... m- IT was a great and unique Grand National for Bogskar. The winner, brilliantly ridden by Mervyn Jones, a twenty-year-old sergeant in the Royal Air Force, was owned and trained by Lord Stalbridge. This is the first time a Steward of the National Hunt has trained the winner of the National, Though Bogskar started at 25 to 1, the great crowd gave Lord Stalbridge and Jones, a nephew of Owen and ...

... THIRTY STARTERS There was no delay at the post and the start was excellent. Bogskar is on the extreme left of the line. Royal Danieli is the fourth horse from the right. Mo. 32 is Tuckmill, and Mo. 27 Second Act. THE FIRST FEMCE Just landing are (left to right) The Professor II., Gold Arrow, Away and Royal Danieli. AO FALLS AT THE FIRST All thirty starters got over the first obstacle safely ...

... A Great Grand National and Now for Newbury by Uiaplei THE season is already well on its way, hav ing had a splendid send-off. The opening day at Hurst Park and also at Birmingham went with a rare swing, and the Liver pool meeting was an unqualified success. And now we are for Newbury, with all sorts of exciting events in prospect. Newbury's two- day fixture is supplemented by a one-day meeting ...

... THE Easter cricket classes for boys began at Lord's on Monday in that drab sort of weather which usually reserves itself for the opening of the season. Naturally, there were rather fewer boys and parents than usual, but there was all the old enthusiasm. Cricket at the Schools will carry on and much help will be given by the M.C.C. As Walter Hammond has said, The Schools' cricket must not ...

... MOVING OFF FROM ALEXTON HALL Although the weather was perfect, there were few people out when Fernie's hounds met at Captain T. A. Fairhurst's lovely country house near Uppingham, Leicestershire. A REGULAR Mrs. N. Duckworth- King of Great Bowden has hunted with Fernie's since she was a child. MRS. F. CHERRY is out most days. THE HOST, Captain T. A. Fairhurst, Mrs. Fairhurst, their daughter ...

... Prestwick and the Open Should the Course be Changed? WHEN I played at Prestwick in the 1925 Open qualifying rounds, I was eighteen, and assistant at Rye. Cyril Tolley, who thought I was a promising player, entered me and took me up to Prestwick as his guest. I was not very experienced, as can be imagined, and went no further than the qualifying rounds. i tnink 1 took 02 at iroon ana 52 ...

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... Three Generations in 44 A House in the Square Margaret Rawlings, Lilian Braithwaite and Janet Johnson are mother, grandmother and daughter in A House in the Square, at the St. Martin's Theatre Diana Morgan's first straight play. She has previously given us several witty lyrics and sketches for Gate revues (written in collaboration with her husband, Robert McDermott), and was part author of ...

... The Passing Hour Continued J ex-ftreman and twenty chums who spend their time wrecking trains, railway lines and bridges, and dodging the armoured cars of the great experimenters. In eighteen months they have destroyed ninety-five engines, eighteen armoured cars, twenty-five bridges, and a hundred miles of permanent-way. One of the most striking passages of Mr. Churchill's broadcast was his ...

... Three Stars of the Air Peter Cressicell produced the radio version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with James Edmunds as Mr. Smith, James Steicart's film part. Here Cressicell watches Edmunds release a pigeon in a match between fanciers of Romford and Golders Green for the Frank Capra Cup. Mr. Smith, in the film, used pigeons to send letters home to his mother in the Middle West Grade Fields ...

... Darjeeling-born, British Vivien Leigh has achieved the remarkable feat of carrying off an Oscar, statuette awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara, deep S'uth heroine of Gone With the Wind, which captivated even those compatriots of Scarlett who before the film was made had insisted that none but a Southern girl was fit for ...

... And the World Said National Gallery Exhibition BRITISH Painting Since Whistler at the National Gallery is a tenuous exhibition which begins cheerfully with an unexpectedly handsome catalogue for fourpence. Then comes Orpen to remind us of all that this war's official artists have to paint up to. His manner alone guarantees a measure of immortality. Reflecting that all Art is mortal for even ...