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NEW BRITAIN ROLLER HOCKEYTEAMMEETSWAUMNRDWMGHT—TASSIAN)CAVANAUGHFNBHRAMGFORBOUT TOMORROW NIGHT—LOCAL BASKETBALL QUINTET TO BATTLE ATLAS SATURDAY—HIGH SCHOOL QUINTET IN FIRST GAME WWWW LOCAL QUINTET TO MEET NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY §, 1928, LIONS GOP FOURTH: MEETS CAVANAUGH HERE ATLAS SATURDAY NIGHT| ¢ CHURCH WINS! New Britain Team Tied With Bristol Endees for Second Place in First Round — Week-end Game to Finish First Part of Schedule—New Haven Team One of Best Assembled Together in Several Years—Fierce Battle Expected—No Changes Made in Lineup. 'TUNNEY T0 DEFEND TITLE IN CHICAGD Herald-Examiner Says Cbampion . Will Fight Some Time in June Chicago, Jan. 5 (M—The Chicago | Herald and Examiner in a copy- righted news story today said that .| definite plans are being formulated for Gene Tunney to defend his| {heavyweight champlonship here A battle as furious as any seen ¢ in the Connceticut State Bas- Letball league will be fought at the Stanley Arena Saturday night when the Atlas A. C. team of New Haven makes its first appearance of the| year in this city. The New Haven| team has cinched the championship | of the first half of the league sched- | ule but despite the fact that noth- ing hinges on the victory except the prestige of winning, there should b plenty of fight from the first to the last, whistle. The New Britain team has just come to the surface again after be- ing sunk twice in Meriden Endees and the Leginning to feel that they a to start Saturday night on a pro- ynieh ol winning streak, These two sSometime in June. 31‘ hml.« at |)wa hands of the Silyer! —Anten J. Cermak, president of the City quintet put New Britain out of | n-’»»JCO}H:V)}‘ h()mrd and nEdpers:ngl ¥ \ing for a possible ¢hance a1 | friend of the champion; Edward J. the upuing for.a possinle hanoe S liceily, president of flie South Patk lrague and Hartford's loss to Bristol i x»ox\(rnl|1ng Soldier Field placed the Bell Town Endees in a re the fight would be held; and tie for second place with New Brit- \,0“:‘?;“‘:_{"4 X\i:rr'dah:“:mk‘:;:no:o:;e G ritain and Bristol both have ;H‘vg out arrangements for the fight the Atlas before they fim,\h‘;‘“’::‘m’:‘ -‘r"::i;"mnh, the Herald and e o N et | Tunney was understood to have Saturday night. tentatively agreed to meet the best he Atlas team is the strongest to |OPponent available under Cermak's A e R inldircction. The two conferred last e N e o oar month when the champlon attended s The addition of £V~ 1, ", istmas charity banquet here. men to the lineup has e phatiyiaule dere. placed the Klm City team back onjy.pocy hout would be held n con- the plane which it occupicd = SOM 5, con with the democratic nation- years ago ag the wnbeaton Champion |, oonyontion, should it be held here. Ajiluat ot Wew Togladds = |George E. Brennan, national com- Cohen, Sammy Pite and Botwin- | [SOTC B TUSHNAN, Malonst com- ick make up the forward combina- o e WO €9 10 WA BELOR | tions and all thren are flashes on [(FrONYINE 1o, Cormake, Brepared 1o fioor work and in cutting for the p it TH0 BRWL A2 B0 ankel. - Mruply, junws centor, (3 SOIVET 0N MAREIR L L Chadys. Gordon and Lyman play in |, STEIREICERS PIOVICE ToF RO INE | the back court, These players make |yjon “Rogardless of the convention, the team one of the Strongest eOM- |y, over the fight, if closed, would | binations in Connecticut baskethall 1 yo yorg 44 Soldier Field in June, and New Britain will ha to meoi r several eral new a | 1 treal Have Firmer Hold On First Place After Victory. ¥ ! scored seven points, one basket be- I Cohen and Abel featured | was only €-5 at the quarter. Trade School Loses Rough Game g v Intermodiate “Y” League. W. L. 0 1 PC. 1.000 J750 Lions South Church ..3 Trade 8chool .,.1 3 .250 Kensington .0 4 000 The Lions chalked up their fourth straight win in the Intermediate County “Y" basketball league last night when they defeated the State Trade school at the Nathan Hale Junior High school in one of the roughest games of the season. Ref- eree Abe Aronson called 15 fouls on the victors and 13 on the losers and sent five men, including both cap- tains, to the showers, The Lions started fast and had six points before the Traders counted on a foul, The shooting of L. Mar- selli and Dennis kept the winners ahead during the first half, which closed with the score 19-9. Cohen played a whale of a game for the school quintet and made two neat field goals to keep his team within striking distance. In the second half the Lions kept | going. with Billy Becker leading the attack. Abel, Trade School guard, helped the Lions along in the third | period. Marselli had a foul shot and | missed it, whereupon Abel followed it up and scored a field goal for the wrong team. With five minutes of the period left Captain Frost of the sonal and was ejected. lowed shortly by Captain Luke of | the Liona and then in turn by Abel, | Marselli, and Cohen. When Marsel- 1i went out the Lions were left, with only four men and had to play the ibattle between the two light-heavy weights heads a program cludes in all five fights the remaining four minutes with this diminished number. Becker and Marselll led the Lions' attack. with Dennis and the guards putting up a good defense. Becker, who was given his first real chance | last night, played a great game and ing a nifty shot from the mid-court. Marselli sank a one-hand toss from a corner while going at full speed. for tlie Traders. The summary: Lions. Fld. FI, Ttl Marselll, rf . 10 Zembko, 1f, rg . Becker, 1t .. Dennis, ¢ Luke, rg Carbonic, | 13 ... | i | . Totals 1 ‘ State Trade School. | Tt 4 4 o 0 Tond, rf Cohen, If ... Benson, 1f .. Hubbell, ¢ .. Frost. rg ...... Wasilewski, rg . Knowles, rg Abel, 1§ ....... Tranchida, 1g .. 2 [ 5 1 Totals 8. 23 *Abel scored field goul for oppos- | ing team, | Referee—Aronson, South Church Wins, The South Church Intermediates | won a slow but hard-fought gume | from the Kensington oys' club at | the local Boys' club, the score being 31-17. Kensington put up the best tight it had manifested this season, while the church players showed the effects. of their hard game the pre- vious night. Greco of the losers | scored first on a long shot and :“ter | Rockwell had tied the score = :rk | gave Kensingtoni 3-2 lead again. | Morey-broke through and the chuich went ahead to stay, but the margin | second peried saw Bell go into the game and the church team drew away to 16-7 as Morey romped | through Kensington in uncheckabie the opportunity of sceing their sec- Traders committed his fourth per-|ond professional fight card He was fol- |year at the Stanl and Frankie Cavanaugh in a feat- fashion of R Tunney compared old boxing styles with the new, pointing out that the fans nowadays preferred to ‘o a snappy ten-round bout, filled with action, rather than the old having matches drag The {along 40 rounds or more. “There's more premium on speed ad skill now,” said Tunney. New Britain fight fans will have of the Arena tomorrow night when the New Britain A. C. presents Nando Tassi of New Haven | ure bout of «cight rounds. that in- HIGH SCHOOL 0 PLAY FIRST GANE Local Quinet Mot 8t Saminry Sataty Knowing that it it is to win the first game on its achédulé againet the 8t. Thomas' Beminary team Saturday afternoon it must be in its very best-form, the New Britain High school basketball team is put- ting everthing it has into the prec- tice semsions which are being held every afternoon in the school gym- nasium, The team this year has a great deal of power as shown in the de- feats of three factory league teams in practice games so far this eea- son. Vietories have been scored over Corbin Screw and Landers teams which are now tied for leadership in the league and over the speedy Fafnir team, the lineup of which is made up of -former high school players. If the Red and Gold quintet lll successful in winning over the seminary team, it will be the sixth stralght victory the Cassidymen have scored over the team coached by | Rev. William B. Downey, a former curate at Bt. Mary's church in this city, New Britain won the second ! game of a two game series three years ago, hoth games two years ago, and both games last year. St. Thomas' won two out of three this season. Victories were scored over Hartford High and Arnold school. ‘The lineup will consist of four veterans of last year. Captain Saun- ders, genter, played center, forward, |and guard, on last year's squad: Alex | Zalesk! playcd forward, and FEddie | | Sowka ia a three year veteran guard. | He played center for a time last year when 16 members of the squad | were ruled ineMgible. Louls Landino, captain elect of the football team other ‘Tunney and the other sports celeb- | for next year, will be at guard. The esccrcen? WALLINGFORD TIGERS TO PLAY NEW BRITAIN FIVE 7| Locals Have Chance to Strengthen Lead in Roller Hock- ey League — Visitors Display Surprising Form in Defeating Waterbury — Pierce and Duggan Make Fine Pair of Rushers—Hardware City Players All in Good Shape for Battle—Prcliminary Game. BURRITYS BEATEN ANAY FRON HOME Local Basketball Team Loses First Ont-of-Town Game For the first time since their or- ganization three years ago, the Bur- ritt baskctball team was defeated on an out of town floor when it lost to the fast Kay Speed Boys of Hartford last cvening after a ln\xalllng game, score 27 to 19. The locals started off fast and two baskets by Arbour gave them an early lead, The Hart- ford team came back strong and Leld a 14 to 7 lead at the half time. In the second half the Burrits, led by the sensational shooting of Ar- bour, started a beautiful comeback and took the lead with ten minutes to go, 17 to 16. At this point the Harford five came back into its own and ran up a ten-point lead that the Burritts could not overcome. Both teams scored nine baskets apiece but : the foul shooting of the Speed Boys gave them the edge. “Hank" Arbour played a wonder- ful game for the locals and held his man scereless from the field besides scoring five baskets himself. Dar- row also played a strong game and Standing w. New Britaln . 2 Wallingford Meriden Waterbury Holyoke L. [ 0 1 .500 3 338 2 Last Night's Result Waterbury 6, Meriden 5. | An opportunity for the New Brit- lain Roller Hockey team to strength- en its hold on first place in the American Roller Hockey league will be given it tonight when the Wal- ilingford team appears at the Stan- |ley Arena in a league game, Both ,tcams are as yet undefeated in the second half play of the circuit and one or the other will be on the debit side of the ledger tonight, Wallingford ended up the first |half of the season in the cellar but that doesn't mean that the team in- tends to be there in the second half. The quintet served notice on the ‘rel'. of the teams in the league to !this effect Tuesday night when the Boroughites downed Waterbury, which captured thé championship of the league in the first half of the schedule. With Earl Pierce as a running mate for “Kid” Duggan, Walling- ford has two scoring threats who will have to be watched all the time, Hardy at center plays a fast game while Willlams and Conley form a tough defense. Conley, de- spite the fact that he was a meme ber of the tail-end team 4n the first I half, was one of the most effective goal tenders in the circuit. The play of the New Britain team {ed tha cause Referee MeCarthy stopped the | fight in the third round on the claim | function, held by the Garden club and the problem of | opponent for him was presented 1 meets, is considered one of the stiff- iest punchers in t I bout, ! preliminaries when Pinky Kaufman | gepgee | Holyoke faces Joe The |} ties, who were introduced to the iblage by Mayor James J. Walker, were brought from all parts of the country to attend this unique four being over the six-round route. Tassi's first appearance here show- he had much promise but be- that Gitlitz was using the “rabbit’ punch, Tassi was immediately book- for the purpose of demonstrating its interest in all fields of athletic ac- for a reappearance here in re- [tivity. Sceres of bankers and bus- onse to the demands of many fa ¢ss men, figures prominent in po- king a worthy |litical and governmental life joined iill giving the champions a “hand.” * 1. A B. INSTALLATION | County Director George Kane to In- Frankie Cavanaugh, whom the light weight ranks in Connecticut, has fought 38 bouts, winning hem and the list of his vietims in- cludes the names of many prominent | fighters in this section. He is r vorted to be in great shape for the g0 and Tassi will be pushed to the limit to gain the decision, The supporting card promiscs an cvening of action. The semi-final brings together Frankie O'Brien of Martford and Kid Decker of Pitts- field. Decker, atter kayoing Tracy Ferguson of Wallingford, two weeks | go, lost a hard fight to the bor- are: Michael ough farmer Monday night. His James J. work, however, was very good and |james Crowe he and O'Brien should furnish a real {tary: William TForsythe, financlal v; Joseph Volz, treasurer; Gilbert, librarian; Thomas J. heavy duct New Officers Into Chairs At Exercises This Evening, Officers of the Y. M. T. A. & B. society o'clock Kane, per The offie necting room tonight at § rector George president, will su- Allation. who will be installed J. Kenney, president; Daley, vice-president; recording secre- retiring secrr Two former welterweight amateur | fame champions will clash in one of the | jreep, nt-at E of Hartford and Jackic Ryan ©f | The society had a successful year Bridgeport swap - punches. = Ryan anq a large increase in membership held sway among the amateur 147 |yway noted. Card tournaments, ath pounders in 1521 and 1922 While |jotjc “contests among the members, Kaufman gained the title last year. | ng cocial events were high spots of Because of this fact, Kauiman and |qpo oo™ plang are under way for Ryan will both be cager to gain the [ oo "0ty R cosstul seasons verdict over the other, | omaNe Ko st o1 The fight of the night i to result when Buster expected | adean of | ano of Haven for the third time. Two draw | verdicts were rendered in two four- | round bouts in which these two were the principals and in going (wo more rounds, both boys will hive the op- | portunity of showing which has the | more stamina, The curtain raiscr will bring | Mickey Roberts out as a pro against | — ANS FOR TOURNEY Chicago, Jan. 5—@—Armed with the approval of the National Fed- eration of State High School Athletic {association, the University of Chica- #0 today procceded with plans for innnal national inferscholastic sketball tournament.. The tournecy will be held April 3 to 7, inclusive. will be installed at a meeting in the | Jehn J. Riley, [ |only new man s Henry Kraszewski, |regular forward on the Boys' club team of last year. He will pair up | with Zaleski. Reid, 8cully, Bell, and | Zehrer will be held in reserve. CHURCH COURT LEAGUE Final Plans For Basketball Circuit | To Be'Lald At Mceting, of Man- agers Tonight., All final plans for the Inter- |Church basketball league, which will open Saturday night, will be completed this evening when the board of managers meets at the Y. M. C. A, at 7:30 o'clock. Six churches have been lined up, all of them appearing stronger than a year ago, and the prospects are for a successful season. At the meeting tonight a schedule will be presented for adoption. This will call for three games a night, the first beginning at 7:45 o'clock and the others following close upon it. Players lists must also be sub- mitted this evening, and it is hcoed that all managers will be present on time in order that business may Ibe cleaned up as soon as possible, ADOPT DRAFT SYSTEM San Francisco, Jan. 5 (P—DireM- tors of the Pacific Coast League ave voted unanimously to adopt the system of modified araft, between the majors and the minors, as out- lincd recently in the majpor-minor agreement, This system which has been in vogue since 1921 on the coast, gives the big leagues a claim on each major league player that is sent back to the minors, and per- mits them to buy him at the draft price of $5,000, | | The human heart makes 10 less strokes a minute when the body is | i @ horizontal position. Reny Chadut of Holyoke, This will also be a six-round affair. 'he first bout on the night's card will be started at o'clock sharp. held his man scoreless. Nelther |y jts recent games has been sensa- Hartford forward was able to tally from the floor. The game was mar- ted by continual rough playing and poor officlating. McKiernan and Curtin led the attack of the winners, scoring 21 of their teams 27 points. The summary: — Burritts, Ttl. Havlick, rf Yacobowitz, It Luty, ¢ Darrow, rg Arbour, Ig . Matulis, 1g 4 o 3 10 Totals Kay's Speed Boys, Fid. Peridinia, rf .. Buckley, 1f ., Curtin, ¢ ... Stanton, Ig .. i McKiernan, rg 9 20 Totals Referee—Russell. halves. BILLIARD TOURNEY Second Round of Carom Play At Rogers Parlors To Be Started To- night at 8 O'clock. The opening games of the second round in the carom billiard tourna- ment at Rogers billiard parlors will be staged tonight at 8 o'clock. Kask will mect Tony, Kasprow will hattle Adams and Wolfe will play Wallace. | Wolfe leads with seven wins and no losses with Stewart a close second with six wins and one loss. Games will be played Monday and Tuesday nights. Monday the lineup of contests will be as follows: Kask vs. Wallace, Wolfe vs. Adams, Stew- art vs. Tony. Tuesday night's pro- gram will be Alson vs. Kasprow. 'Somzkody Is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life tional. It has gone through the league and heaten decisively the four other teams. It took Walling- ford two out of three over the |Christmas week-end. It split even |with Meriden in a home and home iseries. It measured Holyoke and {ended up Monday night by shutting lout Waterbury, The team will present the sanie istrong lineup that has brought it jwith a jump to the front in the |standing. *Bib" Boucher, thé di- |minutive speed king, and Alexander, will be at the forwards. Alexander bids fair, if he keeps up his work, {to be premier rusher in the lcague. |Captain Archie Muirhead will play at center. “Gid” Brown who is fast jbecoming recognized as one of the |greatest halfbacks in the league, will protect Blount while Blount himself |will caper before the New Britain |cage. The players have all recovered completely from minor bruises and they will be out to continue their |winning streak tonight, Eddie Mc- Aloon will be held in reserve to fiil in at a moment's notice. With this crew, New Britain stands ready to meet the best that Wallingford can {send and unless something happens, |New Britain will still have a clean |slate after tonight's game, A preliminary will be staged at § o'clock with' Harry Kieffer as the star attraction. The main contest will get under way about 9 o’'clock. ANNUAL GOLF MEETING New York, Jan. 5 (UP)—Mem- bers of the United States Golf A. sociation will hold their annual meeting at the Hotel Astor tomor- row and Saturday. H. H. Ramsal, secretary, announced that the greens section committee would hold & | separate meeting at both days of the | session. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS TOR BEST RESULTS By BRIGGS x | faskion, AND You STAND BAcK OF A You'RE' HUNGRY AS A WOLF -~ AND ME'S DOWN To THe Snow on Presidents of Three Southern Asco- | iation Baseball Clubs Wish to Continue Major Relatiogs, N 5 (P—Presi- den outhern association 1seball eln New Orleans, Nash- ville and Atlanta. have notified thetr | president, John D. Martin, of Mem- | hi who is in Chicago to aftend £ of major league clubs that they favored adop- r draft rule, | relations 1o race worthorn st have ehampionships, it Claremont o it at 28 and Maine 1 14 an infer. Vi, on J. I tos W Orleans, <hi of three e its hands | A cH percentage of the fight profits full in dumping the New Haven \woulq go into a community chest team. New Britain will probably line up | jaqy with &loman and Johnny Sheehan at |\t Cormak was quoted as seeing | Teary and Sturm at guard: hl.\'".z‘ngpnlv"[_ There is a possibility, combination started in Meriden last may not be able | 't lto defend his title by et going until the second half, it |iract with Tex Rickard. The county | showed a betier attack then than the i 1 - | Tunney’s belief that the Rickard ager Clarence lanpher fecls confi-fcontract will not interfere, | dent that New Britain will win the : tween Tunney, Cermak and Tgoe, the | A preliminary will he pl, { Rickard contract will be gone over | tween two teams from the Girls' In- | can be arranged without violating | » o'clock with the main contest go- (the Rickard agreement, it will be SR o | “James ¢ Mullen, Chicago pro- | W|NTER Smkm l]N moter who has been negotiating in- | |promote the bout, the newspaper | IN NEw EN[ilANI]’HM. Ho Longer “sason of winies sports in the h Les Canadiens of Moutreal had a tory of Now England is expected this | irimer hold today on first place in od for January and February than |tional Hockey league as a result of at any other time since snow and ice la 3-1 vietory last night over the | | The Canadicns’ triumph in the| and the three only leuzgue game on last night's] nont have seheduled [of twelve victories, one defeat aml| nivals aceording to a | four ties for a total of 28 points. In| 4 Muins railvoad while the section is the Ottawa club with sev Liastorn Canadion schedule and hun- | en wins. six losses and four indeci-| are expected to hoost the total to ! total is 18, based on 1wo points for | S e 1 victory and one for a tie. Detroit | gland ecarnival highlights will he innual Dart- ! the 2 2 oup with 21 points. wouth aifuir, the e L FAYOR DRAFT RULE | February 9, 10, and 11; and the an- i auzl point to i the same dates | Letween North Conway, Lo nia, and Wolfehoro, in each of th ne. The three New Hampshir January 20 d Rumford 1 y i A T addition 1 fund for the benefit of Chicago's forwards, Zakzewski at cen “’11only one possible hitch in the ar-| last{he gaid, that Tunne Monday night and although it didn't g 0F s son) {board president, however, said it is team has displayed all scason. Man- | At conference next week be- game. Ly attorneys. If the Chicago match | Qustrial league. This will start at ing on at 9 o'clock. | signed then, Cermak said. | {dependentiy with Tunmey, would | sm' m Toe Found Liahilities | Les Canadicns Hockey Team of Mon- Boston, Jan. 5 P—The greatest | New York, Jan. 5 P—The flying winter With more activities schedul- |the international groun of the Na- were found convertible from labili- | Chicago Biackhawks. | Maine, New Hamp- |card, gave them a season's recor n announced today by the second place in the international dreds of smaller municipal programs | sive engagements. Ottawa’s point | Among the New and Boston ar 4 for first place in Daddy of New England coll-zint | point Ne nd | | sled dog i N. H., with three day carnivals scheduled stat Springficld on Jan state meot ot Newport the Mo on Frhrua Bt Chrnary of thr wished to ar i Jintdand, Vt annual New pionships at 17. 18 anid tha 1 championships at Gr 11 and three continue or league el cinemaan, of the New Or- who signed the telegram the ear draft rul a minor league team is a d to ke aver three years < fore b izible to draft proves: they favored a plan nearly similar a ratification. <aid wherely Tows uled ith provisions 10 sic sms {0 their car esible - SCHARFER VS. COCHRAN FIGHTS LAST NIGET | | Cleveland— defeated Johnny r, Clevel | New York, Jan. Jack Britton ) | Cleveland, ordered o ee 5. Willie T 1 . won from I'hil G fer, the world's 18.2 balkline | {billiard champion, and Welker | iCoch the dethroned :hammm\"‘ hive: igned contracts to meet in a t match at 151 balkline | Monday. No titie will b Present and Former Billiard Cham- | | plons S'gn Contracts To Mect in | 3.600 Polnt Match. | Detrait—Jos ated Claroy n, Lider, 1 oxprossed the 1% o continue the Previous 1 thet the 18.2 w for the champione. cli e mpionship irh < complain: t0o casy The second half was bitterly. if | none too cleverly, played. Kensing- | ton rallied on shots by Malone and Chotkowski and managed to bottle Morey up pretty well, but now | Rockwell and Bell were breaking | away and the victors increased their lead to 28--13 during the third period and pulled away a bit farther in the last. Rockwell, although o1 jumped, played a fine floor game, breaking up innumerable passes and | scoring ten points. Morey carricd the fight almost alone in the first half, while Bell led the attack in the ond. May played a hard def: sive game. Malone bore the hrun of the losers' ettack, Chotkowski made a brilllant goal after throw- off a pair of church gnards and wading in under the basket, wh Gre opening shot was prefty. Th losers showed much improvement. | The summar; South Chuch Interme prr ~iates Fl. Rockwell, rf, ¢... Bell, rf .. | 12 ¢ y 0| D. Wosilus, 1z ... | Malone, rf Creco, If, 1 Wright, rg N V. Lewis, 1g .. B. Lewis, Ig .. 0 PPersonal fouls, 1o N May 3. Potts—6; alone, hotkowski Wright 2—6. 17 Morey 2, D. Wosilus. Potts, 1 T: Malone 4 WrWight rers and i Anderon timers, Parker and GREATER FUTURE AND Go INTO AN OYSTGR BAR GUY WHO SGeEmMS To BE it For A STEW AN AHEAD OF BOXING Tunney Expects to Ses Bigger! Growds at Bouts HUNDRED WAITIN New York, Jan ney not only expects 1o o heuts but 10 have Letter crowds—and them, In o reminiscent a phetic mood at the dinn Conver of given by the the Madison the () —Gene Tun- more md for oy i Ugates” 11 as pro- and “tiret Jampions, of club, 4 mipion predicted that the soon coming when the wonld “draw twice a8 much as they do now—in crotvds.” s we 600 Miilion: > Garden | | | | time hiz bouts ds. tuxedoed ¢ from r fistic days to modern fimes comparison of the fight gum with what is was a score nileman US=E nmped ollection of carly and a now of years | Gene | | | It is a great thing to me : to represent boxing in th of champions of Tunrey declared as he ed an arm toward Bobby Ja of goif; Johnny Weissmuller, swim- ming title-holder; Luth, Bil ook, hockey star, “Big Pill"" Tilden, «x-tennis ruler, and ipions of the six-day bike race gamne, Charlie Winfer and Freddie Spencer, “Twenty years thought of inviti 1 to be many wav- s, king Rabe g0 no one would a boxer to clampion for But game is proof that th nust he €or z fine to hoxing in that growt hich hae overcome all obstacles and barrjers.” gathering,” “1t is proof of | 1o m the grown. is To me D FIND EVERY ABOUT STooL FiLLED AND ABOUT A G — AND You JOYFULLY SEE Him HIS NAPKIN W FINISHED UNTIH HIS LAST DROP

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