BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 6

BY THE WAY.

SOME COLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. (By One of the Boys.) If New Zealand is made a tip-free country, how shall we know what to back at the race meetings? *: Should women tennis players wear shorts? Y'es, provided they wear skirts over them. *: :: The question is asked, “ What happens to old racehorses?” A question like this is unnecessary in Chicago. A news item speaks of the revival of the Victorian crinoline. Certainly it was the best all dress. The recent weather would appear to suggest “ Snowfall ” for the Grand National. A train was derailed on the Midland line yesterday. Moral: Don’t throw a refreshment room sandwich, on to the railway Watson: So long as it cannot be sure of winning a no-confidence vote, Reform, I gather, will continue to “ put the country' first.” Holmes: Elementary', my dear Watson, elementary. Heard in a West Coast court — The S.M.: How did it come about that you were found in this hotel after hours ? The Defendant: The cove at the other pub turned us down, your worship. •*« *•» “My husband is the kindest, most considerate man in the world.” “ Why the outburst, dear?” “ He’s going to let me get a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty'.” It’s been a terrible year for Ireland. Her athletes finished at the bottom of the list and, well, she is comparatively' new to Rugby. But last night, to think that a Kelly, a Murphy and a Riley should go out in the first rounds of the amateur boxing championships at Ashburton. Stands Ireland where it did? Mr Coates made an amusing slip in the House yesterday, when, forgetting that he was speaking from the Opposition benches, he said: “ I hope that I will always be found in this position.” And other members said “ Hear, hear.” This reminds us of another Reformer’s discomfiture. He was leaving on a trip to England and a prominent member of his committee came to the station. “ Well, you have seen me off a good many times,” said the M.P. “ I can assure you,” his supporter replied earnestly', “ that every time it has been a great pleasure to do so.”

The rebroadcast of WXYZ from the short-wave station of Cincinnati, U.S.A., last night was a great success. It is hard to say which of the battle scenes, that of Gettysburg or Bunkers Hill, was the more realistic. The cannon at Gettysburg were good, but the quickfirers at Bunkers Hill seemed to be more vivid. That part where the lightning storm strikes the ammunition dump and Sheridan’s men fall back singing into the arms of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders vied with General Grant’s famous march up the cobbled streets of Bunkers Ilill. The bugles called, the bagpipes skirled, the aeroplanes swooped, the Lewis guns rattled and all the small boys banged the kerosene tins, the broadsiders led by Squib Burton crackled, and then the attack on the boiler-makers’ foundry—ah me, last night’s rebroadcast will ring down the ages as the world’s greatest battle picture in sound.