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...citizens, Hi-Li is the childish pastime of bouncing a rubber ball off the face of a wooden paddle. But those who have ever spent a night in Miami or Havana know that "high lie" is the way you pronounce the Cuban national game, spelled jai alai and played by scooping the ball in mid-air with shallow wicker baskets and hurling it against the walls of a long concrete court...
Last week, Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs, Theatrical Producer Lee Shubert and Jai-Alai Promoter Richard Berenson pooled their backgrounds and bank accounts to introduce the Cuban national game to Broadway. With all the éclat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...
...idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human and a horse, with famed Jesse Owens making his first track appearance as a professional...
...most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams have multiplied...
Good at such juggling is the new Finance Minister, nimble Georges Etienne Bonnet, who plays with fair skill the fast, exciting Basque ball game of jai-alai. In 1919 Georges Bonnet served France as Chief of Demobilization, has written stacks of books on the most varied subjects: The Soul of a Soldier; Philosophy of Law; The Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State...