Daily Post - 20.08.1943, Page 3

DAILY POST
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American Sports Shorts
by ,rThe Ace,r
TURF
The American soldiers over-
seas in Australia are still keep-
ing up on their sports with
racing as one of the featured
items. Horse races are run by
and for U.S. and Australian
troops in New Guinea. The
mounts are British cavalry
horses captured by the Japs on
Malaya and recaptured bv the
Australians after the conquest
of Buna. The starting post: a
discarded airplane wing. The
finish: a makeshift betting shed
where seven amateur bookies
do a land-office business in bets
ranging from four shillings to
ten pounds. . . Whirlaway, one
of the turf’s greatest, is now a
retired money-maker, spending
his retirement in the Kentucky
blue grass where, five years
ago, he was born. During his
days on the track, he earned
a total of $561,161'for his own-
er, Warren Wright.
BASEBALL
Josh Gibson, the Babe Rut’n
of the colored professional
baseball world, was once eva-
luated by the immortal Walter
Johnson at $200,000. Josh is
the mainstay of the Homestead
Grays, who play many of their
games in Washington’s Griffith
Stadium and oftentimes draw-
ing larger crowds than the
Senators. Josh is the catcher
of the Grays and is the idol of
the fans who follow the Grays.
For his efforts on the diamond,
Gibson recevies $750 per
month plus bonuses that are
paid on a hit-or-miss basis. . .
There have been 104 one-run
decisions in the National Lea-
gue this year and the Boston
Braves have been involved in
thirty, winning fourteen and
losing sixteen. . . It is thought
that Larry MacPhail oufht to
become general mangaer of the
Giants after the war so that he
can salvage that once-great
franchsie, but it would pro-
bably be better if he would
stop off in Brooklyn first and
mend a lot of busted fences,
hopes and promises. . . Never
before has there been a major
league season so filled with
bickerings, charges, counter-
charges, protests, and investi-
gations. The game is erupting
in a rash of dissatisfaction. . .
The National League is thought
to have made a mistake in not
picking Bucky- Harris as a
coach on the All-Star team
which lost the American Lea-
gue last month by a score of
3—5. He is one who is very
well acquainted with the Am-
erican League, its players, etc.,
and would have been a very
valuable man in the National
League dugout. . . When asked
whether or not he knew of a
southsaw knuckleballer, Earl
Whitehall could not name one.
It seems to be one of the idio-
syncracies of the game that the
lefthanders have never deve-
loped this pitch, so popular
with the righthanders. Max
Lainer of the Cards, tosses of
few knucklers now and then,
bút he has never mastered the
pitch well enough to suffi-
ciently to trust it in the jams
. . Pitcher Russ Bauers of the
Pirates has been transferred
from the voluntary retired list
to baseball’s national defense
list.
AoglísiS í laiiy Posl!
Lanky Recrnit
Stumps Army
Buchanan, New York. — The
Army simply couldn’t cope
with Slim Sackel’s six feet ten
inches.
So Slim is home today with
an honorable discharge. Sac-
kel (who is 192 pounds of
muscle) tried to enlist last
summer, but recruiting officers
turned him down because he
was above the hegiht ceilings.
He finally got in by telling an
army officer: “I’m six feet six,
sir.”
Then the G. I. troubles be-
gan.
The sleeves of the largest
shirt available — size 16 -—
reached just below his elbows;
no 39-inch trousers were in
stock, and it took weeks to
find size 13-c shoes.
Transfered to a field artill-
ery unit, the supply sergeant
found that Slim needed four
tent shelter halves to cover
him; that a regulation sleeping
bag fitted him like a bathing
suit; and that a regulation
army cot, stopped somewhere
in the vicinity of his knees.
Finally, Slim ran into a cold-
hearted physical examiner who
looked him over, and stopped
the comedy.
He was sent home, post
haste.
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AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1300—1335: News Headlines.
Personal Album with Dick
Todd. Music To Sing With.
1600—1713: Ravel Piano Con-
certo. This Is The U.S.A.
Your Broadway & Mine with
Allan Jones, Judy Canova,
Victor Borge.
2240—2315: News Roundup..
Fred Waring Program.
BRITISH BROADCASTS
News Summary. Itma.
MOVIES
TJARNARBÍÓ: The Sea Hawk
Errol Flynn, Brend MarshaU
NÝJA BÍÓ: Cowboy Serenade
Gene Autry, Smiley Burn-
ette. 4
GAMLA BÍÓ: Strike Up The-
Band, Mickey Rooney, Judy
Garland, Paul Whiteman.
Line Forms At The Rear
When the weather got too warm during the making of a picture, these heavily costumed
actresses took to the water.