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Cambridge Start With a Win

... Cambrid^jh Start With a Win WITH some of the best of last summer's Public School cricketers among the seven Freshmen in the XI., Cambridge should more than hold their own in the limited number of games arranged for this season. The captain is J. R. Bridger, one of last year's outstanding batsmen. He col lected a very powerful side for the Freshmen's match, which revealed plenty of talent, and ...

American Sports Parade: Latest Pictures from Lexington --Oregon-- New York

... American Sports Parade Latest Pictures from Lexington --Oregon-- New York KENTUCKY THRILL The Kentucky Derby was won in the record lime of 2mins. l-2-5th sec. by the favourite, Mr. Warren Wright's Whirlaway. Eddie Arcara (dark cap, fourth from rails) is moving lip on the turn to the straight. Dispose is leading from Blue Pair (on the rails and Porter's Cap. VERDICT-- EIGHT LENGTHS The largest ...

ON DUTY -- OFF DUTY: CLOTHES CAN HELP YOU TO RELAX

... On Duty- Off Duty CLOTHES CAN HELP YOU TO RELAX WOMEN are in print again this summer, but they are choosing formal, restrained patterns, instead of the more elaborate designs. Polka-dots, always attractive, combine well with a plain coat to make a two-piece outfit. The frock above is in spotted jersey, with a draped bodice, held by a sash, and a full swinging skirt. Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly ...

AUSTIN REED

... F REGENT STREET Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton. eiovvt civa+ujQ. ttLei/v yStewtlci/icU Our colours are fast our collars have re inforced linings we are using pre-shrunk material and we still offer you three lengths of sleeve in each size of shirt. Whichever way you look ...

Cocktails to Port

... (_ ^ccLtailf to Port TRAMP: Any old paper, rags or bones? HOUSEHOLDER: No, my wife is evacuated. Tramp Any bottles I suppose you have many dis appointments in your profession, doctor Yes. I often treat a man for indigestion only to find that he could have afforded a major operation. One Tommy Say, where are you going And what's scratched up your face Another I'm looking for the chap who ...

Canada Delivers the Airmen

... ALREADY considerable numbers of airmen turned out by the 100 British Commonwealth air training schools in Canada are fighting with our Forces. Many more are in training. These photo graphs, taken at an establishment in Ontario, show something of the con centrated work necessary to make a pilot, air gunner, wireless operator, or observer. Rotund and jovial Instructor H. A. Hardie is giving last ...

How to Grow Runner Beans

... A Paying Crop By Our Horticultural Correspondent RUNNER beans should now occupy attention. They can be sown outdoors from now onwards, but plants raised in the green house should not be put out for another week or two, and still further delay is advisable if the cold north-east winds continue. Nothing is more damaging to newly transplanted plants than the conditions experienced in the last few ...

Graphic

... PARACHUTISTS ARE (AS ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS) IN THE NEWS AGAIN HERE IS A CLOSE-UP OF OUR OWN PARACHUTE TROOPS A picture taken during last Sunday's demonstration, which was witnessed by the King Cince the invasion of the Low Countries, parachutists have been consistently in the war news, and in Crete we are now witnessing the most serious attempt yet made by the enemy to capitalise to the full ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE BATTLE FOR THE ISLAND OF CRETE

... Where New Zealand, British, and Greek Troops are Fighting the Parachute Troops Dropped by the Germans in Successive Waves A special Sphere Section -ItKt int itvtKtil MbmlNb HAi I AKEN PLACE IHt MALEME-CANEA AREA IN CRETE From Maleme aerodrome (which at the beginning of the week was in enemy hands, although commanded by our gunfire) to Canea is an eight- to ten-mile stretch. It is .here that ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 368 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

Article

... A BRIEF communique by the Admiralty in March, to the effect that H.M.S. Leander had encountered the fast Italian merchant-ship R.A.M.B. armed with 4-7-in. guns, and acting as a raider, and had forced her to surrender with her fifth salvo and in May, an equally brief one that a German armed merchant-cruiser had been intercepted and sunk by H.M.S. Cornwall, twenty-seven British merchant- seamen ...

THE MEN WHO DO THE WORK: The Officers and Sergeants of the Royal Air Force

... THE MEN WHO DO THE WORK The Officers and Sergeants of the Royal Air Force RANKS in the Royal Air Force seem to be more confused in the mind of the average man than those of any other Service. That is perhaps natural, for there are Flying Officers who have never flown, Squadron Leaders who have never commanded a squadron, and even some Wing Commanders who do not know one aeroplane from another. ...