... SEABISCUIT, an old bay horse with rheumaticky legs, emerging from retirement at stud, wins the 100,000 dollar Santa Anita Handicap, one of America's richest races, and becomes the biggest money-making horse in racing history, with a total of 437,730 dollars nearly 110,000 in six years. The win stirred America, for only 18 months ago Seabiscuit's legs had broken down. But Mr. C. S. Howard, his ...

... Experiment in Duck Shooting Punt with a Silent Motor DR. O. B. Deiter, the well-known London osteopath, has made a duck-shooting experiment of great interest at Brightlingsea, Essex. He has fitted his punt with an outboard electric motor which is absolutely silent and enables him to glide within very close range of his quarry. Last season was Dr. Deiter's first attempt at the sport and though ...

... IHU=r,CS'Sr OU O^-TripleX-^hU, Friday, MAY 3. 1940. The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAMATIC News ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THIS week's picture, taken at the Old Berkeley's hunter trials at Great Westwood, near King's Langley, brings to mind a subject that is mainly aesthetic in its bearings. If we keep more than one dog, should they be of the same breed or different? As far as appearances go, and they do count for something, I should prefer to have them all alike, matched in size as well as ...

... , FALMOUTH This picture shows but a third of the Hotel, and of the view from our windows. Come Down and Enjoy the Whole! , ...

... ONE of the most bloody battlefields of all in the_Spanish Civil War was the Royal Puerta de Hierro golf course two miles outside Madrid. Only just over a year ago, after twenty months' siege, Madrid surrendered to General Franco to-day they are playing golf again over that famous course, though it still bears the ugly scars of war as a grim reminder of the terrible days of so little time ago. ...

... By B. Bennison SOME nine years ago Jack Casey came from his native Sunderland to the Albert Hall to fight Marcel Thil, a French middle weight. Casey was red-topped, bullet-headed, square-jawed, and to his folk he was Cast Iron Casey. Thil at some time or other had had both ears twisted and thumped into prize cauliflowers. His pate was bald, chest hairy, and his general appearance as ...

... WHEN Americans want a Polar dog- team to take them to the South Pole, or for a sledg ing trip in the mountains, or simply dogs for cross country racing, they go to Mr. Milton Seeley, of Dog Town, nearWona- Tancet, North Hampshire. Mr. Seeley also has a school for dog driving, and he holds daily Dog Frolics and Chow Feed ings. His big job is train ing dogs for Admiral Byrd's expeditions, and ...

... HOCKEY, rugby and cricket are represented in recent announcements of appoint ments and promotions in the Royal Armoured Corps. R. Aird (Eton, Cambridge, and Hampshire), the assistant secretary to the M.C.C., has been confirmed as Captain in the City of London Yeomanry, and J. W. G. Hume, the Mill Hill, Oxford, and Scotland centre, is granted similar rank in the Lothians and Border Yeomanry. C. ...

... R. Bolton, whose appointment to the same branch of the Service was mentioned here last week, is in charge of the medical arrangements on a Hospital ship. D. E. Teden has been confirmed in the rank of Pilot Officer. What the R.A.F. Can Do That the R.A.F. is in the happy position of being able to produce some very fine sporting sides from its various stations has been shown on more than one ...

... Active -and Attractive TENNIS clubs that have not already opened will be starting the season this week-end, so Harrods, Knightsbridge, have lined up the right equipment. This simple frock, cut on Princess lines, is in a cellular- weave material, very cool and light to wear it costs 65s. gd. You waste no time in the changing-room, either, for the sliding fastener saves minutes. The cardigan, in ...

... People are Still Buying Says Highwayman BEFORE the Budget there was quite a burst of car-buying, to such an extent, in fact, that dealers were saying the demand for new cars was thrice the supply, though that, of course, only represents a small fraction of what the sales were last year. How long that can last I don't know. The buying was not confined, I was told, to the cheaper runabouts. ...