The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-08-18

Dlllty. we seem TO nave overlooked
the playing fields
Army TO Ape of West Point. A
Strategy sweeping techni-
OF Football cal reorganization
of the army is
news this week. 1t might not have
come off had it not been for GER
tain incident on the West Point foot
ball field. Gen. Malin Craig, chief
of staff, is the reorganizer. He is
preparing the army for the open
game-swiftness, mobility, adaptive
ness, as in modern football.
1t was an instant of inspired open
football, back in the juggernaut
days of the guards back and the
side-line buck, that 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 had been visiting around
army posts. His marks had suf-
fered. The AK was to fall Just
after the game.
Craig was a brilliant backfeld
player, but somewhat given to I'M
planned maneuvers. Carrying the
ball at critical turn of the game,
he lost his interference in a broken
field. He shook off several tacklers,
but, somewhere around the 35-yard
line, stone wall of Trinity play
ers doomed ahead.
Ducking a hurting body, scarcely
checking his stride, he booted per-
:, feet field goal
Young Craig winning the game,
Boots Goal with appropriate
On fhe Rum Frank Merriwell
trim m ings. Of
course, the faculty couldn't fire a
hero. The AK 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 Arson tried to sign
him for the Chicago National
team. Born in st. Joseph, Mo-,
he was the grandson of a Civil
war general. His father was
major and he has a son recently
out Of West Point.
In the Spanish-American war, the
Philippines, France and in minor
mixups, he was quick thinker and
self-starter, heavily garlanded
from the first and known as a "pro-
gressive" tactician.
A FEW years ago, Richard
I \ Strauss was in trouble with the
Nazis. The libretto of his opera,
"The Silent Woman" had been writ
ten by Stefan
STRAUSS Is Zweig, "non-
Restored to Aryan." The OPP
Noz; FnDor era was flop and
Herr Strauss was
ousted as president of the Reich
Culture chamber and chairman of
the Federation of German Compos-
ers. He is now restored to official
favor.
His librettist for his new OPP
era, "Der Fridenstag," is a GER
titled Aryan, Joseph Gregor,
Viennese poet, and its world pre-
mier at Munich is brilliant
success, with new garlands for
the seventy-five-year-old COM
poser.
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 con-
cluded he was doing well 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 Ro,u caused row. It's
presentation
New York in 1921 was taken calmly.
Strauss "Murky Photographers"
as the critics called them, didn't
bring any riot calls. These muddy
phantasmagorias 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. II
would play on manure pile if they
pay me for it." he said.
He is no kin of the famous
waltz family of Vienna. In mel
low and berry old Bavaria, his
father was horn-blOwer and
his mother brewers daughter.
He has prOspered through his
later years, the owner of a cas-
tie in Vienna and an estate in
Bavaria.
In 1880, German cities were fight
ing for him as their leading citizen,
with chambers of commerce COM
peting and making offers. Then
came the brief eclipse over the
"non-Aryan" associations, and now
the full effulgence of his restored
career.
G Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.