The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1926, Page 14

“week raise. egratulate the Bug. “games, SPORTS AST week we offered to sacrifice our- selves to go to Co- lumbus to witness the Ohio-Michigan game (in disguise if anyone thought the presence of the state penitentiary there "= ane made it necessary). And what a game it turned out to be! When two teams get together on whom all the resources of modern ed- ucation have been squandered to pro- duce football wisdom—they play a worthy game. Ohio and Michigan were so evenly matched the soore of 17-16 could not have otherwise, , close been But no one volunteered railroad fare | and as a result one Bug we know was | missing from the game and only some few odd ninety thousand. attended. The gate receipts will help you under- stand why our centers of culture pay fancy prices for professors of football and call a professor of anything else a Bolshevik if he asks for a dollar-a- Red Grange must still get a laugh when they call college football “an amateur sport.” Carl Rubin of Boston is a different kind of a Bug. He spied the Sports eolumn and writes: “I wish to con- I am one myself. Swimming is my hobby, and tho I am interested in other sports I think swimming is the greatest of them all. (Aha—a water Bug!) 1 note you fai! te mention it when referring to the sports of ‘New Russia.’ Certainly a country cannot be even ‘half awake’ as to physical culture if they forget their swimming.” But they don’t, Brother Bug! We said nothing about it simply because we knew nothing about it. But they swim, all right! Just how much of it as a competitive sport we are going to.fimd out for you. | ‘We do know that every place there | is water in Russia (and there’s lots | of it!) you will find many Russian | swimming Bugs of both sexes. Rus- sian sports magazimes carry a good | deal on swimming and the next copy | that comes along you will get, Friend | { | Bug. - But Carl asks: “Do any of the Workers’ Sports Clubs here in this country take swimming as a competi- tive sport? lf so, please name them.” We know of Workers’ Sports Clubs with gym elasses, basketball, football and othei sports, but none with swim- ming teams. If there is a Workers’ Sports Club that has them, speak right up! | im We swore off peanuts at ball games | a couple of years ago. Baseball Bugs, | as you may know (especially this one) | feed on the lowly peanut during ball | The vendors thereof threaten to form | 4 union with advanced scale, working | conditions improved, et cetera. The If the game is exciting enough, a full-grown Bug will con- sume enongh sacks of peanuts to need a plumber before the game is over, If the game goes into extra innings a Bug has to be blasted. Or so it seemed, anyway. But next season we're going to re- consider, A sports rugor has it that * “peanuts may be smaller or prices higher at the ball parks next season. Cf ‘You Don't HAVE hes AN INDOOR SPORT plan is said te be woll under way.” A common peanut is goed “ns fs.” But a common peanut sold by organ ized labor at a good ball game—ah, brother, that’s something else again! BEING a Bug on all sports gives me also an interest in the manly art of map massaging, Next Mon- day Tiger Flewers, middleweight ¢ham- pion of the world (in- cluding the Scandina- vian) will push over a set-up named Eddie Huffman, There’s no reason for going, pa & But the champion with the fancy name happens to be just as faney with his fists. We take a lively interest in his* beauty business of lifting faces, because he is a Negro athlete. Ne- groes have no cinch in sports. This fellow was sO unusually good he lit- erally fought his way up. On Decem- ber 3 he fights Mickey Walker, former title-holder—also in Chicago. That ought to be a bout worth seeing, The Tiger isa parson. But in the ring he doesn’t use a bible. He wisely de- pends on his fists. If you enjoy see- ing two excellent boxers exchanging compliments with both hands, here’z your opportunity, If you look around the hall you might find he bg A WEFK IN CARTOONS JOST THINK WHATA NICE DINNER HE WILL MAKE Ry M. P. Bales SSOLINI PREPARING FOR WAR-AGAINST TURKEY TO TURN PEOPLES ATTENTION AT HOME i | | f | a | CHINESE ARMIES OF PREEDOM ABOUT TO MAKE JUNCTION an” 4 Sy LOOK GOR WEAR FOR THE QUEEN OF FROUMANIA RECEPTION AT THE CITY HALL =—> i THE Q VEDGE THAT Fast THE SPLITTING OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE THE GREAT PROGRESSWE SQUANDERS $ 500000 ENTERTAINING A PARASITE QUEEN / NOW LISSEN | you MUST PRODUCE Ac MucH IN 5 DAYS AS YOU USED TO IN G OR YOUR DOUGH i WiLL BE SCANTY! a AN DONT you TAR OO BOR UNION f d