... WAITING out of your ground, or in other words, giving anything too big a start, is always apt to be a bit risky, because of the difficulty of closing that awk ward gap at the right pace. Those who do it too quickly are pretty certain to make it develop into an even bigger gap; and those who do it too slowly, in the always dangerous belief that he is bound to come back, lose the contest just ...

... The Dublin Show at Ballsbridge had a strong entry in all classes. Once again the champion hunter of the Show was in the light weight class Judge Wylie's seven-year-old brown gelding Frigerificio, while Italyjcarried off the coveted Aga Khan Cup, with Britain in second place this year. Right Polo ponies in the ring Capt. Kevin Barry, of the Irish Army Jumping team, riding Bally neety receives ...

... IT 's summertime and the holiday spirit is abroad and everybody feels relaxed and benign-- at least, I hope so, because I 'm going to make a confession at which you might well raise an eyebrow were you not in the most amiable of moods. Until I saw The Last Command, I had always imagined that the Alamo was a river and as it sounds so much prettier than the Wabash, about the banks of which, far ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO Left Peter May For captaining England to a hard-won victory. And not only for his captaincy, but for emerging top of both teams' batting averages, and for a hard hitting knock in the second innings of the fifth Test that did much to make victory certain. Our hat is also off to all the members of England's five teams, as well as to Jack Cheet- ham and his South Africans ...

... Traditional garb of the Scottish moors a tweed suit. Here we show you two examples of the many varying styles available in the shops now and a woolly coat lined with tartan for good measure for extra warmth. y mm:: MO RNHSS A I Opposite Tweed with a difference natural coloured wool mixed with reindeer hair to give added wear. The brown beaver tie is detachable. This suit is by Mornessa from ...

... By Sydney Moorhouse I MUST congratulate the Royal Lancashire officials on the progress of the past year. The very fact that this Blackpool show- ground, which housed the Royal in 1953, was only acquired on a six-years lease, naturally presented handicaps and, of course, causes an understandable reluctance to invest capital on permanancies like concrete roads and solid buildings. On the other ...

... THE fourth-- and last-- day of the Royal Lancashire Show is traditionally known as County Day, and, so far as the livestock section is concerned, this virtually amounts to an independent one-day affair with the bulk of the stock coming from the County Palatine. Indeed, the pedigree cattle sections-- Dairy Shorthorn, Ayrshire, British Friesian and Jersey-- are confined to entries from ...

... THE possibility of importing some of the best American and Canadian pedigree Herefords into Britain was referred to by Mr. R. J. Bentley, secretary of the Here ford Herd Book Society, when he returned from a 15,000-mile tour of Canada and the United States following the recent successful Commonwealth Show at Regina, Saskatchewan. During the tour, he said, some extremely good cattle had been ...

... By Sydney Moorhouse GRASMERE SPORTS, greatest and most famous of all Lakeland outdoor events, have come and gone, and once more we, who would as soon forgo our Christmas dinner as miss this annual carnival of athletic skill and prowess, have added to our memories of wrestlers trying to throw each other on to the lovely green turf of the famous arena and of stout-hearted fell runners ...

... THE Third Annual Rally spon sored by the G.B. Car Club, seems to have been the most successful. There was a full quota of cars-- fifty, and most of them seem to have been loaded with three or four passengers. Crossing from Dover to Boulogne on the afternoon car ferry, the first test was a Vin d'Honneur.at the port, after which the large convoy headed for Paris, the first official stop. There ...

... HOTELS CHEWTON GLEN HOUSE nr^barton-on-sea. Offers a 25-acres estate, the charm of the New Forest, sands, sea and golf (1 mile) and the merits of experienced cooking. Postal address New Milton. Tel Highcliffe 41. I I HARBOUR HEIGHTS HOTEL Surely the perfect site for an Autumn Holiday with unparalleled views of the Channel. the Purbecks and the whole of Poole Harbour. Within good food and wine ...

... ALTHOUGH the encouragement of good forestry in this country and the reduction of imports will be among the most important of the objects achieved, the recently-announced plans of the Bowater Paper Corporation to make increased use of home-grown timber have even wider implication. There are many intimate associations between the work of this organisation and the land. At existing mills at ...