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New Britain herald., 1928-12-11
COURT GAME IS
 PREMIER SPORT
Basketball Main Attraction in
 Wheat and Cotton Belt

Kansas City. Dec. Il P)--The land where the corn belt meets the wheat belt and where wheat fields adjoin cotton fields, turns 10 basketball for it's premier winter sport.
 Vagaries of the weather. peculiar educational conditions and adapt ability of the sport to buildings available for indoor play combine to make basketball the supreme winter game of this section, particularly in Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma.
 Basketball was invented by a Kan san, Dr. James T. Na'smith. who still is q member of the University of Kansas faculty. and the game has a tirmes grip on the sunf1ower state, perhaps. than on any other.
 Practice begins in the midst of the football season and the final turnaments are never completed be- fore early April.
 Kansas and Missouri each have two score small colleges and uni versailles. and Oklahoma nearly as many. All have teams and rivalry is intense.
 Small enrolment is not a handi- cap, as in football, baseball and other sports that require many men backed by many reserves. There are al- ways enough players for basketball squad of eight. including three re- serves. Women, too. have teams at many colleges, while high schools find so much enthusiasm among girls
 
 nlents for them.
 The game is economically possible because equipment is not costly. few expensive trips are taken and the admission price is low. since games are played almost nightly.
 Expensive gymnasums are not necessary, although desired at the larger colleges and universities. Basketball is played in town halls on dance floors, in opera houses and auditoriums and in cracker box" gyms. Every town. no matter how small. has from one to a dozen teams.
 4 high school squad is always the pride of the village, and in the larger town, there may be an independent team or two of old high school or college stars, while college towns literally swarm with teams. Sunday schools, too. have basketball leagues
 A ban on football in Kansas City several years ago. because of an un- usually large number of gridiron casualties, brought the cage game to the fore here. High schools took up basketball as an outlet for emo- tions engendered by student loyalty.
 Many of the stars at the univer- sities of Kansas and Missouri were trained on high school teams in Kansas City or it's suburbs.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11
GEORGE HOFFMAN
 MEETS SCHOONER
Former Olympic Champion
 Fights in Hartford Thursday

Hartford, Dec. 1l.-Georgie Hoff- man of New York. former Olympic champion boxer and the past six months in the professional end of the sport. his bouts including the semi-fnal to the Tunney-Hceney battle, will make his first profess stonal appearance in Connecticut Thursday night at Foot Guard hall.
 His opponent will be Al Schooner of Boston and formerly of East Hampton. a 195 pounder who is one of Jack Sharkey's sparring partners.
 Hoffman fought twice as an anna teur in Hartford, beating Joe Wood decisively on both occasions and put
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11
SOUNDS LIKE A RECORD

North Dakota and Tennessee made what may be a seasons rec ord by running back two kickoffs for touchdowns. North Dakota, coached by Jack West. won its first championship in the North Central Conference.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11

Pennsylvania. eastern basket ball champions last season, will play Indiana, Ohio State. Michl- gan and Notre Dame on a holiday trip through the rhiddlewest.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11

Dale Eansickle, Florida's great end. was voted the handsomest man on the squad: Rainey Caw- thon, the most popular, and Mike Houser, the peppiest.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11
M|DOLET0WN TEAM
 DOWNS BOYS CLUB

(Continued from Preceding Page) 1 lries-Andrews 2, Zembrowski 1, Ra- metta 2, Rakutis 2. Bancovich 2, Paluch 3-16; Wojack, Karosis, Wilk ?. Sartinsky 3, Olew- nix o-a. Referee. Gill; timer Schmarr; scorer. Paluch.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11

Christopher Columbus received the equivalent of $32o for discover tng America.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11
SD king
 of s ports

New Britain basketball fans are in for a treat here Saturday night when the Washington Palace Five or Washington, D. C., one of the leading quintets in the American basketball league. makes it's initial appearance against New Britain.
 The visiting quintet is combina- tion of classical basketball talent that is expected to hand New Brit ain its first defeat of the year. The players on the squad are all experi- enced men who have been leaders in the game for several seasons.
 Among the visiting delegation will be Kennedy who appeared here twice. once with the Brooklyn Visi- tations and another time with an- other New York team. He drew down plenty of raging from the fans because of his method of play. However, he is chased as one of the best players in the country.
 The owners of the All-New Brit ain football team will appear before the New Britain park board tonight with request for the use of Memorial Field in Willow Brook park for football next season. The owners if their request is granted. plan to enter a newly formed Connecticut Massachusetts football league.
 This movement appears to be the most sensible one attempted in many seasons, that is. the formation of the league This will give the fans of all the cities entered plenty of interesting games and rivalry is bound to develop.
 It is almost certain that the own CTS of the Nutmeg eleven and the New Britain Blues will also be rep resented at the meeting tonight.
 One of the best foul shooters in the Industrial basketball league is "Hammy' Darrow who has not missed shot in the three games the Corbin Screw team has played his season. In the opening game of the season against the New Brit ain Machine team he tossed in six fouls in six chances. He did not get any in the Stanley Rule game be- cause he was not allowed foul shot. In the P. & r. Corbin game he made two out of two.
 Officials of the league were well pleased with the cooperation given by the P. & F. Corbin and North X Judd girls last Friday when they appeared on the floor several min- utes before game time and the con- test started promptly at 7:3o o'clock. An effort will be made to have the first mems game started on time to- night.
 Before this season Howard Belser. captain and coach of the Fafnir team, was banished only once from a basketball game because of four personal fouls. This year his team played three games and he was forced to leave the first two. He committed three fouls in the first halt of the third game but managed 10 stay in for the remainder of the contest.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11

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It is almost certain that the own- CTS of the Nutmeg eleven and the New Britain Blues will also be rep resented at the meeting tonight.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11

This movement appears to be the most sensible one attempted in many seasons, that is. the formation of the league. This will give the fans of all the cities entered plenty of interesting games and rivalry is bound to develop.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-11

New Britain basketball fans are in for treat here Saturday night when the Washington Palace Five of Washington. D. C.. one of the leading quintets in the American basketball league. makes it's initial appearance against New Britain.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
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extend the hospitality of its clubhouse
at 2017 I street to the commercial art
lists of the city for their first general
exhibition. Embodying the work of both
staff workers and free-lance artists,
this collection presents show OF the
graphic arts and design in all mediums
and national as we'll as local in appl-
cation-which it is hoped may hence
forth become an annual event in Wash
ington. During the fortnight the ex-
hibition will be open to the public as
well as to Arts Club members. To well
come the exhibiting group the club Will
give a reception and tea this afternoon
from 4:3O to 6 o'clock. Miss Aline E.
Solomons will preside at the tea table.
The introductions will be made by Felix
Mahony, who has directed the hanging
of SO many of the exhibitions at the
Arts Club, including the exhibition OF
industrial art which has just closed.
When serving as the first chairman
of the education committee, Mr. Ma
hony personally secured the first
scholarships offered by the Arts CluD.
Much of the credit for mobilizing the
commercial illustrators in exhibition
formation goes to Clifford K. Bergman
of The Evening Star and Charles A. 4.
Dunn of the Nations Business. Mr..
Dunn is the vice chairman OF the arts
committee of the Arts Club. 81
On December 20 the Arts Club viii
hold a session Of "The Mill" an expert
ment in cooperative service that is
hailed as one of the most promising in
novations in organization work in Wash
ington. 1.-THE Mill represents the flrst
attempt in washington to bring togeth-
er fiction writers in q round table forum
of criticism, The direction Of "The Mill
is in the hands Of James True, author
Evening star., 1928-12-23

other kinds, but the woman at the
next table had no time to listen longer.
She had to turn in a book review.
IF YOU are not acquainted with golf
balls, the finding of the first one
YOU ever saw means an exciting mo-
ment, though pictorially it wasn't
much to look at-just weather-beat-
en- sphere a breath larger than a syca-
more ball, pock-mocked all over, and
with side cash, due, doubtless, to the
whack of some driver who had landed
the thing in a gutter-where down and
outs mostly belong. And yet:
There is no sign of a hole or bunker
in the prairie stretches of the Smith
sonian grounds, and as nothing less
than a kick from the boot Of the giant
of fairyland could drive ball from the
Potomac Golf Course to the Museum S
edge-lo, the problem OF the missing
link!
Had the finder been party by the
name of Cuvier he would have sized
up the battered derelict as the orig
inal ball teed off By the Dutchman who
invented "kolf," and on its way to the
Museum as betting abode-maybe.
And good old Sherlock would have de-
Quoted the cash as survival of the
licking it got that time in 1892 when
a blue-laW Parliament wouldn't let
Edinburgh golfers play on ye Sabbath
remember? For proof, Sherlock
could show you that the scar is ram
pant today. though the poor blue laws
have to stand by these days and see
churches hold extra services for the
convenience Of the million golfers of
this country who want their Sunday
game.
Being mere no-account finder, the
woman who picked the ball from the
gutter surmised that 1t had been drop
| ped from some automobile. So she
took it to big room seven stories
high in the air and passed 1t over to
an expert, who knew it on sight as a
cheap make that didn't wear well.
Cost about so centS"
And that explained everything-ex-
cept the missing link
Evening star., 1928-12-23

Washington birthday celebration was
ordered paid the committee in charge.
Mrs. Roberta E. Jacobs, chairman OF
the affair, reported additional re-
turns from the card party given IN
November that swelled the fund to
$206.
AS soon as incorporation is complet-
ed drive for members will be made
and there will be much rivalry to see
which branch of the service enrolls
the greatest number.
A musical program had been ar
ranged to follow the business meeting,
and the artists had arrived when it
was noticed that there was no piano
in the room. Mrs. Seelye was not to
be thwarted by such a trif1e and COM
mandeered piano and crew to install
same, and the program went on. Mr..
and Mrs. Barber and Miss Brill sang.
Then came Santa Claus in the per-
son Of Mrs. Olive Carpenter, and out
Of a big bag each mother drew gift.
The next meeting occurs January is.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Seeing London
Music Now Replacing
Cocktail Parties.
RY InAN LITTLEFIELn.

By JUAN LII 1LEF 1ELO.
Correspondent of The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
LONDON, December 22.-Music is
smart" again. 1t has ousted cocktail
parties and begins to rival the dance
as a means of after-dinner entertain
ment. No hostess can consider herself
really in the running unless she gives
at least one musical evening during
the little season."
The hour chosen is usually 9 o'clock,
for then, as one hostess na1vely puts
it, your dinner should have put you
In the right frame of mind to enjoy
the music, and If that Is disappolnt-
ing, there is still time to go to gay
supper party afterward to help you
forget it."
One of the most celebrated musical
hostesses Is, of course, Lady Beecham,
former wife Of Sir Thomas, whose beau-
tiful home in Grosvenor Square is the
mecca of all the celebrities in the world
of arts and letters. One OF her vis-
itors this Fall was Robert Steel, Metro
politan Opera singer, who came over
from Heidelberg to be present at Lady
Beecham's Spanish at home; o,a
Lady Beecham's home Is an OLD
Adam House. The hall Is furnished
with lovely old walnut italian pieces
Sir Thomas bought in Bologna years
ago. The dining room, with It's Peter
Lelys and ReynoldSes, and the bronze
gold library filled with books and beau
tiful old furniture, are on the ground
floor
There are two great drawing rooms.
divided by china cabinet with glass
on both sides, so one can see through
house for entertaining!
The Agile G. b. S.
Bernard Shaw has been staying IN
his charming London fiat in Whitehall
Court on the Embankment, and he
seems fuller than ever of vitamins and
wit The other day saw him take a
flying leap for bus. Although it was
moving quickly, he boarded it with the
agility of an athlete.
you'd better wait for me-" he cried
to the conductor. You may not get
the chance of taking me this way
again!"
He was wearing bowler hat, quite
unusually conventional headgear for
him. But he sported the customary
pair of woolen gloves, and, OF course,
wore no overcoat.
MT. 0IlaW udu u VlSlI GIlio Fdn AAoAA
Gabriel Wells, the American collector,
who purchased some of q. B. SIS pri-
vate letters on the Continent.
Arnold BENEFITS First Movie.
Elstree, little town in Hertford-
shire which is beginning to be known as
| the British Hollywood, is amusing to
visit. They have been filming Arnold
Benefits first cinema story, "Picca-
dilly," with E. A. Dupont, German pro-
ducer, directing the film.
He is something of an autocrat, and
his fetish Is realism. Everything he
uses in film must be as real as pos
sible, even the champagne (Which prob
ably explains why SO many well known
/ people are eager to take part in the
night club scenes).
II his management does not happen
| to see eye to eye with him-some
Evening star., 1928-12-23

The British government pays out
some $300,O00,000 annually to its un-
employed. To Offset the moral evils
which accompany the dole system it
is planned by the government to en-
ploy labor to drain the waste lands,
repair coast erosion and in similar ways.
Evening star., 1928-12-23

Of life by giving forth in q rich bari-
tone the following appropriate ditty:
"Oh. what happy life is mine,
Dodging the inspector and the fine,
Running up and down the stairs,
Taking all the penny fares;
Oh, what happy life is mine"
If his example is followed by others,
the halcyon days of "Merrie England
will soon be upon us again-and one
Evening star., 1928-12-23

realism In too extravagant, even for Aim
magnates-he employs most effec-
tive method of getting his own way.
He walks off the set, followed by all
his imposing retinue, method never
known to fell.
A recent visitor to the studios was
Superintendent Nichols, one OF the
big six" of Scotland Yard and a con-
noisseur of night club scenes" of a
different character. He seemed inter
ested in the "set" In "Piccadilly,"
though it probably was strange to him
Evening star., 1928-12-23

Sea chanties abound, and their pop
ularity is undoubted, but the latest
form of folk-song has still to come
into its own. 1t may be called a bus
chantey and its present exponent is
conductor for the London General
Omnibus Co. He beguiles the tedium
Evening star., 1928-12-23

with no frills to it,
except a couple of
palms made of
green cotton, and
where you pay so
much for an ordi-
nary dindin, and
so much extra for
turkey a nd ice
cream. And she
was waiting for
her order oyster
stew, if you care
for details. She
noticed at a near
table a couple Sfle
had married years
and years ago
don't let's say how
many.
At that time
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Around the City
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

RAG, bone and hank of hair
~ has its masculine gender.
IN Here's proof:
A newspaper woman who
used to write up weddings
paused in her Christmas skirmishings
around the shops to get bit of lunch
in a cafe. It was clean little place
Evening star., 1928-12-23

more type Of noise will be added to
an already nerve-wracked city.
(Copyright 1928 by North American News.
paper Alliance)
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Now the Bus Chantey.

to visit a night club without making
an arrest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
D E D u T S CHK A

sudden halt before the Soviet
House.
We spend most of the day talk
ing to the peasants, while they are
turning their plentiful wheat into
grain thru the jaws of their new
harvesting machine hitched to a
Fordson tractor. They take great
pains to explain to us the intricate
working of their new machine which
they own in common. When the
novelty of our visit has worn off
and the peasants are again serious
ly turning out their next years
food supply we return to the Soviet.
Our peasant driver is on the seat Of
his droshka where we have left him.
His shoulders are dropped and his
back is bowed accusation. He
mutters one word.
"Chleb" (Bread).
We had forgotten to give him
food! We ourselves had eaten at the
village cooperative and we stop
there now on our way out to re-
pair our serious omission. Our
driver returns and bounds on to his
seat with two large white rolls I'M
der his arm and Whit of vodka"
in his breath. We go off at a gal
lop.
"Dedutschka, what ia you do be-
fore the revolution 2"
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Dedutschka turns catty-cornered
to us and allows the horses to find
their own way. He shrugs his
shoulders and points to the land
about us.
II worked for the landowner here.
All this land was his. He had six
hundred dessiatyns. l took care of
his horses and drove his family
about. The landowner lived in a
beautiful house. 1t had large rooms
and wooden floors and many large
windows. In one room there was
gold on the walls and ceiling and
large pictures of the car and car
ina. And the floor was as smooth
as the pond when it s.frozen. And
the revolution came and took it
away. And l became driver for the
Soviet. And now the peasants walk
over that beautiful floor with their
dirty boots.
But, Dedutschka, now even you
can go into that room"
"Ah, but those were the good old
bourgeois times! Near the house
there was large white tombstone.
And what did the revolution do? 1t
tore it up-that's what the revolu-
ton did. The revolution is at an
end. That beautiful large white
tombstonew
A drop of vodka has loosened his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
By SOL AUERRACH.

A whirl of dust, chickens skid
across the road, and the Soviet four
wheel "droshka" rolls undoubtedly
and stops before the Soviet House
at Olschan. A burly peasant sits
erect at the drivers seat and holds
the two heavily shanked horses at
bay. We bid goodby to our village
friends and mount. There is a
sense of importance in the drivers
squared shoulders as he snaps the
whip and the horses fly off at a
gallop.
Across wide stretches of steppes
skinned of their harvest and expos
ing the black raw meat Of the
Ukraine. The peasant driver picks
his way unerringly over mazes of
unplowed earth that serve for roads.
A church spire over the brim of
hill promises a village. From the
hill top we see the huts, painted
white or green, clustered about the
golden-domed church, which has
lost it's luster for lack of polish. The
peasant signals S-S-S-S and the
horses back on their launches to
flatten the slope. Past pond, hit
ting up a cloud Of dust thru the one
street of the village. Again the pea
SAINT talks Br-x-s--~xaS va acme to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Setting Up the Election Machinery; Preparing
for the Campaign

This so-called 'two-party sys-
tenn reigning in America has
been one of the most powerful
methods of preventing the founda-
ton of an independent labor, that
is, genuine Socialist Party"
Industrial States Hardest.
In a number of industrial states
where the party has the best pros
poets, these legal restrictions are the
worst.
For example, in Ohio, our Party
must secure a petition for placing it
on the ballot signed by about $4,000
citizens, before it can put up its can
didates.
In New York, an even larger num-
Der of signatures is required.
In California, minimum of 30
900 signatures must be secured in
order to place the party on the bal
lot.
These endorsements of the party's
being on the ballot by citizens are
not valid unless they are from all
sections of a particular state. A
minimum number of signatures is
required from each county of the
state. 1t oftens occurs that in a
number of rural counties our party
organization is either very ueak ~.
nonresident. If one ineligible per-
son signs such petition, then the
whole list is challenged and our
party is denied the right to appear
on the ballot.
Then in such states like Oklahoma
and other Southern states, the Score
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tary of State who is in charge of
such work often simply refuses to
recognize the Communist Party's
right to appear on the ballot and
doesn't even consider petitions when
presented.
Mobilizing the Party.
MOBILIZATION of the member
AVA ship for participation in the
election campaign began rather
early this year. This was occasioned
by the following facts.
First of all, we have splendid
opportunity, due to the economic de-
preston and the rising readiness of
the masses for struggle against the
capitalist offensive to utilize the
election campaign for Communist
propaganda and mobilization of the
working masses for struggle. Then,
there is the need to overcome the
lingering Indifference and even hos
tility in our ranks towards Party
participation in parliamentary cam
paigns. Third is the great number
of barriers put up by American
Democracy against Communist par
ticipation in election campaigns.
The presidential election takes
place on November 9Th. Simultan-
eously, there are elections for the
United States Senate and highest
state offices in a number of states.
In the February Plenum of the
Central Committee of our party it
was made clear to the party that the
prospects for National Labor Party
or even a United Labor Ticket in