... to £26, 000, 000, yet the £350, 000,000 is a decline of £50,000,000 on the previous year. Finally, other gambling (including fun fairs) took £21,000,000. One in every three Britons bet £35 a year on football, dogs and horses. But Britons must stick to the ...

... the first chapter of British sport, every player was an amateur and played for the fun of the thing and to judge by the chronicles of the Hambleden men got a deal of fun out of it, without con stant committee meetings and Soviets. For the most part they ...

... Lobby a few days ago after lunch. There are few moments in the daily programme of London life richer in dignity and democratic fun than those just around the lime when Big Ben strikes half-past two in the afternoon. Here we, the citizens, stand in the wings ...

... steadily on the South Bank site, and now progress is being made in the conversion of part of Battersea Park for the amusement section of the exhibition. To the people of Battersea and Chelsea, who use the park to such an extent in spring, summer and autumn ...

... last war, before turning to what its author, Captain Liddell Hart, calls the riddles of the immediate future. In this latter section he includes the possibilities of our survival in another war, our home defence in that event, and the vital question of the ...

... progress had at last been made to justify Turkey's contribution to the defence of Europe by contact with the Mediterranean section of the Atlantic Powers. Greece was not less encouraged by progress made at Brussels the first sentence in the first chapter ...

... frost had succeeded in binding together ground that had suffered through recent rains, although an outcrop of clay in one section of the larger field proved a handicap to some of the entrants in the tractor ploughing classes. Some snow had fallen, but ...

... bringing up the rear with the luggage. To-day we still Have riding-parties occa sionally and, maybe, a marathon trek for the fun of it, but our keenest interest now lies in women's polo and in schooling hacks and show-j umping. Mrs. Trevor Tatham, of Mooi ...

... inside, everyone was given a glass of hot gluvine before they sat down to a superb dinner at fables lit by red candles set in sections of birch branches, while the menus were held by miniature wooden skis. Everyone went in ski-clothes or informal day dress ...

... first time since the war. All over England there are sporting events attended, at all costs, year in year out, by certain sections of the public. The Navy-Army Rugger match is one of these events which, given reason able weather, becomes an occasion. It ...

... live. If the leaders of our great farming industry are allowed to have sufficient say, we can be sure that the agricultural section of the South Bank exhibition will be representa tive and the agricultural shows throughout the country will provide ample ...

... paragraph describing the vines and the wines made, and with these little boosts, if you probe hard enough, there is a deal of fun to be had. They are remarkably naive, and one wonders whether the owners of the chateaux concerned have written them, or the ...