New Britain herald., 1924-12-04

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 Since tho Yellow Jackets have booked game with Waterbury Sunday, tho All-New Britsin man. agement has decided to call the sea- son closed. However, there's a bare possibility of game in Hartford Sunday.
 A review of the past season is nothing over which tho management can boast.
 The team turned in q number of corking good games, but at the same time offset those by number that were equally terrible.
 Financially however. the manage ment has no great occasion to howl.
 All of which reverts back 10 the oft repeated assertion that profess sional football is simply an exhibi- ton of football and not playing of football.
 Football is hard and more or less strenuous game. Play CTS playing for the love of the sport and fired by spirit for their school or club. will put vim and dash Into their work that cannot be in- duced otherwise.
 A bunch of II moro or less unac- quainted men called a team and playing simply because at the end of the game they get paid cannot put up the spirited contest that the others can.
 The Hartford DiXies whipped the Tcrryville Legion 25-ls last night, The Legion is here Saturday night.
 The Beavers of South Manchester are anxious to book games locally, especially with the Boys club. J. P. Tierncy, 133 Cooper street, So. Manchester, is manager.
 The featherweight tournament was wonderful thing. = It re- realed to the world there is a fighter by the name of Lombardo.
 Old John Levi has finally finished at Haskell, and nobody had to burn the college to get him out either.
 Babe Ruth has refused to go into the movies. This means we must continue to look to Chaplin and Lloyd for our mirth.
 The Four Horsemen of, Notre Dame have played their last game. 'T Among those not publicly ex. pressing regret are the Princeton and Army coachea
 pnrhanS CorpolI cnulJ f,n football situation by hiring sched- ule-maker with less optimism.
 The boys are saying Firpo was badly handled. He certainly was badly handled by Messrs Demp- scy. Wills and Weinert.
 Wonder what roto page editor will win the annual reward for print ing the first picture of a bathing girl swimming in an ice-strewn lake?
 Even if there Is a shortage of nuts the squirrels should worry. Walter Mails is coming back to the big leagues.
 The difference between Jim Cor bett and the present-day fighter is that Jim puts his act on in theater.
 Walter Camp says there is noth- ing new about the huddle system. - Anyone who ever rode on a street car at 5:3o ?. m. knows that.
 New York is making much ado over an Italian bike racer who trains on spaghetti. It's just little things like this that distinguish the metropolitan from the yokels.
 Holding Is not allowed in girls basketball. You can't expect a nappcr to get worked up over that kind of game.
 In the weekly roll oft at the Rog- CTS alleys last night DObbs took the purse.
 "Wop" Manolcum has returned to his native heath for 8 time and an nounces an intention of going into training here,
 Manoleum. who has been seen to advantage in a number of bouts hereabout, is looking in the pink of condition. He has remained away from active ring work all summer, has put on considerable flesh and looks like he could round into top notch form with few weeks of