... THIS was the Empire XI's first match. To-morrow they begin a three-day game against Cambridge, and among other sides they will meet are Combined Hospitals, Oxford University, Dulwich, Middlesex Hospitalj'and Highgate. ■minium n n urn 11 niiiiin miiiim in mil i i THE MATCH IN PROGRESS at Wimbledon between the newly formed British Empire XI so named because it includes several Dominions ...

... SOMETHING like fifty children spent a happy time at Brent Pelham Hall, Buntingford, Herts, when the Puckeridge Hunt branch of the Pony Club organised a gymkhana. The day was a great success. Pelham Hall is the home of Mr. E. E. Barclay, Master of the Puckeridge since 1896, and now Joint-Master with his son, Major M. E. Barclay, for the Committee. wivmp ^11 1 4 THE UNDER. ELEVENS thoroughly ...

... EXCEPT where evacuation has caused the cancellation of fixtures, Public Schools cricket will be played as usual this season, and, judging from the number of very promising young players seen last summer, the standard should be good. Further prospects will appear next week. Eton will be captained by D. J. W. Colman, a sound opening batsman, who will have with him three other old Colours, J. A. ...

... The Redd ington Phillips Fight By B. Bennison NOTHING ventured, nothing won; and so on May 27, Tom Reddington, the young Salford heavyweight, will fight Eddie Phillips, one time our cruiser champion. The fight will be over ten rounds at the Empress Stadium, Earl's Court, in the next Marquess of Queensberry's tournament. I commend Reddington for his temerity. But the taller than 6 ft. ...

... PETROL SAVING The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce of motor-racing and flying fame has been driving round the West End in this smart turn-out. Here her buggy drawn by a four-year-old chestnut is negotiating an oddly deserted Piccadilly Circus. KENNEL. GIRLS Up to the present few tracks except Wands worth have employed girls as kennelmen and trainers but with so many men on active service the idea is ...

... 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 ...

... AT THE JUDGE'S BOX: The Judge, Mr. Malcolm Hancock, chatting with the Earl of Harewood. The Hon. Thomas Egerton, seated, with glasses up. Air. Hancock is the only one of the four Jockey Club Judges not yet in uniform. He was wounded at Gallipoli in 1915, but expects to join up again very soon. AS THE JUDGE SEES IT: A{. Leon Volterra's Dame de Trefle (nearest camera) winning the Haverhill ...

... E HUDSON BENNETT, the Cambridge President was the hero of the day when the A.A.A. took a strong team up to Cambridge to meet a combined Oxford and Cambridge athletic team. Hudson Bennett won three events and was third in another. He ie a South African and was Secretary last year and was elected President for last October. He flew back from South Africa when war broke out to do what he could to ...

... THREE young pilots of a Fighter Command squadron in the North of Scotland have gone gypsy for the summer and are living in two caravans in a field beside their aerodrome. They have electric light (supplied by an old motor-car battery), and a bull-terrier watchdog named Gangster keeps guard while they are in the air. One of the caravans has berths for two of the pilots, as well as a wash- ...

... THE ILLLSI RATED SPORTING AND B %i$M |PSyBpW|^8|iiEaHMa£^Pf^ DP/ MAT IC N EWS-- May 31. I94L K!v-;, ''y:^0jM ...

... 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. ...