The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1926, Page 14

i SS es plays have been built around this SPORTS player. You reach some school for an important game and he feels*®this reluctancy on the part of the play- jers of both teams to accepting him Jack Dempsey was outpointed by/as one of them. The moral of your Tunney and Red Grange knocked him |team igs bound to be low and if beaten clean off the sports page. The Ameri-/the coach says to himself: Never can college will NOW |again shall I build an offense or de stage its yearly 4de@-|fense around that player; it is a bit monstration of S8U-| risky, ean ceriters of educa-|and other sports, the Negro athlete tion in fitting men) js JimCrowed out of both glory and for life. Red Grange | profit. after only three years |rHE British South African govern short months iast fall, | magnates have made a nasty mess for} was able to eat Tregu-/the Capitalist Sports ‘Iriternational, A larly and leave 4 pal-| discovery of diamonds in the. Trans- try fifty thousand OF yaa) created a “rush” of some 15,000 so in the bank for people. “To insure fairness” the min- the day he may Tun) jing commissioners made~-all contest periority over Europ-| Im football, as in boxing, baseball } of college and in three | 4 ment in cahoots with the diamond |». What Congress WI}! Do For Us, by Bertram D. Wolfe. Jumping Up From the River, A Story by George Jarrboe, . Art and Socialism, by A. V; Lunacharsky, People’s Commissar of Educa tion in the Soviet Union. > Why the United States is.in the Philippines, by Harrison George: Karl Marx Second chapter of the recollections of Paul Lafargue. The Farmer's Column will contain an article by John 8. Chapple, on the farmers’ revolt against capitalist propaganda. ‘3 out of cigarettes. The fourth year of col- lege proved entirely unnecessary . . in fact, could have proved harmful. The first game his team played this season drew some eighteen thousand people to the box office and the sec- ond, in» Cleveland, attracted over twenty thousand. It looks like Red will be able to pay his rent on time this winter. There’s no doubt about it, comrades—a college education is -|diamond syndicates hired the great- The next serial article on The Theater Season in Moscow, by Ruth Kennel. Poems by J. Wallace and H. Beck. P . , - Cartoons by Bales, Ellis, O'Zim, Jerger and Vose. Pictures“and Illustrations. | ants take out a'license and start from ja given point at the same time. The | est runner’, among them some well- | The Tiny Worker |known Olympic stars, to stake out | Movie, Theat nid Book Revi /Claims for them. Now the Interna- | «debe pe sieade ana bid am a |tional Athletic Federation is asked to| 4, Sports Column, |decide whether these runners are still) And Other Features. amateurs or professionals. We will} wager that an “impartial” committee will add to the comedy by ruling that ; these runners are still amateurs since @ wonderful thing! a7 . . ED no doubt will raise Cain with a great source of college income. His last game at college drew 90,000! they did not receive money but were given diamond studded medals. ROM this column we will take a | glance at sports every week. We z jare anxious to record activity of people. The professors might have ; é : been foolish enough to think this a| Workers Sports’ organizations. Let good time to ask Sr 8 raise But | US know just what your club is doing. the colleges only hired a couple of | "4 ys; extra coaches fer the “higher educa-, tion.” It will be interesting to see | the havoc that professional football! will play with desertions from college! ranks in the midst of the football) season. A contract calling for $4,500 | versity. There is sure to be more of this as the season progresses. There is mo question about it. American col- leges are so marvelously superior to European universities in fitting men! for }ife, that with a substantial argu-| ment written in a check book, Red! Grange will be able to convince cer- tain doys that in two years in college) they have learned all it is necessary | to know. * 6 @ } sy iyertoapig the intellectual, seems | also to have proved the value of | education. A press agent with some! imagination ‘had him reading Karl| Marx. At a Communist committee) meeting the other night, at which a discussion of the Dempsey-Tiinney gold rush preceded the order of busi- ness, they tell me Bill Mathigon de- scribed the fight somewhat in this order: “They leaped to the center of the ring. Tunney looked Dempsey square- ly in the eye and shouted, “What's sur- plus value?” Stunned, Dempsey took thres blows on the jaw and two sports Writers dropped. dead. In the next round, Tunney shouted: ‘What's a commodity?” Dempsey split Tunney’s lip with one and soaked him in the ear with another. Then Tunney sim- ply dazed him with définitions, ques- tions and quotations, Jn the last round Tunney stepped up quickly to| Dempsey as the bell sounded and said: ‘Did you know that the theory of marginal utility has been disprov- ed? The only surviving sports writ- er swore that at that moment Demp- sey was @ beaten man. And then he fainted.” “HENRY BLY HAD A FLY— HE TIED (T TO ASTRING , o's. <2 HE Negro student at the university has little chance to duplicate the feats of Red Grange. He, unfortunate- ly, (7). must content himself with education only. The road to income- increasing athletic glory is paved with the stumbling. blocks of racb-preju- dice. Here are some of the “reasons” with which the coach of Illinolg Uni- versity consoles a local Negro sports writer who becomes inguisitive: “You see thare are a number of problems conffonting the coach whose team harbors a colored athlete. In many cities visited he cannot yse his colored piayer, in others he finds | trouble placing him in sleeping quar- | ters and often at his own school the | “athletic table” is intended for white students only, Now suppose the team ¥ mie Saher ae ices va: A WEEK IN CARTOONS _ By M. P. Bales