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WOW!

August 16, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WAITLL I TELL AUNT FRITZI!

--- AHEM --- IF YOU'RE NOT TOO BUSY THIS SUMMER, I'D LIKE TO

HAVE YOU AS A GUEST AT MY

SUMMER HOME!

STOP THAT SILLY TALK AND GO TO

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ENGLISH FOOTBALL COMMENCES THIS WEEK

FITTING

SINGULARLY

WEATHER FOR GAME

►

TO BEGIN SEASON

London, Aug. 3. Football is fixed to start in Scotland on the 12th and in England on the 19th of the current month. Last year at this time there was a heat wave and most people thought that an early start was inappropriato but if the present weather con- tinues much longer it will be regarded as singular. ly fitting for the game. It nover is really hot and nearly always is wet. The Cricket Season has been as I have already said, killed by the weather.

Linder these circumstances 1 think the Football Season will start quite hopefully though it will possibly be affected by the Militin training and also to some extent by the existing uncertainty though the buying and selling of footballers goes on briskly and in about the only retail trade which in really flourishing.

THIRD DIVISION CLUBS There are good many of the Third League Clubs which did badly last year but they are trying to come

There seem to be plenty of players to be bought and sold because, as the Daily Mall points out, to-day English football is accumulating riches in re- markable profusion. This is especi- ally true in regard to centre for- warda. The Dally Mall writer con- not, in fact, remember a period when the game has had such a quartet to equal Lawton, Westcott, Drake and Steele. There may, too, be a th

BOY MEETS GIRL-Jimmy Cagney and Marie Wilson play lead roles in the Warner Bros, version of the mashing stago success "Boy Mecis Girl," The picture starts ils run at the King's Theatre to-day.

of equal distinction in Tadman be- Swimming fore the new season has run far.

up hopefully in the coming senson Already no player is more sure with because they know that the team his shots in finding the goal than the which Anished top last year may be Charlton man.

STOKE REVIVAL

bottom this season. At the same time those clubs which were once in the different divisions of the League It is of course quite impossible to

the fortunes predict

of any team,

carry

and are now outside such as Gilling though there are great efforts being ham will have a very hard task to

nn. Such clubs have to do, made to secure a better result both for the Arsenn! and Chelsen who like Gillingham, have just done and

disappointed their friends that is to appoint a player-Manager equally because they then only have to pay just year. Some of the papers seem one salary. Gillingham's selection is to think that Stoke may do better, Mr. Archie Clark, ex-Everlon wing principally because

halt,

half and centre

they have re- Lained Stonley Matthews for whom The Clubs which went any dis-they night any day receive £15,000, tance in the League last year are all and in the recovery of Steele from pretty well off but whether they are his troublesome knee injury. or not they have to And the money The public support of football is to buy players if they need them.kely to be as considerable as ever, Even Walsall which never has much and most clubs seem ready to en- available ens has paid the biggest large their grounds. Certainly with fee in its history for an International, the annual increase of football pools Dai Richards, Welsh Jeft half the game ought to become more no-

pular

though whether pools take formerly of Birmingham,

people to see matches or not is an open

question question. The grounds in becoming more and more troublesome. It a really wealthy club can buy its ground and hold 11, then of course it has no apprehen- slon; but many of the smaller ones who merely lease, are always fearful lest they may lose their home. This has been the fate of course of the London Caledonians whom many of us were sorry to see disappear. No doubt someone else will revive them. in some form or another.

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As regards Scottish football every- body would like to see the revival of Queens Park though they have lost most of their good players. The game across the Border is a popu-

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OUR GUIDE

Heats Held TO THE

In Colony CINEMAS

Events

Swimming heats

of the

yesterday.

their pro

unborn

The

Sporting Tit-Bits

TINGLISH papers arc discussing

the composition of

the next

cricket team for Australia. The Daily Sketch suggests Hammond, Valentine, Gibb, Hutton, Bowes, Paynter, Compton, Hardstaff, Wood, Robertson, Oldacid,

'Wright, "Until M.C.C. the

and Scott. It

atlas

declare the acceptances and starting date, the Indin tour must not be regarded as on. The blessed word provisional' has been used advisedly. India will accept beenuse she must, but the crowds out there won't mistake Holmes's side for a pukka England eleven, and the finn- feinl success of the tour is very doubl-

ful unless we lose the first Test."

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WHEN English cricket girls play W Test matches in Australia specta- tors will see double, for the team has been completed by the inclusion of Miss Joan Binker, twin sister of Miss Barbara

has who This brings the party up to 16. The Blaker twins are so alike that when play- ing together one of them wears yellow sash to distinguish her from her sister. In Australia, they will have to find some better way of dis- tinguishing Barbara from Joan, for nobody knows which one wears the sash. They are daughters of R.N.R. Blaker, of Cambridge and Kent,

already been cheer,

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the

new

of

"Boy Meets Girl" (King's, to-day),

M'Inally, Hollywood meels Broadway once TAMILTON more and the encounter, rubs Scottish Amatour Golf Cham- goolly coating of satire and some of

distinction for the Colony the humour off George Abbott's Pion, has one ekim

hilarious stage farce.

Chiefly the shared by few who have won honour Championships were held in the pool]

neon the Links, "Big" golf does not Club story involves the rougin-house an disturb his digestion. Most modern Victoria Recreation

ties of two script writers who harass char

champions live on a very spare diet producer and his cowboy star during a tournament, picking at the One of the events that attracted and sign a little waitress' born lightest-of-foods and chewing every nucli attention was the 50 yards child to a big flm contract.

bite as though it were unseasoned Free-Style Colony Championship, in film is very bright in spots. Jamesto which D. H. Taylor won the first heat Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson cotton wool. Minally has no such inhibitions. At Prestwick on the In 25% secu,, equallying the time and Ralph Hellamy have the chief final

his lunch consisted returned by Chin Wing-kul, the parts.

ple with the usual holder, last year.

cold meat, pickles, and "Bulldog Drummond's Bride" In this event, Taylor was given a close race by Lo Yuk-wing of the (Queen's, to-day)-Another one of beetroot, biscuits and cheese, washed down with a pint of beer and fol- CY.M.CA, who came in Second in the popular series, with John Howard down

After such 25% sees. Towards the end of the again playing the part of Supper's lowed with

Moss coffee. race Taylor forged ahead and won by famous hero and Heather Angel the meal most people would like noth- It is, like the ing better than a large, comfortable leading female role. just a stroke.

chair in a secluded spot. M'inally, The following

yesterday's others, good entertainment.

by contrast, set out with a succession results.

"Heritage of the Desert" (Allam- of immaculate shots. 50 Yards Free-style-ilest 1: 1.

of Zane to-day).—Another D. A

H. Taylor (25%); Lo Yuk-wing bra, (25%). Heat 2: 1, Ng Tsan-man Grey's splendid stories made into a

movie,

were

•

Ta speelal meeting of the Isth-

cided not to elect a new club for

AT Donald Woods and Evelyn Amlan League Council It was de- (25%); Ne Nin (25%); Chan Wingvete a from Texas" te next season to take the place of Lon-

kai (255)

Boys 100 yards championship.-

1-00

yards

supply the romantic

don Caledonians. Although several Heat 1: 1, Tam Tjong-thiam (65); to-day)-Romantic comedy about 2. Yeung Wing-pul (874); 3. Yau rowboy who learned to play polo and

was felt that it would be unsports- Sal-kwan (80%). Heat 2: 1 Pat then went East to put his lessons to applications had been received it

use. A bit of

of romance is mixed with

manlike at such a late stage to inter- Jorge (84%); Kong Wolt (66%).

Members

free-style polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, fere with the arrangements made by handicap-1. Jose Marques (72) Anthony Alien, Jessie Ralph and other leagues. F. A. Sousa (74); C. Mackintosh Buddy Ebsen are featured.

(Oriental, to-ANON H. T. Dixon, Archdeacon "Highway Patrol" (704).

Boys 100 yards handicap.-Heat 1: day)-Action there is in plenty in of Ludlow and Canon of Here- 1, B. Alonso; 2, B. el Arculll. Heat this show about a cop-no ordinary ford Cathedral, collapsed and died 2: 1, J. Gomes; 2, Erle Ho.

ane, this-who tamed a millionaire's

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Lilies 50 yards free-style handi-daughter. Variation of an old there, while playing golf at Hereford re- enn (finalists)-Miss I. Lopes, Miss but quite entertaining..

M. Luchien, Mrs. F. J. Willey and

Mrs. P. N. Barten.

Ladles 50 yard back-stroke cham- pionship (finalists)-Clara 8. C.

Young, Doreen Weir, Vera Carvalho, | Sel Wai-hing, and Dorcas Cheung.

Pres. Carmona

In S. Africa

PRETORIA, Aug. 15 (Trans- Occan)It is reliably reported that a milliary misaion headed by General Amilkare Mota will remain for some time in the Union of South Africa to Inspect defence works and confer with the military authorities after the departure of the Portuguese President, General Carmona, who is

present on a goodwill visit

Int

A parade of troops took place at Pretoria to-day on the occasion of President Carmona's visit.

Transport_Workers' Union Protest

cently.

A LARGE fish weighing about

dewt., has been caught by saimnon Ashermen employed on Dornoch beach. The fishermen are employed by Mr. Paterson. Mr. Hugh Ross, the foreman, stated that when the huge fish crashed into the land not he and his three companions ran to the spot. They were surprised to see the size of the fish whose body re- sembles the fore part of a larger fish cut off. The tail is circular and 14533

small, there the mouth separated, are two fins, and the eyes are slightly larger than half-crown. It fa thought that the fish is a species North Atlantic sunfish. The hide is like leather and resembles the skin of an elephant.

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of

MIDDLESEX cricketers, Hart and MI Hulme, are to have a joint bene- at when Surrey, visit Lord's on August 26.

FIVE county cricketers, including G. O. Allen, former England captain, E. R. T. Holmes, of Surrey, and 11. J. Enthoven of Middlesex, were among members of a team_that was beaten by Bawdeswell, a Nor- folk village sido on August 2: the scores

Bowdeswell, 51; visitors. 44.

were:

LONDON, Aug. 15 (Router).—The General Executive -. Council of the

TT is thought almost certain that Mrs. Helen Wills Moody will, late Transport and General Workers'

this summer, put aside the mystery Union have adopted a resolution

novel she is writing and seek her calling on the Government to take

8th national tennis title at Forest more energetic and decisive action "to

John Howard, known to millions of Hills, states Reuter. After 18 years prevent the continued violation of in- ternational law by Japanese forces in fans as "Bulldog Drummond", solves at the game, in which she has won China."

***his greatest case in "Bulldog Drum-eight Wimbledon, seven American A copy of the resolution is being mond's Bride" now showing at the and four French titles sho said "I'm

Queen's Thosire,

Inever going to retire."

sent to the Prime Minister,

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