Daily Post - 22.06.1943, Blaðsíða 3

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Amerlcan Sports
Shorts
U.S. ‘Beveridge
Plan’
by “The Ace”
FOOTBALL
Columbia and Pennsylvania
grid squads will meet each oth
er twice this fall, the dates be-
ing Oct. 2 at Philly and 3
weeks later at N.Y. Maybe
they ought to arrange for play
off contest in case each school
wins one game. . . St. Louis U.
cancels football for the durati-
on. Minnesota adds Camp
Grant and Iowa Naval Pre-
Flight School to its grid sched-
ule for ’43.
HOCKEY
Norm Dutton, 3rd son of Red
Dutton who is the managing di
rector of the National Hockey
League, joins the Canadian
Army. His older brothers Alex
and Joe have been reported al-
ready as missing in action.
BOXING
The Pennsylvania State At-
hletic Commission declares
“Bobcat” Montgomery, Phila-
delphia colored ring general, to
be the lightweight world’s
champion. . . A fast-stepping
U. S. Army boxing team won
a close 6—5 victory over a pic
• ked squad of British Army
boxers in London before a
crowd of 10,000 soldiers and
civilians.
RACING
Mrs. Payne Whitney’s prize
chattel, Devil Diver, copped
the $7500 Carter Handicap at
Aqueduct after being closely
pressed up to the 3rd quarter
of the 7 furlong route. Marriage
edged into 2nd place and Boub
lerab took the show position in
the field of 10. The winner
paid $9.10.
BASEBALL
Little Tommy Holmes tripl-
ed and homered to beat Brook
lyn his week, alhough he di-
munitive Brave is alweys play
ed as a single hitter. Yankee
Lindell continues his heavy
clubbing with a homer plus 2
one-basers against the A’s. . .
Frank McCormack of the Reds
connects for his 3rd circuit
clout.
' The Pirates failed to score in
21 'innings against St. Louis
ling. Lippy Durocher entered
the Brooklyn line-up for the
first time since ’41 last week to
help his flagging athletes. Leo
had no chances at short for his
brief appearance, but drove in
a run with a base-hit. . . Jack
Hallett of Pittsburgh hooked
up in a stirring mound duel
with Cardinal Howie Pollet
this week only to lose 1—0
when one of his pitches went
wild with a runner on 3rd. —-
Rookie Irv Hall up from Will-
iamsport in the Eastern Lea-
gue continues fill the bill in
Connie Mack’s infield with
able assistance from Pete Sud-
er. . . 31-year old Rookie Jim
Tyack of the A’s is starting to
ride the pill. Oscar Judd of
Boston turned in a sparkling
performance in his 3hit shut-
out over Washington last
week. When the A’s copped
that double header from the
Yanks they did it the hard
way, beating “Grandma” Mur
phy in the nightcap. Veteran
Lefty Clyde Smoll is flinging
air-tight ball for Baltimore.
Robert Ferdinand Wagner, a
United States Senator from
New York since 1927, has made
himself best known as a spon-
sor of social legislation. He in-
troduced the NIRA, the Soci-
al Security Act, the National
Labor Relations Act (Wagner
Act), the railway pension law,
and other measures. Recently
he sponsored in the upper
the United States Housing Act
chamber the most comprehen-
sive piece of social legislation
the nation has ever been ask-
ed to consider.
This “American Beveridge
plan” provides cradle-to-the-
grave security for practically
all persons. To be financed at
the outset mainly by workers
and employers, with the gov-
ernment lending its support
later, the plan would cover un-
employment insurance, medi-
cal and hospital care, disabili-
ty and old age.
U. S. Air Crew Repairs Damage
Damaged in a raid on the Japanese, this large American bomb-
er is heing patched up by a United States Air Force ground crew
at an air base on a South Pacific island. The symbols on the
nose of the plane, which is named “Madame X,” tell of ten raids
on the enemy, the bombing of a Japanese battleship at Midway
and of four enemy planes shot down.
In Reykjavík
Today ...
MOVIES
GAMLA BÍÓ: “Go west” with
the Marx Brothers.
TJARNABÍÓ: “Are Husbands
Necessary?” with Ray Miland
and Betty Field.
NÝJA BÍÓ: “Unfinished Busin-
ess”, with Irene Dunne, Ro-
bert Montgomery, and Prest-
on Foster.
POLAR BEAR: “Return of
Frank James”, with Henry
Fonda, Gene Tierney.
Y.M.C.A.
The Y. M. C. A. will be
closed for redecoration un-
til further notice.
BRITISH FORCES
BROADCASTS
Iceland Birds, Part III Tues
day Concert.
AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1300—1355: News Headlines
Fred Waring Program Laur-
itz Melchior Song Recital.
1600—1713: Sibelius Anniver-
sary Music Interviews On
Iceland Red Skelton Program
with Karrit Hilliarde, Ozzie
Nelson & Orch.
2200—2315: News Roundup
Bob Hope Program with
Frances Langford, Jerry
Colonna, Skinnay Ennis &
Orchestra Bandwagon with
Alvino Ray & King Sisters.
Drinb On The Hing
North Africa — Britains King
George VI was apparently una
ware that U S. vessels carry no
liquor last week when he sugg-
ested to the comander of Ameri
can warships, while inspecting
units of the British and U. S.
Navies, that he “splice the ma-
in brace”. The crew profited,
however, by the royal invitati-
on to have a drink when every
mmber got a double order of
pcp.