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Great Britain
Just a few months ago there was a
'feeling in the United States—also in
taiu sectors of Canada -that the
Id Country" was "down and out"
and practically bankrupt, The "view -
ars with alarm"' who took such a
stand have had good reason lately to
iovise that estimate.
First there was the success of the
Olympic games—at which the British
people proved that they could cone
back front the battering' of the war-
time years and put this great sports
event over iu a manner which made
any past efforts—even those of the
United Staten at Los Angeles—look
somewhat feeble.
Then, newly released figures are
bowing that the United Kingdom is
lathe midst of a business boom of
astounding proportions.
In July its record in export of
goods—taking 100 per cent as stand-
ard for
tand-ardfor theyear before the war—was .,
138 per cent. The value of those
goods was the equivalent of $536,-
0001000 -the highest figure .in 28
years and only 12 million dollars
short of the all-time record made in.
July 1920, right after the First World
War' and when all the nations were
catling loudly for British goods.
More than that, if prices in the
"dollar countries" -the United States
-and Canada—had not risen so 'ex-
travagantly, Great Britain would by
now be in sight of balancing her
'Overseas trade account, and thus
showing theprophets of calamity how
absurdly wrong they were. For the
volume of British exports for the
past six months is 30 per cent above
pre-war—the volume of imports 20
per cent below it. Indeed, if times
were normal, the United' Kingdom
would today be regarded as high up
on a wave of prosperous production.
Rule Britannia! There's life in the
old gal yet!
Spain
Spain is to a Large extent politically
isolated from the rest of the world,
and does not bulk to any great extent
in world news. But that does not
tnean that nothing is happening there
behind the scenes—or that Generalis-
simo Francesco Franco on be.con-
sidered a "back number,' a leader
who no longer matters very much.
Not long ago Franco—through the
Spanish Minister to Egypt—signally
honored the President of Lebanon by
awarding him one of the highest of
all Spanish decorations, the Grand
Cross of Charles the Third. Ten days
later General Franco was awarded
the Lebanese Order of Merit.
Spain is the only European power
that has no obligations toward the
United Nations, and feels not the
slightest duty to give even lip service
to UN resolutions regarding Pales-
tine and the Yliddle East. For years
Franco has been pursuing a more -or -
less secret pro -Arab policy; and it
has been a matter of common report
that Spain has sold considerable
amounts of rifles and other war ma-
teria! to the Arab armies opposing
Israel. Now this "friendship" may be
codling out more openly.
There could be either or both of
two motives for Franco's actions.
Should a new war break out it is
almost certain that the Mediterranean
region will play an all-important part
in it; . and the more harmonious
Spain's relations are with the ,Arabs,
the better are Franco's chances' for
exercising a decisive influence in that
region.
The second motive is the near ap-
proach of the United Nations fall
meeting in Paris. Spain wants to have
last year's anti -Spanish resolution re-
scinded and the road ,prepared for
its own admission to the General
Assembly. For that purpose Spain
needs friends — and the Arab vote
could be of good service. So there
,may be a lot more back of Generalis-
simo Franco's recent moves than
appears on the surface.
Lucky Fellows
A couple of mosquitoes .were at-
tending a convention of insects and
an old timer was sitting around re-
miniscing with a modern one. The
old timer sighed:
"Things have changed a lot since
my day, When I was a boy you
could only bite a girl on the hands
or the face, but look at the oppor-
tunities you young chaps have
today".
SALLY'S SALLIES.
' My'husband's a fireman, too, NO
please spray our lawn when that
£Ire's under Control."
He Makes Golf His Life's "Work"—One of the most unusual and interesting figures on the
sporting scene is Frank Stranahan, mightily -muscled golfer who, although be has no need to
do so, works far harder at golf than many of t hose who make their living by it. Son of a very
wealthy father—it is rumored that Frank has an "allowance"'of more than $1000 per week—his
chief ambition is to emulate the example of the illustrious Bobby Jones and hold, at the same
time, the four major golfing titles -- British Amateur and Open and American ditto. This
exclusive picture shows Stranahan in action during the Canadian Open tournament at Ancaster,-
near-Hamilton, which he won. It is said that he plays or practises golf 365 days a year, except
during Leap Year when he makes it 366.
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Y A SlXBIT C
With humble apologies to any
Turf addicts among our clients, we
wish to confess to a very grave
error. For years, tike many other
sports cobblers, we have been
preaching to the text "you can't
possibly beat the races". Now, at
long last •we learn that this is a mis-
take. It IS possible to male a profit
betting on the horses; and to make
up for misleading you in the past,
we now disclose just how to go
about it.
* * *
Well then, first of all you manage
to pick out—right at the very be-
ginning of its career—sone such
slate as the one called STYMIE.
You alight find this considerable -of.
a chore seeing that STYMIE —
when he was retired from racing a
few weeks back—had amassed by
far the largest winnings in the
history of the sport, amounting to
between 900 and 950 thousand dol-
lars. However, even if you have to
do a bit of searching, that's how you
commence — find yourself a STY-
MIE to follow.
* * *
Once found, you then proceed to
wager a flat sums to win each time
he goes to the ppst With STYMIE
you'd have had to visit the mutual
ticket windows—or phone your
bookie—exactly 126 times .over a
matter of five and a half racing
seasons. That would represent quiet
a lot of time, to say nothing of
wear and tear on the nervous sys-
tem. But think nothing of it. What
would you care, so long as you were
bound to quit winner?
Do we hear you 'asking "How
great would those winnings be?"
Hold tight to your seat now! In
his 126 starts STYMIE'headed all
opposition on exactly 35 occasions..
(He finished second 32 times, third
26, and on 33 -afternoons ended up
what is crudely known as "in the
can".) And with a two dollar bet
on STYMIE'S distinguished snot
every time he entered the starting
gate, you'd find yourself with pro-
fits totalling—believe it or notl—
slightly over seven dollars.
* * e
So there now, our secret is out;
and don't go around saying we fail
led to tell about our guaranteed,
foolproof system. Five and a half
years; a capital invesment of $252;
and a tidy seven bucks profit, For -
piling up wealth that's almost as
good as making a career of selling
smoked glass for watching eclipses
of the sun.
* * *
1°he question is occasionally ask-
ed as to why Canadian sports writ-
ers do not pay more attention to the
noble game of cricket. The answers
really fall into two categories. First,
in the districts most of us haunt
there really isn't very much cricket
to which we could pay attention.
But the real reason is that we sim-
ply haven't got the necessary voca-
bulary. Afcr reading some of the
things that have recently come out
of Australia regarding Don Brad-
man, we realize more than ever
that the sports writing dodge "down
under" must be largely different
from what it is around here.
* * *
Don Bradman, as, you probably
know, is widely acclaimed as the
greatest cricketer of all' title—al-
though there are some who alight
still hold out for the late Dr, W. G.
Grace who must have been a mag-
nificent sight as he strode toward
the wicket with, floating in the
breeze, one of those beards that
looked as though it might be con
ceasing a couple of robins' nests.
* 4 *
At all events Bradman occupies,
in cricket,. a position similar to. what
Babe Ruth bed to have itt baseball.
Now, Pike the afore -mentioned
STYMIE, lie's retiring from active
competition. (IA tether for the same
reasons we really cannot tell you;
we know that STYMIE has a chip-
ped stifle -bone but haven't . heard
about Bradman's). Anyway, after
21 seasons, he's quitting. And as we
previously hinted some of the things
that are being written about hint
should cause sports columnists on
this side of the water to blush for
shame, and resolve to take a corres-
pondence course in language. Here,
for your enlightenment, are just a
few samples.
* * * v
, none has approached the
prolific scoring achievements of the
mighty Don."—"Fastidious in all
his actions on and off the field ...
he has been dubbed a `clam' because
of his reticence ... "—"But none
can deny the fulsome expression
he gives to his magnificent ability
„ Intellectually the Don ranks
with the greatest in cricket .. "
—"The culmination of his genius
was his remarkable captaincy of
world championship teams."
* * * '
Which slloulct be enough to- give
you a general idea—and we take it
thatnoAustralian fan would think
of delving into the sports page with-
out a good dictionary beside him.
However, we manage to get just
a notion that Mr. Bradman must
have been quite a willow wielder—
one writer says that he had a
"broadcast bat", whatever that may
be—and well worthy of the testi-
monial game which is being cooked
up in his .
honor.
* * *
And Bradman will probably col-
lect more than just a little honor
and glory front that sante game. It's
being planned for Melbourne where
the Crcket Grounds can accomo-
date a mere one hundred thousand
casts customers. It will be a four
day match, which 'means four dif-
ferent gates, each likely of the cap-
acity" variety. Yes, indeed when
it's all over, and the receipts tallied
up, there should be quite a neat bit
of take -hone money for the man
"whose name is writ largest of all
tl•e annals of world cricket".
* * *
But we do wish that Ted Reeve,
Jim Coleman and the rest of the
boys woud get around to decorating
their prose a bit with such phrases
as "fulsome expression of magnifi-
cent ability" and the like. Hot
dog! 1 l
. *
It All Depends ...
A woman was putting her little
girl to bed early one evening after a
very trying day with the child. The
girl had been in mischief all day and
the mother was a bundle of nerves
as the day ended. Rebuking the
,little girl for having been cross and
ill-tempered, the mother received
the following reply:
"All I've. got to say, Mummy, is
,that it's temper when it's ale and
nerves when it's you."
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