The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-05
Boss Sports and Labor Sports
By w. BURKE.


ROBBY JONES' who has just returned from
England after annexing the British open
and amateur golf titles, is the darling of the
bourgeoisie and the capitalist press is running
wild with news" about him. Even in sports
we can find the international rivalry between
American and British imperialism. The kept
sheets carry cartoons showing the "might" of
American athletes as compared with those of
John Bull crude suggestion of the super
iority of American imperialism over that of
British.
Baseball.
Babe Ruth is surely seeking the little pills
out of the lots these days. If he continues at
this rate he shall exceed his home run record
of 1927. The Yankee baseball magnates are
rubbing their palms in glee over the exploits
of the Babe, not because they care for his
home runs, but because of the increased re-
ceipts it means for them. What the workers
should do is to form their own amateur teams
on factory basis, thereby not only getting
the needed exercise, but also forming basis
for an organization of struggle for their every
day conditions in the shops.
In a belated attempt to save the boxing
racket from disgraceful death, the New York
State Boxing Commission has ruled that it is
up to tn, individual boxer to protect himself
from fouls, even if he has to encase himself in
steel armor to do so. Ridiculous as the COM
missions ruling is, it serves to illustrate the
depravity of the gentle art of body-bruising
when it is run by ex-convicts, politicians, and
racketeers. For members of the commission,
thick-headed as they are, realize that fouls
will always exist so long as money-mad thugs
want return bouts for members of their box
ing stable, and so long as boxers will commit
anything short of murder rather than risk a
knockout that will put dent in their reputa-
tons and their ability to rake in the thous-
ands.
The fairy tales which the ruling classes pro-
pagates always break down in crucial junctures
This holds true even in sports, where "fair
play" etc, is supposed to prevail A case in
point is the very clever boxer Kid Chocolate.
who last Wednesday night soundly trounced
the tough Dominick Petrole and forced him to
throw in the towel in the sixth round. The Kid
is said to be one of the best mtt-slingers
since the days of the fabulous Joe Cans. He
has skill, ring generalship, courage and a
punch, but will he ever capture the champion
ship he deserves? Not so long as his color
happens to be black
Labor Sports Union News.
AS this is being written the sem-finals of
the Labor Sports Union Soccer Championship
are being played at the Party picnic in Detroit
between the Swedish-Americans of Rockford,
III. and the Workers Athletic Club of Detroit.
The national competition in soccer marks 9
big step forward in the L.S.U. and the next
step will be the visit of the soccer players
from the Soviet Union this October.
Training for Class Struggle.
Monday will mark the opening day of the
LSU. instructors physical training school in
Detroit, where about fifty worker students
will go through their PAGES for five weeks
absorbing the technical as we'll as the organ
izational and political instructions that will be
handed out to them by corps of we'll trained
instructors. They will not only learn the art
of self-defense but also of workers defense
The L.S.U. is going forward with the plans of
developing those forces that will be able to
lead in the struggles FIR the defense of the
working class in the battles to come
Workers! Workers organizations! Help the
L.S.U. in its work by sending in contribu-
ton Address it to Labor Sports Union, So
Fifth Avenue, Room 300, New York.
Sports for workers is an instrument of strug-
gle against the bourgeoisie.