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â-ºâ€¢ *.. I ^VU/iTGOES ON <4) INTHE •yNorremBlair Great Britain Just a few mouths ago there was a feeling in llie United Statesâ€" also in •irtain sectors of Canadaâ€" tliat the Old Country" was "down and out" and practically bankrupt. The "view- ers with alarm" who took such a itand have had good reason lately to revise that estimate. First there was the success of the^ Olympic games â€" at which the British people proved that they could come back from the battering of the war- time years and put this great sports event over in a manner which made »ny past efforts â€" even those of the United States at Los .-Vngcles â€" look lomewhat feeble. Then, newly released figures are ihowing that tlie United Kingdom is In the midst of a business boom of Mtounding proportions. In July its record in export of goods â€" taking 100 per cent as stand- ard for the year before the war â€" was 138 per cent. The value of those goods was the equivalent of $536,- 000,000â€" the highest figure in 28 years and only 12 million dollars »hort of the all-time record made in July 1920, right after the First W^rld War and when all the nationc were calling loudly for British gobds. More than that, if prices in the "dollar countries" â€" the United States and Canadaâ€" had not risen so ex- travagantly. Great Britain would by now be in sight of balancing her overseas trade account, and thus ihowing the prophets 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 â€" 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 Ufe in the old gal yet! Spain Spain is to a large extent politically liokted from the rest of the world, and does not bulk to any great extent In world news. But that does not mean tliat nothing is happening there behind the scenes â€" or that Gtneralis- •imo Francesco Franco can be con- lidcred a "back number," a leader who no longer matters very much. Not long ago Francoâ€" through the Spanish Minister to Egyptâ€" 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 Middle 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 ritles and other war ma- terial to the Arab armies opposing Israel. Now this "friendship" may be coming 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 ;uc' with the Arabs, the better are Franco's chances for exercising a decisive iiifltionce in thut rcffion. 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 â€" and the Arah vote could he of good service. So there may be a lot more back of Generalis- jimo Franco's recent moves than appears on the surface. Lucky Felloyrs .V 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 todav". SALLY'S SALLIES "Mv husband's a fireman, too, M please sprey our lawn when that ftre's under oontroL" He Malces Golf His Life's "Work"â€" One of th sporting scene is Frank Stranahan, mightily-m do so, works far harder at golf than many of t wealthy father â€" it is rtimored that Frank has a chief ambition is to emulate the example of the time, the four major golfing titles â€" British exclusive picture shows Stranahan in action dur near Hamilton, which h-e won. It is said that h during Leap Year w e most unusual and interesting figures on tht uscled golfer who, although he has no need to hose who make their living by it. Sou of a very n "allowance" of more than SIOOO per week â€" his illustrious Bobby Jones and hold, at the same Amateur and Open and American ditto. Thii ing the Canadian Open tournament at Ancaster,- e plays or practises golf 365 days a year, except hen h« makes it 366. PY A SixBixCmTic With humble apologies to any Turf addicts among our clients, we wish to confess to a very grave error. For years, like 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 make a profit betting on the horse*-; 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 â€" right at the very be- ginning of its career â€" some such skate as the one called STYMIE. You might find this considerable of a chore seeing that STYMIK â€" when he was retired from racing a few weeks back â€" had amassed by far the largest \\-inniiigs in the history ot 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 â€" find vourself a STY- MIE to follow. * * * Once found, you then proceed to wager a flat sum to win each time he goes to the post. With STYMIE you'd have had to visit the mutual ticket windows â€" or phone your bookie â€" 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 snoot every time he entered the starting gate, you'd find yourself with pro- fits totallingâ€" believe it or not! â€" slightly over seven dollars. * * • So there now, our secret is out; and don't go around saying we fail- ed to tell about our guaranteed, foolproof system. Five and a half years; a capital invesment of $252; and a tidy seven bucks profit. For piUng up wealth that's almost as good as making a career of selling smoked glass for watching ecHpses of the sun. » ♦ * ^ The quc>tion is occasionally ask- ed as to why Canadian sports writ- ers do not p.iy 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 wc sim- ply haven't got the necessary voca- bulary. Afer 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 time â€" al- though there are some who might 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- cealing a couple of robins' nests. * * * At all events Bradman occupies, in cricket, a position similar to what Babe Ruth used to have in baseball. Now, like the alore-nientioned STY' M IE, he's retiring from active competition. (Whether lor the same reasons we really cannot tell you; we know that STY'MIE has a chip- ped stifle-bone but haven't heard about Bradman's). Anyway, after 21 seasons, he's quitting. .'Vnd as we previously hinted some of the things that are being written about him 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. * * ♦. "... none has approached the prolific scoring achievements of the mighty Don." "Fastidious in all his actions on and oil the field . . . he has been dubbed a 'clam' because of his reticence . . . " "But none can deny tlie fulsome expression he gives to his magnificent ability . . . Intellectually the Don ranks with the greatest in cricket ..." "The culmination of his genius wag his remarkable captaincy of world championship teams." * ♦ ♦ Which should be enough to give you a general idea â€" and we take it that no Australian 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 â€" one writer says that he had â-  "broadcast bat", whatever that may be â€" 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 from that same game. It's being planned for Melbourne where the Crckct Grounds can accomo- date a mere one hundred thousand cash 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-home money for the man "whose name is writ largest of all in the 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- ceait ability" and the like. Hot dog! ! ! 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