Judge — June 4, 1932 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUDGING rae SPORTS HAVE before me as I write, the on Santa Monica Boulevard rather complete program of events forthe than go back to that nasty wet old Xth Olympiad, and also a little book- | Arabian desert. se extolling the virtues of Southern The program of events contains California as a ion Land par much interesting reading. One of excellence, which came enclosed in the most amazing things about the the same envelope. I give you the whole affair is the ingenuity shown following crack which I culled from by the A.A.U. bosses in arranging the latter, it may help you under- the various events to take place all stand in some measure just how over the Californian countryside. things are run in the land of the For example, the track and _ field five cent orange juice beake “Do events are to t place in the not be mislead by the term ‘rainy Stadium. The admission to this totals season’ sometimes applied to South- the sum of forty-five dollars, but if a’s Winter months. In you wish “a handsome, engraved with the re of the pa itable for framing purposes ‘y, Southern Californi, ainy in the years to come” it is yours for reason’ is not rainy at all.” a flat sum of twenty-two smackers. This ought to make the Field Boxing, weightlifting, wrassling, Hockey team from India feel per- are all to be held in the Auditorium. fectly at home, and without a doubt Admission here is around forty dol- the Chaldean discus tossers, en- lars with a flat rate for a pass to all tranced by the arid beauty of it all, events to be held therein, for half will hasten to swear out citizenship that sum. Then there is rowing and papers and settle down alongside the yachting at Long Beach, Fencing in Tootsie-Wootsie-Bar-B-Q stand out the State Armory, Equestrian sports at the Riviera Country Club, Cycling at the Rose Bowl, Swimming and Diving in the Swimming Stadium, and last but not least the pistol matches which are to be held up an alley somewhere. These events are rranged to take place at non-con- ng times and they all have a jal scale of admission prices. Lb Man Depression certainly never got figured into the schedule those boys drew up! There is one item on the program which intrigued me no end. Inter- national Demonstration, it is called. That, thought I, certainly is name for good old fashioned bick ing. Looking back over past Olympics and remembering the four-yearly free-for-alls indulged in by Briton, Cc n alike, it came as s ise to find that an element of humor has at last crept into the schedule. For believe it or not, the International Demonstration is to be a series of Lacrosse games played by teams representing three nations. What a chance is here, my country- men! The roughest, toughest form of organized murder to be pla friendships’ sake! Oh boy, will the out-jostled milers, the left-at-their- marks sprinters, and the dozen and one other snarling combatants be fighting for a chance to crash these teams! ls tee tt (Page 31, please) 8 comicbooks.com