... FEW Sports Meetings have rivalled-- in surprise and excitement-- the Oxford and Cambridge post-war revival at the White City last Saturday. The track was heavy and the time slow, but who cared? The announcement of a record for J. P. S. Gibson's 1 ft. victory over J. W. E. Mark in the half mile or M. N. Green's inches win in the mile against J. C. E. Wilson would merely have refined-- for the ...

... BY THE National Hunt Season has been so good and so interesting almost from its commencement in October that it is the Grand National and not the opening of the Flat Racing Season which is getting all the limelight. The Grand National is to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on Friday next, and appearances are that there will be a big field. Acceptances were due to be published last Wednesday. No ...

... By RAYMOND BUSH LAST summer I took a friend of mine from the south-west, who has a pretty good garden, to see some fruit farms. He needed cheering, for the blizzard and cold snap at the end of April had hit his part of the country hard. He told me that unless he could buy some fruit somewhere he saw little prospect of any jam in the store cup board. He evidently thought that 1 was deep in the ...

... ENGLAND'S great recovery in the second half of a game full of excitement was the highlight of the England v. Scotland match at Twickenham. At half-time the Scots were leading by eight points to nil, but the spectators were treated to a complete transformation shortly afterwards, and the English team won by a placed goal, a dropped goal and penalty goal to a placed goal and a try 12 points to 8 ...

... RECORD U.S. CELERY CROP FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday March 25. SOME interesting figures relating to the financial affairs of the National Stud since 1916, when it was established, are given in a report presented recently to the House of Commons by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, Mr. G. C. Upcott. The report shows that the net accumulated trading profit from ...

... GALLOWAY cattle are well known for their hardiness and they will fatten well on poor exposed grazing land in the cold and wet climate of their native country. They are in great demand for crossing with other breeds for beef production, and the Galloway- Shorthorn cross is perhaps the best-known type. If white or light-roan Shorthorn bulls are used most of the progeny are polled and blue-grey. ...

... . By D. H. Watson-Wood COURSING par excellence. Such aptly describes the standard of the trials held at Druids Lodge on November 24, 25, and 26. Quite apart, however, from the meritorious tests provided by a succession of strong running hares, there were other features associated with the meeting which will render it memorable in the history of South of England coursing. Outstanding was the ...

... IN the autumn of 1942 the Lancashire W.A.E.C. undertook the reclamation of about 200 acres in the valley of Kirkby Pool a narrow stream situated between Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. The whole area was covered with a thick mat of rushes with bent grass and all of it was liable to flood. The Upper Lonsdale Catchment Board has carried out a scheme for widening and cleaning the bed of the ...

... LONDON RUGBY UNION helped Guy's Hospital to bring their centenary cele brations to a proper conclusion at Honor Oak Park at the end of last month. London came into being some years before the last war with the laudable intention of enabling the four Rugby counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Eastern Counties to combine in one strong team against the might of touring sides from the Dominions ...

... By A. Croxton Smith SPORT is a great social equaliser. Indeed, one might say that it has played an important part in bringing all sections of the com munity together. Those of us who have been reared on the land know what fox-hunting means to the countryside. While reading a book on the chase, I came across a news paper cutting pasted on a page in the chapter on the Duke of Beaufort's pack. ...

... ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS Potato Planting in Scotland TS ...

... Hedgerows are now all abloom with damson blossom in the Lyth Valley of Westmorland, while on the fells above Windermere the shepherd cares for his lambs among a host of golden daffodils. ...