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... THE Daily Sketch £1,000 draw for partners 72-hole, 4-ball medal tournament at the Fulwell Golf Club, Middlesex, was won by R. A. Whitcombe and his Scottish partner, W. Anderson, with 270 strokes. My partner, long Joe Baker, now assistant to Jock McLean at Worthing (he was five pre-war years in Bucharest, Rumania, as professional), and I finished second, two strokes behind. Whitcombe and ...

... From Our Parliamentary Correspondent AS briefly reported in our last issue, Mr. Tom Williams, the Minister of Agriculture, is considering the question of allowing farmers to appeal against decisions to dis possess them of their lands and farms. The emergency powers which sanction dis possession remain in force and the emergency --desperate need for full production, which called them into being ...

... HOW lovely the old course at St. Andrews looked last week! I had not seen it for over six years and had been looking forward to playing on this wonderfully exciting course once more-- and I did get in one round. Nothing seemed to have changed, the same old grey town the rust red Grand Hotel, now being cleaned up by German prisoners who kept peep ing out of windows at the mysterious rites going ...

... ABOUT 9000 head of sheep including many of the best-known down, hill and long-wooled breeds came under the hammer at the popular Findon Fair, held annually in West' Sussex. Apart from being invariably an object-lesson in what can be done in the way of high-speed auctioneering Messrs. H. T. Burt conducting the sale with exemplary efficiency the fair has developed into an event of great social ...

... Home of the Eastleach Herds of British Friesians and Wessex Saddlebacks ONE of the most progressive agriculturists in the Cotswolds is Mr. F. J. Honour, of Manor Farm, Eastleach, near Lechlade, Glouces tershire. In all, Mr. Honour farms about 3,000 acres, and his farms are fitted out accord ing to the most modern ideas. Practically all the corn is combined, and the three large Massey-Harris ...

... Herefords at Kington Quality Animals on Show ALTHOUGH the Kington, Hereford, Show provided classes for sheep, horses (including hunters and ponies), and other livestock, pride of place was not unnaturally accorded to the famous county breed of cattle, familiarly known as Whitefaces. Of these there was a large and most select entry, judged by Mr. Stafford Weston and Mr. Cecil H. Evans, both of ...

... U ISLE OF WIGHT The start of the Cowes-Dinard race the first ocean-going race held in the U.K. since the outbreak of the war. There were eight entrants, and the winner was Mr. H. F. Ashby's 21 -ton Bermu- dian Cutter Mary Bower. MORECAMBE A lovely display of high diving at the Bathing Pool. The top man is a Polish airman, his three fellow acrobats being local schoolboys. GOSHEN, New York A ...

... BY THERE is considerable cause for satis faction in the nature and results of the September Yearling Sales, recently concluded at Newmarket. The prices paid yielded big profits to breeders and the market was strong enough to absorb more than 90 per cent, of the 340-odd lots offered, the great proportion of which will stay in this country. Buyers thus demonstrated their faith m the prospects of ...

... By Land Agent I RECEIVED a letter the other day from an old friend, announcing that his chief was staying in my neighbourhood, that he knew nobody, was very keen on ento mology (or so I deciphered his writing), and would I show him what attention I could? Accordingly, presenting myself a day or so later at the local inn, I was agreeably sur prised to find a pleasant, scholarly-looking man, ...

... THIS week's pictures, taken in Lord Remnant's garden at Bear Place, Twyford, Berks, show some first-class produce grown by his head gardener, Mr. Johnson. They are typical of the work carried on up and down the country by a body of men who have spared no effort in support of the food production campaign. Most of the professional gardeners on the big estates lost many or all of the younger ...

... Although the Britj J umping Association d immediately after the Grea the efforts of Colonel 1 Williams, O.B.E., and Lieu C. T. Walwyn, D.S.O., Mj the first time that Nation pionships have been held. Walwyn a great show ji his time is how Preside Colonel Williams is Chief I The Championship Col were notable for the high of horsemanship shown by dren. Three obtained cle^ John Betteridge ...