Daily Post - 11.06.1943, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POST
Americai Sports Shorts
by “The Ace”
AUTO-RACING
Tommy Milton who twice
won the Memorial Day Race
at the Indianapolis Sp'eedway
says that automobile races will
steadily decline in public int-
erest from now on because of
the terrifically high speeds at-
tained by planes, and the pu-
blic is more accustomed to the
latter already than they ever
were to torrid speed on fhe
ground.
FOOTBALL
“Navy Bill” Ingram, Marine
Major, dies at age of 46. Gradu
ating from Annapolis in 1919,
he won fame as a high-scoring
quarterback, but he was also
a valuable stroke on the crew.
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BOXING
John Q. Fight Fan received
only a bad taste in his mouth
from Galento’s initial go along
the comeback trail. The 232
pound “human barrel” knock-
ed out his alleged opponent,
one Herbie Katz of Brooklyn
in the first beat of their Tam-
pa, Fla., fiasco, but the fight
judges claimed it looked like a
dive and tried to hold up the
purses, (the maulers had al-
ready collected the long
green). Tony will be lucky to
draw flies in future appearan-
ces. . .
ed over 100 chances before
making his first error after re-
turning to the line-up follow-
ing his appendectomy opera-
tion. The White Sox came
through with a triple steal at
the expense of the Red Sox
last week in the 9th frame, —
with Don Kalloway scoring on
the play. Red Sox sign short-
stop Jack Albright of the U.
of California and order him to
report to theor Louisville farm
club. The only catch is that the
last several years, Terry Moo-
re, has resigned from civilian
physical instruction post and
enlists in the U. S. Army Air
Force. Draft Board beckons
Lefty Ed. Smith, portly Pale
Hose twirler — (those 1—A
blues, maybe). Bert Cuczj?-
inski, U. of Pennsylvania grid
and diamond celebrity, signs
to play for Connie Mack’s At-
hletics.
I had a gentleman boarder to
show my husband how to
conduct himself, but they
soon became boozing pals and
my idea failed.—Wife
court.
The R.A.F.’s “Block
Bnster”
This is the story, not of the
bombing of Germany but of
the bombs the Allies are pour-
ing day after day, night after
night, upon thé Nazis.
Britain’s giant blockbuster
bomb is a black and ugly ob-
ject, 8 ft. 4 in. long, 2 ft. 1 in.
thick. About 2,200 of its 4,000
pounds are TNT and other se-
cret explosives.
Let loose from 20,000 ft. it
strikes the ground at about
600 miles, an hour. It pulveris-
es whatever it strikes, buries
itself deep, then explodes. —
The blast lasts three one-
hundredths of a second. First
there is an overwhelming out-
ward pressure of hot. gas, ex-
panding at almost seven tim-
es the 1,089 ft. a second which
is the speed of sound. That
lasts five onethousandths of a
second. Then the gas cools,
contracts, sucks everything
back. That lasts 25 one-thous-
andths of a second.
The bomb case then shatters
into more than 6,000 fragments
which fly at 4,000 to 7,000 ft.
per second, may spray for 7,-
000 ft. The explosion wili
smash everything within 120
'n j ft. Ground tremors may bring
down brick walls streets away.
End Of Japanese Transport
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MOVIES
NÝJA BÍÓ: “South of Tahiti”
with Andy Devine.
GAMLA BÍÓ: My Favorite
Spy, with Kay Kyser.
TJARNARBÍÓ: “The Fleet’s
In” with Dorothy Lamour
and William Holden.
POLAR BEAR THEATRE:
“Jesse James with Henry
Fonda, Tyrone Power.
RED CROSS
The Red Cross is closed tem-
porarily.
Y.M.C.A.
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The Y. M. C. A. will be
closed for redecoration un-
til further notice.
AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1300—1335: News Headlin-
es. G. I. Jive. Songs of Step-
hen Foster.
1600—1713: Music of Victor
Herbert, Andre Kostelairetz
Orch. Behind The Headlines.
Kate Smith Program with
Henny Youngman.
2240—2315: News Round-
up. Jazz In America ' with
Duke Ellington & Orch.
BASEBALL
The ding-dong race waged
between the Cards and the
“Dodgiss” has arrived a lot ear-
lies than the experts predicted
this year. D.uring thir series
last week the league lead
changed twice. . . Charley Kel-
ler of the Yanks paces the A.
L. homer festival with 6, foll-
owed by Flash Gordon with 5.
Chet Laabs and Mike Chartak
of the Browns have 3 each. . .
The Washington club should
be inco^porated as a base-
stealing enterprise, for those
gents have made good on 32
out of an attempted 42 thefts
this season. Case leads this
teamates with 6 pieces of base-
larceny but “Snuffy” Stirnwe-
iss of N. Y. and Wally Moses
of Chicago are currently topp-
ing the A. L. with 7 a piece. . .
Martin Marion, the beanpole
shortstop of the Cards, handl-
Giant pillars of smoke rise from a Japanese transpor:. one of
the 22 ships blasted by General Douglas MacArthur’s Alliecl air-
men in the bgttle of the Bismarck Sea. At the end of the battle,
all 22 Japanese transports and warships had been destroyed and
only a handful of an estimated force of 15.000 Japanese soldiers
and sailors escaped death or capture. The convoy was trying to
reinforce the Japanese base at Lae on New Guinea.
BRITISH FORCES
BROADCASTS
NEWS SUMMARY
Cbina’s Famioe
China is suffering perhaps
the worst famine in its record-
ed history. It is raging in the
Honan Province, bordering
China’s North Eastern front
line. The blighted. area is ap-
proximately, 20,000 square mil
es, with the worst affected dis
tricts along the Yellow River
in the vicinity of Cheng Chow,
only 12 miles from the Japan-
ese lines.
According to Provincial Go-
vernor Li Pei-Chi, millions are
absolutely indigént and will
die before the next harvest, un
less adequate aid arrives.