Show f I 1 NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK yorktee the playing fields i of eton have been given due credit for britaina Brit ains power and durability we seem to have 0 overlooked ver looked the playing fields army to ape of west point A sit strategy sweeping of football ball cal reorganization of the army is news this week it might not have come off had it not been for a certain incident on the west point football field gen malin craig chief of staff is the reorganizer he is preparing the army tor for the open game swiftness mobility as in modern football it was an instant of inspired open football back in the juggernaut days of the guards back and the sideline side line buck that thai saved young malin 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 be had been visiting around army posts his marks had suffered 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 broken field he shook off several tacklers tac klers but somewhere around the 35 yard line a stone wall of trinity players loomed ahead i I 1 ducking a hurtling body scarcely checking his stride he booted a per fe feet ct field goal young craig winning the game boots goal with appropriate I 1 on f the he run frank Merr iwen eU trimmings of course the faculty 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 he was a baseball star also and old pop anson tried to sin sigm si n him for the chicago national team born in st joseph mo bio 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 he was a quick thinker and a self starter heavily garlanded from the first and known asa progressive gres sive tactician A FEW years ago richard strauss was in trouble with the nazis the libretto of his opera the silent woman had been writ ten by stefan strauss Is a non restored f to 0 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 librettist bior or his new opera der Friden stag is a certified aryan joseph gregor a viennese poet and its world premier it at munich is a brilliant success with new garlands for the seventy five year old composer 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 he was doing w well ell enough by merely keeping out of jail 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 a new york in 1921 was taken calmly 1 strauss murky ies as the critics called them bring any riot calls these muddy phantasmagorias gorias 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 1 I would play on a manure pile if they pay me for it he said he is no kin of the famous waltz family of vienna in mellow and beery old bavaria his father was a born blower and his mother a brewers daughter ile he has prospered through his later years the owner of a castle in vienna and an estate in bavaria in 1930 german cities were fighting for him as their leading citizen with chambers of commerce competing anti aal making offers then came the brief eclipse over the non aryan associations and now the full effulgence of his restored career a 0 consolidated news features Feat service |