New Britain herald., 1924-12-27

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 This will give clerks and other persons who are employed Saturday evenings an opportunity to reach the armory In time to see the entire game.
 Up from Merden comes another tale relating to the ambitious Floyd Boardman who has been essaying the role of basketball manager this season with none too glorious results.
 Last week 1t was announced he was part manager Of the Community Five. The Five played Christmas night. Boardman walked out after the game and those In charge Of the Community boys insist that he has walked out for good.
 In plain words. Associate Manager Boaldman has been fired.
 Last night was Kid Kaplsn night at Polls in Meriden. The sturdy little battler got a great reception and | Mayor King personally presented Louie with a handsome bathrobe as a gift from admiring friends
 A not dissimilar scene also was enacted in Phtlly as Danny Kramer , the Kids opponent, left for training | camp in Jersey. The Quakert own ter TOT announces that he is all set to beat the Kid.
 That's one trouble with Danny he has 10 get set to put over his fa- nous wallop. The Kid won't let him get set. And the boys up in his neck | of the woods are roofing for him 10 set Danny on his w.k, head.
 Tonight the Corbin Cabinet Lock | Industrial league team plays the | slmsbury Legion five in the neigh boring village. The entire team, in cluding Chief Larson, is to play.
 The DiYios pay the speedy West Ends Of Brista tonight.
 Company k of Hartford won l9 | to l4 over thC East Hartford 1nde- | pcndents last night.
 Darlington vas the ColIegians ace ! against the Dixies last night with i three field goals. Fibre got two and | one each was registered by Carroll, l Dumschot and McGran.
 The locals will have to do some {, guarding to keep these boys down 1 as low as that tonight.
 Mckinley, star tackle Of the Uni- | yersity of Pennsylvania football 1 team, enjoys a unique distinction. ! He has been given a place on the first team of every All Eastern and All-American team picked by the eX- ports.
 No longer is it permissible 10 re- fer to Connie Mack's ball club as the Apathctics. It looks as if it had finally arrived and was ready to make all kinds of trouble for it's oth- CT seven rivals.
 Connie Mack is said to be satis- fled with every position on his team but shortStop. Galloway, who prom iscd so much q couple of years back, has elowcd down 10 whisper. Harold Ahrahsms and Eric Liddell, Olympic champion and Britair's most famous sprintCrs. may appear in competition next spring at the Pennsylvania relay carnival. Abra- hams. the Cambridge all-around star, won the Olympic lO0-metrc dash. beating four American aces, while Llddcll captured the 400-mctrc run at Paris in worlds record time. Li1dell, who is studying for the min istry in Scotland, competed at the Pennsylvania meet last Spring but WAS defeated in special 1Dp and 2Oo- yard dashes.
 According 10 up0ftlcial estimates, $i0,D0o. GOO was diStributnd Tn lo%4 among turfmcn in the for moi stakes and purses for thoroughbred racing ainong turfmhn.in th fonm of stakes Of this sum, it is 1stimai cd that close to s2,hoo000 each was distributed in New York and Maryland. with that figure exceeded in Kentucky, historic stronghold Of the sport. Canada is credited with having disbursed sl,- coco
 Alan WoodrinE, former Syracuse university and Olympic champion st 9h0 metres in 1920, will mako re- ueWed eudeayor to como back dur ing the coming indoor season. Wear ing the MillroSe A. A. Colcrs, Wood- ring will enter most of the big meets, lis first start being in the 2jo-metre sprint special in the Finnish h-Ameri- can A. C. games at Madison Square Garden January 6. / One of the oountry's leading foot ball authorities has come forth with another suggestion to the football rules committee. According 10 the present rules. if a penalty is inflicted against the defending team, the of fending team is given the number Of yards called for hy the penalty and first Gown at the point where the ball rests. The new suggestion is 10 give the offending team the yardsEe without the first. down un-