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... AT Lord's, in the presence of 14,000 en thusiastic spectators, the R.A.F. very narrowly escaped defeat from the Army. Squadron Leader Edrich, the R.A.F. Captain, put the Army in to bat, but his bowlers could not begin to take the wickets and the Army declared at 291 for three. An amazing century was scored before lunch by Harris, the Notts batsman, who made 115 in two hours and gave only one ...
... THE national appeal for medicinal wild herbs has found a ready response all over Sussex, many schools taking a keen interest in the work. One school is the Buckingham Gate Cen tral School, now evacuated to Handcross. Under the direction of their master, Mr. Lambert, the children are gathering all kinds of herbs, as well as rose-hips, from which a valuable vitamin C concentrate is obtained. the ...
... THE idea of combing off and threshing the ears, leaving the straw standing, is nearly a century old, for in 1845 the first Combine Harvester was used in Australia. Forty years later California started manufacturing Combines commer cially, and by the beginning of the century enormous machines like the one shown here were working on the great wheat-growing lands of the States and a few had been ...
... Scenes at the Weybridge Red Cross Regatta A successful day of mixed events organised and planned by the Weybridge Rowing Club SONS OF ISIS, Oxford, are victorious over the Barnes Rowing Club in the final of the Senior Eights. IN HEAT UB of the Clinker Eights, the Crowland Rowing Club (centre) are seen when they have just been beaten by the London Fire Force. THE UNITED HOSPITALS EIGHT: A ...
... L'UN et settlement, that is how his intimate friends often addressed him, for there was nothing of a type about Michael, he was an original one, one out of the mould only, and how sad it is to think we shall be without him for ever. There will be more awful tragedies in the war yet alas! we all know, but I feel it is the least I can do to pay tribute to one of my best friends and a fine golfer ...
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... Playbill Looks at the Shows Men in Shadow (Vaudeville) HERE 'S another of 'em. As fast as one play of war-realism dis appears another bobs up to take its place. In point of fact, this is a case of one taking the place of two. For Sir Patrick Hastings's Escort did not last long at the Lyric, and Men in Shadow has succeeded at the Vaudeville Salt of the Earth, a play to which it bears a ...
... By Our Flying Correspondent NO one was more popular in the whole world of British aviation, civil and military, operational and manufac turing, than the Duke of Kent. He was not only air-minded, but was himself a practising airman, and it came as a deep shock to every pilot in the country to hear of his death in a flying accident in the north of Scotland on August 25. It would be impossible, ...
... I A YEAR ago in the Isle of Wight, the Borough of Ryde decided to help substantially in the Dig for Victory Campaign, and help themselves and the Island at one and the same time. A site was chosen on waste land in a sheltered valley at Knighton and to cut a long story short, 25} tons of perfect tomatoes were grown on if acres of land 1 It is not surprising that with the experience and success ...
... SEPTEMBER 4, 1942 TfjplcJC the Safety glass FORTNIGHTLY (j^) The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAM ATI C News-- SPORT COUNTRY ...
... Illustrated Sporting Dramatic News, September 4, 1942 I burlingtonX^ Half Coronas I/- y Petit Coronas //4^^| Coronas I /8 Obtainable from all High Class Dealers and Stores Cco^r REMEMBER That tense excitement the spontaneous applause when a match point was gained the sun beating down on the players the lush green of the grass, trimmed to perfection by Shanks Mowers. They will come again, ...
... THE unit in our pictures is the Bray (Berkshire) Com pany of the Home Guard, and 100 per cent, of its personnel volunteered to form what is believed to be the first H.G. Voluntary Land Club in the country. This additional activ ity detracts in no way from the ordinary military activities of the unit, who have adopted The Vicar of Bray as their official marching song. The farm is the stud farm ...