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New Britain herald., 1926-03-20
To Play First Game

Detroit, March 20 P>-The De- troit American team will play its first exhibition game at its Augusta Fla. training camp today when Cobb's squad meets the Toronto h. ternationas. A victory for either side, though, will not be without honor for Detroit, as Manager Cobb has promised to lend three pitchers to the Toronto aggregation.
 Yesterday the two teams picked from the Tiger squad met with a 3 to victory for the team explained by Lou Blue. This evened the two- game series, the other team having taken the first brush two days ago.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20
GERMAN HORSES
Foreign Stables Have Taken Away Most of tho Thoroughbrcds From Country'S RaCctraCks.

Berlin, March 20 Pl-Whlc prep arations for big horse racing sea son arc under way, turf fans find that foreign stables have taken away many promising German thorough brcds.
 Economic dcrcsSion has forced owners 10 trim the size of their stables. At the recent Hoppe garden auction in Berlin. Frigga, T promising three year old brought only s25. More than 100 horses changed hands at tho sale. The top price paid was $40.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20
Russell & Erwin
Corbin Screw
MONTGOMERY SCORES KAYO

Chicago. March 20 P}-Sully Montgomery, former Center college football player, knocked out Ser gcant Jack Adams of Bcllcvillc, Illi- nois, in the first round Of a l0round fight at East Chicago last night, Montgomery foored Adams four times during the short timo they faced each other. Montgomery weighed 204 pounds and Adams 1S9.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

skiing Is another winter sport which has proven popular. and both skiing and skating has been made a part of the athletic instruction. Baseball. track. tennis, and cross country are most popular in tho summer time.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20
GIRL BOWLERS
American Hosiery and COrbn Screw Girls Teams Both Win Two Straight Games At ~"

The American Hosiery girls team took two straight matches from the Fafnir lassics at the Industrial Girls bowling league play on the '. M. C. A. alleys last night. The second match saw tho Corbin Screw girls taking a brace from the Russell &, Erwin team, The scores were as follows:
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

It is certainly puzzle to Con- necticut fight fans Just what the New York commission has 10 do with this affair, and 1t certainly Grates on the nerves of those who are interested In the Meriden cham pion. It certainly Is too bad that the New York commission doesn't have sway over boxing all over the country because 1t evidently is talk ipg upon itself the supervision of boxing in tho United States and now in Canada.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

The Montreal commission ordered KarlGn to fight Roy before lie would meet any other boxer in Montreal. kaplan is signed to meet Roy in tho Canadian city on April @l, His featherwright titlc will not he at slalR us both hoys will scale in about 13O pounds.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20


 The question about town today is whether Berlenbach's poor showing In New York last night against Rlsko will hurt him in any way in his appearance in Hartford April 5. against Ray Neuman of Jersey City. We rather think not, as Berlenbach Is still tho light heavyweight cham pion and fans in this section will be anxious 10 sec him In Hartford.
 Delaney is scheduled to meet him in New York on June 10, and thero is little doubt in any Of Connecticut fandoms minds as to the outcome. Delaney is favored to win by a com fortable margin,
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20
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 of Sports

Tonight is the night in which basketball fans of ths city are inter- ested, because the first games of two series for two city titles will be played at the state armory. The Bur. ritts and the National Guard Re. serves will meet in tile first game and the National Guards and the Legion flyes will meet in the second go.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

There has been so much said all week about the two teams that fans who arc interested in both teams will eagerly await the starting hour for tho big game tonight while equally IS many will be on hand for the pre-. liminary game which Is expected 10 be productive of one of the most bit- ter court battles stagil in this city this year.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

Betting on the outcome of the series is reported. In the junior class, the standing is about even while in the senior class, the Guards are rul- ing a ' 10 5 fayorte. This, 1t is oX- pected will be cut down so that the betting will be nearly even at the time of the start of the game.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

Both teams have put in a week of practice. The Legion finished Thursday night and the Guards fn- ished last night. Both are showing class and without doubt there will be wonderful display of the court game among these two home outfits tonight.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

Teller missed 9T spares and made 70 of them. He made five strikes. Anderson failed to hit under the 100 mark during the match and his ball was working 10 perfection. Tho champion was in wonderful form Thursday night and although he missed four one pin spares. n" brought inc house down time and again by sliding pins across the al- lcys for spares. On these breaks, he excelled all night long and vas prac- tically unbeatable.
 The New York boxing commission wouldn't be satisfied unless it got Ats hands into every pic in the box ing game regardless of where that particular pic happens 10 have been. Now McSsrs. Farley and Muldoon have summoned Louis tkid) kaplan and his two managers Dennis Me- Mahon and "Scotty' Mont"ith 10 appear before if to explain Eap'an'S failure to fultll contract 10 fight Kid Roy, Canadian champion m Montreal, Canada, November S' 1925.
 The Sew York commission states that it has received a request from the Montreal commission to inVcsti- cato. All the time we had thought that kapan's actions at the' time had satisfied the Canadians, but ap- parcntly it has not.
 Kapian injured his thumb at the time he was supposed to have fought Kid Roy in Montreal. To make sure that there would be no doubt in anyonc'S mind as to the authenticity of lis injury because Kaplan went 10 Montreal and was examined by three doctors there who Nouchcd for the injury which he claimed. He appeared in the ring and was greeted by Voci(crous applause by Inc fight fans gathered there.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

The junior game is drawing as much interest as the big game. Both teams have good records for the year and stand about even as far as the dope on basketball goes. In some quarters the Burritts rule the fav- orites. but in just as many others, the Guard Reserves are considered the class. II will be an enthusiastic gathering of fans who attend the games tonight.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

The scores of the match were S follows:
 Anderson--l0S, So, 11S, 9S, 1o4. go, S7, 80. 97--SS9. Average 9S-7.
 Tcller-94, 1ol, 10G, 90, Ill. S7. o5, 100, 103-ol4. Average 101-5.
 It is an interesting thing 10 re- count the various points in the match at the Casino alleys Thursday night. Close observers of the game give out the following statistics. Anderson missed IS spares. He made v or them. He made seven strikes includ- ing q double strike in the second game.
New Britain herald., 1926-03-20

Eddie Anderson was beaten by a one game margin by Fred Teller in their second match of the week last night in Merden. Both bowlers were away off form, their shooting being a reaction. it is thought, from the preceding night when both were at top form. Anderson hit for total pnfall of SS9 while Teller hit for a total of 914.
Evening star., 1926-10-28

dition. He has not, in the ordinary
parlance, "a leg to stand on" as to his
rights. He should have been sent
back Immediately upon capture to
Boston when the Governor of Massa-
chusetts sent a requisition. Now he
proposes through his attorney to re-
sist further. Within fifteen days he
will apply for a rehearing. The court
Will probably take some days to con-
slider it. In an likelihood another
month will elapse, even if the applica,
ton is denied, before he is started
back on his way to prison in Massa-
chuSetts.
Herein lies the chief fault of our
judicial system in respect to the pun
ishment of crime. Defendants of
whose guilt there is no doubt, whose
punishment is required by every con-
sideration of the law, contrive by ap-
peals and delaying tactics to postpone
execution of the penalties. They stall
off trial in the first place They pro-
lTdCL lHc ny VI
irrelevant evidence and profuse exam
nations and croSs-examinationS. They
interpose objections voluminously for
the purpose of possibly overturning
verdicts and setting aside sentences.
They take the limit of time allowed
for appeals. They go up and down
the court line with motions, each OF
which takes time for consideration
and decision. They crowd the calen-
dars of the courts with their procras-
tinations. Usually they are at liberty
on bail, suffering no penalty whatever.
Their attorneys, though officers of the
court and sworn to promote the ad-
ministration of justice, are profiting
by the campaign of delay which
thwarts the ends Of justice.
1t is no wonder the public becomes
impatient at the dilatory procedure.
It is no wonder that this impatience
sometimes takes the form of mob ac-
ton 1t is no wonder that lawbreak-
ers regard the courts without fear
and consider the law as their pro-
tector rather than their avenger. 1t
is no wonder that crime flourishes in
this country.
Evening star., 1926-10-28

ard to set! Here again one remarks
the similarity between art standards
in this and other fields.
4 * +
Beautiful tributes are paid by Mr.
Orcutt to his one-time professor or
art at Harvard, the late Charles Ellot
Norton. who, through his teaching.
did more perhaps than any other
single person to extend and establish
a real appreciation OF art in this
country. and to DIR. Guido Biagi, that
great scholar who for many years
was librarian Of the Laurenziana and
Riccardi Libraries, custodian Of the
Medici. the Michelangelo and the
Da Vinci archives, who had opened
many Of the doors in the Arabian
Nights adventures which Mr.. Orcutt
had in quest of the perfect book.
These two men he brought together
when the latter was visiting America.
"Biagi had lived what Norton had
acquired" they had much in common
but they did not conf1ne their talk to
books. 1t was of art, Of music. of
history, of science. "In listening to
their conversation" Mr.. Orcutt says,
"I discovered that a perfectly trained
mind under absolute control is the
most beautiful thing in the world"
What a surprising tribute! 1t Is
such who know the meaning Of art
and its full Significance.
Evening star., 1926-10-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Optimism is natural to the healthy
human spirit, but, being a delicate
mechanism, is easily overturned. The
old enemy who lurked for a man be-
hind wall, we'll daggered, with hon
est rancor in his heart, has been
transformed into a sneering gentle
man who consummates that justly
celebrated act known as "damning
with faint praise
The woman of the French Revolu-
ton who shouted for blood louder
than her man has given place to the
dangerous gold digger" or the less
hostile, but none the less obnoxious,
lady who covertly sneers at the world
in which she finds herself i'll at ease.
There is even in existence today a
breed of men whose sole occupation in
life, aside from the very necessary one
of providing themselves food and
shelter, is that of stealthily saying
disagreeable things to every one they
meet.
If there is a hidden dislike in your
mental makeup, they ferret it out
and remind you of it. Let them be
aware of 1t, by so much as the bat
ting of an eye, and you will never
precious thing for which they have
been hunting, and it will prove
precious to you, before they are done
with it!
The interplay of mind against mind
one of the most interesting and
fundamental battles of all time, end
lessly repeated, ever bright and new
leads to some very strange manifesto
tions.
The honest man is aware of the
fact that if the person he regards as
disagreeable 'rubS him the wrong
way" he, in turn, most likely affects
the other exactly in ratio to the effect
the former produces.
1t Is this conviction that leads him
around to the thought that disagree
able persons, after all, are as neces-
sary, in,general living. as fences hog
tight and bull high" are on a farm.
Both are useful. Just as the big
fence keeps within bounds the raging
animals, so disagreeable persons,
yours to you and mine to me, restrain
the o'erweening piggishness and bull
ishness of the human spirst
We may be such stuff as dreams
are made Of, but we contain also an
unconscionable amount of lesser stuff,
the effervescent particles of the
greater things which we may be or
hope to do.
Each one of us is, in essence, a
gigantic pop bottle. charged with car
donated water, sizzling unrestrainedly
when the top is lifted.
Our disagreeable friends, and all
else who strike us as disagreeable,
serve the very useful purpose of
squelching our ebullitions at their
source before we make total fools of
ourselves.
We leave the house, on a fine morn
ing, reasonably satisfied with our
selves; in fact, strutting just a little
And then some dsagreeable chap
driving a delivery wagon bawls us
out for getting in his way! He is un.
necessarily disagreeable-
To him, however, we are only an
obstacle in an otherwise good delivery
system.
Evening star., 1926-10-28

Physical suffering or mental anguish
in the familiar environment OF an un-
fortunate persons own city arouses
sympathy, but how much more pitiable
is the condition of those who are
hungry or i'll among strangers in un-
accustomed surroundings! For the
care. protection and guidance of those
who arrive destitute and bewildered,
provision has been made by those citi.
zens who established and now sup
port the Washington Travellers Aid
Society. Union Station officials and
railroad employees give a fine coop
Grafton to the work.
American railroads in one year
carry a billion passengers in fifteen
million trains. Along the streams of
travel lie cities which, like catch
basins, each take their quota of the
debris carried along by the flood.
Travellers Aid representatives find
that of the passengers, other than
commuters, one Of every two hundred
needs protection, relief or guidance.
Washington is a mecca for the ad-
venturous youth Of the country and
for older people as we'll. and, in the
case of those without funds or with
Informed plans. wise advice at the
moment of arrival finds such minds
most open to suggestion. The splen-
did organization and institutions of
the city are enabled to perform a
better service because strangers
in trouble promptly come into the
proper hands through the alertness
oe the Travellers Aid representatives.
Protecting children and young girls,
arranging for food and bed for people
without money, caring for the i'll or
aged and hurrying off wires to dis
tant cities. the Travellers Aid staff
turns many a tear into smile, averts
increases in the community's social
problems and fittingly represents the
warm heart of Washington, to
hundreds of visitors each month.
Evening star., 1926-10-28
Debs Viewed as Firebrand
And as Friend of Humanity

ments": that "as friend and coun-
selor Of American labor he certainly
cannot be classed for actual works
accomplished, with a man like Samuel
Gompers." The Salt Lake Deseret
News says he was in favor of Boil
shevik principles, and this attitude
made him a menace to the organiza.
ton and principles of the Govern
ment."
"One Of the tragic msfits of Ameri-
can history" is the description given
by the Cedar Rapids Gazette, while
the Adrian Telegram AYERS that "he
had good side and an evil side, as
distinct as Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
holds that "the doctrines which Debs
preached were repudiated long ago
by American labor The Dayton
Daily News feels that "his ideas were
so strangely violent to the very domi-
nant view Of the country that he
stood out as almost pathetic figure"
The Providence Journal views Debs
as "a strange figure in our politics,
fiercely earnest, consistent to his own
harm. unterrified by odds, an idealist
with a wrong twist, weird prophet
in land of common sense" The Har-
risburg Telegraph maintains that "he
died a far less influential figure than
before his wartime activities disgust
ed patriotic men,
''The rallying point of socialism
has disappeared" in the opinion Of
the Abilene Daily Reporter; ''as a ma
tiOnal force in politics, socialism will
be felt no more. The heart Of its
cause has ceased to function"
Evening star., 1926-10-28
Ponzi as an Example.

Yesterday at Austin. Tex, the
Court of Criminal Appeals Of that
State ordered Charles Ponzi turned
over 20 Massachusetts to serve SEN
tence Of from seven 10 nine years un-
der his conviction as q common and
notorious thief" IN connection with
financial schemes in Boston. Ponzi,
who had gone, while on bail. to Florida
where he engaged in questionable
financial practices. fled to Texas when
proceedings against him were insti-
tuted. He was recognized when about
% sail on an Italian ship for his ma
Sive land, disguised as a seaman. He
fought extradition in the District
Court and failing there appealed to
the Court Of Criminal Appeals, which
has Just denied the application and
ordered his surrender to Massachu-
setts. His attorney Immediately an
nounced that. he would within fifteen
days file motion for rehearing before
that court.
Here is a striking case Of the laws
delay. Ponzi has been convicted in
Massachusetts and has exhausted all
his appeals there. He has now been
four mouths in Texas resisting extra
Evening star., 1926-10-28
Arterial Highways.

An expedition to observe the work
ing of the new thirty-mile speed limit
on Massachusetts avenue netted In
spector l.. W. Brown and Assistant
Traffic Director l. c. Moller twelve Of
tenders against the stop regulation
Yesterday. Three of the twelve, be-
cause they deliberately ignored the
stop sign at intersections of the ar
terial highway, were relieved of their
nermits for one week. The others,
who merely slowed up when ap-
preaching the avenue. were given a
severe lecture and allowed to go on
their way with d warning.
With the new speed limit in force it
is imperative that the stop signals be
strictly obeyed. Serious accidents Will
be caused by flouting Of this regu-
lation. When it is realized that all
traffic on arterial highways of this
type has absolute right-of-way over
crossing or turning traffic and that
travel on the highway is at a speed
of thirty miles an hour the danger of
infractions of the rule can readily De
seen. The punishment of suspension
of permit, therefore. is not severe
when it may easily mean the saving
of life by removing from the streets a
driver who has f1agrantly violated a
rule made for the safety of the gen
eral public.
Washington motorists, to whom the
plan of stop streets is comparatively
new, and who are inclined at times to
grumble at the large number of what
they characterize as unnecessary
stops, should take their automobiles
and drive awhile in some of the Mid
die Western cities, where the system
is used in practically every town and
on many streets. They would then
return to Washington thankful that
the system had been installed here
with discretion and convinced that as
safeguard to traffic movement it is
the latest word.
On the part of the traffic Office
every effort should be made TO COM
plete the system without further de-
lay. Stop signs of the type now be-
! ing used should be erected at every
| intersection, no matter how unimpor-
tant. The installation Of the beautiful
| new parking signs such as are used in
front Of the White House and other
points in the city might be held up at
! least until the boulevard and arterial
| highway plan has reached completion.
The final installation of this system
would seem to be far more important
than the mere erection of parking
signs. no matter how artistic.
Where signs have been erected no
leniency should be shown to motorists
| who deliberately ignore them. There
can be no tampering with this traf-
| fic system, which depends upon the
obedience and intelligence Of the mo-
toring public to make it successful.
| a steady campaign of enforcement
by the police and n sustained effort
by the Traffic Bureau toward compile
| ton will prove of striking benefit to
the solution of a perpleXing traffic
| problem.
Evening star., 1926-10-28
THINK 1T OVER
Why Can't My Boy Speak French?
BY William, Mather LesUis,
President George Washington University

A discouraged parent recently said:
my boy has had French three years
in high school and can't even ask
for his food in French. The Greek
on the corner has been in this country
only three years and can speak Eng
lsh we'll enough to carry on a busi-
ness. What is the matter with our
schoolS?"
What is meant by three years
of French? 1t means three school
years of SO weeks each, in a class
meeting at the most five times a week,
but more generally three times a
week, for 35 or 40 minutes, interrupt
ed by the teachers attention to dis
cipline. school bookkeeping and an oc-
casional visitor. Moreover, the class
usually consists of 35, 40 or even 45
pupils, entirely too many to allow
even a modicum of individual at
tention to each pupil. How much
time does the student spend in a
French atmosphere? Very little. All
his time outside of this particular
vironment. The Greek on the
corner" on the contrary, lives Eng.
lish all day long, and he works long
hours. He also has a direct incentive.
Probably If the American boy had to
ask for his food in French or starve,
he would show amazing progress in
the language.
Foreign language teachers realize
criticism of their results. They are
now engaged on a self-survey of meth
DDS, aims and materials whereby their
work may be improved.
One thing that may be discovered
is that not enough of the class time
is spent in actually speaking the Ian
guage. No marked Improvement in
efficiency can fairly be expected un-
til we have smaller classes for more
periods week and for longer
stretch of years.
Foreign language study should be
begun far earlier than is generally
the case now. Small children can re-
produce pronunciations they hear
much more easily than can their eld,
ers. They can also memorize much
more successfully. These children
should have the opportunity for as
sociation with some one who speaks
the language fiuently and accurately
Much time can be wasted in the
study of French, but, on the other
hand, if the student learns it
thoroughly and under proper condi
tions it will be an active element in
the success Of his life work.
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