Judge — April 9, 1932 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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“SKIPPY” ESSAY CONTEST AWARDS! Object: To write the best essay of not more than 300 words on “What I Like or Dislike About Skippy’s Philosophy,” based upon the sectior ophy” in the book, “A Cartoonist’s Philosophy” by Perey Crosby. The Judges Are Pleased To An- nounce the Following Awards: FIRST PRIZE— = Anne V. Repp, $100.00 3450 41st St, Long Island City, N.Y. SECOND PRIZE— Myrtle Ardith Lecky, $50.00 281 West Rock Ave. New Haven, Conn, THIRD PRIZE— $25.00 FIVE PRIZES OF $10.00 EACH— Jan Hartnett, 605 N, 13th St, Milwaukee, Wis. Bettie Margot Cassie, Montpelier, Vermont. Aldren H. Hale, Jr., 77 W. Wooster St, Danbury, Conn. T. J. Metnerney, 422 E. 42nd St, New York City, James Cathey, Jr, Riverside, Columbia, Tenn. Jacob Dress, 75 Dougla nee, R. 1. The Judges: Ward Greene, novelist and editor: Hugh Leamy, author and editor: Gilbert Seldes, playwright, essayist and critic: William Lengel, novelist, playwright and editor. THE ESSAY WINNING FIRST PRIZE FOLLOWS: “Why I Like Skippy’s Philosophy” By Anne V. Repp LIKE Skippy’s Philosophy because it is so sound and so simple. Skippy’s love of God is the cleanest form of hero worship. He accepts, completely, all that God has created. and recognition, his simple creed is based. His imagination is lovely and sweet, yet with all, so matter of fact. Skippy easily and clearly explains his beliefs to his friends, because they are so real and vivid to him. On that acceptance By going to “God direct,” at all time » Skippy will never lose his “internal tattooing.” perfect. Skippy is satisfied with his little place in this world, and wishes only for more wisdom. And that is the most sensible thing anyone could wish. Skippy knows that when he is at peace with himself, he is at peace with the world. That description of | religion . . . is He is scolded because he cannot understand that he is going wrong, and after he is convinced that he has done something annoying, he stops doing it, because he thinks too much of his mind, or conscience, to continue doing that wrong. Long may the little bright light, that is Skippy, shine through this nothingness. PERCY CROSBY, PUBLISHER, McLEAN, VIRGINIA Judging the Sports (Continued from page 3) John Paul Jones, and Mel Shepherd to run at Stockholm. These men were some of the greatest middle distance runners the world has ever seen. Did they win? No. Some unheralded Oxford boy called Jack- son ran them dizzy. Later on in 1924 we had the pain- ful sight of witnessing Abrahams of Cambridge University showing his very English heels to Paddock and the rest of our so called humans.” At Amsterdam it was only a gallant worsted breaking plunge on the part of Ray Barbutti from Syracuse, that saved us from a com- plete rout in the track events. s winter indoor track stuff, primarily a circus for the cash customers and a junket for a bunch of silk hatted field judges and petty officials, is all wet. On top of that we put our men through the aforesaid gruelling series of spring and summer elimination con- tests, weeding out processes, na- tional track meets, pentathlons, de- cathlons, and what’s your fancy name for Track Carnivals? In Europe they run for the fun of the sport involved. In this coun- try we race to smash records and we generally succeed. But when the crucial race arrives the foreign en- trants seem to have that extra ounce of stamina to call upon, in order to nose out our all too often burnt out time smashe I think the feats of Percy Williams of Canada in win- ning the sprints at Amsterdam bear this out. Shall I borate, or is Mr. Wykoff’s e too red? Of course it has never occurred to us to try and cop any long dis- tance races. Paavo Nurmi and a codger named Hans Kolehmainen made any such idea one of absurdity comicbooks.com