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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

Manager and Director :
viii Decide On New
Home Playing TOnlght

to represent the Lyceum for the
balance of this campaign. Jackie
Cremmens is to be at center, Dorman
and Regan, in the advance. and
Brownmiller, Glochau and Handler
han, in the backfield. The last men
toned players are the only members
who started the season with the
club and the three additions are
rated with the leading basketball
players in the East.
Last Saturday night the speedways
won a notable victory in New York,
downing the colors of the Renais-
II combination, and as a result
Of this win, games are pending with
the Commonwealth and other New
York and North Jersey outfits.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
BRIEF BITS OF SPORTS
IN ALL FIELDS

Joe Lynch, bantamweight cham
pion of the world, will not fight at
the next show OF the National Sport
ing Club in the local Auditorium, it
has been announced.
The Perth Amboy Big Five bas-
ketball tossers, Jersey champions
last season, will have to travel some
In order to defeat the reorganized
Harmony quintet tomorrow night
and the Original Celtics on Tuesday
night.
So well is soccer advancing that
a guide has been prepared on the
rules of the game and the progress
being made in the various sections
of the country, the same as for base
BAH, basketball, football. etc.
Bill Sheehan, manager of the
Dublin Glee Club baseball team last
summer, may play a part In the pro-
motion of the great diamond sport
in this city during the 1924 season.
It is rumored that a three-man
team bowling league may replace
the five man team organization now
being run by the local lodge of Elks.
Unless an unexpected slump de-
velops the United Council quintet OF
~Tottenville will annex the champion
ship of the Staten Island Junior Or
der bowling league for the season.
Fans who never before witnessed
a basketball game in the local Audi
forum are planning to visit IN
Amboys home on next Tuesday nigh
to see the Original Celtics in action
The third show OF the Elizabetl
boxing Club. OF which Johnny An
ithes is the promoter, viii be stage.
lin the Flora theatre. Betsytown, thi
evening.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
TWO TEAMS MAY
ENTER TOURNEY
Local "Y" may Have Two
Entries in Greenwich
VoIIey Ball Meet

After tonight's practice games in
the 'Y" gym it should be possible
to select the combination which will
represent this city in the tri-state
championship volley ball tourna-
ment which will be held at Green
wich, Conn, on New Years day. If
the players do not show sufficient
strength tonight, however, it will
not likely be until after next weeks
practice session that the varsity
team will be picked.
There has been some talk of Perth
Amboy entering two teams in the
tournament, but If this Will cut
down the chances of one team VIM
ming by taking one or W men from
it, the idea may be dropped. There
should be no great difficulty in get
ting two teams from the local "Y"
without weakening the first team,
even though eight men are selected
for the varsity team, which would
permit of an extra spiker and passer.
With so many good players to
choose from it seems that a second
team could be secured without inter-
fering with those men selected by
the Volley ball committee for the
first team. Should two teams go to
Greenwich from here it would make
n large delegation as a number of
rooters are going to accompany the
first team.
Tonight's match between the two
teams made up of squad members
will be for blood" as the %so-called
first team" although seldom having
the same lineup, has been meeting
too many defeats at the hands Of
the Seconds" during this series of
| practice games. Both teams will
be instructed tonight to play their
hardest In order that some idea of
their comparative strength might lie
ascertained and a means found, if
necessary, Of bolstering up the first
team to the strength it displayed
last season.
The practice session tonight will
get under way promptly at 8 o'clock.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

On Sunday afternoon of this week,
Manager Wesley Wilson, Of the
Speedway basketball team, will meet
with Rev. Father John e. Larlxin,
athletic director of st. Mary's parish,
to decide the night on which future
home contests of the basketball team
will be played at the Fayette and
Mechanic street Lyceum court.
The Speedways have tried two
nights so far, Wednesday and Tues
day nights, and as paying crowds
failed to attend, it was decided to
pick another night on which all
games for the balance of the season
will be played.
Wilson has formed a new lineup
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

any of his bouts, charitable or other
wise. The sorrowful Jimmy Jones
contest, if framed, was not arranged
by Walker and it Is a shame to gee
a good champion, like Mickey"
idle in his own state.
The Betsytown lad brought to tho
front by Johnny Antilles has been a
boost to boxing in this state since
the start of his career and the sooner
he is restored to his rightful position,
the better for the game.
Boxing fans are hoping that Wal
ker's suspension will be lifted shortly
and that his action at Paterson early
this week will not cause his term
of suspension to be increased. For
the sake of the sport, Walker should
recognize Bugbee as the leader, and
remain idle until freed by the COM
missioner, no matter if he has to dis
appoint his best friends.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
Troop2t

@. Does Niagara Falls ever
freeze over?-E. C. G..
A. The Falls themselves never
freeze over, though the river above
or below them sometimes fills with
ice. In certain severe winters, nota-
bly, 1856, 1860, and 1875, ice islands
have formed, and have SO CONSOLE
dated as to construct an ice bridge
over half of the American rapids.
Only the very bold sightseer, how
ever would risk viewing the Fails
from these bridges of ice which
might collapse at n minute.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

half schedule was played through,
and the first half winner carded to
meet the second half champion, in
a playotf series.
Judging the showing being made
by the local team in the state
league, there should be greater in
terest in bowling than ever thi
campaign. n
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
ORIOLES ANNEX VICTORY
IN TOTTENvILLE GAME

After losing an extra period con-
test to Troop 20, at T%ottenville, on
Monday night, the Oriole quintet of
this city, returned to Tottenville, on
Wednesday night, and registered a
two point win over the Troop II
combination of that place. The final
score of Wednesdays game was
24-22. Copeland refereed and the
score at half time was 1910 in favor
Of the Orioles.
The score:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
CpItics PLAYED

Several weeks ago the Original
Celtic basketball team packed the
Lyceum for an encounter with the
Speedways. This was the only real
crowd out for a home game played
by the Speedway five this campaign.
It is quite a job to make two good
teams pay in this city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
City High School Fives,
Ready For Big Games
After Holiday Recess

girls varsity will pen on the Me-
tuchen high school court the second
week in January against the lassies
Of that institution.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
RnlIrs Wnnt Gnnles

The Rally Juniors of this city, are
DESTROYS of arranging games with
Junior teams in this vicinity, aver
aging from 115 to 1875 pounds. For
games with this team managers are
requested TO call SOL.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

@. Why is longitude measured
from Greenwich, England?-D.
U. C.
A. The Royal Observatory of
England was located at Greenwich
and was one of the great institutions
of it's kind at the time that the world
was finding itself from a geograph-
ical standpoint. Great Britain was
also coming into a maritime domi-
nance For these reasons Green
which came to be the basic meridian.
A peculiar situation in Europe is
the more they owe the United
States the larger their army.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

An intentional blackboard shot is
practical in only one instance, that
being when the player is directly un-
derneath the basket; meaning oil
course by underneath the basket. an
area about six feet square IN 'front.'
or the blackboard. -
The number of players who try
~ blackboard their shots from any
distance is SO small that 1t is almost
negligible. During the course OF a
ZANE goals are made with and with,
euf the use Of the blackboard, but
With a shot being an instructive toss
" me basket, 1t is purely a mattel
~ nance whether It goes in clean OF
bits thc blackboard. My idea II
~osching a young player Is to have
w shoot for the basket clean at {
distance and use the blackboard eA
ciusively underneath.
Copyright. 1923. Associated Editors.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

The United States spent SSA7.SA4,-
654 for amusements last year, vet
seemed to be very little
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
CertainIy Approprlate

MANDY-What's yo' all going to
call your new baby?
MISUNDERSTANDING.
MANDY - Weatherstrip? II o W
come?
RASTUS-He done KEEP me outa
the draft.-Harvard Lampoon.
BY the time you find the needle
in the haystack, it is rusty.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

A new local bowling league may
be formed in this city early in jan
cary. There are a number OF inde-
pendent teams interested in organic
ing a league.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21

The Auditorium on New Bruns-
wick avenue will be the scene to-
night of the second heat of the fe-
male half mile skating race. Four
heats will be run off in all.
Ex-Chief Anderson's Garfield Fire
Company bowlers will try to check
the winning streak of the Lincoln
company representatives on the Ar
come alleys tomorrow night. This
is a postponed match.
Willy Darcy, one Of the best ban
tamweights in New York at the
present time, a boy born In South
Amboy. will fight Larry Goldberg at
the next show of the National Sport
ing Club in the local Auditorium.
Booking Manager Ike Levin, of
the Perth Amboys, is making ar
rangements to bring the Trenton
club of the Metropolitan league to
the local Auditorium.
The varsity yolley ball team of the
local Y. NJ. c. A. expects to make a
good showing at the tri-state tourna-
ment to be held in Greenwich, Conn.
on New Years day.
When school is resumed in Janu.
airy, Manager Ham" Fine, of The
representative track team of the
state street institution. expects t.
announce a complete list OF meets
his athletes will take part in.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-21
DANNY McNICHoU

Answered by
Former University of pennsylvania
contain and captain of the all-Amer-
an basketball team. characterized
" man sporting writer's as tine
greatest basketball player OF all
Time"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-03-02

.ne public. They have proved that
Dne Kochdale method removes the
neea Oh capitalistic credit or philan-
'nropic assistance; that in the whole
range OF their great and varied enter
prlses they need pay no toll to anv-
one outside Of their association
AT the conclusion Of his talk sena-
Tor BrOokhart was bombarded with
dozens OF questions by the million
aires In the crowd. He held his own
ably IN the impromptu debate. After
ne mad answered all questions put to
nlm' Colonel Brookhart concluded
am coming back to New York but
next time I expect to meet the farm
ers' the laborers and the ex-soldiers
themselves, and explain this move
ment to them"
we hear a lot about Lenin and
Irotsky, just because the farmers
ask the right to organize cooperative
banks and handle their own money!
l think most of the people up in wis
consin are on the side IF Levi, 81
Trotsky from the wav tbev boya ~ 80,
voting up there lately Co on ooII;,o.
names about Lenin and Trotsky; the
common people of this eount,,, bayo
got past all that stuff. I am ready
70 race 1t here or anywhere else"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-03-02

in the message.
kilograms we're sent to Washing
ton by several clergymen protesting
against Mr.. Luck's appointment.
Mr.. McCormick's message follows:
Efforts from certain sources to
unseat you or to render your tenure
insecure are unavailing. I have in
formation direct from headquarters
that your appointment is secure and
pleasing to the administration. You
are securely entrenched and have a
free hand in conducting affairs of
your Office regardless of any contrary
sentiment. Congratulations again ex-
tended both from myself and from
high circles"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-03-02
LUSK Is UPHELD
IN WASHINGTON

Efforts to discredit Addison K.
Lusk, federal prohibition director for
Montana. are unavailing at headquar-
ters in Washington, ccording to a
+elegrm received by Mr.. Lusk from
Congressman Washington J. Nc
co,noicl Faith of the administra-
ton in Mr.. Lusk and assurance that
The new director has a free hand to
conduct his department are expressed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-03-02
COUZENS TALKS
TO CAPITALISTS

WashingtOn.-Many stomachs in
business circles at the capital are
upset by the things said to a packed
audience at the City club here this
week by Senator Couzens, Michigan.
Rising to address this biggest of the
crowds drawn by any City club forum
this winter, the man who replaced
Newberry in the senate said:
Il am really sorry that 1 can't fill
a pleasant half hour by telling YOU
gentlement what fine city you have.
That would be nice to say and nice
to hear, but it would not be the
truth.
"YOur schools, for example. You
don't expect me to praise your
schools, do you? They are very poor
schools, badly equipped and totally in
adequate. You gentlemen know that,
or you ought to know it. Your
schools are run by congress, of
course, whose members we cannot
expect under present conditions to
promote education very ably. But
while your business men and other
residents of the capital have no votes,
there is such a thing as public opin-
ion which, if it existed could make
itself felt and and respected by con-
gress.
Street Railway Bad
"And your street railways. Shall
I praise your street railways? They
are very bad; the worst 1 have ever
seen, perhaps. I can't praise them
and you ought to be ashamed of
them" Couzens explained that the
Washington street railways are suf-
fering from the same disease which
has ravaged and weakened the rail-
roads of the country. This disease,
he insisted, is private ownership.
"YOu gentlemen are repeating here
all the propaganda against govern
ment ownership that the big corpor-
atoms and fnanciers have put into
your newspapers to deceive you.
am familiar with it all. 1t was used
against us in all the Detroit news
papers, and you will bear in mind
that Detroit had no millions it could
use to buy space in the newspapers
and prove that the propaganda was
false. But we put the street rail-
ways under municipal ownership and
now the people know it was false.
"You speak of the widows and or
phans' who viii lose through govern
ment ownership Of railways. That is
probably true, since nobody but in
nocent and inexperienced widows and
orphans will invest dollar in pri-
vately owned railroads any more.
DetrOit's Experience
incidentally, out in Detroit, when
they told us about the widows and
orphans, we found some six officials
of the company were receiving huge
salaries for very little work which,
if distributed as dividends, would
have helped the widows and orphans
a lot. Seriously, my heart
goes out to those who may lose by
this change to government owner
ship, but it is the law of history and
good craftsmanship that the few
must suffer at times for the sake of
the many"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-03-02
16I SENATOR DISCUSSES CO.
OPERATION With MILLIONARES

....vssh By Congress, After
n nv = Judiciary Committee,
SsPolo g. Him a Chance to Drop
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16
INVISIBLE PEDESTRIANS

There is a mounting list of automobile victims
killed at night Tragedies this sort far harder
to prevent than other kinds, because the usual
standards of carefuness the part of the drivers do
apply An auomobilist may be obeying every traf
flee rule and driving carefully possible and yet
run pedestrian dark street or road because
he is unable to the victim.
Here is where, matters stand the person on
foot has to do nearly all of the safeguarding He
see the automobile plainly when it is properly light
ed and get of the way if the driver is driving he
should The driver often cannot see the person on
foot at all until he is right upon him. This is especially
true of persons crossing the street midway regular
crossings, in dark blocks and it is fact which ought
to be more widely recognized than it is.
An obvious remedy is to have all the streets and
roads so brightly ligned that every pedestrian,
matter how he is dressed, will be made clearly visible
But that costs great deal Of money. It helps
sderaby when pedestrian something white
that will mark him in the darkness White clothing is
excellent protection.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16
QUESTIONS FOR THE BEGGAR

A member Of the New York Federation for Home
less Men, who has himself studied street beggars
first hand urges the citizen accosted for "a dime for
of coffee to ask three questions of the street beg
gar
''Why don't you go to work and earn your own way?
Have you applied to any employment bureau? Why
mem"
They suggestive questions, which should make the
dmegiver think, if they elicit nothing but abuse
from the dme-asker.
If is really in desperate straits the dime
isn't much of help to him. 1t leaves his standing need
of food, clothing work and self-respect just great
as before If he is cheat, the dime simply confirms
his faith that he live by preyng his felow-men
without performing any honest work himself.
1t is not easy to refuse the street beggars plea but
it is usually the most decent, humane thing do when
the situation is viewed from constructive angle. No
ablebodied man who is willing to work need suffer
beg in the streets.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16
MERE THEORISTS

The curious thing about Prof Einsten, the relativ-
ity man, is that with ali the stir he has made IN the
world he remains mere theoTist. He is not seien-
tst in the usual of the word He does not per-
form experiments OBSERVING the processes and results
step by STEP and then drawing conclusions. He draws
his conclusions purely out OF his own head by sheer
reasoning and leaves the demonstration Of them to
other
And wonderful to relate, when hard-headed scien-
fists willing to do the experimental drudgery set to
work to test his theories, they usually find after long
and laborious experimentation, just about what the
uncanny professor has told them they would find
There was example of this just the other day,
when Canadian scientists at the University of Toronto
announced that observations they had made in Aus
tralia during eclipse Of the last September,
confirmed Enseins theory that light does not always
travel in straight lines, but is bent by gravitation
This sort of thing tends to give theory prestige
than it has had in recent years One of these times it
may be admitted that in the realm of business
politics or diplomacy specially gifted man who uses
his brain merely to think with may serve useful pur
pose He may know things that escape the atten
ion of the practical who too much immersed in
details to get true slant on their work.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
Uncle Wiggily Worries the Wolf.

"Mv goodnessl Now l have done
it!' exclaimed the voice of Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzv in the hollow
stump bungalow one morning.
"What have you done!' asked
Uncle Wiggily, who was reading The
Cabbage Leaf Gazette newspaper
in the diningroom after breakfast.
81 spilled the kettle full of hot
water on the floor answered the
muskrat lady housekeeper.
II hope you didn't burn your
tall exclaimed the bunny rabbit
gentleman jumping ont of his chair
"No, my tail is all right said
Nurse Jane, but Uncle Wiggily hop
ped to the kitchen to find out for
himself. He saw Miss Fuzzy Wuz-
" mopping up a puddle of water
from the floor.
"How did it happen? Did the
handle come off the kettle. Did you
slip and fall! Are you sure you did
MT burn yourself: Do you want any
help!'
Uncle Wiggily asked all these
questions very fast.
THANK you, l can mop it up my
self, - answered Nurse Jane, land
! wish you wouldn't worry me, Mr..
Longears.
Worry you?" cried Uncle Wig
gily.
Yes, worry me by asking 50
many questions. If you will kind
ly 90 off adyenturing I'll mop up
the kitchen and be all right. You
only worry me, poking around and
asking questions, if you will excuse
me for saying So"
"Oh, all right! III 60 adventur-
ing" laughed Uncle Wiggily, and
off he hoped over the fields and
through the woods. He had not
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16
Announce Series
Demonstrations
At Vineyards

The Agricultural Extension Ser
vice announces series of vine
training demonstrations 10 be held
Tuesday and Wednesday, April II
and IS in different parts of Tue val
ley.
Tho first will be held April II,
at 9:30 a. m, at the Expcrime ut
Station of the University at Mclo-
land, and vineyards around Mclo-
land. At 1880 y. III. the demon
stration will pc given around Tam
arack ranch, 7 miles northwest of
Imperial.
Wednesday, April 18, at $50, the
demonstrations viii be held at the
Emil Steiner and other vineyards
around Brawlcy. At 1880 p. m. the
demonstration will be given at the
w. S. Faweett vineyard, one fourth
mile south of Heber.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16

bungalow that morning. ~ know
what I'll do" thought the rabbit
ON worry the Wolf by asking
questions, and telling him things
he doesn't want to hear and maybe
he III tell me to go away
No sooner said than done Uncle
Wiggily smiled up at the Wolf and
asked:
'Were you waiting long for me,
Mr.. Wolf! Did you get tired! Are
you very hungry? When did you
eat last9 Do you like ice cream
cones? Did you ever spill Il kettle
full of water on your kitchen floor
Have you any"
"Say look here! What's all this
about? Z" impaticntIy asked the
Wolf. "You'll drive me crazy
with all your questions.
~ wish he would 60 crazy and
let me 60 home" thought Uncle
Wiggily, but he did not speak this
thought aloud, Instead he went on
with
You aren't looking as we'll as
when saw you laat, Mr.. Wolf. You
are rather pale. | In afraid you re
going TO be i'll. You might be get
ting the measles, poX or the chicken
cough. | think you better see DR..
Possun. Are you surc---"
Say, you'll worry me to death
with your questions and talkn
hOwled the Wolf. "Thcre's nothing
the matter Of me except that you
are worrying me. look all right,
Wait minute. IN take peep into
this spring Of water aud gee if |
don't"
Nearby was q spring Of water, as
clear as a looking glass. The Wolf
leaned over it to see if hc was palcr
than he ought 30 be and then, an Of
sudden, the bunny gave the Wolf
push and sent him head over heels
into the water.
"Blub! Blub! Blub!" sputtered
the Wolf.
l guess you re more worried now
than you were at first" laughed
Uncle Wiggily, as he hoped safely
off 10 bis bungalow HHa. Hal /
fooled you again. Aud all the old
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-16


gone very far before, all of a sud
den, he heard u rustling noise in the
bushes. At first Uncle Wiggily
thought it was the wind blowing
through the new, tiny green leaves
that were just coming out for their
first look at spring. But, as the
rustling noise continued, the bunny
rabbit gentleman began to feel af
raid.
And well he might feel afraid, for
u little later, out from under the
bushes popped the Woozie Wplf, and
aud after the bunny gentleman the
Wolf began to run.
But Uncle Wiggily did not want
to be caught, 30 he also ran and then
he hoped as fast as he cculd hop.
But the Wolf could run much faster
than Uncle Wiggily could hop, and
soou the chap had caught Mr.. Long
cars.
"Ah, Ha! Now / have you, and
now for some fine nibbles! growl-
ed the Wolf.
"Oh, dearl" thought Uncle Wig
gily. II guess my ears arc gone
this time, surely!" But, being a
brave rabbit, he did not give up all
hope. Suddenly Uncle Tiggily se.
membesed what had happened in his