... Racing Notions By CARBINE Bravo, Fairway 1 EVERYTHING was rose-coloured for the prodigious crowd on the Town Moor on St. Leger Day. We revelled in autumnal weather of the finest order and the favourite won the big race! Besides, there were several other well-backed winners, so for once in a way the bookmakers and not the backers wore glum faces at the end of the afternoon. Although I had ...

... 2^ D. B. Wyndham Lewis BUSTLING, matronly figures in trousers, answering rather resentfully (when they answer at all) to the name of Wendy; stout, bald, rather touchy chaps in bowlers answering crossly to the name of Peter-- one has no difficulty in dating these. They belong to the I905 vintage. Doubtless next year will start a new crop of the same kind in Northern Germany, Peter Pan having ...

... AM in 13; foe Game IBs? A. A. B. MR. BALDWIN said that Lord Balfour's friends had been puzzled in their choice of a present for his eightieth birthday, as he seemed to have everything the heart of a man could desire. I do not think their selection was happy. A Rolls-Royce car has come to be regarded as the last cry in osten tatious luxury, the 'hall-mark of the new rich, the brand of the ...

... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. HELLO, young fellow, said the broker cheerily. Just park yourself there for a minute, while I attend to these odds and ends, and then I shall be at your service. Our Stroller seated himself by the side of the telephone, the bell of which im mediately rang shrilly. The broker took up thereceiver. Yes, said he. As it happens, I am rather busy ...

... . BUT so there are already, the broker contro verted; in several cities and towns. I believe they get on quite well, too. Are xney auowea to go into the Stock Exchanges enquired Our Stroller. Oh, no. They 've had several shots, as you may guess. Nothing doing, though. You will have them starting a Stock Exchange of their own, and drawing every woman investor to markets run by their own ...

... Jhe Jimes we live in AND THE ARGENTINES! THE announcement that the Prince of Wales is to pay a second visit to the Argentine next spring, for the opening of the British Empire Industries Fair at Bueno ...

... CITY NOTES. FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE. SEND the United States a couple of million copies of The Sketch every week, and thereby reduce the War Debt, The Engineer was proposing. America professes to be open to receive pay ment in kind, and, well, here's a practical way of doing it. In kind Where does the kindness come in, if you 're That sounds all right, said The Broker, but follow ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... . A well studed page from our artist's sketch book, which includes a number of celebrated sportsmen. Lord Wavertree wao formerly Colonel Hall-Walker, who temporarily adopted the title of Lord Osmaston CARICATURED BY FRED MAY ...

... . The Strike. A t the time of writing the miners' delegates have rejected the Government's final offer to the miners, and this strike, which is paralysing British industry and imperilling our future prosperity, seems likely to go on until ruin is reached. We agree with The Times in its reference to the rejection last week when it said that what is really wanted is the opinion of the miners ...

... . The Crisis. J t looked at the end of last week as if the country might be plunged into the middle of industrial civil war. If that had been so it would have been a deplorable manifestation of a breakdown in the proverbial com mon sense and equipoise of the British people. As Mr. W. H. Trewartha-James said at the annual dinner of the Federation of British Industries last week, The problem of ...

... By GUARDRAIL 11 TAKING everything into consideration, the class of year ling offered and the shortage of money, the bloodstock sales at Doncaster did extraordinarily well, though whether they would have been as good had the econom ical axe fallen a few days earlier is problematical. The blow, heavy as it is, is borne with the utmost possible cheerfulness by all, everyone being thankful that at ...