... The Classic Fillies Lord Astor's Big Chance Another American Success in the Victoria Cup Windsor Notes EVERYBODY seems to have taken it for granted that Lord Astor's good filly, Golden Penny, will win the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket this afternoon. Which, as Miss Joyce Grenfell would say, would be perfectly topping for Lord Astor, but simply frightful for anyone who was left out. However ...

... THE OLD BRIGADE IN ACTION: J. H. Taylor putting at the twelfth while his partner, James Braid, looks on, in the gutty match with Cotton and Compston at Royal Mid-Surrey. The old gentlemen very nearly won but J. H. did the seemingly impossible by missing a putt of a few feet on the last green and the match was squared. On the right he is looking very happy after playing his favourite shot an ...

... THE first big golf event of the war for women was the national tournament (Southern Section), held at Royal Mid-Surrey in aid of the Daily Sketch War Relief Fund. Entries numbered 130, most of them having had little practice, though the winner Maureen Ruttle plays at week ends and has won 15 club competitions since the war. The Northern Section of the tournament will be at Birkdale on May 21. ...

... The Record Run THOSE responsible for Let's Mix It, at the Playhouse, having decided to say to each other, after only one performance, Let 's Chuck It! it has been widely acclaimed that if this unutterably feeble revue had achieved nothing else, it had won some fame for itself by having had the shortest run on record. That is not the case. It certainly beat the record of The Intimate Revue, ...

... us# wQ}£^Q#^^cu^i.'^^c^v?ju^.'^4C^1s2c^&^srffu^* W%*wv^£US4WS*.M^? ROLLS-ROYCE 4 T During the War the production of Rolls-Royce Cars having ceased for the time being the Company is contributing to the National Effort an ever increasing supply of MERLIN AERO -ENGINES for SPITFIRE, HURRICANE AND DEFIANT FIGHTERS and BATTLE AND WHITLEY BOMBERS The recent long-distance reconnaissance flights over ...

... 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. ...

... THE OAKELEY ARMS A country hotel in the heart of the Welsh I 1 TAN-Y-BWLCH mountains. Glorious scenery. Fishing. Terms riapnaii PPPQTlNinr Walking. Within easy reach of Golf Links from andSea. A place where you can forget the 4 gns. NORTH WALES war Tel.: Penrhyndeudraeth2l3 L____ UPTON HHTFI A 'ast throu8h tra'n from Paddington will bring you to the L.ur I uil nu I LL Lodge Gates of this very ...

... 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 ...