New Britain herald., 1927-03-17
Spe a king of Sports

The Taggers basketball team wishes to challenge the phantoms of this city to another game The Tagcers are strictly local com bination and, earlier in the season suffered defeat at the hands of rhe Phantoms on ;he Elihu Bur Tit school floor.
 since that time, the TaGge rs claim, the phantoms have refused Co play a second game because the record of the Jaggers is not as i'm rrcssivc as that of the Phantoms. Jerome karbonik. manager of the Taggers. believes that the way to >'ttle the argument on which is the better team, is to stage a series Of two out of three games.
 Manager Karbonik i. certain that the Taggers will beat the Phantoms and after repeated un- successful attempts to secure q game with the Phantoms, Manager karbonik issues notice that his team will put in a claim for the junior amateur pionship of the city.
 The battle over the supervision of amateur boxing in this state was started yesterday afternoon at the state capitol in Hartford when d!sgruntled fight promoters and others attacked the present hand ling of the situation by the Con necticut A. A. L. in an effort 10 have the simon-pure sport put un- der the control of state Athletic Commissioner Thomas Donohue.
 Charges and counter-c charges flew thick and fast as the hearing went past the two-hour mark It was claimed that the amateur boxing game was amateur in name only and that professionalism was be- ing used under the guise of simon pure attractions.
 The A. A. [. had a number of supporters among those who ap pcared before the committee in cluding officials of the union and others interested in amateur sport.
 Most Of the complaints were re- ceived from people in Bridgeport or New Haven. Little was accom- plished by either side at the hear ing and no intimation could be gained of the probable action of the committee on the proposed bill which is before the legislature,
 Bill Howarth, representing the Palace bowling alleys in the state league, will roll Dave Rooney of the Casino in a state league match at the Palace alleys tonight. How arth will meet Rooney tomorrow night at the Casino alleys on Church street. They will roll the two-ball games.
 Kid" Thomas. local welterweight who battles "Sheik" Leonard on the first professional fight card in this cit" in years, is hard at training unl is showing terrific hitting power in bouts with his sparring li3'uerS.
 This will be a golden opportunity for the local mitt slinger because Leonard is recognized as the welter- weight champion of the state and If Thomas bowls him over, Thomas will be recognized as his superior.
 Thomas has list of 20 sparring z partners and all of them are being battered nightly by the local boy. A different quartet stands against the punching of the battler every night and none of them comes back for more on any successive nights. A slight delay was experienced yesterday in securing the tickets for the card and instead Of going on sale last night, they will be put on sale today. Inquiries have been pouring in fast for tickets from various sections of the city and if already appears as if the coming fard will be an immense success.
 This will be the first time In a good number of years that fighters Of the caliber of Paluso, Hart,