... The 1940 Estimates Owners to Spend a Million and a Half National Horses at Haydock Park THERE has been much talk recently in the House, on the air and in the newspapers of the Navy's effort, the Army's effort and that of the R.A.F. There have also been Estimates. Estimates are optimistic guesses about the cost of impending events. They always amount to far too much in the first place and are ...

... THE Household Brigade Draghounds are still carrying on, being out on Wednesdays and Fridays, and will continue to about the end of the month. The twenty couple of hounds, however, have been reduced to nj couple as a wartime measure. A line of about seven miles, with a check half-way, is generally run in a day. This is, of course, a private pack, no subscriptions being accepted except from ...

... ■MBMUIB Lights Up! at the Savoy Mr. Cochran Sees for Himself LIGHTS UP! having settled down at the Savoy Theatre to a vast success (Miss Evelyn Laye has returned to the cast after an attack of 'flu), Mr. C. B. Cochran has been feeling justified in taking a sort of busman's holiday and seeing some other shows. The other night I sat in a box with him at the Apollo Theatre, to see London's big ...

... BRITISH HOTELS AND RESORTS DORTHLEDDEN Hotel, St. Just, Cornwall. Telephone St. Just 10. Unique position overlooking Cape Cornwall and Atlantic. Comfortable rooms. Good food. Club licence. Also furnished houses. Full particulars and brochure on request. HUNTING, RIDING GUESTS, ETC. r\ARTMOOR, Farm House, as Private Hotel, run by Naval Officer and wife. Own stables and riding school. Resident ...

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... Artillery and Loud Speakers Across the Isis THE O.U.B.C. cannon roared into action along the Isis last week when fourteen crews competed in the wartime Torpids. Racing was confined to four days and naturally was a shadow of the real thing, but there was the customary loud-speaker encouragement (and abuse), punctuated by bursts of small-arms fire. Many of the colleges had to combine to raise ...

... A LAST-MINUTE re covery enabled Oxford to draw with Cambridge in the substitute inter-Varsity match at Cambridge last Saturday. Three of Cam bridge's four goals came from D. G. Kenyon, one of the two Blues in the Cambridge team, the other being scored by V. M. Hill. G. E. L. Gra ham, the Oxford centre-for ward, also scored three times, the fourth Oxford goal coming from their inside-left, W. H ...

... IF IT WERE SCULLING, BOON WOULD HAVE A LOT TO LEARN. BAG PUNCHING. ON THE RINGS. WEIGHT LIFTING. FOR the past few weeks Eric Boon, British light-weight champion, has been training in a West End gymnasium and running round the roads of Hamp- h&jSK stead. Last night his training ended with his meeting of thirty -year-old Jack Berg gj at the Empress Stadium, London. Winner 5 or loser, Boon's ...

... By Ashley Courtenay I SUPPOSE anyone who has motored in North Devon must know of Hoops Inn, Horns Cross, on the main Bideford-- North Cornwall Road. Yet because it is such a show place and because of its position, some may have passed it by, as I have hitherto done, because of the feeling it might be noisy at night. Now that I have visited Hoops, I realise once again how unfair it is to hotel ...

... THE iron horse was but in its infancy and the road was still in its glory when Henley on that memorable Wednesday, June 10, 1829, first awoke to the echoes of University cheers. Along the Fair Mile came tandems, drags and saddle-horses in strings. Cantabs also were there in force, though hardly in such numbers, for the distance from headquarters was greater. Oxford, in the colours of Christ ...

... NOT many Harrovians have gained a Blue for Rugby football. One who did is A. R. Ramsay, who played forward for Cambridge in the drawn 'varsity match of 1930. After coming down he went home to Australia, but now he is back here again, serving with the Fleet Air Arm. An odd match that of 1930, seeing how much place-kicking had to do with the result. In the first half John Tallent scored for ...

... rI1HERE is much to be said in J- favour of lacrosse as an I aid to physical fitness, for running and stretching exercise is good for most people, and the players always seem to enjoy the game itself, apart from the exercise it gives. Another point is that they never seem too old for the game, and quite a number of men who were leading players at the time of f the last war are turning out to ...