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| Bureau of Yards and Docks. y Wy De
| partment. will speak on "Archiiec-
| ture From an Engineering Point of
View" illustrated by lantern and
| models.
| District of Columbia Society of the
| Sons of the American Revolution Will
| meet. oclork, at Hotel La Fayette
Two of the chronicles of American
photoplays from the Yale University
Press will be shown-'The Declara-
| ton of independence" and THE Eve
| of the Revolution"
The Spanish section of the Women's
| City Club will give card party this
| evening at the clubhouse. Mrs. Jen-
ME O. Rerliner. chairman. Members
and their friends invited.
The Illinois State Society will hold
a special meeting, s o'clock, in Willard
Hotel, room 127.
The Northeast Associated Charities
conference will be held, $50 o'clock, at
| SIG l street.
The Board of Education will meet,
| $50 o'clock, at Franklin School.
The fair for the benefit of st. Marks
! Church will be continued at the parish
! hall each evening, with a diner from
to O'Clock. Dancing. Everybody
welcome. To be repeated tomorrow.
| There is to be a bazaar at Calvary
Methodist Episcopal Church. Columbia
road and Fifteenth street, this after
noon and evening.
The Red Triangle Outing Club will
| T.I- Of
and Colorado avenue for moonlight
! hike through Rock Creek Park,
along bride paths. Bill Greeley
leader.
Columbia Chapter. ID. A. r., will
/ nold a .razaar from 10 am. to clock
1t 1906 + street.
Golden Rule. y. of A, will have
card party this evening at Oyster $
auditorium. Twenty. street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
The Kinncar class Of young men
VIII give it's thirty-siXth annual ban
quot. $50 pm, at the Burlington
/ Hotel. William Knowles Cooper viii
! 10 the speaker. Entertaining pro
gram.
Dah'grcn Terrace Citizens Associa
! tion VIII meet. : o'clock. at Social Oys-
! ter House, Twelfth and Rhode Island
avenue northeast. Maj. Gen. George
! Barnett will speak.
! The rhilatelic Society will meet at
| its rooms, 1922 Vermont avenue, this
evening. The stamps of the Philip
| pines, owned by Mayo Dudley. will he
| exhibited and discussed The Boys
/ Stamp Ciub meetings will he resumed
| Saturdays, 2 pm, through the Win
| ter.
The Ladies of Charity will give
/ card party, $50 o'clock, at Providence
Day Nursery, 408 Third street south
east.
The South Washington Citizens AS
| sociation will meet, s o'clock, in Fair
brother School.
The National Capital Dahlia and Iris
Society will hold it's annual meeting
and election of officers at the May
flower Hotel tonight at o'clock. An
nual reports will be given.
An illustrated lecture on Beauty
rs Factor in Human Life" will be
| given by Mrs. Blanche K. Povelson
| tonight at 635 + street, Barrister
| Building.
FUTURE. 4
A SPECIAL meeting wiz Ee held In
Evening star., 1927-11-16

The Illinois State Society will hold
a special meeting. o'clock, in Willard
Hotel, room 127.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

The Northeast Associated Charities
conference will be held, $50 o'clock, at
SIG / street.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

The Board of Education will meet,
$50 o'clock. at Franklin School.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

The National Capital Dahlia and Iris
Society will hold it's annual meeting
and election of officers at the May
flower Hotel tonight at o'clock. An
nual reports will be given.
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An illustrated lecture on Beauty
as a Factor in Human Life" will be
given by Mrs. Blanche K. Povelson
tonight at 635 f street, Barrister
Building.
FUTURE. n
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The Congress Heights M. p. Church
will hold a bazaar tomorrow and Fri
lay evenings in the church.
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The South Washington Citizens AS
sociati0n will meet, s o'clock, in Fair
brother School
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The Red Triangle Outing Club will
meet. O'Clock. at Fourteenth street
and Colorado avenue for moonlight
hike through Rock Creek Park,
along bride paths. Bill Greeley,
loader.
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Gunton-Temple Memorial Presbyterian
Church tomorrow, s pm. in celebra-
tion Of the 125th anniversary. of ma
Ional missions and the 50th of wom-
ems work
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The fair for the benefit of st. Marks
Church will be continued at the parish
hall each evening, with a diner from
) to Z o'clock. Dancing. Everybody
welcome. To be repeated tomorrow.
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A special meeting wiz % held
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There is to be bazaar at Calvary
Methodist Episcopal Church. Columbia
road and Fifteenth street. this after
noon and evening.
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Columbia Chapter. -. A. r., will
hold a .,azaar from 10 am. to 6 o clock
1T 1906 + street
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17

about ready to drop when the final whistle blew.
 Arthur Young, Wesleyan player and New Britain high alumnus, did the early coaching that year and did it purely for the love of the thing. Later Yale man was secured as coach and received pay for the job The second game was with the Hill side Athletic club of Waterbury at Electric Field, Saturday, September 26. New Britain won 2A to 0. The third game was with Bridgeport high, the first ever played with that school 4 score or SC of rooters saw New Britain win 12 10 0. Waterbury high was the next victim. It was a Wednesday afternoon game. Water bury was in poor condition and New Britain won SO to and at that play ed ragged football.
 Hartford high played New Britain twice that season. The first, prac- tice game, resulted in a New Britain
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD THURSDAY NOVEMBER IT, 1s27

victory IS to 0. Then Middletown was beaten at Pamachea park in South Farms. Middletown had one good man, Inglis, and he alone proved troublesome. The game was played in mud a foot deep and all the scoring was in the second half New Britain won If to 0. Three more games were played before the league season opened. The Union- vile Athletic club. was beaten 12 to 0. Hillhouse on Yale field IS to 0. and the Boardman Manual Training school Of New Haven 42 to 0.
 New Britain met Hartford at Trin- ity field October 3l in the first league game. Tho team was com- posed of the following: Porter re, P. McDonough Tt, Corbin rg, Towers c, Buckley lg. T. Flannery It. Gris- wold le. Meehan qb. Brinley lhb, Fitch rhb, O'Donnell fb, Up to this game the locals were unscored on. but Hartford got the jump follow
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17
OLD GRAD TELLS
 OF PAST GAMES
Accounts Battles Between Hart ford and New Britain Teams
By Louis k. Barker, \. B. II. s. '96.

By Louis k. Barker, \. B. II. S. 96.
 Why modern day keepers Of the high school athletic archives should assume as they do. in the souvenir program issued for the New Britain Hartford football classic, that the teams began hostilities in 1898 and even give Hartford credit for win ming that particular game is more than graduates of the Gay Nineties period can tathom. They know and the Herald files back their knoNI- edge with records of heroic engage ments dating back 10 the early nine ties. in fact the records show that New Britain high and II, r. H. $. were playing football as far back as 1890.
 Hartford had team even in the eighties and in those days the big game of the year for Hartford was the annual clash with HlllhouSe' The records show they had good teams with players who afterwards became famous as college stars. As an example HIlhouse produced George Foster Sanford, whose name was one to conlure with in old time football. Sanford was of the rough and ready school and playel When the famous flying V was used as d juggernaut 10 smash lines. He was afterwards t coach at Yale and Columbia and was noted as terrific driver, spurring his teams on to superhuman effort.
 Going back to the nineties, ii is Of record that New Britain high played Hartford on the old Ward street grounds in Hartford. Saturday, No- yember 8, 1890 and lost to the Capital City eleven by the over whelming score of 5 to Q. It was apparently an initial effort for the Red and Gold as the press comment on the game was to the effect that while New Britain was heavy the team lacked coaching and training. The next year, 1891, New Britain ap- parently played Hartford twice, ghcy were. not league games, but the N. B. II. $: warriors although losing both games showed much improvement. The first game was lost 12 to 6 and the second played on the Ward street ground October 3l, 1921 went 10 Hartford 10 to 6,
 To many of the modern genera, ton, it may be surprising to learr that back in 1891 New Britain boasted two high schools and eacf had football teams. '(he New Brit ain high school was then located or Main street on the site of the pres, ent Central Junior high school. Tho building was originally erected a, New Britain's first town hall ant was never used for that purpose being turned over to the state tt house the first State Normal sChOo and the high school. The Hillsid high school was a semi-private in sttution and during its brief eXis fence was housed in the old Stat Normal building on Hillside place. Game in 1891
 New Britain and Hillside higl schools engaged in a football gam, at the old trotting park southwest O
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17
Maloney, rhb; Meskill, lhb; Wheeler

Maloney rhb; Meskill, lhb; Wheeler, tb.
 The lineup changed somewhat during the season and the team which met and defeated Hillhouse for the Yale cup comprised: Yost, captain and center; guards, Nibberts and A. Griswold; tackles. Sheldon and McDonough; Camp and Peck, ends; Coupe, quarterback: Cheney and Maloney, backs; Wheeler, full back. Over 1,500 from New Brit ain including many of the leading manufacturers, business and pro- fossional men attended the game and rooted royalty for New Britain.
 The Old Yale League
 New Britain having won the Yale cup and state championship in 1893, the following year Walter Camp saw to it that Yale offered another cup. This time it was specified that the cup must be won three times and consecutivcly Ca tough propostion). The cup was offered for the cham pionship of the Connecticut Inter- scholastic Football association which comprised eight teams, four in the northern division and four in the southern division. The northern di- vision comprised New Britain, Hart ford, the Suffield Literary Institute and Norwich Free Academy and the southern division Hillhouse of New Haven, Bridgeport, Meriden and Wa terbury. Practice games, as now occupied the early part of the sea- son, usually starting the last Satur- day In September.
 The first league games were played on the last Saturday In Oc- tober, two in each division, thus eliminating four contenders on this date. The semi finale, northern and southern, were played the first Sat urding in November and the second Saturday in the month saw the championship game, the winners in the northern and southern divisions playing this game on Yale Field In the morning under Yale auspices and governed by Yale officials.
 Although the arrangement ap- peared ideal and worked well when Yale gave real interest and super vision, it sometimes happened that Eli had troubles Of her own about the time of the league games and ;,Je done better judging tennis. were delegated to judge offside and in numora ble other delicate points. | Then it happened on one occasion were substituted and this led to charges of favoritism.
 However. this league existed some seven years and in the main worked we'll For one thing if developed one of the best high school teams that ever represented New Britain, Cap tain Jack Meehans 1896 team. which was rated topnotch In New England and q contender with the Boston English high for the mythi- cal Now England pfOnshlp. The teams did not meet although some , effort was made. but the New Britain i boys decided that they had won glory enough and let it go at that. ! The first year of the league. 1 S94, I saw Bridgeport :he winner. The Park City eleven had two famous ! backs in Bob Keane, afterwards q
 Yale star and Foster. New Britain
 slumped that year although winning
 a number of practice games. They dropped the league opener to Suf- field Literary Institute. New Britain
 was composed of Jost. center; Law 1 renee and Scott, guards; McDonough and "Speed' ODonnell. tackles;
 Martin and Coupe, ends; Neehan,
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17

ing the kickoff and went after a touchdown. The score was soon 6 to and the New Britain rooters were stunned. Captain Meehan talk ed turkey to his men and then some- thing happened. New Britain snap ped out of it and thereafter it was
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17

Walnut Hill park on November 6, 1891, the former winning 16 to 12. Al (Bush) Hine was the Atar of the tained the regular high school team. The lineup included players who in later life became prominent in vali- ous activities both in New Britain and elsewhere. The lineup follows, x. B. II. $. Hillside Booth .........re. e...... Nibberts Pinches ......rt..... Humphrey Witter .........rg. .... w. Corhin sheldon .......c....... C. Camp Meskill ...,...+lg. g.......... Blair Hansel ....... .lt.... Richardson Churchill .... le......s Lathrop Butler ........qb. ....... Merwin Peck ....... .lhb........ Porter Pullman .......rhb,........ Hine Adllp At Q HiIll LII
 Fast Team in 1892
 While 1890 apparently recorded the beginning of high school foot ball in New Britain, so far as the old records show, and the start was inauspicious, the following year was better and the school was represent cd by fine team in 1892, still com- posed Of representatives of both the town school and Hillside institution. This team was composed of the fol- lowing: NJ. Camp, re; MaloncY Tt; C. Camp, rg; lost c; J. North, ls; Meskin It; H. Wessen Peck, le; Arthur Young, qb; Archie Young, rhb; W. Hart, lhb; Hine, captain, fb.
 The Young brothers were twins and afterwards became famous ends on tho Wesleyan team. Attorney Mortimer II. Camp and the late Judge Ncskin were also members, while old timers will recognize other members ot the team.
 The season opened at the old trotting park October 1 with Spring field high school and resulted in an IS to c victory for New Britain. October s saw New Britain defeat Middletown % to 0; October IS the team played Norwich at Norwich, winning II to 0 and October 22, the team Smothcred the strong Hopkins Grammar school at New Haven 2S to 4. Hartford came next at Hart ford and New Britain came home with q 10 to victory. Even at this date strong rivalry was manifest and New Britain claimed that the team should have had two or three more touchdoWns only that Hartford official took the ball away from them every time they threatened 10 i score. Up to this period the team | had run roughshod over all oppo- nents but on November 6 they met i a severe reverse at the hands Of the i heavy and powerful Hillhouse high 1 school at New Haven. being defeat ed 3i to Q. This ended the reason.
 Champions in 1893
 The first state championship came to New Britain in 1893. The team l defeated many elevens including Hartford, 26 10 0; lost once Friday, i October 20 to Hilhouse at Electric i Field 12 to 1 and won the cham pionship at Yala Field, New Haven, Saturday, November II, by the score of 2S to IS. This game was for the first Yale cup offered by the Yale Athletic association and was put UT directly as a result of the interest
 
 by the late Walter Camp. The cuI came 10 New Britain and still hold: q conspicuous place in the trophy cabinet at the high school. Tho team was composed of the follow ing: Peck, re; Cheney, Tt; Camp rg; Sheldon, c; Blair lg; NJ. Me Donough, IL; Martin, le; Coupe qb;
New Britain herald., 1927-11-17

a procession. The final score was Hartford 6, New Britain 42. The
 following Saturday, Norwich Free Academy came to New Britain for the semi final. It was another walk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28
A Ten-Cent Fare.

The Public Utilities Commission has
granted the Washington Rapid Transit
Go. a straight ten-cent bus fare in
lieu OF the charge Of six tokens for
fifty cents. This decision ends long
fight waged by the company for an
increase in fare. In making the petit
ton for a higher rate transit officials
claimed that an operating loss of six
or seven thousand dollars was sus-
tanned each month. They pointed out
could be shown, but that 1t would de-
crease materially the monthly losses.
There has been a good deal OF skep.
ticism on the part Of the public in re-
gard to the necessity for a fifty per
cent higher rate Of fare than is charged
on the street cars. The bus company
has passed through difficult times In
its relations to the public. The serv.
ice has not been all that 1t should be,
its stock was acquired and held by the
North American Co., which formed
the basis for charges of violation of
an act of Congress. and one Of its en-
ployes embarked on a tree-cutting ex-
petition which injured more than fifty
of Washington's finest Norway naples.
Then, too, there has been some
thought that perhaps the lack of profit
and the loss in operating expenses
might be due to mismanagement.
The Utilities Commission. however,
after painstaking investigation into
the affairs of the organization, has
seen fit to grant the increase, and
the Washington public should support
cheerfully it's decision. The owners of
the company are not philanthropists.
They have no desire to operate BUSES
at loss, and they should not be ex-
pected to do so.
Now that the increase has been
granted 1t Is distinctly up to the COM
pany to improve it's service to the ex-
tent that the public will not hesitate
to pay the differential in fare between
buses and street cars. If a better
article is furnished by the bus com.
pany. the public will not quarrel re.
garding the higher price, and with its
share of patronage there appears to
be no reason why the company cannot
wipe out it's losses, and eventually
make a profit in It's daily service to
the community.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28

of a race, and as usual laurels will go
to the winner. But here Is race, Pc
culiar in the fact that while crossing
the finish line first will determine the
winner in one respect, the plane which
runs second best may be just as de-
serving. The conditions under which
the contestants are flying differ wide
ly. No handicaps have been allotted.
No method has been arrived at--and
none Is sought-for making any de-
cision as to which contestant, If both
reach the goal, deserves the greater
credit. The Army plane. carrying
Lieuts. Maitland and Hegenberger.
weighs 1880 pounds. including its
huge supply of 1,040 gallons of gaso-
line. The civilian plane, carrying
Ernest L. Smith and Charles Carter.
weighs 1872 pounds, including it's load
Of $40 gallons. Both have about the
same cruising radius, which should
after flying as the crow flies the 2 ,400
miles of water between the mainland
and the islands. The civilian plane
has greater speed. but the Army plane
can stay up longer. The maximum
time calculated by the civilian flyers
to reach the journeys end is less than
the minimum time the Army flyers
are allowing themselves.
Interest in the Hawaiian flights,
therefore, should not be confined to
the plane that gets there first. Get
ting there first, after all, is of small
significance compared to getting there
at all. Both planes are embarking
on the longest all-water flight ever
attempted. Both planes are trying
something that man has never before
accomplished. Both planes, if they
succeed. will have added to the knowl-
edge Of aviation and will have won
another battle in the conquest Of the
air. And both carry with them the
anxious hopes Of their proud country
men in a courageous and death-defy-
ing voyage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28
A Jury Rebuke.

Characterizing jury's decision as
frank miscarriage of Justice judge
in Criminal Court No. yesterday dis
charged the jury, delivered a rebuke
and ordered the names Of the panel
stricken from the rolls for further
service. The defendant before the bar
was charged with stealing an auto.
mobile. Witnesses had testified to the
act and the defendant was alleged to
have confessed. The attorney for the
defense submitted the case without
evidence or argument. Yet the jury
returned with a mot guilty" verdict
With the crime wave being studied
for remedial action by experts in every
part of the country and wholesale
efforts being made to discourage GRIM
inal activities it is discouraging to con-
template such affairs as that which
drew the judges condemnation yes
terday. The justice certainly would
not have delivered such a singing re.
buke without due cause. His action
was the result of a complete dis.
agreement with the verdict of the
jury. A fair trial should be given to
every defendant, but every jury
should be able to digest evidence in a
sensible and reasonable manner and
bring in a verdict that is called for
by the facts. A jury is charged with
dealing out justice. and it should be
specially careful to see that its actions
deter crime rather than encourage 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28
Position of Lowden Analyzed
AS Real Campaign Approaches

date Is no minor matter. Mr.. Lowden
may not be the nominee" says the
Dayton paper, but he is likely to have
quite bit to say about who the nomi'
nee shall not be-
AS to the qualifications of Mr.. Low
den, the Columbia Record Democratic
says the ''claim Is made that Lowden
Is far superior to any other actual or
pote ntial Republican aspirant for the
White House" and that he is credited
with giving Illinois the most efficient
and by far the least scandalous admin
istration of any of its long list of gov
errors. Democrats, standing by. will
be interested in watching his fight
against press-agented sure thing"
concludes the Record.
Nobody can deny the existence Of a
Lowden legend. 1t Is something like
the Hoover and Dawes legends" says
the South Bend Tribune independent
Republican,. which records the fact
that people have ascribed to Mr..
Lowden executive genius and deep
understanding of the problems of the
farmer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28

personal relations, and indeed good
craftsmanship requires that there
should be no manifestations of Ill feel.
ing. Now and then a pitcher gains a
bad reputation for using the bean
ball." a terrifying device to enhance
the effectiveness of delivery, and soon.
er or later such a boxman will ''get
his" II he persists In this practice.
Rough playing has been fairly we'll
eliminated from the sport, and with
It has gone the cause of most OF the
MISUNDERSTANDING and animosities
that once made base ball rival Of
the prize ring for the delectation Of
those who enjoy the spectacle OF hu.
man combat. The punishment admins
tered to the Pittsburgh catcher should
insure an era of good feeling on the
ball field, in appearance If not in spirit.