... Rapier on Racing The Xevv Fixture Fist Flat Racing to Ojien at Lincoln Gold Cup Candidates on View THE flat-racing menu for the coming season is very attractive. Whether some of the dishes will be off when the time comes remains to be seen. The chief interest in the published list of fixtures is not so much in the dates and places, as in the intentions of the Stewards. They have decided, if ...

... AT the 39th annual show and sale of the English Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Association the King secured two first prizes with the three-year-old bull, Jester of Abergeldie, and the yearling bull, Marshall of Windsor. There was but a small entry of females, entirely confined to yearlings, and an outstanding winner was Mr. L. K. Osmond's Anona of Beelsby, followed by Mrs. Stewart Gemmell's ...

... NOTHING comparable to the boxing in the tourna ment organised by the Marquess of Queensberry at the Odeon, Leicester Square, has been seen for years it was a remarkable social and sporting triumph and resulted in ^5000 being raised for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. This sum was made up of £2690 from the house, fiooo from Mr. Jack Bickle, the Canadian millionaire industrialist, who paid ...

... LOOKING through the most recent copy of the Professional Golfer of America, which in case you do not know is the monthly magazine of the American professional, my eye caught this heading: Hogan Wins Vardon Trophy. Ben Hogan, although neither the holder of the U.S. Open Championship nor the P.G.A. Championship, won four tourna ments and finished in the prize money in each of the other 19 ...

... FOR the third year in succession Rosslyn Park are organising a Public Schools Seven-a-Side tournament. It will be held at the Old Deer Park, Richmond, on April 8 and 9, and will be the first time that the tournament has been spread over two days. Over 100 public schools in England are being invited to enter teams, and it is hoped that Scottish and Welsh schools, if unable to enter separate ...

... C^ccLlaiLi le Port A MUSICAL -COMEDY star, no longer young, joined a touring company. Business was bad and so were tempers, and relations were particularly strained between the star and the juvenile lead. Then came a knock at the star's door. Who is it and what do you want she demanded irritably. There's a lady in front who says she'd like to see you. She says she was at school with you. Shall ...

... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR y/ One Book /J Authors; Vitality and Mr. Blunt; Advertisements Sixty Years Ago Plantation Seeds ONE-BOOK AUTHORS. --Here is a literary theory which may bring down on my head all the controversy and scorn of partisans and the intelligentsia. It is, baldly: that many of our giants of literature in the novel form were really one-book men and women. I must qualify it by ...

... AND DRAMATIC NEWS Go lo It with MripIeX -and Get I here: Friday, February 21, 1941. vjy The Illustrated j|fc and DRAMATIC News INCORPORATING SPORT COUNTRY |j ...

... . HPREWERYN Beagles, Penn., decided that if they could not have a gymkhana or a point-to- point like their seniors, they could at least or ganise a party suitable to their sport. Mr. David B. Sharp, Jnr., has a lovely estate at Berwyn, and there were held the Beagle Sports. There was a judging competition, in which competitors voted and the judges explained their decisions there were ...

... Canterbury to St. Austell Modern Wartime Home of King's School By Sir Hugh Walpole I, AS strongly and hopefully as anybody else, am all for a new world after the war-- a new world not necessarily fit for heroes, as the last war promised us, but rather fit for ordinary men and women. The two great bases of this new world must, I think, be education and religion one brings comprehension, the ...

... By D. H. Watson-Wocd FOR the first time since 1932 the Waterloo Cup has been won by a puppy. In that year Ben Tinto won for Mr. James Shand. Last week, the Liverpool sportsman, Mr. Molyneux Cohan, realised his ambition when Swinging Light by Dee Rock out of Beaut, gained one of the most meritorious wins seen in the coursing classic. In many ways it was a remarkable Waterloo. To fill the 64 dog ...

... Vegetables THERE have probably been casualties in the outdoor winter lettuce bed owing to recent severe weather. Make them good at the earliest opportunity with any you may have in reserve in the seed drills. Sprinkle the ground between the rows with lime or soot to keep slugs at bay and use the hoe whenever the soil is dry enough. Seakale thongs prepared some weeks ago may be planted in the ...