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...professional sport performers none receives less respect from the Press than the wrestler. Sportwriters think nothing of calling wrestlers stupid, shady, corrupt. But any who might have assumed that a wrestler could not be libelled learned the contrary last fortnight when famed Stanislaus Zbyszko was awarded damages from Hearst's New York American...
...Stanislaus Zbyszko's reviler was not the American's sports page, but the Sunday supplement American Weekly. One Sunday four years ago it presented a double-page feature headlined "How Science Proves Its Theory of Evolution." Dominating the spread was a huge picture of a gorilla with sloping brow, massive chest, treelike arms and legs. Alongside the gorilla was a picture of Stanislaus Zbyszko in wrestling stance, showing his sloping brow, massive chest, etc., etc. Read the caption: "Stanislaus Zbyszko, the Wrestler, Not Fundamentally Different from the Gorilla in Physique...
...generally portrayed as a tall, strapping fellow. In New York last week arrived a traveling priest who, in height at least, seemed a match for his venerated patron. He was Rev. Franciszek Skalski, 6 ft. 7 in., of Luck, Poland. Educated at the Grand Seminary of Luck (St. Stanislaus) and the Universities of Warsaw and Paris, Father Skalski is now professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski was photographed with average-sized Owen...
...apotheosis. There are some 19 shots of real sporting events at Manhattan's famed arena (which does not resemble a garden and is about two miles from Madison Square). An exact replica of the Garden marquee was made in Hollywood and reappears constantly. The faces of Jack Johnson, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tommy Ryan, Billy Papke and Tod Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler...
Last week, on the eighth day after he had left Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., for Warsaw, Polish-American Pilot Stanislaus Felix Hausner, too exhausted to talk, was rescued from his floating Bellanca by a tanker, 600 mi. off the coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...