... SIX thousand people were at the Liverpool Stadium to watch Nel Tarleton, of Liverpool, regain the British and Empire featherweight titles from Johnny Cusick, the holder. Tarleton almost won the fight in the sixth round when he delivered a smashing right-cross which put Cusick down for eight (above picture on right). By the tenth round 34-year-old Tarleton seemed to be feeling the pace, but he ...

... IN the past two years I have been writing regularly for THE ILLUSTRATED SPORT ING AND DRAMATIC NEWS, and have illustrated many of my articles with photo graphs taken by the Honourable Drogo Montagu; Brilliant photographs many of them were, and now it is sad to think he will take no more. Last week he was killed in an air crash, while acting as a flying instructor, apparently through the ...

... LIGHT-HEA VTWEIGHT AMATEUR Private J. Morris, of the Somerset L.I. (left), beat Pilot Officer Bailey, the 1936 Metropolitan Police Champion, on points. BANTAMWEIGHT PROFESSIONAL Sergeant- nstructor W. T. Slater (Army, right), better known s Mog Mason, beat Aircraftman O'Neill on points. FLYWEIGHT AMATEUR Corporal Kershaw, of the R.A.F. (left), lands with his right on Private Levy. Kershaw was ...

... WITH THE NORTH KILKENNY: Mrs. R. C. Prior- Wandesforde clearing a fence at Castlecomer Co. Kilkenny. She is a well-known rider to hounds and a very popular hostess. Mr. R. C. Prior-Wandesforde is a past Joint-Master of the North Kilkenny. EARL'S COURT skating rink marked the reopening of their season with a gala show in which Betty King was the star. Betty started her career as a riding-school ...

... Rapier on Racing The Derby and Oaks for Newbury-- A Huge Undertaking- Plans for the Guineas-- Will there be a Doncaster St. Leger THE decision by the Stewards to hold sub stitute races for the Derby and the Oaks at Newbury has intrigued me beyond measure. It is because, I suppose, I was in France when Pommern and Fifinella and Gay Crusader and Gainsborough won the war-time Derby Stakes. I am ...

... jHE two Eton Trial Eight crews are now in regular training, and the crews are taking shape. Owing to the weather conditions during the first few weeks of the Half, the crews were not able to get as much practice afloat as usual, and the race, which had been fixed for the end of next week, may be postponed for a week or so to make up for the days they could not go out. LIGHT BLUES PADDLING IN ...

... Two Unknowns Upset the Professors Jackie Rankin and Fred Simpson Surprise the Empress Stadium Crowd By B. Bennison AFTER what happened in the second enor mously successful tournament organised by the Marquess of Queensberry for the Red Cross, the Tritons of the ring may no longer be sure of gobbling up the minnows, not even Eric Boon, who is to fight that old warrior, Kid Berg, at the ...

... THE Ashdown Athletic Club is flourishing again. It meets three times a week at the Robert Blair School, Caledonian Road, one of the evening institutes recently reopened by the L.C.C. Undoubtedly the most famous amateur wrestling organisation in the country, they have frequently won the Desborough challenge cup, symbolic of the champion club in the country, and have had the honour of providing ...

... Boat Race Crews in Full Training MPBi CAMBRIDGE [ggjg WITH the unofficial Boat Race only a week ahead the eights are to race at Effi Henley on Saturday, March 2 both the Oxford j Bp and Cambridge crews are now in full training. j There have, however, been a number of late S changes in the order of rowing, particularly i at Cambridge, for this year rowing men on the 13 Cam have not succeeded in ...

... TOM WILLIAMSON, the cheery pro fessional to the Notts Golf Club, this past week finished 44 years' service with his club. As Tom is now 60 years of age, and very fit, it looks as though he will reach his ambition to serve 50 years with his club before retiring. One must admire any man who makes a promise to his mother on her deathbed and keeps it through 44 long years. He had just become a ...

... AT the Bradix Club, Acton, a table tennis championship that usually takes a week was played off in three days by getting players down to it early in the mornings. There were many surprises. Two women internationals, Mrs. Jack Carrington and Betty Steventon, failed to qualify in their groups Jack Carrington, who was out of practice, was knocked out in the final play-off (J. Glickman, Manhattan ...

... OLD OXFORD BLUES Left, Colonel R. Sharp, who played Rugby for Oxford in igig, and Captain H. H. Turcan, who represented Oxford in 1928. They are in a well-known Scottish Teomanry unit, but their berets show that their regiment has been mechanised. SKAUP DUCK ON THE EAST COAST An interesting picture of wild duck shooters on the rocks by the sea near Scarborough last week with some of their bag ...