Daily Post - 21.05.1943, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POSf
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American Sports Shorts
by uThe Ace”
RACING
On a sloppy lieavy track
Slide Rule slides to a 6 length
victory in Belmont Park race,
paying $8.10 lo the smart
ticket-liolders. Tlie winner’s
time over the 7 furlong stretch
was 1:24 and % seconds . .
The famous Count Fleet will
race next in the rich Withers
mile át Belmont scheduled for
May 22. . . His most important
test ccmi.ng up, however, is
tlve haralded Belmont Stakes
wliicli is set for June 5. . . One
Miss Frances Crown of
Brooklyn typified her city,s
fierv spirit as she sues Bélmont
Park for the $18. she dropped
on a wrong bet on a daily
douhle. (Little she knows) Slie
contended in court tliat the
daily double arrangement is
illegal but the law books seem
to rule otlierwise. . .
BASEBALL
Manpower Commissioner
McNutt advocates tliat pro
leagues arrange for games at
Popular Miss
This is Dona Drake of Holly-
wood, who is causing folks to
sit up and take notice—and for
good reason. She caused a slight
sensation on the screen in a
harem scene with Bob Hope
and producers have been
scrambling for her services
ever since. Dona was a dancer,
singer and band leader before
becoming an actresr,.
odd hours so that defense
workers can attend. . . The
Eastern League (Class'A) hás
acquired a reputation for being
strictly a pitchers’ circuit —
There was only one. 300 club-
her in tliat loop in ’42, liis mark
being 313. . . Paul Governali
of Columhia is lieralded as the
best 'all-around college athlete
in the East . . Pául, or ‘tlie
Arm” as he is known lo his
teammates, needs no review of
his" All-America grid rating,
but he is also recognized as
tlie outstanding collegiate out-
fielder in that section. Big
League scouts no douht will
give liijn a tliorough once-over
after the duration since he is
a Marine Reserve at present . .
Naturally enough, his diamond
favorite is DiMaggio . .
TRACK
Jerry Thompson, Texas Uni-
versity’s mite from Dallas, is
hailed as a coming great miler.
Coach Clyde Littlefield predicts
tliat the 125 pounder will
hi’eak tlie Southwest Confer-
ence record of 4:21,3 without
a strain and will in time give
Greg Rice and Earl Mitchell a
hot foot over the cinder track.
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America
Says . . . .
9000 German judges have
been rounded up and sent to
the front or to the war fac-
tories, it is reported. That puts
Justice too on the list of ‘‘ra-
tioned items rapidly becomir.g
unobtainable” n Germany.
* * *
Headline in N.J. paper: “Man
hit by automobile — speaks
broken English.” Cracked his
larynx?
* * *
By the middle of next year,
we are told, there will be no
more supplies of Scotch whis-
key. That’s when we’ll starf a-
going through the rye.
* * *
The Japs complain that we
are “willingly committing vio-
lent acts” in battle. And we
were such a nice, gentle, le-
cadent sort of people!
New Record
S r " r
Greg Rice, former Notre Dame
track star, breasts the tape at
the Knights of Columbus meet
in Cleveland, setting a new
world’s record in the indoor
two-mile run and breaking his
own former mark for the event.
The time was 8:51, clipping
one-tenth of a second off Rice’s
old record. After the meet, Rice
told newspaper reporters that
he hoped to race Gunder Haag,
the Swedish champion who
holds the two-mile outdoor re-
cord, when the outdoor season
starts.
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Heard From
Hollywood
APPLE BLOSSOM QUEEN
Noreen 'Roth, 18 year old
Wenatchee (Wash.) apple blos-
som queen, came to Screentown
to publicize hev staíe’s No. 1
fruit . . and wound up with a
movie contract.
ALL-COLORED CAST
“Cabin in the Sky”, the
movie with .the all-colored cast,
may prove one of Hollywood’s
finest. Ethel Waters burns the
torch for music orchestrated
and played by the Duke of
Ellington. And you’ll keep your
eye on Lena Horne, a sultry
beauty with a sultry warble.
HITCHCOCK FILM
In“Shadow of a Doubt” Dir-
ector Alfred Hitchcock offers
another of his suspense dramas.
This baby is a psychological
mystery surrounding a hand-
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MOVIES
POLAR BEAR THEATRE:
“The Shadow of the Thin
Man” with William Powell
and Myrna Loy.
NÝJA BÍÓ: “Brigham Young”
with Tyrone Power and
Linda Darnell.
GAMLA BÍÓ: “Boom Town”
with Clark Gable and Spen-
cer Tracy.
TJARNARBÍÓ: “Beyond The
Blue Horizon,“ with Dorothy
Lamour and Richard Denn-
ing.
RED CROSS
3—4 Coffee Hour.
6—8 Movie, “Talk of the
Town”, with Jean Arthur,
Gary Grant, and Ronald
Coleman.
8.30— 9.30 “Rebel” Night.
9.30— 10.30 Coffee Hour.
Y.M.C.A,
7.15 Cinema, “A Night at Earl
Carroll’s”.
BRITISH FORCES
BROADCASTS
Services Music—Symphony in
Blue, R.A.F.
AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1300—1335: News Headlines.
Personal Album, Frank Si-
natra. Strauss Waltzes.
1600—1730: Music by Rimsky-
Korsakov. Mail Call, Bob
Burns, Ginny Simms, Gary
Cooper. Behind the Head-
lines.
2245—2300 News Roundup.
some young fellow who has one -
rather serious fault: he marries
wealthy widows and kills them
for their money. Teresa Wright
and Joseph Cotton have the
stellar roles. Teresa last year
copped the Academy Award as
best supporting actress for her
work in “Mrs. Miniver”. If you
remember “Citizen Kane”,
you’ll remember Cotton.