New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-31

club library, thereby doing away
with much work. Junior Achieve
ment girls will again act as librar-
ians, and the library will be tidied
up into very attractive and alur-
ing reading room.
| The ladies' auxiliary will hold its
hnst meeting OF the year on Septem-
Der Is and will start plans for a
minstrel show earlier than it did q
year ago, when the production was
remarkable success and was re-
peated several times. The Senior
1 Service club will carry on. the older
members Of the Boys club helping
through this with the administra-
| ton of the building.
| Ray Anderson has comprehensive
| plans in his department. which CEN
tiers its work around the gymna-
SUM. The first work will be that of
dividing the boys into classes
senior, intermediat A and B, and
junior A and B-according to age
and size. In addition TO the regular
class work there will be basketball.
indoor baseball and volley ball
leagues, a paddle tennis tournament
will be conducted, and the local club
will again compete IN the Boys Club
Federation meet for national honors.
An open night is planned for some
time late in October or earl yin No
vember.
Prospects for another senior bas-
ketball team as fast as that Of last
year are very bright In fact. it is
believed that all Of last years men
will be back and form a nucleus on
which to build. while several mem
bers of the lao6-1927 reserve team
have improved enough to make some
of the veterans look out for their
places. There will again be a reserve
team. Both quintets will be open to
all club members. whether they have
played on the teams before or not.
A plan to conduct a small, compact
junior league. with the Boys club
Reserves and perhaps three other
teams, is being considered, and If 1t
is adopted the games will be played
as preliminaries to the regular Mon
day night games OF the senior team.
Ray Anderson also has a tentative
scheme for a city wide basketball
tournament for boys teams at the
end Of the basketball season.
The gymnasium has been COM
pletely made over from floor to sky
light. The floor has been reprinted
in a multi-colored dazzle with red. !
white and black lines marking out
the basketball court and indoor
baseball diamond. 1t has received q
new coating OF wax. The walls have
been reprinted. New baskets, or at
least the restoration Of leather net
ing in place Of the cord, are planned.
But the major change in the gym
has been the installation of bleacher
seats accommodating 800 persons.
These have three rows of seats and
are placed along the sides OF the
gym, but they are portable and can
be swung out across the room for
They are of a rather
new type and despite the fact that
they can be taken down and set up
again at will, they are perfectly safe.
Some indication of the steady use
to which the gym will be put this
winter may be given by the fact
that, in addition to the classes which
will be in regular possession from 8
to 5 and from to o'clock every
afternoon and evening, as well as all
day Saturday the gym has already
been rented for the supper hour on
four evenings every week. The New
Britain Gas Light Co. will use it
each Monday evening, the Stanley
Works on Tuesday and Friday, and
the South Congre gational church on
Thursday.