... THE British Games organ ised by the News of the World were held at the White City on Whit Monday in blazing sunshine. A gate of some 10,000 people and a collection gave valuable aid to the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund. Three features of the meeting were the remarkably fine form shown by the veteran C. S.M.I. Holmes a Jamaica pilot officer, S. Wint and a young sprinter, A. ...

... IT was like the old days to tee-off before a crowd again, and I thoroughly enjoyed my first Red Cross match for nine months. This was at Budleigh Salterton, on the East Devon coast. The club put on a match in which the young local assistant, 18-year-old Arnold Stickley, son of Fred Stickley the professional, partnered Lt.-Col. C. S. Cutler, R.M., a former Deal back- marker, against Capt. Frank ...

... SPORT COUNTRY The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Postage Rates i Vol. 177 No. 3612 JUNE 9, 1944 Entered as second-class U Mail matter at the nwh.,tAbrd lid*. Published Fortnightly Price 1/6 New York Post Office. ...

... By E. C. Large IN Devon and Cornwall, as in other counties where rela tively few potatoes were grown before the war, the total potato acreage is now very con siderable, but it is distributed over tens of thousands of farms, each with a few acres apiece. With high summer rainfall and humidity, blight usually attacks the haulms in July or August, sometimes in June, and the con sequent losses are ...

... H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT was present with her daughter, the Princess Alexandra, at the Ascot Horse Show and Gymkhana held on the race-course in aid of the Salute the Soldier Campaign Fund. There were nine classes and a parade arranged by the Berkshire Branch of the Driving Club. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, Bart., K.C.M.G., acted as chairman of the Committee, and both he and Mr. W. ...

... IT COSTS SO LITTLE BUT IT MEANS SO MUCH Please help to send a Red Cross Parcel EVERY week. Give generously and regularly to THE RED CROSS AGRICULTURAL FUND 29, Belgravc Square, S.W.I sf This space kin illy donated by Benbow's Dog Mixture Company Ltd. ^jacjiiat C he finest ecu o f its class in the world I l S S C A R S LTD I COVENTRY f i QdnJrt-aMl 3flaert£on At a glance, a Maenson Suit or ...

... BALSA a tree from the sub-tropical forests of America has played not a small part in the invasion of France. Fuselages of the Mosquito bombers are made from it it gave buoyancy to the lifebelts worn by the troops, and Balsa rafts and floats saved many when their landing crafts hit the submerged obstacles. Balsa played its part in the insulation for the refrigeration ships and for the ...

... EVERY year, the outstanding athletes of India meet together at an event which overshadows all other sporting events of the year the All-India Olympic Games. The tenth of the series was opened at the end of February 1944, at Lahore, by General Sir Claude Auchinleck, C.-in-C. in India, in the presence of the Maharajah of Patiala. Lahore, capital of the Punjab, was well chosen, for it is situated ...

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... THE largest assembly of farmers in Worcestershire since the beginning of the war took place at Mr. T. S. Bennett's Home Farm, Madresfield, Malvern, when a demonstration and display of attested pedi gree and commercial dairy and beef cattle was held to launch the Worcestershire FARLEY GOLD DIGGER, shown by Captain Ludlow Hewitt, of Apperley, Tewkesbury, came into the world as a result of a ...

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... A War Time Effort Foundation of the Tara Guernsey Herd MRS. Robin McAlpine, who took over Huish Farm, near Basingstoke, in partnership with her husband in the winter of 1941, is one of many women in the country who have made farming, or dairying, or other work on the land a war job to begin with, but who have become absorbed in it and have decided to carry on with it after the war. Huish Farm, ...