New Britain herald., 1925-01-15

! s c king \ 1 of s p orts 'i| Sssvsssss>s..%sSsss Ths Mats hit their winning stride again last night when they defeated the Manchester Atlas 2b-a7.
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 Coach Cassidy of the high school squad wants his players to devote their entire athletic attention to the high school team and threatens to bounce any of tho squad who play on other outfts.
 The coach figures. and doubtless rightly. that he can give the boys all the basketball practice that they should have.
 This edict however. may account for some of the heretofore unknown names that appear in various lines ups--for boys will be boys.
 The New Britain Tennis club is certainly making c bid for success. The officers are live wires and the present members no less 50, so if next year this organization is not heard from 1t will be surprising.
 Queer thing this ambition stuff. One would think Tildeg, with a world title in tennis. would be sat- isfisd. But no Bill now seeks to join tho ranks of the moVie stars.
 He may be good actor, but it's a safe bet he'll never be the screen star that he is Court star. And it's also safe bet that newspapers will never pay him sl0,006 year and better to write his movie experience. as they do for his articles on tennis. For the first time in the fop- cared, non-skid history of wrestling the game has a Big Mum instead of Big Bum as its champion.
 Big Mum Is large muscular pro- duct of the wide-open collegiate spaces of Nebraska where men are men and, oddly enough. so are the Hrestlcrs. -..
 The new ace in the f1op.'em.and- hop-'cm deck is a highbrow who has the low down on the gentle science of bone-crushing.
 Big Mum is very collegiate and always wears his half Nelson at a rakish angle. The class of '22 still talks about how he shocked the junior prom by appearing in a double. breasted head lock and a bright red scissors hold.
 The Man Mountain is the only guy known to the Academy of Higher Arts who ever threw champion out Of the ring, his senses, his title and a European tour all with one deli cate gesture of the micrometer.
 When Mr. Lewis regained con- sciousness he wanted to know if the women and children had been saved and if the interne would kindly lift that locomotive off his left ear, please. ."
 The catch.as-catch-cs Colossus used 10 play football. He picked the Stranger up and ran the length of the field twice for touchdowns. On another occasion he threw him for a 40-yard pass which was grounded. If there had been a fourth quarter he'd probably drop-kicked him iron, the 65-yard line.
 The GrappIing Gibraltar was a six-pointed star with the Nebraska eleven. but Walter Camp ignored him. Waiter had more brains than the Strangler.
 The collegiate influence Of the in. tellectual jumbo Is expected to bring about vital and gaudy changes ir the mat game. Well stand for anything but cheer leaders.
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 Tn the past 1t was hard to tel when a match was on the square and when 1t wasn't. When the 1ugging Leviathan wrestles and hi opponent doesn't so to the hospita you can put it down as a phoney
 The White sox will open the sea e son this year with the Tygers but nobody knows where they will end
 Notwithstanding all his skill, wt wouldn't bet that One-Eyed Con. molly succeeds in crashing the pearlJ gates.
 80 Me1lilan says he got s2,oo( for the first professional footbal game he played. It would he inter esting to know how this compare with amsteur salaries.
 Dr. Copeland writes it's lot Q hunk about an apple a day keep ing the doctor away. This seem to make him an apple knocker.
 Harry Wills says In training fo a fight he goes days at time with
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