New Britain herald., 1922-01-16
BIBLE CLASS MEN
 R0MP ABOUT '. M.
Sporting Events, Rifle Matches
 and Other Entertainments

Between 3Sb and 400 men Of the class crowded the Y. M. c A. Saturday night They shot rifle matches, played pool, checkers, basketball, bowled had tugs of war, battle royal and in general had a glorious time. In fact so thoroughly did they enjoy themselves that it took F. NJ. Preble. industrial secretary of the Y. M. c. A., who was host and secretary of the Every mans Bible Class, whose members formed the guests, an hour past his usual time to lock up and go home. Reds Outclasscd
 The games were In charge of S. M Brewster, who was chairman of the general committee, and J. G. Herg- strom who was chairman of the athletic committee. The performance opened with a pool shooting contest, in which four tables were kept busy. This contest was won by sharks" from the Red army. Bowling, which followed was awarded to the Blue army as were In turn the rife shoot ing handball and checker playing con | tests.
 Battle Royal
 It was not until the crowd finally reached the gym that hllarity reach ed its height. The battle royal, of a different type than the pilowed glove variety, opened the program there Each team was given a specified num- Der of men, and each man was given charge of one Indian club, which he was instructed to guard. The club was to be kept standing on the floor like q ten pin. Nolley balls were distributed to the men and the game and the game was to knock down the other fellows pins. The Blue army won two straight. The tug of war almost broke up the party and it was not until after the contest was over that anyone knew who really won. It finally was declar- cd forfeited to the Blue army because of certain irregular proceedings on the part of the Reds. The Blue army to show that its men were on the square, selected the northeast corner of the room, while the Reds took the corner diagonally opposite. And the selection of the corner made all the trouble, A 1-2 mantlla rope, about 100 feet long was procured and each team took hold. At signal, the men began to pull.
 Mysterious Change. The blue army, after considerable straining, with number of men be- coming somewhat red in the face, (they would not admit the color, however, gained slowly but surely. until the red army suddenly found it. self Is inches nearer the northeast corner than it was when it started Then something mysterious happened Not even the spectators could under stand it. The reds appeared to have gained renewed strength and faster than the blues had pulled them, they returned to their corner, taking their opponents with them.
 Looked Suspicious
 The whole thing looked suspicious, tut it was out in the open gym and l7l plain view of hundreds of specta- tors on the balcony. Nobody could' s-e anything wrong. Two blue leaders became very much excited all O. a sudden. & M Brewster was seen groping about the red corner "lCAl pOCktl hIllt III HIS ndnQ aDOuG the time Dr. J. E. Conger jumped into the contest and with both hands in the air, signalled to stop the show"
 Put One Over
 The cat was out of the bag. There were IS men on a side, but in the red corner was a trap door, with hole through the cover just large enough to admit the rope, and downstairs in the locker room were 12 additional men pulling on the rope and straning all their might to pull the blues off their feet. The game was forfeited to the blues.
 Basketball games were won by the blues and the volley ball and hockey masquerade games were won by the reds, giving the blues a final score of S-3. The hockey masquerade caused considerable laughter as two teams. of hockey players drove the ball about the floor, clad in pajamas and night shirts decorated with the colors of their team.
 In honor of D. McMillan, recently elected marshal of the red army and