Daily Post - 23.05.1943, Blaðsíða 3

SUNDAY POST
Americai Sports Shorts
french Leaders
Flock To Britaío
by “The Ace”
(From News Review of May 6th)
basketball
Associated Press recently
P°lled the top cage coaches of
U.S. for the selection of an
l'Time All-American quintet
and here is the wind-up: For-
^ards, Hank Luisetti of Stan-
°r(l and Charley Hyatt of
Ittsburgh; Center, Stretch
UrPhy 0f Purdue; Guards,
°hnny Wooden of Purdue and
^ ndy Philip of Illinois. Impor-
^ant to note is that all are fair-
fa mo<lern> none going back
Bi
than 1928, and that the
^ Ten captured 3 of the 5
non0r
and
>■ . - positions. Hyatt
thUeÍSetti topped the voting but
re Was virtually no argu-
f r about any other player
* QtlDn'
s consideration with these
' ine 2nd team (no less
^ ical than the lst) had Han-
Ka X byracuse- Endacott of
hjnsas> Edwards of Kentucky,
Bernardi of Westminster,
Thi
°nipson of Montana
and
State.
0Us ^ late Geo. Keogan, fam-
°tre T)ame coach, always
ba\| ^°oden the best basket-
Player
cSp6',:"J'cr he ever saw, being
drJ;ally amazed at Wooden’s
inS prowess.
8>all
■ned n
c°nsi arrett has been hurling
.. Bra^ k&11 tor tlle Uraves.
Eini
Uin
cy
es make clean sweep of
^Series, featured by home
iVtaSi w B°st°n Catcher Phil
4 rUtls ltlr the bases drunk. . .
temt °n °ne hit, what a sys-
3rd ^ashington noses into
°f doup^e by taking both ends
• The g bea<ier from Detroit.
n°t , enators are certainly
such rarefied at-
Buck” Ross,
^enators
■aospw'1
g°‘ ‘ • Lee
^itzed °X rl^bt"hander, nearly
Tame byri§ht into the Hal1 of
(3^° shutVÍrtUe of his one-hit
°ut) victory over the
It
^anks.
bis year tu WaS the flrst tlme
ets havp u at the Eronx Bomb-
*as gel 6n blanked. . . Ross
UP buf onmaSterfUl 35 he
6ílccteri °ne scratch hit, a
at)ti hTick fmaSh by Nick Etten
pn<ls later 3S 6rased a few sec'
°Ssibly ln a double play.
h„.:h ■ ofticial scorer
?le bW r"le!i th° questio,,-
»> ^:vnot - “ --
atSöf 'e aPPle wild in
0 §et Etten, but
evidently the opinion was that
Nick had the throw beat any-
way apd thus he drew credit
for the only Yank hit of the
game. Ross fanned 3, issued
but one pass (also to Etten),
and all in all pitched to only 28
hitters!!
Mike Naymick, Cleveland
hurling chattel, stands 6 feet 8
in his bare feet, but what is
worse he needs size 17 shoes to
clothe said feet (Suitcase Simp-
son variety). These brogans are
only 14 inches long. Draft
Boards have no use for him and
apparently the QM would have
even less for they could hardly
hope to keep the lad supplied
in shoes of that size. Marine en-
listment officials rejected him
for that reason plus the 78 inch
height limit. Mike has always
owned a world of speed but his
control is somewhat uncertain
and this has retarded his pro-
gress. After control, his next
biggest worry is securing base-
ball shoes that will fit. . .
ROWING
Cornell University’s varsity
crew nips the Naval Academy
rowers in a close match race,
but to make it worse the Cor-
nell freshmen beat the Navy
Plebes in the preliminary race.
Maybe the Navy had better
stick to steam. . .
America
Says
The death-rate is declining
and the birth-rate is rising in
England, statistics show us. A
new wave of decadence must be
sweeping that democracy.
* * ■ *
Among alien suspects re-
cently arrested in New York
was a waiter at a famous club
—who composed pro-German
songs. Presumably without
rhyme or reason.
•1« * *
Berlin broadcasts claim that
the Germans have built an anti-
invasion wall along the Atlan-
tic and Channel coasts 125
miles longer than the great
Wall of China. Only this time
the barbarians are on the in-
side.
The trickle of patriots from
Occupied France to Britain
grew to stream size last week.
SENATOR
Star arrival was ex-Minister
Henri Queuille, fluffy little
French Senator and first senior
statesman • to rally to De
Gaulle’s side. Minister of Agri-
culture during the 1934 Sta-
visky scandal, Queuille was
subjected to the usual mud-
slinging, but came out clean.
Leftish and always anti-Nazi,
Queuille was no subscriber to
the 1938 Munich Pact.
LABOUR LEADER
Rotund, smiling Georgds
Buisson, Assistant Sécretary-
General of the Confédération
Général du Travaille (T.U.C.),
another arrival, was a doughty
champion of Léon Blum’s Po-
pular Front in the rowdy days
of 1936, when Fascist-minded
deputies hurled insults and
threats in the Chamber, and
agents of Fascism tried to dis-
rupt Trade Unionism. Visiting
Spain during the Civil War, he
fumed against the one-sided
neutrality of the democracies.
Socialist Pierre Vienot, who
also managed to escape, stands
farthest to the Left, was one of
the principal French delegates
to the Disarmament Confer-
ence. As Under-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs in Blum’s Po-
pular Front Government he
controlled North African af-
fairs. Tunisians were grateful
when, in 1936, he proclaimed a
more liberal régime in the
Protectorate. In and out of
Vichy prisons since the fall of
France, he made his present
escape from a sanatorium.
At a Press conference in Lon-
don, last week, Escapee Vienot
gave inspiring néws of French
resistance. Said he: “In the vil-
lages of French Savoy all the
boys are mysteriously slipping
out of their homes and climb-
ing up to wait, hidden, in high
mountain chalets, from Hitler’s
slave markets. They are wait-
ing and hoping for the Allied
landing in France. But it is not
only here that Frenchmen are
fighting the Germans. All over
France, for an immense ma-
jority of the people, passive
resistance has become active
militaiit resistance.”
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MOVIES
POLAR BEAR THEATRE:
“The Shadow of the Thin
Man” with William Powell
and Myrna Loy.
NÝJA BÍÓ: “The Howards of
Virginia,” with Cary Grant
and Martha Scott.
GAMLA BÍÓ: “The Night Of
January 16th”, with Robert
Preston and Ellen Drew.
TJARNARBÍÓ: “Beyond The
Blue Horizon,“ with Dorothy
Lamour (and Richard Denn-
ing.
RED CROSS
3— 4 Coffee Hour.
4— 7 Matinee Dance.
7.30 Writer’s Contest. Winners
Award.
8— 9 Special Program.
9— 10 Coffee Hour.
MONDAY
1—4 Build Your Own Games.
3—4 Coffee Hour.
—8 Movie, “Who Done It?”
8.30—9.30 Pool Tournament.
9.45 Coffee.
Y.M.C.A.
8.45 Discussion “The Second
Front” introduced by Mr.
James Whittacker.
MONDAY
2.15 Film “It started with Eve”,
with Deanna Durbin an Char-
les Laughton.
7.15 Table Tennis Tournament.
AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1100—1210: IBC Chaplainsr
Non-Sectarian Service. Fred
Waring Program. Music For
Sunday. News.
1300—1400: Telephone Hour,
with Helen Traubel. Com-
mand Performance, Jascha
Heifetz, Jack Bonny, Ethel
Waters. ,
1630—1700: Downbeat, Ray
Noble & ©rchestra.
BRITISH FORCES
BROADCASTS
Melody and Song. News
Summary. Studio Service.