... Heavyweights' CoinoKaok Ity IS. ISeniiison TO-MORROW, Sergt. Larry Gains, one time heavyweight champion of the Empire, and Sergt. Jack London, of West Hartlepools, on leave from the Royal Air Force, will meet at the Stadium Club, Liverpool. We are promised an especially pleasant Saturday afternoon with Gains and London happy in con templation of a holiday after their hearts. What ever Lucy ...

... D OXING returned to London on Monday with a Services programme at D the Cambridge Theatre. There was a full house to see Kid Berg, now in the R.A.F., make his first appearance as a middleweight in a bout with Karry^Craster. Showing much of his old skill and strategy, Berg won on points. In a much less spirited fight than the Berg-Craster affair, Dave Crowley easily beat Johnny Cunningham of ...

... In tlie Sporting' News PAT SPENCF., the South African Darns Cup player, was married at Sheffield to Joyce Valerie Robson, of the Vic-Wells Pallet. Pest man (behind the bridal pair) was Flight-Lieut. P. Murphy. Spence, now in the medical branch of the li.A.F., is outstanding as a doubles player. SGT.-INST. TOM LAWTON, the Everton and England centre-forward and Rosaleen May Kavanagh were married ...

... Shooting on a Modest Scale By A. Croxton Smith A FRIEND has written to me telling of the beauties of a part of Inverness-shire, and of a moor near by that carries a large head of grouse as well as some deer, that is almost going begging. What a picture to excite one's envy, and now it makes one think longingly of chose good old days that seem so far away, when men shot birds instead of their ...

... By Sir Pelham Warner THE gods who preside over the weather decreed in their wisdom that June 17, 1941, should be the perfect summer day, and the long line of school buildings looked down on a close wrapped in sunshine and warmth, with here and there a reminder that we are living in grim and anxious times. hollowing tradition Colonel R. S. Rait Kerr captained the Marylebone team, and losing the ...

... Today Time is Money Motor Transport Must Play a Bigger Part in Agriculture MOTOR cars have hitherto been looked upon primarily as pleasure vehicles, and their value to the country has usually been computed solely on the basis of the return they can yield in payments for exports. There was, before the war, a tense struggle between the leading industrial countries of the world for the export ...

... A Hobby Grows Into A Business A Visit To An Arab Stud Farm THESE pictures were recently taken at High Ashes Farm, the picturesque Surrey residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. L. Vaughan Williams. Over thirty years ago they kept as a pet a single Arab mare for which their affection grew, and as their nearby neigh bours possessed an Arab stallion, they decided to keep the breed going. The first ...

... C^ocldcii /i tc Port I'VE used up my fat ration this week, so I can't make any more cakes. That's all right. After all, you can't make bricks without straw First Actress Yes, when I came out the audience simply sat there open-mouthed. Another Nonsense They never yawn all at once The Tommy was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Any excuse asked the C.O. I got into bad company, Sir. What ...

... GIVE UP your binocular every pair is needed for National Service Kershaw's all-British prismatic Binoculars will again be available when the emergency has passed SO H O LTD., 37/41 MORTIMER STREET, LONDON, W.I ...

... Playbill Looks at the Shows The Morning Star (Globe) This play has been proclaimed (though not, I think, by its progenitors) as the first stage representation of the air raids on London. That is not so. We had, some months ago, a well-intentioned but lament ably boring and depressing dose of much the same medicine at the Comedy Theatre, followed by alleged fun in an air-raid shelter at the ...

... MOSS BROS MOSS BROS Naval Mili ary R.A.F. and General Outfitters. COVENT GARDEN Corner of King St. and Bedford St., W.C.2. TEMple Bar 4477. Also 3-5 Upper Union St., Aldershot 76 Park St., Bristol; 5 St. Ann's St/., ManchestaA 13 The Hard, Portsmouth. And Boscomhc, Camberley, Dorking, Droxtwich, Hey sham, Hove, J Salisbury, Shoreham, Shrivcnhatn and York. Need we give up our RIDING habits Even ...

... A year ago a bomb fell on the pavement outside a private hotel in Kensington Gardens Square. To-day that crater is a flourishing little garden. There was good soil beneath the paving-stones, and since It had been well stirred a guest at the hotel set about planting it. The proprietress is now picking tomatoes. Runner-beans climb up the walls and portico there are marrows too, to come, and ...