Land

... WE publish in another page an appeal for a new outlook on agriculture and for the leadership and organisation which it must have. The writer of the article sees the need for co-operation between the leaders of certain interests, and visualises, in effect, a Round Table Conference between them. He has, how ever, left a blank place at the Conference table. It is an astonishing thing that, even ...

The Crawley and Horsham Meet at Cowfold

... THE CRA WLEY AND HORSHAM are carrying on this season, and Mrs. H. G. Gregson is again Acting Master for the Com mittee. These pictures were taken at a recent meet at Cowfold. HOUNDS MOVING OFF, with C. Denton, the huntsman, on the left. Denton has been huntsman since 1928 and used to hunt the dog pack twice a week when four meets were held. HOUNDS CASTING FOR SCENT AT THE FIRST COVER. ...

A Great Game at Richmond: All-Blacks Just Fail in Titanic Struggle

... A Great Game at Richmond All-Blacks Just Fail in Titanic Struggle IN the first half the All-Blacks were never in Rosslyn Park's 25; in the second half they were seldom out of it. That, in a nutshell, is the story of the memorable match at Richmond in which the New Zealand Expedi tionary Force, playing their first representative game of the season, came within an ace of beating Rosslyn Park ...