... 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 ...

... o i Tv Moira Shearer in Some of Her Scottish Dancer Sadler ...

... ...

... 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 ...

... HOW THE BEACHHEAD PREPARED FOR THE GREAT ADVANCE Huge stocks of food being handled at an Army Supply Depot, in preparation for the link-up between the Beachhead forces and the Fifth Army THE TOWN OF PONTECORVO AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY THE EIGHTH ARMY the Germans were forced to evacuate this keypoint and to draw back north-west along the Liri Valley as a result of the penetration of the Hitler Line ...

... THE COMBINED OPERATIONS CHAPLAINS MEET A conference of Navy and Army Chaplains who are serving Combined Operations personnel and Commando Units was held recently under the direction of their Senior Chaplain, the Rev. B. G. Beale, R.N. Speakers at the Conference were the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Second Sea Lord, the General Officer Commanding Commando Units and the Director of Combined ...

... The expected invasion of the Allies some where on the West has greatly occupied the attention of the German military authori ties ever since the autumn of 1942, when the great Atlantic defensive wall was being constructed. The tremendous area to be defended, from Norway to the Bay of Biscay, made the task a gigantic one, but by using the enforced labour of the occupied countries, Hitler was ...

... WHEN the genuine espionage books relating to this war are in due course published, they will be followed by an international spate of concocted revelations, semi-fiction and honest fiction, and I have been wondering whether it will be a more colourful and exciting yarn, in the round, than it was last time. Without pressing in order to try and make one's point, there have undoubtedly been ...