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Olympic Outlook
By
Leonard Norwin
Olympic Writer
(Address all requests for information on
the Olympic Games to the Intercolleeiate
Olympic Games News, 231 S. Spalding
Dr., Beverly Hills, California.)
“If the organizing Committee of
the Xth Olympiad of 1932 won’t
give me a job as guardian of the
Olympic Stadium gates, I’ll stake
my last dime against all comers
that I’ll crash the gates.”
‘One-Eye’ Connolly, whom Ted
Cook titles the “King of Gate-
Crashers”—the world-famous hero
of 30 years of gate-crashing ex
ploits, now looking a bit the worse
for rough handling by Old Man
Hard Luck—tosses the above ver
bal bombshell into the Los Angeles
offices of Olympic officialdom and
in the presence of your correspon
dent.
J. F. MacKenzie, manager of
ticket sales for the Xth Olympiad,
when advised of Connolley’s bold
challenge, accepted it with quiet
confidence.
“I accept the challenge of the
great ‘One-Eye’ Connolly and will
stake an amount equal to his on
the outcome. As one segment of
the Xth Olympiad Organizing Com
mittee, we feel that the Ticket De
partment is fool and trick-proof.”
To back up his answer with hard
facts, the challenged official took
us on an inspection tour through
the ticket sanctuary, just opened
at a block’s distance from the bus
iest corner west of Chicago—a
sanctuary as amazing in its com
pleteness and efficiency, as fasci
nating in its intricacy.
They Had No Worry
Not faced with the rigors of the
modern world, the ancient sporting
bloods who watched the entrance to
the sacred Altis on the banks of
the River Alpheus admitted all gra
tis—that is, all except women. Nei
ther Zeus nor his male worshippers
would permit the pettinesses of
feminity amid ceremonies of such
deep religious significance as the
Olympic Games.
One seat of honor, however, was
reserved for the revered priestess
of Dementer, Goddess of Earth and
Good Crops—a piece of ancient
“applie-polishing,” as it were.
Women were the only ‘One-Eye’
Connollys of that day; and the male
guardians got around the hurdle
by requiring the Olympic partici
pants to appear in the nude.
The Modern Way
The guardian of the Olympic gat
es in 1932 will erect no bars of sex
in the face of the entering throng.
His sole interest will be 15 tons of
beautifully steel-engraved tickets
delivered to the patron in souvenir
leather pocket cases, on which six
ty printers and engravers have been
working six month. The printing
of each of these tickets costs as
much as the printing of a IT. S.
twenty-dollar bill and they sell at
prices from 25 to 40% lower than
any in modern Olympic history.
On the ticket’s face stands the
official motif—the laurelled Olym
pic athlete. His predecessor in the
ancient day may be seen in marble
at a half-hour jaunt from the Oly
mpic Stadium in the enchanting
gardens of the famous Huntingdon
Library and Art Galleries, nestling
in the shadow of Mount Wilson and
housing the “Blue Boy” and other
pidceless treasures—a cultural Mec
ca to many of the Olympic visitors
In the pre-Olymnic rush, 200
highly-trained maidens will stand
ready to supply tickets for 2,500,-
000 reserved seats to 135 different
programs, and to serve patrons
speaking at least 6 different lan
guages. if necessary. One self-au
diting. central accounting machine,
a mechanical marvel constructed
specially for use in the Xth Olym
piad, will be recording the exchange
of millions of dollars for vouch
ers, and printing automatically an
incredible amount of information
on each.
In The Steel Maw
In the vaults below, 20 telepnone
girls will be pouring invisible
streams of information over 15 pri-
S. W. Conference Sports Chart
Team—
W.
L.
Pet.
Texas
10
3
.769
T C U
5
3
.625
Rice
8
5
.615
Baylor
6
7
.462
A & M
4
9
.308
S M U
1
7
.125
Games This Week
Thursday—T C U vs. Baylor,
at Waco.
Thursday—S M U vs. A & M,
at College Station.
Friday—T C U vs. Texas, at
Austin.
Friday—S M U vs. Rice, at
Houston.
Results Last Week
T C U 14, S M U 8, at Fort
Worth.
Rice 3, A & M 1, at College Sta
tion.
Baylor 9, T C U 2, at Fort
Worth.
Rice 9, A & M 6, at College Sta
tion.
S M U 2, Baylor 1, at Dallas.
Rice 6, S M U 5, at Dallas.
Texas 11, A & M 4, at College
Station.
Texas 9, A & M 5, at College
Station.
Rice 10, T C U 3, at Fort Worth.
Track Results
Texas GOVis, Rice 60 2/3, A & M
44 5/6, at Austin.
T C U 69%, S M U 66%, at
Fort Worth.
Tennis Results
Texas 6, A & M 0, at Austin.
S M U vs. Baylor, at Waco,
postponed, rain.
Golf Results
S M U 6, A & M 0, at College
Station.
Schedule
Thursday, Friday, Saturday —
Conference tournament at
Austin.
vate lines; and a teletype system
will be tying 8 stadiums, housing
14 types of sport facilities, and the
Olympic Village surveying from the
hills the whole amphitheatre of ev
ents—all in a link of seconds.
Within steel wells, a score of sub
ordinate ticket managers for each
event will be checking out/ under
one central auditor cardboard tok
ens of joy for millions, while the
seating results are recorded on 25
sets of charts for the Olympic Sta
dium alone.
Here in the center section—the
seats of a thousand press men from
the world over; here, the 2,000 ath
letes resting and watching others
do their stuffs; here, the 880 loge
seats for the high Moguls of the
world, with President Hoover’s par
ty included.
Even the Rajahs so-and-sos from
Afghanistan will possibly be there,
since Afghanistan formally entered
the Games two weeks ago.
The New Free Trade
When the athletic hosts of the
world stand assembled in Olympic
Stadium on July 30; when the lone
athlete representing the world
steps forward to take the Olympic
oath and 2,000 voices swell in cho
rus at the Olympic torch on the
Stadium’s massive peristyle bursts
into light; when 105,000 spectators
from 40 nations thrill to the open
ing seremony—Baron Pierre de
Coubertin, founder of the modern
Games, will once more be saying in
spirit—
“Let us export our oarsmen, our
runners, our fencers, into other
lands. That is the true Free Trade
of the future.”
Fish Take Allen
For Fourth Loss
Monday Afternoon
Hard hitting and excellent mound
work enabled Coach E. L. Lyon’s
freshman baseball nine to take in
Coach “Puny” Wilson’s Allen Acad
emy nine on Kyle field diamond
9-3 Monday.
It was the freshmen’s fourth
straight victory over their ancient
athletic rivals in as many starts,
and their seventh win of the sea
son out of nine starts; losing one
and tying one to the strong Blinn
College team of Brenham on Kyle
field several weeks ago.
Jake Mooty, nonchalant fast ball
artist from Fort Worth, held the
visitors to 3 runs which they gar
nered during their first time at the
bat. Excellent support in both the
nfield and the outfield held the
cadets scoreless for the remainder
of the game.
The freshmen scored four runs
in the second frame and another
four in the fourth after Voelkel,
second baseman, doubled to left
field. Another tally was brought in
the ninth.
The freshmen made a race track
out of the Allen diamond in Bryan
last Friday in defeating the Ram
blers 16-4. Mooty limited the los
ers to only four blows.
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Aggies Favored In
Final Home Game
With Methodists
Team In Better Shape Since
Games With Texas And
Rice Last Week.
Odds will favor slightly the
down-trodden and little respected
Aggies when they play the Mus
tangs of Southern Methodist a con
solation tilt Thursday afternoon on
Kyle field and thus end the final
home stand of the season. Two
more games remain on the sched
ule after the S M U fracas, with
the apparently title-bound Steers,
on Clark field in Austin, May 20
and 21.
Pitchers Ready
The Aggies will enter the game
with S M U with the pitching staff
completely rested and ready for
action. Both Scheer and Moon will
have had sufficient rest to be ready
for a turn on the mound, the for
mer probably drawing the assign
ment.
With the exception of “Mitch”
Mitchell at the shortfield post, the
team will be intact. Mitchell was
ruled out for the remainder of the
season, by none other than the hand
of fate, when he received a broken
hand sliding into second base in
the final game with Rice Institute.
Final Game
Just another ball game to some,
but to several members of the team
it will be their final game on Kyle
field, and will also write finis on
varsity sports for the year. Those
who will close their careers on Kyle
field are Captain Lester “Squawk”
Veltman, Walter E. “Sweetie”
Davis, A. A. “Moon” Golasinski,
George Carpenter, “Pete” Crozier,
and “Bob” Scheer.
At least four and possibly all of
those named will be found in the
starting line-up of the game Thurs
day afternoon.
The Ponies have not shown par
ticular strength in any department
this season, although two hurlers
have given considerable trouble to
opposing batters at times. They are
“Bud” McLeod and Sam Buford.
Either is likely to start and both
will no doubt work against the
Aggies.
Following the game Thursday
more than a full week’s rest will
await the weary Aggies before they
tackle the Longhorns in the sea
son’s final. Moon and Scheer should
be in excellent shape for those
games which will enhance the Ag
gies’ chances to salvage at least
one game from the leading Steers,
ere the race ends.
SHOW TALK
By Philip John
Thursday, Friday, Saturday —
Palace—“Letty Lynton.”
Saturday — Assembly Hall —
“The Broken Lullaby.”
Saturday preview, Tuesday,
Wednesday—Palace—“It’s Tough
To Be Famous.”
Sunday, Monday—Palace—“Sym
phony of Six Million.”
Wednesday — Assembly Hall —
“Business and Pleasure.”
The Greater Palace
BIG DOUBLE PROGRAM
Thursday—Friday—Saturday
“Letty Lynton,” with Joan Craw
ford and Robert Montgomery in
the principal roles, is based on
Belloc Lownde’s novel, and is an
intriguing drama of modern mor
als, in which the heroine faces the
choice of losing her reputation or
going to prison.
“Broken Lullaby” is an excellent
drama of the post war period, con
cerning the life of a sensitive young
man who could not forget the man
he killed, and going to the home
of his victim to give himself up in
a confession, he falls in love with
his victim’s fiancee, and becomes
a member of the family. The pic
ture is most excellently done by
Phillips Holmes, Nancy Carroll, and
Lionel Barrymore.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., takes the
lead in the picture, “It’s Tough To
Be Famous,” the story of the life
of a man who was too famous to
be a good husband. The story is
full of action all through and a de
lightful story in this day of many
heroes.
Ricardo Cortez and Irene Dunn
star in the picturization of Fannie
Hurst’s stirring drama, “Sym
phony of Six Million,” a story of
New York’s East Side. It is a great,
imperishable drama of all people,
and their strife for happiness. It
is truly a great drama, well por
trayed.
Will Rogers stars again, and this
time as a razor magnate, in his
picture “Business and Pleasure,”
in which he goes to Damascus in
search of a steel formula, is in
trigued by a siren, captured by the
Arabs, and stuffed with kous-kous.
In his *>wn natural way, he pulls
through and with the laughs.
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