Friday,
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ISN'T IT WONDERFUL UP HERE, SLUGGO?
YEAH---BUT. I WISH D' BUGS AN' INSECKS WOULD KEEP AWAY
FROM
MY BEAN!
YES --- I'VE
NOTICED HOW THEY SEEM
TO LIKE YOUR HEAD
A LOT!
Tw.... Pak Dennáll el bles
By Ernie
THIS OUGHT TO
KEEP SOME OF THEM AWAY FROM YOU!
August 25, 1939.
Bushmiller
·ERNIT BUSHMILLER, -
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SILK SHIRTS
FOR
BOYS
WITH
SHORT SLEEVES
CRICKET CLUBS FACE STAGGERING LOSSES
Some County Clubs In A Serious Situation: Rain Affects "Gates"
London, Aug. 8.
The most worried men in England to-day are Rain the treasurers of County Cricket Clubs. upset the holiday "gates" and as these are normal- ly the best of the year the situation has become desperate.
Taking De penson 35 a whole the balance sheet is not to show a Warwickshire and Derbyshire have very substantial loss. perhaps suffered more than most, The crowds attending many of the and their respective secretaries are | ganes in which Northants, Leicester-" already puzzling their brains to andshire, and Worcestershire have been ways and means of making good alengaged have not been worthy of staggering delicht.
ut
Brid-class cricket.
Some of the towns do not deserve fiome to home county teams. Yet cricket has a way of overcoming its most sei tous Brancial worries.
Warwickshire have unly three more
to play games against West Indies, Surrey and Gloucestershire-but only ote of those mutches is a Saturday start.
The ten home games so far played have produced on average less than £200 permatch; so there is every prospect of the total gate money be ing less than £2,500.
Not since the war has such a state of affairs existed, and Derbyshire are not much better ul.
There will not, however, be any est-ep" buma Test matches this season like there was last year. With only thee Tests, and those of only three days, the profits will be smalt, and when divided up of little as- statance to impoverished counties.
must There
br the
vituble appeals to the
generosity of those
When
This year their blg money spin-who have already Hiven freely to ner, the matches at Chesterfeld have keep rounty cricket on its legs. been most disappointing, due nimest
Iasited a club official if any entirely to the bad weather. The help was expected from the M.C.C. gates at Derby have been positively he replier) that disgraceful
BIGGEST TROUBLE Several of the players and officials of the club maintain that one of thefr biggest troubles was winning the chumplonslip in 1936.
Derbyshire in that season whetted the appetite of their spectators. They saw a winning team that went The next sea- on to gain the title. son practically the same team could not maintuit its position, and the spectators became disappointed. That disappointment has Hnued, and it has been rollected in the "gates" Derbyshire are going to have a nasty financial problem.
that august body would sit back Blissfully content with its huge ngsels and réserves, and watch the strugglings of many countles.
"While the latter might retaliate by demanding more equitable treat- ment from headquarters," he added, "the C.CC. would rake its hands in horror."
"Look at all the money we give tours you from Test matches and overseas," would be their obvious re ply.
June Lang looks annoyed because Oliver Hardy la cutting in on her from Ital dancing partner, James Ellison, during the Bull. A scene Boach's "Zenobia," showing at the King's Theatre to-morrow.
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RESULTS
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OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
While New York Steeps" (King's to-day)-Clue-and-cutie chasing re- portern meet a mystery so bewilder ing that it has to be solved twice The following are the results of us they catch; a killer before the But who earns the money at Test matches and overseas unirs Not matches played in the fourth round killing, print the story of a murder members of the M.C.C.. but the of the Happy Valley Summer Singles: before it happens and then find the G. T. May (13) beat C. C. Stark same man has been murdered again. players the professionals from the
(9) 4 and 3. counties.
J. Linaker (14) beat T. J. Price (0) * 1. and the counties
N. J. Bebbington (15) beat Richardson (13) D and 7.
Farlier in the reason the secretary, Mr. Taylor, said that the club wouki be in serious financial struits it gotes; <lich not improve. They have got Wursc.
EVEN LANCASHIRE Lancashire have suffered from the weather than any county, If an amateur cannot be found and, if they are one of the big "ix" good enough to lead the slic and as regards
finance, they, too, will|full his weight, then a professional have to do a lot of cheest-paring if |:hould be given the job of captain.
TEAM BUILDING There is something will have to do to help themselves, They will have to be as ruthless in team-building AS any first-class more | Soccer club,
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Anolin WARNER BROS. Est-of-its-kind, with
EDWARD G. ROBINSON FRANCIS LEDERER George Sanders Paul Lukas Henry O'Neill Directed by ANATOLE LITVAK
BOOKING NOW OPEN
W. B.
J. W. Mayhew (8) beat Col. Collin (9) % and 1.
STARTING TIMES The following are starting for Fanling on Sunday:
OLD COURSE Did M. Pollock, R. J. K. Walker 9.20. G. Gray. E. A. Boipan. 924 A. N. & Q. A. A. Macfadyen. 023 F. D. Hunter. A. Sommerfelt. 13 L, M. Wylle, I. H. Geare. 936 J. B. Harrison, J. Linaker. DAB J. M. Pearson, J. W, Mayhew, 944 P. E. Annis, J. W. Clagile. BAR PC. Jackson, E. Laidlaw. 0.52 . C. Gairdner, 1., Cramer.
Caes
With Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler and Jean Woodbury,
"Five Came Back" (Queen's, to day) Melodrama about a
a transport plane
wrecked in a South American jungle, and an assorted group of passengers only five of whom can be flown back to civilization. Their sur face reactions under pressure are studlled. Exciting, ingeniously done. Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, Jolin Carradine, Allen Jenkins and C. Aubrey Smith.
"East Side of Heaven" (Alhambra. to-day)
ay: An infaut called Sandy wing
the centre of attention from a cast that includes Bing Crosby in This most affable mood, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey and C. Aubrey Smith. It's a story of ro- Chopping and changing captains mance set against some family dif during the season must be bad forficulties and all decorated up with any team.
songs.
Baseball
YANKEES
HUMBLE BROWNS
New York, Aug. 24.
The following are the results of matches played in the Major Buse- ball League to-day!
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York St. Louis
R. 11. E.
12 1} 0
ยู
3
Cronetti, Keller and Powell homer- ed for the Yankees and McQuinn for the Browns. Battery-Yankees, Pearson, and Dickey.
Philadelphia
2 0
1
10 1: 2
Cleveland
Trosky homered twice for the In- dins, Battery-Indians, Hurdler and Hemsley.
2
2
17 16
3
Battery-Indians, Molnar and
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Hemsley.
Washington
Detroit
1
B
J 11 0 Battery-Tigers, Trout and York. The match between Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox will be played at night.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh
4
*
3
New York
3
0
1
Fletcher homered for the Pirates. Battery-l'irates. Butcher and
Susce.
Chicago Bouton
G
11
Battery-Cubs, Passeau and Man-
eusco.
The matches
Cincinnati Reds v. Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Car- dinals v. Philadelphia Phillies will he played to-night-Reuter,
Twenty Men Defy Channel
Inferno
SCORCHED BY INTENSE
HEAT, A SOLITARY, STEAMER WITH 26 MEN ABOARD STOOD BY IN THE ENGLISH CHAN- NEL ONE NIGHT RE- CENTLY WARNING SHIPS AWAY FROM A SQUARE MILE PATCH OF BLAZING DEATH.
Lancashire may have a captaincy "On The Record" (Majestic, to- The ship was the Trinity problem at the end of this season, day).Involved combination of melo- House Satellite, and she was and it seems certain that whatever drama and romance about a pair of guarding the grave of the 5,000- the committee do they will insist on reporters who marry, and the hurd tons French tanker Sunik, and the new captain-providing Llanel little orphan whom they rescue from Lister resigns, which he is expected reformatory and try to get on the the 11 men who perished with to do--being able to play throughout right path. Pat O'Brien, Joan Blon- her when she sank after a col- dell and Bobby Jordan take chieflision 20 miles off the Cornish {parts. Dual captaincy is not good. Cour-
coast. ties who have tried it have found to-day).-Ilomantic comedy about a "The Kid frous Texas" (Cathay that out. And hwo many captains cowboy who learned to play polo and
the sunumer.
NOT GOOD
70 FT. SPOUTS
Oil was gushing from the sunken
are there to-day who could be said then went East to put his lessons to ship and Igniting as it reached the
to be worth their place in the team use. A bit of romance is mixed with blazing surface.
for their playing ability?
Sound judges put the number as
Anthony Allen, Jessie Rulph polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice,
and
low as half a dozen, which is a scri- Buddy Ebsen ure featured
ous reflection on the amateur playing: strength in first-class cricket.
Recent Test teams bear out this assertion, In the two Tests played, Wally Hammond, a former profes. sional, has captained #n otherwise all-professional team.
UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH
Streams of oil spouted 7011. into the air.
To make matters worse a thick pali ot fog lay over the urea.
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And the chances are that when the M.C.C. come to choose the team that
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official must tour Australia the winter after Summary issued yseterday mays: next, they will find it extremely dif So much chat of an inconsequent fculi on merit to Include any ama-nature took place during the day. teurs, except the captain and possi- little attention was pald to the market. bly one other.
Recordings on the Board were not extensive, and the giving way Scoring In the Kent and Hamp-prlees shown was only to be expected. shire match at Canterbury during the August holiday was Alec Hearne On the pavilion wall was group including him which G. J. C. Welgall described as "the most wonderful cricket photograph In the world." His point was that although it was taken in 1884, on the occasion of the Kent and Australians match, all but; two of the Kent team, Lord Harris and George G. Hearne, are still liv
Ingwe were the only county side to
tour."
Australian that beat the Hearno, said. "I was about 10 then and got seven wickets, which really sent me up in the Kent side."
Hearna was one of the youngest players. F. A, Mackinnon --91 now ---was 30 at the time of the match.
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