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January 1940
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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

The Pony Club at the Enfield Chace's Cheshunt Park Meet

... The Pony Club at the Enfield Chace's Cheshuni Park Meet CHESHUNT PARK, the home of Miss Christine Debenham, is on the edge of the Enfield Chace country. The hunt has a very enthusiastic Pony Club, under the secretaryship of Miss N. Christie, of Hoddesdon, a large section of which turned up for this meet by special invitation of the Joint-Masters. THE PACK moving off. E. Cox, Iht for several ...

South Public Schools beat North

... THE frost was so out of the ground at the Old Deer Park at Richmond in the middle of last week that the School boys were able to carry out some of their holiday matches. On the Wednesday, the South Public Schools beat the North by 20 points (a goal and five tries) to 16 points (two goals, a penalty goal and a try). Pictures of the game between Rosslyn Park Public Schools against the Club are ...

Playing the Game: Famous Sportsmen at an R.A.F. Depot in England

... Playing the Game Famous Sportsmen at an R.A.F. Depot in England. Left CRICKETERS Pilot Officer R. W. V. Robins, the old English and Middlesex County cricketer, Squadron Leader Bradbury, and Pilot Officer Barnett Gloucester an England opening batsman. A TRAINER TRAINED: Pilot Officer Whittaker, the famous England and Arsenal F.C. trainer, is himself now under the eye of a physical instructor. ...

The Economical Sharpshooter: Tex Corey demonstrates how to hit two targets with a single bullet

... The Economical Sharpshooter Tex Corey demonstrates how to hit two targets with a single bullet THE TARGET go feet from the sharpshooter stands Fae Toby described as a go-lb. Texas beauty holding the knife target steady. Corey uses a '22 Remington rifle, shooting from an under-arm, off-shoulder position. FINDING HIS RANGE Tex Corey is ready to fire at the edge of a knife blade, to divide the ...

Four Leading Rhodesian Amateurs

... Dear Mr. Cotton, As a very keen reader of your golf notes in The Sporting and Dramatic, I am taking the liberty of writing to you to tell you how high a place golf occupies in the sporting activities of Rhodesia. Every town and village has its eighteen or nine hole course. Here in Salisbury, the capital, there are two courses. The leading one is the Royal Salisbury Club, but the other, the ...

Keeping in Touch

... By A. Croxton Smith ONE could write a book about friends and friendships with out exhausting the subject. In times such as these, when many of our ordinary pursuits have disap peared and men and women who used to forgather regularly at dog shows are engaged upon work of national importance, we have some difficulty in following Dr. Johnson's advice about keeping our friendships in repair. If we ...

A Drawn Game on Frozen Ground

... HOCKEY was almost impossible, owing to the hard state of the ground, when Birkbeck College opposed Southgate B at Greenford. Players were unable to obtain a foothold and good attacking movements by both sides were continually broken up by passes hitting the hard turf, the ball going off at unexpected angles. It was a scrappy game, with constant stoppages for infringe ments. Birkbeck took the ...

A Mixed Bag of Sport: Cheltenham College All-Conquering Fifteen

... A Mixed Bag of Sport Cheltenham College All-Conquering Fifteen CHELTENHAM, who were obliged to spend last term in exile at Shrewsbury, had probably one of the best XV's they have ever had in their long rugger history. Although playing away from home, they won their five school matches for the third time in recent years. Moore and Hosking were selected to play for the English Public Schools' XV ...

The New Forest Cavaliers: First Meet of the New Driving Club at Brockenhurst

... The New Forest Cavaliers First Meet of the New Driving Club at Brockenhurst ANCIENT AND MODERN While horses and ponies were rested members chatted and then went in to an informal luncheon. Afterwards Major C. Davenport F.R.C.V.S. gave a lecture on harness and harnessing. A FLO A T Sir Berkeley Pigott one of the organiserSy with his daughtery Stephanie, in their float, fitted with pneumatic ...

OUTDOOR BULLETIN

... Outdoor Bulletin THE general evacuation to the country has brought at least one advantage more women have the time and opportunity to play golf. Lillywhites, of Piccadilly Circus and Brompton Road, are encourag ing this by designing the attractive sports clothes shown on the right. The soft sufede jacket is cut I to fit well down over the hips, drawn in by a belt slotted through like an ...

Future of Motor Racing

... By Highwayman CHEQUES are seldom unwelcome, but I have just received one which I would much rather have done without. It was from Lt.-Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, M.P., for 18s. 5d., and it represented all that was left of my first year's subscription to the British Motor Racing Fund. Accompanying it was a request that I cancel my banker's order to pay the fund a guinea every New Year until ...