Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK the playing fields field ia of eton have been given du due credit for britain s power and durability we seem to have overlooked the playing fields army to ape of west point A strategy sweeping of 0 football cal reorganization of the ar army my is news this week it might not have come off had it not been for a certain incident on the west point foot ball field gen malm malin craig chief of staff is the reorganizer he is preparing the army for the open game swiftness mobility 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 malm mahn craig for the army and the current reordering of tactics and equipment just before the game with trinity college in 1897 the west 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 ills marks had sut suf fared the ax was to fall just after the game craig was a brilliant backfield player but somewhat given to unplanned maneuvers carrying the ball at a critical turn of the game he lost his interference in a broken field he shook off several tacklers tac klers but somewhere around the 35 yard line a stone wall of trinity players loomed ahead ducking a hurtling body scarcely checking his stride he booted a perfect field goal young craig winning the game boots goal with appropriate on the run frank merriwell trimmings of course the faculty couldn coulden t fire a hero the ax was put away a tutor was found and cadet craig finished creditably to establish the open game in the american army lie ile was a baseball star also and old pop anson tried to sian him for the chicago national team born in st joseph mo he was the grandson of a civil war general his ills 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 he was a quick thinker and a self starter heavily garlanded from the first and known as a progressive gres sive tactician a 0 FEW years ago richard x strauss was in trouble with the nazis the libretto of his opera the silent woman had been written by stefan strauss Is a non restored to aryan the op nazi favor era was a flop P and herr strauss was ousted as president of the reich culture chamber and chairman of the federation of german composers he is now restored to official favor his ills librettist for or his new opera I 1 der Friden stag is a certified aryan joseph gregor a viennese poet and its world pre truer mier at munich is a brilliant success with new garlands for the seventy five year yea rold r old corn com poser so apparently all is forgiven and the traditional rebel of the musical world world is rebelling no longer he had decided to save the world wold at any cost but turning sixty he concluded he was doing well enough by merely keeping out of jail ail when salome was presented in 1905 puritanical new york was shocked and the salome was mere idea of its cause of being given here famous row caused a row its presentation i n new york in 1921 was taken calmly strauss murky ies as the critics called them didn dian t bring any not 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 di I 1 would play on a manure pile if they pay me tor for it he said he ile is no kin of the famous waltz family of vienna in mel low and beery old bavaria his father was a horn blower and his mother a brewer s daughter lie ile has prospered through his later years the owner of a cas tie ile in vienna and an estate in bavaria in 1930 german cities were fight ing for him as their leading citizen I 1 with chambers of commerce corn com anu ana making offers then came the brief eclipse over the non aryan associations and now the full effulgence of his restored career Q consolidated news feature features service |