New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1922, Page 9

i NO DANGER FROM A GOLLEGE SPORTS Their Biéness Not & Monace, Says Athletic Commissioner Chieags, Nov, 24 (By the Associat ¢d Press).-The mére bigness of in- tercellegiate athletics, as evidenced by the eregtion of the stadfums in which to ptage the games, does not consti- tuts & danger to the amateur sport, soeording ‘to Major John 1., Griffin, wastern éonferénce athletic commis- missioner, who today. replied to ob- Jectors who contend the immense sta- dis weuld, breed professionalism, fo long as the games are honeatly administered and kept from the hands of gamblers, the stadia are an asset, Major Griffith sald. The philosophy of the abjectora is similar to the men of A generation agé who opposed big husineps hecause of its bjgness, he de- ed, 'Bome persons,” saig Maj. Griffith, “are Inclined to view with alarm-this unptecedented development of interest in sports and féar that the erection of these stadla constitutes a menace to our eollege athletics. These men were afraid of large businéss interests be- eauge they were so large. in scope. Theodore Roosevelt pointed out at that time that there weére goed trusts and bad trusts and suggested that a bBusiness institution should he _IIM}ZP(” not 80 much by its sizé as by the metheds ‘whi¢h it employed. And so | it is with our colleges today. “If our great games are kept clean, | if the men who play do no for the| Iove of the game and the henefits which they derive from playing, if we can keep our amateur athletics out of the hands of the gamblers, both pro- fessional and amateur, then these stadia amd the contests will make for | a better eifizenship, and this means a better America, “Among the ten universities in the Western Confarence all have i building projectives which are completed or under way. Ohio State university has dedicated a stadium whieh will seat 63,000 the cornerstone for a stadium at the - University of Illineis has been laid; a camp#fign to raise funds with which te build, a stadium is now heing conducted at the University of Minnesota the athletic coungel at the University of Wisconsin has a building pian which will net be completed for several years; Michigan, Iowa, Northwestern, lhave good ficlds; Purdue plaps a new field and Indiana also; the University -of Chicago, with stands that will seat 32,000 found that a stadium four times as large is nec- essary, for Intersectional games."” CAVIAR COMES BACK Greatest “Feasts in Many Again Béing Enjoyed By the People of Russia. Years Is ) Petrograd, Nov. 24.-—Russia this fall is cnjoying the greatest caviar feast in many years. War, revelution, famine and lack of rail transportation intérfered greatly with the caviar in- dustry, but it is now going again, as| in the old days, and the delicacy is! on pale ‘ih many shopa in the eities, and in the village stores as well, éven in the famine areas. ‘Whilé in Paris, London and Berlin caviar eontinues a great luxury, cost- Fascisti Idea of Hazing Youthful mambers of the Fascisti or Italian NationaTParty. now in power, seize Signor Bombacci, Communist deputy, shave his head, paint it in the national colors and parade him through the streets of Rome. o NEw / i is doled out te all comers for about a dollaf, or .'x aquivalent in Bolshe- vik rubles, a pound, for the freshest and best. Pressed ¢aviar may be had for fifty cents a pound, and even ‘les: and is very popular with the workers. HESP O & RELEASE RUSSIAN American Relief Administration Se- cures Freedom For Henry P. Du- Bellet ‘Of New Orleans, La. Moscow, Nov. .24.—Henry P. Du- Bellet, Jr., of New Orleans, lLa., 20 years old, who was conscripted into the Russian navy in 1919 because he could not show papers proving non- Russian citizenship, has bheen ‘per- mitted to } » Russia upon represen- tations made by the Amerigan Relief Administration. When Dr. Bellet eventually found to get a. statement form. Soviet authorities acknowledging his Ameri- can citizenship,. but the naval commanders at first refused to recog- nize these as entitling him to release | from naval duty. The intervention of the American Rélief Administra- tion _then. was successful. DuBellet has gope to, Paris to join his father. 1 POT MUSHROOMS Paris «Holds | Kxhibition. of Deadly P}qlmm Which Are Collected » Parjge Nov. - 24.~ sinee, the. outbreak of the world war, the, oustem:of holding a comparative exhibition of edible and . poisonous mushpooms has been revived at the Museum of Natural History in. Paris. M. Mangin, a diréctor of the insti- tution, has gathered together 400 dif- ferent species varying in size from a pinhead to glants weighing over two pounds. The mushrooms will. be la- betled .and placed in the éxHibit in sectibns, according to their food value and poison danger. According to M. Mangin, there are ing a dollar or so a smack, here it There will be a great many people from all parts of the state who have furnished their only three or four really dangerous IR% f plaster, ruled iR iaanfificatiaf HecebiENe Mknsgad. | iy abaut: a ingk i BIEiar For the first time | mushrooms, chiefly Phalloid Aman- ites and Oltrines, the least particle of which if eaten means death. SIX WEEKS RAIN Great Damage Throughout Austria Due To Wet Weather Continuously Vienna, Nov. 24.—8ix weeks of steady raifls, broken by ‘but few dry days, have wrought great damage throughout Austria. The tower of ‘the village church in Tauf Kirchen, Upper Austria, collaps- ed this week, killing two pergons and injuring several others. Salzburg Cathedral, containing the faméus Ru- pert Chapel, is so badly damaged that public subscriptions have been opened for a repair fund 1In Vienna hun- dreds of buildings are reported as seriously damaged by the continued downpour. In this city construetion almost universally is of brick faced to imitate stone. Everywhere this plaster covering is peelthg, expésing the brick, and if frost should come before, the buildings get dry, very heavy damages are predicted. The situation is aggravated by the fact that there has bheen virtually no re- pair work done since the first year of the war. LODGL ARE SCARCE. Students in Berlin Have a Hard Time Finding Homes. 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