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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. The playing fields of Eton have been given due credit for Britain's power and durability. dura-bility. We seem to have overlooked the playing fields Army to Ape 0f West Point. A Strategy sweeping technics techni-cs Football cal reorganization of the army is news this week. It might not have come off had it not been for a certain cer-tain incident on the West Point football foot-ball field. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, is the reorganizer. He is preparing the army for the open game swiftness, mobility, adaptive-ness, adaptive-ness, as in modern football. It was an instant of inspired open football, back in the Juggernaut days of the guards back and the side-line buck, that saved young Malin Craig for the army and the ) current reordering of tactics and I equipment. ! Just before the game with Trinity college in 1897, the West j Point scholastic command had ; decided to retire Cadet Craig. ! Of an ancient army line, with many relatives in the service, he had been visiting around army posts. His marks had suffered. suf-fered. The ax was to fall Just after the game. Craig was a brilliant backfield player, but somewhat given to unplanned un-planned maneuvers. Carrying the ball at a critical turn of the game, he lost his interference in a broken field. He shook off several tacklers, but, somewhere around the 35-yard line, a stone wall of Trinity players play-ers loomed head. Ducking a hurtling body, scarcely I checking his stride, he booted a perfect per-fect field goal-young goal-young Craig winning the game, Boots Coal with appropriate On the Run Frank Merriwell I trim m i n g s. Of J course, the faculty couldn't fire a I hero. The ax was put away, a tutor ; was found, and Cadet Craig finished I creditably to establish the open j game in the American army. He was a baseball star, also, j and old Pop Anson tried to sign him for the Chicago National team. Born in St. Joseph, Mo., he was the grandson of a Civil war general. His father was a major and he has a son recently out of West Point. In the Spanish-American war, the Philippines, France and in minor mixups, he was a quick thinker and a self-starter, heavily garlanded from the first and known as a "progressive" "pro-gressive" tactician. A FEW years ago, Richard Strauss was in trouble with the Nazis. The libretto of his opera, "The Silent Woman," had been written writ-ten by Stefan Strauss Is Zweig, a "non-Restored "non-Restored to Aryan." The op-Nazi op-Nazi Favor era was a floP and Herr Strauss was ousted as president of the Reich Culture chamber and chairman of the Federation of German Composers. Compos-ers. He is now restored to official favor. His librettist for his new opera, op-era, "Der Fridenstag," is a certified cer-tified Aryan, Joseph Gregor, a Viennese poet, and its world premier pre-mier at Munich Is a brilliant success, with new garlands for the seventy-five-year-old composer. com-poser. So apparently all is forgiven, and the traditional rebel of the musical world is rebelling no longer. He had decided to save the world at any cost, but turning sixty, he concluded con-cluded he was doing well enough by merely keeping out of Jail. When "Salome" was presented in 190.1, puritanical New York was ,c I .,, shocked, and the Salome Was mere idea of its Cause of being given here Famous Row caused a row. Its presentation in New York in 1921 was taken calmly. Strauss' "Murky Psychographies," as the critics called them, didn't bri!!S any riot calls. These muddy phantasmagorias of his earlier years got him into many battles, but he settled down to writing and -being a good business man to money making. Once, when he was quarreling with Berlin, he was asked if he would play there. "I would play on a manure pile if they pay me for it," he said. "e is no kin of the famous waltz family of Vienna. In mellow mel-low and beery old Bavaria, his father was a horn-blower and his mother a brewer's daughter. He has prospered through his later years, the owner of a cas- ' tie in Vienna and an estate in Bavaria. In 1930, German cities were flght-for flght-for lnrr as their leading citizen, w t'i chambers of commerce com-P' com-P' ':ng and making offers. Then ca-ne the brief eclipse over the "non-Aryan" associations, and now the full effulgence of his restored career. Consolidated News Features WNU Service. |
