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Gran Hand Bice
XITHAT are big league and what
*'r are minor league cities? This
situation today is something of a
Joke. While the Cardinals and
Browns were playing the sixth game
of the recent world series before
31,630 spectators, Baltimore and
Louisville in two so-called minor
leagues were playing to 52,833 fans
in Baltimore.
Baltimore has no big league team
and St Louis has two big league
teams. Yet Balti
more outdraws St
Louis by a wide
margin. Baltimore
will draw over 60.-
000 spectators at
any big football
game, especially a
contest involving
Navy and Notre
Dame. It will draw
from 40,000 to 50,000
for any good pro
football game.
Baltimore is a
stronger sporting center than St.
Laois, yet Baltimore has no big
league clnb and St. Loots has two
big league clubs. If this is to be
continued suppose we drop the
names Major league and Minor
league. It doesn’t make any sense.
This doesn't apply only to St
Louis, a good sporting city. It ap-
lies to several other cities who cer
tainly do not rate any two major
league teams. Attendance figure*
and general interest in major
sports can prove this statement
Los Angeles’ Future
In baseball lingo Los Angeles is
rated as another minor league city.
Yet Los Angeles, in major sport,
can outdraw any so-called major
league city I know, and I’m not
barring New York.
On the same afternoon I’ve seen
Los Angeles send out 91,000 fans to
a Bose Bowl game and over 60,000
racing followers to Santa Anita. I’ve
never seen New York or Chicago
produce over 150,000 spectators in
one afternoon, and I doubt that I’ll
aver see this happen.
As a sporting capital I’d rate Los
Angeles on a par with New York
and Chicago. It is only a question of
a short time before Los Angeles
will have over 5,000,000 inhabitants.
There are now 10 so-called big
league cities. Chicago, St. Louis,
Boston and Philadelphia each have
two big league clubs. New York has
three, hlost of these big league cities
can’t even compare with Los An
geles and Baltimore in the way of
sporting interest or probable attend
ance figures.
There have been changing tides in
population and sporting interest
that have made the old order look
worse than foolish. What is going
to be done about it? Probably noth
ing unless some of the cities men
tioned revolt and start a major
league of their own which would out-
draw many of the cities now listed
in the major league class.
Certainly Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco and Baltimore belong in this
group. Buffalo is another big time
spot.
Football Leagues
We’ll get further proof of this later
when football brings in at least one
more big time organization. It is our
belief in this new turn that Balti
more will outdraw any city now on
the National Football league with
the possible exception of New York,
and it may outdraw New York with
anything approaching a good team.
Baltimore in a good league with a
good team will average over 50,000
a game. How many others cities can
match that? Los Angeles might pass
60,000.
This country is getting too large
and conditions are changing too rap
idly for any city, barring New York
and Chicago, to have more than one
major league baseball team. Own
ers in these cities have franchises.
They had better start planning to
switch these franchises or find
themselves in another tough base
ball war they can’t win.
The same thing goes for pro foot
ball. The answer here is that only a
few pro teams have made any
money. I know of several cities
where promoters have lost from
$150,000 to $300,000. with no local
competition. Pro football has lost as
much as it has made.
I happen to know the feeling in
some of these minor league cities,
who are far stronger than many of
our so-caUed big league cities. I’m
speaking mainly of Los Angeles,
Baltimore and San Francisco, over
looking several others. The time
isn’t very far away when ycv’U see
a very decided change—or a big
revolt against the present senseless
system. This can’t go on forever.
Yale’s Team
"Who is the best football player
you've seen so far this season?’’ I
asked A1 Marsters, who was one of
the best backs in Dartmouth's his
tory. He has been officiating
fall.
“I’d pick Walker, the big Yale
end,” A1 said. "He is tall, big,
strong, and fast. He is also on the
alert side. Walker is a fine football
player. He knows what it’s all about.
As a player and an official, I’ve
seen many fine ends. But I’d say
that Walker is one of the best”
THE AUTO CRISIS
You’d never realize it when trying
to cross the street, but America is
running short of automobiles.
•
There are 4,000 fewer cars on the
roads of the country every day. (Ed.
Note—But the remaining ones all
seem to get into the same street.)
•
OWI announces officially that
autos are giving up the ghost at the
rate of 120,000 a month and that the
country is millions short of its pre
war quota.
•
And the remaining cars are
suffering from every ante dis
ease in the book, dne to the
difficulty of getting replacements
and repairs. A body squeak
no longer bothers anybody, a
rattle is accepted as part of the
all-out war effort and a lack of
paint is taken as proof of 100 per
cent Americanism.
•
Mr. and Mrs. America now go
blithely hither and Thither (especial
ly thither) in cars that only the ash
man would have been seen in h few
years ago. And you should see what
the ashman is driving today!
. » .
In the prewar days ft upset a man
if the clock got out of order. Today
he doesn’t feel right if the entire
mechanism isn’t close to collapse.
»
Where a slight squeak In a
rear spring used to worry dad,
he now shows no uneasiness up
~ to the point where he hears an
axle dragging.
♦
Mom used to go into a dither if
she found a spot on the sedan up
holstery. Now she remains calm
when she finds mice nesting all over
the old boiler.
•
Important items like carbon, worn
cylinders, etc., have ceased to con
cern them. If there’s a wheel on
each corner of the old flivver and the
gears mesh, they think everything
is swell.
The main trouble is due to the
fact it is almost impossible to get
repairs made. The day when you
could just drive into a garage and
leave the jalopy with a “Give this a
good going over; it knocks when do
ing over 60,” are over for the time
being.
•
You now approach the service
station timidly, salaam cour
teously and in an imploring
voice plead with the boss to bind
up the flapping parts with ad
hesive tape.
•
And too often the answer is “You
expect me to have a spare bolt
around the place! Doncha know
there's a war on?”
•
Uncle Sam had better start up a
few auto factories soon. Americans
can stand anything but walking.
• • •
After Listening to a Well-Known
Radio Program
I
Mommer sometimes quarrels with
daddy—
Daddy sometimes quarrels with
her—
Little arguments are frequent—
Often lively tilts occur;
They are very unimportant.
But we think we’d better go
Down to Mr. Alexander
And get on the radio!
n
I’m a little girl of seven
And a most obnoxious brat,
(Father says I shouldn’t marry
Till I know where I am at);
Mother says that popper’s crazy.
And it’s getting in my hair.
So I’m booking us for Sunday—
We’ll confess all on the airl
in
I’ve a cousin who is married
To four women at one time
And he thinks it is old-fashioned
To call bigamy a crime;
But his last three wives are touchy—
His behavior they dislike,
So they’ve asked Doc Alexander
To present ’em on the mike.
IV
If a young girl lets a stranger
Hug and kiss her, is it nice?
Is it wrong to kill a parent
Who attempts to give advice?
If a schoolgirl chews tobacco
Should her pa and mommer care?
'Twill be settled on the airwaves
As a coast-to-coast affair!
V
Should my aunt who’s nearly eighty
Wed a bus boy on a dare?
If my daddy takes in washing
Is it purely his affair?
Have you problems confidential,
Highly personal, you know? . . .
Let them help to sell cathartics
On the Sunday radio!
• • •
READY TO GO
There stands Adolf,
Super dud.
Poised for flight by
Super sub—
Sweating through a
Fearful urge
To give out the
Word “submerge!”
Master Race boy.
Loses wish,
And becomes a
Super fish! ,
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By VIRGINIA VALE
S OMEWHAT to the surprise
of a lot of people, including
Lana Turner herself, becom
ing a mother seems to have
made her more glamourous
than ever. Her letters from
soldiers, sailors and marines
never have been so numerous as in
recent months. Now, when they write
words of greeting and admiration to
Lana, postscripts are added, sending
love to Cheryl Christina. They ask
for Lana’s photograph and a snap
shot of the baby. They’ve crowned
Lana their "Pin-up Queen,”- and
christened ‘“Cherry” their “Pin-up
Princess.” When Lana reported
back to M-G-M for “Marriage Is a
Private Affair” she felt uncertain
about getting back into the groove;
now she says she feels as if she
belongs once more.
*
A forthcoming Paramount picture
is “National Barn Dance,” a film
based on the famous 19-year-old
radio program of the same name.
It stars the entire National Barn
Dance troupe, which includes Pat
Buttram, Joe Kelly, Lulubelle and
PAT BUTTRAM
Scotty, the Dinning Sisters, the
Hoosier Hot Shots, Arkie, and has
for romantic leads, Jean Heather]
and Charles Quigley, with Robert
Benchley, Mable Paige and Charlesi
Dingle in top supporting roles.
*
For the first time in the 10 years,
It’s been on the air, C. B. De Mille’s
Radio Theater will present an
adaptation of a best-seller which has
not yet been made into a film. Bob
Hope will star in a dramatization of
his book, “I Never Left Home,” on
Monday evening, November 13, over'
CBS.
*
Americans can hear statesmen
like Sumner Welles and Britain’s
Lord Vansittart discuss the question
of how hard a peace the Allies can
enforce in the March of Times’ latest
film, “What to Do with Germany”
—a most timely and important film.
*
Jack Benny and Rudy Vallee have
Joined the all-star aggregation
signed to surround Fred Allen in his
new film comedy, “It’s in the Bag.”
Benny and Vallee will play them
selves in the United Artists film.
Allen will appear as the owner of
a flea circus!
*
It’s quite a week when three really
good pictures are released. Prac
tically simultaneously Paramount
gave us “To Have and Have Not”
and “Our Hearts Were Young* and
Gay,” and 20th Century-Fox came
through with “Laura.” “To Have
and Have Not” has Humphrey Bo
gart playing a Hemingway hero
and reminding us of his role in
“Casablanca”; it also has Lauren
Bacall, a newcomer worth keeping
your eye on. "Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay” is a lot of fun. And
“Laura” is an excellent murder
mystery, with Gene Tierney slight
ly miscast in the lead.
—*—
Alan Young’s growing supersti
tious about the fate that links him
with “Dufffy’s Tavern.” He was
brought to big-time radio through a
fluke—a radio set was tuned for
“Duffy’s” but got him instead.
When his show proved to be a whop
ping success, he got the spot on the
Blue network formerly occupied by
“Duffy’s Tavern.” Now his new of
fice is the former haunt of the
“Duffy’s Tavern” cast.
—*
The most unusual contract recent
ly signed in radio was that making
Dean Murphy the new master of
ceremonies of M-G-M’s “Screen
Test.” It forbids Murphy to imper
sonate any political celebrity on the
program during the present cam
paign. Metro bigwigs feel that Mur
phy (President Roosevelt’s favorite
impersonator of F. D. R.) might
make listeners believe political fig
ures were actually on the show.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Sonny Tufu tried to
buy a I90f> auto which he drives in "Miss
Susie Slagle’s,” but the owner wouldn’t sell
—he gets S25 a day for renting it to film
studios. . . . Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy have made arrangements to do
camp shows on Christmas day. .. . Colum
bia is completing preparations on Our
Wandering Daughters” a film treating of
America’s juvenile delinquency problem.
. . . Patric Knowles, appearing in “Kitty”
with Paulette Goddard, journeyed to Hol
lywood in 1936 to play Errol Flynn’s broth
er in “Robin Hood.” . . . Alan Ladd and
Sue Carol have named their baby Along—
it’s Gaelic for "beloved one.”
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD U LUNDQUI8T. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for November 5
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts ao*
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious ‘
permission.
Education; used by
THE CHRISTIAN AND THE RACE
PROBLEM
LESSON TEXT—Act. 10:9-16, M. 99;
1?: 24-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—Of * truth I percetw
that God i. no respecter of person.: but tn
every nation he that feareth Him. and work-
eth righteousness. Is acceptable to Him.—
Acts 10:34. 35.
Now is the time to really face the
race problem. It must be met, or
America will see more of the re
grettable hatred and violence which
has already showed itself.
The only satisfactory answer—the
only right answer—can be found in
the Word of God. On its principles
we must build in solving any prob
lem, and that is especially true with
regard to the vital matter of human
relationships.
How to Solve the Race Problem
I. Pray (10:9).
So often we struggle and plan and
work, and last of all we pray. That
should be the first thing, not the
last. It was as Peter prayed that he
saw clearly the need of a changed
attitude toward the Gentiles.
Doubtless some Gentiles would
also have a changed attitude
toward the Jews, if they really
prayed about it. In fact, all of our
prejudices based on race, creed, fi
nancial or social position would look
cheap and untenable if we prayed.
Conferences, efforts toward mu
tual understanding, education of
children (and grown-ups), tolerance,
all these are good; but let us not
forget to pray, and to do it first.
II. Listen to God’s Word (10:10-16).
Peter had a special vision, an un
usual revelation from God. We no
longer need such a direct communi
cation of God’s plan and purpose, for
we have the written Word of God,
and the Living Word has come in
the person of Christ. •
What we need now is to read and
to hear the truth of that Word—and
then to heed it. Everywhere in the
Bible we find the declaration of
man’s equal rights. We learn that
God hates discrimination or preju
dice, that no nationality is unclean
(v. 15) or unworthy of His grace and
of coir fellowship.
We know these things are in the
Book; why do so many of us fail
to listen to its message? We are
bound by it whether we listen or not,
so had we not better listen and
obey?
III. Be Governed by God’s Princi
ples (10:34, 35).
“God is no respecter of persons.”
Why are we? The expression liter
ally means “receiving a man's
face,” that is, judging or evaluating
him not by what he has proved him
self to be, but by his outward ap
pearance, the look on his face.
God is interested in man’s heart
and what is in it (I Sam. 16:7). We
should do well to follow His lead
ing and not be controlled by the
dress, the race, or the position of
a man.
Note the basis of acceptance with
God (v. 35), namely, a right atti
tude toward Him. No matter what
a man’s color or race may be, the
grace of God in Christ Jesus can
reach him, and bring him into ac
ceptance with God.
IV. Recognize God’s Authority
(17:24-26).
God made the world. He rules the
world and all that is in it. He la
above man, and it is He who gives
man the very breath of life.
That being the case, we all stand
on the same level—we are equal be
fore Him.
Everything God made was (and
is) very good (Gen. 1:31). That
means that He knows nothing in His
nature of one group being despised
and persecuted by another group
self-designated as a master race.
All men are of one family (v. 26).
It is God’s Word. Let us believe it,
and be thoughtful and kind toward
the members of our own “family.”
We all know how disgraceful family
fights are, and how they hurt. Could
it possibly be any different in the
family of God? Let’s quit the bicker
ing, and together work for God’s
glory! We can do it—for we may—
V. Count on God’s Nearness (17:
27, 28).
Sometimes children fight and
quarrel because they know father
and mother are away and will not
hear or punish. Well, God is not
far away. He is “nearer to us than
breathing, nearer than hands and
feet.” In Him we (and that means
all of us) "live and move and have
-our being.”
He is here; let us not act as
though He were far away. But above
all, let us recognize His nearness
as our life and strength, the One
who enables us to live as we should
with one another. We need His grace
for that purpose. Let us count on it.
“We are all His offspring,” that is,
by creation. Then by our sin and re
bellion we made ourselves the
“children of disobedience” (Eph.
5:6; Titus 3:3). But we may (and
many of us have) become the true
children of God by faith in Jesus
Christ our Lord (John 1:12). As
such, we are all brethren be
loved, eager for our fellow’s good
and for God’s glory.
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