... Sportsman or Thiet or Both By A. Croxton Smith IS the poacher a sportsman, thief, or a mixture of both? My country friends who go to a lot of expense in rearing and preserving game will have only one answer to the question. He who takes what isn hisun, When he's cotched should go to prison. In these days, I believe, poaching is sometimes organised on com mercial lines, and those who indulge in ...

... BREEDERS and race horse owners went in numbers to Messrs. Tatter- sall's Sales at Newmarket if not to buy or sell, at least to talk things over. A num ber of yearlings changed hands for nominal figures, but some of the better ones did not reach their reserves and were withdrawn. The universal question was when are we to have racing at Headquarters again Owners are willing to race elsewhere if ...

... ON THE WAT UP through The Gorge, a deep cleft which affords the shortest means of access to the summit. ABOVE: Looking over Table Bay from the northern face, which rises pre cipitously to a height of over 3500 feet. I LEFT: Reading the names on the plate set upon a rock which constitutes the Climbers' Memorial. ONCE a year a large party of men and women n: ike Mountain for the Climbers' ...

... SPEEDSTERS' BIG DAT America's crack speedboat racers were at Northport, Long Island, for the 37th Gold Cup Championship, and in this picture My Sin leads as the craft roar over the course in the first of the three 30-mile heats. Hotsy Tolsy III, the winner, is not in the picture. THEY UPSET THE CHAMPIONS Hotsy Totsy III was a rank out sider piloted by its novice owner Sidney Allen who is seen ...

... Slap Bang, Here We Are Again BLITZ-DRIVEN from pillar to post, Ridgeway's Late Joys, the Victorian cabaret, with a fine dis regard for the incongruous, have made their home at the one-time El Morocco night club, in Albemarle Street, and there they play nightly to an audience which usually remains to sleep. El Morocco's most un Victorian trappings were transformed in no tithe for a fiver. ...

... B R ITIS II W A R S H I P S The Navy is to-day, as it always has been in our history, Aircraft-Carrier and Cruiser in the British Navy, the first line of defence of these islands and of that Great Empire p n as well as illustrations ot every type ot Destroyer, which was built up by the toil and the enterprise of our fathers. j j i j Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on the 31st of January, 1940. ...

... By Ashley Courtenay FROM time to time I have criti cised the old Dickensian type of inn. With a few notable exceptions, such as the Angel at Bury St. Edmunds and the Plough at Cheltenham, they have relied on ye olde atmosphere to draw their clientele. Pickwick rooms, faked courtyards, pewter and brass have been their stock in trade, and modern comforts have only been installed grudgingly. ...

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... FARMERS must shortly decide which of the many available cereal varieties they ought to sow. There is a wide choice of good winter wheats. Among those which ripen fairly early are Juliana, Victor, Wilhelmina, Wilma, Holdfast and Warden (all with white grain); and the Yeo- mans, Little Joss, Squarehead's Master, or Stand ard Red (all with red grain). Other heavy yielding but later ripening ...

... 8/ Our Horticultural Correspondent MOST people who take a keen interest in their garden are at some time or other concerned with the problem of providing a suitable boundary for it. For the sake of ap pearance alone a well-enclosed garden is more satisfying than one with an open boundary which may at any time be marred by an unsightly feature on an adjoining property. As the planting season is ...

... By H. P. Bayon, M.D., Ph.D., St. Catharine's College, Cambridge ANYONE mentioning turkeys to a farmer will be told that they are by far the most difficult class of poultry to rear and require the closest skilled attention. Like so many other popular opinions about agri cultural matters, this is partly true, but subject to exaggeration because it is based on unreli able data. As a matter of ...

... Wfe have received from the Japanese Government Railways an interesting little book on angling in Japan, written principally for the tourist, but as our readers are unlikely to be making fishing trips to that country, we have passed over much of the useful information in the book and have reproduced pictures which illustrate one Or two of the novel methods adopted by Japanese anglers. In ...