Sport: Dynamic Detroit

Detroit's Board of Commerce which adopted the slogan "Dynamic Detroit" was mildly embarrassed when its city's panic precipitated the closing of all the banks in the U. S. in 1933. For the past two years, however, Detroit's sportsmen have cooperated with the reviving automobile industry in making the boast sound somewhat less preposterous. In addition to the best baseball team (Detroit Tigers), best professional football team (Detroit Lions) and, in the opinion of experts, the best prizefighter (Joe Louis) in the U. S., the city contains the Detroit Red Wings who were last...

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