... 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 ...

... By Ashley Courtenay EDWARD ARDIZZONE and Maurice Gorham are men after my own heart. They are seekers out of pubs. Not merely historic hostelries or Dickensian inns, but what we engaged in the chase can term as locals. Small and large taverns in main highways, up narrow alleys or in a mews, all frequented by regulars in every walk of life. When Messrs. Ardizzone and Gorham's book first came ...

... R.M.S. Ol l i:\ MARY R.M.S. OlIliEN MARY There are few things more intriguing and instructive than these movable deck models of . Deck by Deck the ship's wonderful interior may be examined. Correct and to scale, all decks are numbered, and details can be identified very easily by reference to a guide supplied. The model is 12 inches long, price 3/6, postage and packing inland 9d. extra. ...

... S. C. TINNERS LEY showed himself an out standing long-distance runner with comfortable victories in the senior 880 yards and the mile. But this year's running times were slower than last, probably because the races were run on grass instead of cinders as at Mill Hill. RECORD WELL BROKEN: D. A. Richards, throwing the javelin 147 ft. jJ in. to win the junior event, beat the previous record by a ...

... I NEW COLLEGE GROUND provided a tranquil setting for the first Freshmen's match at Oxford between an XI. captained by R. E. Luyt (Trinity), acting captain of cricket, and an XI. led by E. K. Scott (Lincoln), the acting secretary. The final trial finished yesterday, and one of the matches that have been arranged for the next month will be against a British Empire XI. on June 14 and 15. This, ...

... Maytime Verdict DIGGING for victory has its effect on beauty as well as the vegetable supply, for gardening can take inches off your hip-line. Preparing the soil, pushing a barrow full of rubbish, lifting the watering- can, all exercise just those hip muscles which tend to become set. For weeding or setting seeds, your weight will be on your knees, so it is a good thing to use a pad. The one ...

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

... THE FAVOURITE WINS! That it's all over bar the shouting can be seen from this picture of Djebel going away from the field near the post. M. Marcel Boussac's colt won easily by two lengths and thus gave his owner his first classic success in England. There was a close struggle for second place, which the Aga Khans Stardust (H. Wragg up) gained by a head from the Maharaja of Kolhapur's Tant ...

... IT has been a difficult time for rowing clubs, but thanks to the great efforts by the older members of some of the tideway and up-river clubs, rowing has been kept going throughout the winter, and last Saturday we had the i first up-river regatta since the war. It was a modest affair at Weybridge, with out bands and frills, but a great success. Besides the race between the Weybridge and ...

... By A. Croxton Smith FAR distant may be the millennium in which the Lion will he down with the lamb, but for all that examples are constantly occurring in animal life of the strong befriending the weak. Dogs notoriously exhibit altruistic instincts towards those that they seem to know instinctively are in need of protection. Young children and puppies, the more helpless of their own kind, fall ...

... ElementaryTactics for Parashooters A WEEK ago we gave some elementary instructions on how to handje a rifle by cadets in the Officers' Training Corps of the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and this week the boys have co-operated in a further i demonstration. This time by showing very clearly the right and wrong way to do things, they give an example of rudimentary tactics which may be of ...