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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-08

memory.-London Opinion.
Naturally!
Five year old Freddies was spending
the day with his aunt and the child
began to grow restless.
"Auntie," he said finally, 'does God
know everything?"
eyes, dear, every little thing"
"Well, then," he said in tone OF
conviction, "God knows I am hungry" "
Exchange.
did you bring home remem-
brance from the trip?"
eyes. brought home a towel, a
bath rug, thermos bottle, a rocker
and twin bed"
Evidently you took room at a
hotel"
mo, I tried to, but I couldn't get
away with University of South
ern California Wampus.
Maybe
Ruth: Don't e let fayther see e
kissin' me.
Reuben: l balnt KlSSln' e.
Ruth: Oh, well, thought I'd tell
e in case.-London Opinion.
So Stupid
"What time is it, dear?" husband
asked. "The clock has stopped"
"The clock has stopped? Go out
and look at the sundial."
"But it's dark in the garden"
"Well, can't you use the flash
light? Men are such helpless crea-
s!"-Boston Transcript.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-08
NOT so nIsTANT

NOT SO DISTANT
The art of calico printing was in
vented three centuries ago. 1t seems
almost that long ago that calico was
worn. us%s
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
ENTERED IN TOURNEY
About 200 Members Of GolfinG Club Gathered at Los anGclc> to Com pete For Prizes.

Los Angeles, Dec. 30 Pj-The rolling fairWays of the Paios Nerdes Country club. located within 2 stones throw of the Pacific, today attracted some 200 members of the goifing clan for the IS holes of qualifying competition of D 72 hole $2,50O open tournament.
 Willie Hunter. who holds for the second consecutive year the talifor nia open championship was the fla vorite to take first prize money, in the PaloS Nerdes event. ProfesSion- als entered included Mcdonald smith, canny stylist of Great Neck, Long Island; Tommy Armour. na- tional open champion; Bobby Cruicksharll. who won last years $ S10,O0O Los Anglese open; Al Espin. oca of Chicago; Al Watrous of Grand Rapids, Mich: Hut Martin of Reno. and "Lighthorse" Harry Cooper of Los Angeles.
 The amateur representation was led hy George Ven Elm, former na tional amateur titlcholder.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
Two Games Monday
CHURCH COURT LEAGUE
 OPENS SATURDAY NIGHT
Third Season to Be Started Next Week According to Decision
 of Managing Board

Tho third season Of the Inter- Church Basketball league will open at the Y. M. C. A. on Saturday night, January S, and will continue through
 two rounds of play, 1t was decided at a meeting of the managers held
 at the "Y" last evening. Six teams
 were definitely accepted as entries,
 but q difficulty arose regarding the
 seventh and it was given another
 day to make its team conform with
 the league requirements. The six
 teams which will compose the cir
 grcgational. eX-champion First Luth-
 eran, runner-up St. Matthew's Ger
 man Lutheran, Trinity NJ. F., Cen
 ter Congregational. and Swedish
 Bethany churches. The possible ad- Gition is the EVeryman's Bible class II was planned to begin each nights play promptly at 1:41 o'clock and to put each game through Is
 minutes halves with but q few min utos intermission between games, In
 this way it is hoped to run off three games night In the time it for merly took to play two. With six teams in the loop the schedule would be completed on March 12; with seven, on April S.
 Each team Is to submit the names of ten players by tomorrow night with the chance to make two addi- lions or changes during the course | of the season. The present rule is 1 that q player must have belonged tc the organization he rcnrcsents for q 1 period of go days, and this hit the | Bible class team hard. A new team 1 had been recruited by this organlza' ! ton and was planning 10 join the ! class in order 10 play, but the man. agors took q stand against the prac- 1 tice and told the class it must have team of present members. I'll" r. | F. C. will ho given another day tc make its final decision as to whether ! it will come In under these cirCum- stances or not.
 The games on the opening night ! will be as follows: south Congrega ' tional vs. Center Congregational; ! Swedish Bethany vs. First Lutheran; 1 St. Matthew's German Lutheran Ns 1 Trinity NJ. F.. The balance Of the schedule will be drawn up after | definite word from the Bible clas: | has been received.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
DATES FOR BOUTS DEPEND 0N GAMES
Home Contests Of N. Y. Yankees
 to Govern Fight Program

New York. Dec 50 lPl--Thc sched- and not Gene Tunney. Jack Demp- scy, Jack Sharkcy or Tom Heeney--- will have the most to say as 10 just where and when Tex Rickard pro- notes the world heavyweight title match in 1923.
 Tex wants to stage the big bout as the Yankee Stadium some time with in the first two weeks of September but he can't make any definite ar engagements until the schedule-mak CTS reveal whether the worlds base ball champion will be at home or on the road during that period.
 It would require a few days for TeX'S Workmen 10 convert it into boxing arena, 10 seat 100000 spec tators where only 5000 may gather for the ball games.
 Tunney can fight before the tenth of September 1928 only by agreeing 10 q flat percentage basis for two tights, Rickard said. No amount of caioling will induce the promoter to give up his exclusive rights to the heavyweight champions services, Gc declared.
 In outlining the standing of Jack Dempsey as q challenger. Tex assert ed that the former champion can meet Tunncy without q previous test only ill case Tom Heeney and Jack Sharkcy both Hook terrible in their elimination battle here Jan uary l%.
 Rickard declared that there was no place in the elimination ranks for George Godfrey, latcs 'Blacll Men ace" who boasts q formidable string of knockout victories.
 Ties one of .hc worst fighters I eyer saw" the promoter declared.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
TASS| TRAINING
 HARD FOR FIGHT
Italian Professor Anxious to Win
 Here Next Friday Night

Promised a chance to show his
 fistic wares al both Madison Square
 Garden and the St. Nicholas Arena
 in New York providing he b ats Frankie Cavanaugh of Bridgeport Nando Tassi Ita.ian professor fight
 CT, is undergoing an intensive siege of training ill preparation for the bout. Critics who have watched
 him working out at his quarters in the Elm City predict that he viii be
 at the heighth of form against the
 Park City scrapper.
 TaSsi and CaNanaugh will meet
 in the, feature oout of eight rounds
 in the second professional fight card
 of the season to be staged at the
 Sanley Arena on Church street, Fry.
 day night, January 6. They will head
 a card of five bouts, the other four
 matches being for six rounds each.
 Matchmaker Vincent Reina of the New Britain 4. (. has paired up some of the best ring performers in this section and the bouts promise to be tull Of action from the first
 to the last, The semi-final will find Frankie OBrien of Hartford mixing it with Kid Decker of Pittsfield. i Following DeCk"r's knockout victory
 over Tracy Ferguson of Wallingford two weeks ago in Holyoke, the Bay Stater has come to the fore as q dangerous opponent. O;Brien, all
 ways willing 10 mix fl with anyone, 1 freely predicts that hc will show Decker 10 be q flash in the pan. Because of the inability of Bat Battalino to appear in q ring before
 February because of his injured hand, Matchmaker Rcina has secur- cd the services of Pinkey Kaufman of Hartford. former WelterWeight amateur champion in one of inc 1 bouts on the card. Pinkcy whose | ability is well known from his nu-
 merous appearances as an amateur
 in this city, will meet Kid Ryan of
 Bridgeport.
 The feature of the card for many 1 will be the clash between Joe Triano ! of New Haven ani Buster Nadcau ! Of liolyoke. Had these two not met i on tine last card here. their bout 1 would be something of an unknown i quantity but because they have met | twice already over the four-rounl i route without either getting q do'i- sion, the chances are that in six round bout, one or the other will i demonstrate superiority.
 Mickey Roberts slugglng amateur ] who recently turned pro, will be matched with Renv Chadut of Holy : olle, formcrr member of the Paper i City amateur boxing team. Both of l these boys met several times in the ! simon pur" tOlrnoys and they have i carried their ring cnnity right into ] the pro ranks.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
ICE HOCKEY GAME
Philadelphia Arrows scheduled to Meet New Haven Eagles in Ilm City sunday Night.

The Philadelphia Arrows. sched- ulcl 10 meet the Eagles in q Cana dian American hockey league game sunday night In the New Haven arena, are expected to use new four man offensive when the first Gacr-off is made at S:@o.
 When the Arrows last appeared in New Haven they stuck to q four man defense that held their lead for them and resulted in defeat for the Eagles, but it should be different sunday. The Arrows dropped off at New Haven during the week for one practice session and during that period Shay was directing his men in four man offensive that looked as though 1t might reap goals.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
SPANK THE BABY TO BE
 REVIVED AT BOYS CLUB
TaVOritc PaStimc tO Be Started Again At East Main Street Gym-
 nasiulu,-Nany Entered

Spanking the baby has again be- come q iaVortc pastime at the Boys club and 45 boys have taken up the sport in q revival of this new game which was introduced with such success last year. Charles kominos spanked the baby o,35o times, which in plain English, means that he bounced q little rubber ball that many times ill small circle before he missed it. He now has the best record of the intermediates, while Mike S"dor is leading the juniors with 1,150 spanks.
 About GO boys have already tried their hands in the foul shooting con- test to date. Henry Kraszewski is leading the seniors with 12 out of 95, Albert Rakutis and William Bendza are tied for first place among the Intermediates with 2 out Of 15 apiece. and A. Jervis has shot out Of 10 to top the juniors.
 Practice for the annual Boys Club Federation meet has been started under the direction of IH1y- sical Director Raynard Anderson. This is an annual nation wide com petition in various ath@tic events and in four classes divided accord ing to weight. New Britain fin ishcd tenth last year and hopes to better this record during the com ing winter.
 A dual or three -Cornercd track meet is now in tho works. The Bris- iol Boys club has definitely agreed 10 compete with the local club in ten events, five Of which are to be run off at each club. Efforts are being made to bring the Neriden Boys club into the meet. and 1n this case the events will be split up in some manner between all three clubs.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
Revenge for two defeats suffered

Revenge for two defeats suffered last year during the basketball sea- son, will actuate the New Britain State League quintet tonight when it battles the Meriden Endees at the Stanley Arena :n tho first of two games 10 be played over the coming holidays. The Silver City aggrega- tion has the distinction of being the only team to have scored a brace of victories over the championship Ma tional Guards last season and as the local state leagae entry is the suc- ccssor 10 the service team. the play CTS will be anxious to wipe out the stains inflicted d year ago
 Besides this, the New Britain team stands just one game behind the New Haven Atlas for the lead in the state league. With the Elm City crew coming here a week from to- morrow for the first time this sea- son, the Hardware City quintet cans not take changes of losing either to- night here or in Meriden Monday night because the first round of tho league will probably be decided next week.
 Meridcn is bringing a powerful team to compete with the locals. Cook and Bssall form a dangerous combination at forwards and it was tEeir work more than anything else that beat New Britain last year. Jer- ry Conway, reputed 10 be one of the best ccnt2rs i'll the country, will occupy the pivotal position for Meri- den tonight while Stavinitsky, for ncrly of Plainfield, and Carroll, will probably draw the guard posts These men with q heavy reinforce mcnt of reserve material, will be counted on to turn back the New ritain combination.
 New Britain will send in it's strongest lineup tonight, Sloman and Eubenstein will take the forward positions with Jimmy Zakzewski at center. l.e2ry, Shechan or Captain "Butsy' Stu'm will occupy the back court positions. Hoist and kilduff will form the reserve.
 The Stanley Works Girls will meet the P. &eI' Corbn team in the pre- liminary. an Industrial League con- test. The first game will start promptly a [ s o'clock with the main attraction being staged at o'clock. Dancing will follow.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30

Wimbledon. England, Dec. go 'P' sixteen -year-old Betty Nuthall, Helen Wills foremost rival, ranks as the second best woman tennis player in England in the list com piled for 1927 by Hamilton Price. referee and recognized authority.
 Mrs. Kitty Mckanc Godfrec. fiery little veteran of the international play. was given her customary ranking at the top.
 The sudden rise of the youthful Miss Nuthall to a place among the worlds great players was reflected in her advance from eleventh to second in a single year.
 Miss Nuthall's showing in winning the hard court championship of Great Britain and finishing as run ner-up to Miss Wills in the United spectacular. but Mrs. Godfreo still was adjudged slightly the better player She was handicapped by illness while in America.
 Mir. Prices first dozen': Mrs. Godfree, Miss Nuthall. Miss Joan Fry. Mrs. M Watson. Miss r. Saun- dcrs. Miss Eileen Bennett. Mrs. E. (. Coven, Miss F. II. Harvey, Mrs. John Hill. Mrs. McIlquham. Miss J. C. Ridley and Miss G. l.. SterrN.
 Miss Sterry received q place in the list largely because she succeeded in winning set from Miss Wills at Wimbledon.
 Six of the 12 players named, in cluding Mrs. GCdfrec, captain, and Miss Nuthall were members of the English Wightman cup team which lost in a match with an American team headed by Miss Wills at Forest Nils. \. Y. last summer.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
CANZONERI FAVORITE
Betting odds of to T Placed on New York Tcathcrwcisht 10 Beat Bud Taylor Tonight.

New York, Dec % Pt-Tony Can zourri, New York featherwclght, rules a [ 10 favorite 10 wrest d de sion tonight in his 1o-round bout against Bud Taylor. the hard hitting boxer of Terrc Haute. Ind. Both EoNers We're reported in excellent condition. Cauzoneri concluded his training weighing about l@5 pounds 30 hilr his rival tipped the beam at 122.
 White Taylor ia tn" hantamwolght champion of the National Boxing Association. no title will be at stake aS hoth boxers are above weight. The winner will practically he assur ed Of a bout with Benny Bass of Philadelphia which will be r"cogniz- cd as featherWeight championship tilt.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
SCORE THIRD VICTORY
south Church Juniors Win Three Out of Four starts by Beating Celtic. at Boys Club.

The south church Juniors won their third victory in four starts last evening when they buried the Celtics under a 3%-15 count in q onc-sided encounter al the BoVG club The losers were short a man and the church lent them Lohms. The first quarter was fairly even, the church leading by 10-6 at the end, but then the winners ran wild, topping the Celics by Sic at the halfway mark after holding them scoreless for a period In the second half the church sent in two midget guards but continued to roll up points rapid ly.
 Bernard Wosilps made seven bae- kcts in the frs half and then re- tired. while Captain Danny totalled nine field goals and Joseph six. Rit- fer played well on defense and Crowley was hest for the losers. Diner made Q spectacular one-hand shot. The summary:
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New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT

BI TNe Tnltod Press.
 Lawrence, Miss. - Henry Janco. navy wcltcrweight, knocked ont John (Kid) Adams Of Lawrence, in the fifth round of a scheduled ten lound bout. Andy Callahan, of Lawrence, knocked out Frank Erne of Mediord, Mass. in the second round ol their eight round bout.
 Philadelphia, Pa. -- Joey kauf- man. 137, of New York, won an s. round decision over Emery Cabana, S5. of Philadelphia, in an eight round Windup. Young kctchcll, li5, of Chester Pa, won a decision over Tommy Farley. lt5, of Philadelphia, in the eight round semi-fnal.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
ROCKNE TO OPEN SCHOOL
1 amous Coach of NOtrC Dame To Teach Coaching At Dallas and Several Other Places,

New York. Dec. 80 (UP)--Tho Rockne Meanwell coaching school will be held at Southern Methodist university at Dallas, Texas: Oregon State at Corvallis, Ore, and Hast ing College, at Hastings, Neb., early next summer, knutc Rockne, NOtre Dame coach. has announced.
 X two weeks course will be con- ductcd at each school, the first at Dallas June 4-16.
 Dr. Walter F. Meanwell of Wis consin conducts the basketball in struction and Rockne the football classes.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
DEFENDS POSITION
New Hampshire University Rallies for Fight to Retain First Place in Winter sports.
Winter sports,

Lake Placid. Y. Y. Dec. 50--NeW Hampshire university entrants ral- lied today for tn" defense of their first place position in the annual college week winter sports meet here. With the termination of the two events on yesterdays program, they were iu possession ot seven points, a single point lead over Wis consin and a two-point lead over MCGill.
 The seven-mile cross country slsi first event Of the meet yesterday was won by R. W, Thompson Of Me Gill. Honors for the handicap skat- ing match went to Stewart Weston, of New Hampshire.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
BATTLE IN FINALS
George Dunlap and Eugene Romans Meet For Second Tine To Decide Golf Title,

Pinehurst. N. C., Dee. 50 tUP)-- For the second consecutive year George Dunlap, Princeton freshman. and Eugene IIomans of Englewood, final round of tho mid-wintcr golf tournament, Dunlap won the title last year.
 Dunlap won his way in the final round by defeating Phillips Fjnla:- of Shinnecock Hills, \. T., 1 up at the twentieth hole in the semi-tinals yesterday
 Homans advanced to the final round by defeating Ellis Naples of Southern Pines. x. C., 1 and 3.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
SHARE IN S20,000 ESTATE
Marine Hart Forrest Of This City and Clinton '. Morse of Plainyillc Receive Requests.
Special tn the Herr ld,

I~U0"IHI n tTo ITCF.TIl
 N,W York. Dee. &0-- Marine Hart Forrest, of 12 Woodland street, New Britain. receives the rcslduary estate uf the late Elvcna l.. Hart of White Plains, according 10 a will tl"d for probate in White Plains.
 Mrs. Hart died on December l6, leaving an estate which has not yet been appraised. but which is stated 10 hc more than S2a. 900. Clinton j. Morse of q Broad street, Plain vile, a son-in-law Of the doccdcnt, receives 5000. The two legatees are both named as executors.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30

Lake Placid, x. I. - The skating events were scheduled today in the winter sports competition for the President Harding trophy. New Hampshire, present title holder of the trophy, took the lead yesterday with points. Wisconsin was sec ond with points.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
south Church Juniors
( elites
Personal fouIs-Josepl

Personal foujs-Joseph. Ritter, Ratings, Zetterman, McCabe ,, Lohms. Free Stanley E. Wosi- lus, Hattings ?, Crowley 3, Diner 2, Thom"y. Refcree-Parker. Timer Recano, Scorer-Morey.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
 
SILVER CITY FIVE HERE
 FOR STATE LEAGUE GAME

New Britain and Meriden Basketball Teams Clash To- night at Stanley Arena - Visitors Confident of Turning Back Lanphermen - Clash to Be First of Two Games Over Holidays-Stanley Works and P. & F. Corbin Girls to Meet in Preliminary-Fierce Fight Expected.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
MERIDEN HOCKEY QUINTET
 BLANKED BY NEW BRITAIN

Referee Lush Calls Total of 15 Fouls During Contest Pretty Battle Staged Between Pierce and Boucher Local Team Work Keeps Ball Near Silver City Cage-Bount and Purcell Both Work Wonders in Defense of Cages-Teams Battle Again Tonight.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-30

Boucher ..-..., cr .... Lunderyllle Muirhead ....., t ....,.... Pierce Brown ........ hb ...... Morrison Blount .,...... .....,.. Purcell
 First Period Goal Won by Gagged by Time New Britain Alexander lr:50 New Britain Boucher 2:0G % New Britain Alexander .0S Meriden Williams EOS
 second Period Merideu Lunderville 5.24
 New Britain Brown 9:25
 Third Period
 New Britain Boucher ll:00
 Score: New Britain 3, Meriden 0.
 Rushes-AlcXande 6, Williams 3, Iundervillc 1: stops--Blount 65, Purcell 5G.. fouls Muirhead, Alex ander 2, Brown q, Blount, Boucher Morrison 4, Pierce .. Williams. 1 UGach team lost two goals on fouls.) Ecferce-Lush.
 Two Games Monday A double header consisting of an afternoon and evening game will be played here Monday to start off the second round of the league. In the afternoon, Holyoke will play New Britain while WatWerbury will be the attraction In the evening,
New Britain herald., 1927-12-16
TANINiiNY ON MOVE

Of course, almost everyone knows hy this time that Tammany Hall is on the move; that it will quit it's | timchonored quarters in 14th street, New York, and go up town"
 It Is discovered, however, that the trek uptown will be only for a distance of three blocks, to 17th street. Travelling north or south in New York, the blocks arc short ones, too.
 Thus Tammany will remain in the general vicinity of downtown. If it remains on l7th street as long as it has been on 14th street, and then moves three more blocks toward the uptown district, it will take nearly 1000 years for it to reach the neigh borhooi of Central park. And if New York keeps growing toward the north during that time as it has been doing during the past 100 years the center of the city will be in the vicinity of Yonkers.
 IptoWnors. however, can always find Tammany when it is a question of doing business with it. That's the beauty of q political organization as is one.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-16
PREPARING FOR SKATING

Some time this winter it is going to be cold enough to freeze the ponds. Considering the weather we have been having. it may be hard to visualize such q time But as sure as fate, il is coming.
 skaters will be looking for a place 10 skate And it is a pleasure to note that the park department has taken an effort 10 see ahead bit and is occupying itself with the prrpara- ton of a skating paradise in stanley Quarter park
 The pond al the park will be Flooded, , it is learned. To the thinking reader this win seem rather peculiar, seeing that the pond wouldn't be pond if it were not already composed of water; what is meant, however, is that more water will be let Into it and it's area wid- ened.
 The department is going into the business Of providing skating facil- ities in earnest, and is 10 be com mcndcd by every citizen who realizes the high value of this healthful sport. Purchase Of an ice planer is q splendid idea that will
New Britain herald., 1927-12-16

enable the city to keep the surface smooth.
 In tAA days when skating was as popular as automobiling enthusiasts did not require a shelter" upon which 10 put on skates. But they have advantages. Construction of a shelter in Stanley Quarter park will do much to make Of the park q rendezvous for skaters; and 10 make the travel from the pond to the shelter easy, a boardwalk will be constructed. Rarely has the park department shown such an evident desire to be of prime service to the community.
 All of which is by way Of com- mending the park department for its activities. It is to be hoped, too, that this extensive catering to the skat- ing fraternity Is completed before the first cold wave sets in. That means that speed Is necessary. It would be too bad to experience one of the genuine New England cold waves" and find the skating ar engagements in the park only half completed. Everything should be in readiness when Boreas calls.