FANS  ENJOYED  GAME  AT  HOME

    It was a great crowd, big and orderly, that jammed the Hip to beyond its capacity yesterday
afternoon to hear to hear the returns of the Pottsville Maroons- Chicago Cardinals game as it was
played out at the White Sox park in the Windy City.
     It was the first time that such a stunt was tried in this community and it went over big.  Foot-
ball fans from the greater part of Schuylkill county were on hand to hear the returns as they were
announced play by play from a special leased wire direct from the playing field to the Hip stage.
At the Chicago end of the wire was Harry C. Hoffman, assistant editor of the Pottsville "Repub-
lican" and "Morning Paper" who gave a very detailed and descriptive account of the game.
     How nice it was to be comfortably seated in a warm theatre listening to the game as it pro-
gressed, while those sending it were almost frozen, it being so cold that wash boilers filled with
coke were in the press box to keep the operator's hands warm and permit him to work the key.
     Just as soon as the play was reeled off on the ice and snow covered field it was ticked off
on the Hip stage the next instant.  Thus the Cans had the advantage of knowing just what was
taking place the instant it was staged and they did not have to sit huddled about wrapped in
blankets to keep from freezing.
     Special arrangements were made so as not only to announce play by play and all the other
sidelights of the game, but hte specially designed charts allowed where the ball was every minute
and another chart bulletined the downs and yards to be made.  The arrangements were highly
satisfactory and the returns were  received with complete satisfaction by the football fans. 
"Almost as good as seeing the game," said they all.
     The large crowd is to be congratulated on the manner in which they conducted themselves.
True,  it is there was howling and cheering and atossing up of hats and even coats whenever the
Maroons scored or held the Cardinals.  But these cheers were not the cheering of a rowdy gang,
but the well-mannered outburst of cheers from the throats of the enthusiatic fans.
     There was an interchange of telegrams between the fans who crowded the Hip, Captain
Berry and the players.  The first telegram to be sent from this end from the stage was from
John Duffy.  He sent his message to Captain Berry.  Other messages of good cheer to the Maroons
were sent by the Rotary and Kivanis clubs, the Orwigsburg fans, Theo. K. Leininger and the
Merchants' Association.
     Just before the game started Captain Berry answered the many messages by saying that he
and his Maroons would do their best.  Berry's answer follows:  "Your kind messages received,
Thanks very much.  Glad to know you are with us.  You can depend on me and the Maroons to
do our best.  We are going out to win."
     Shortly before the returns of the game were started, Howard "Fungy" Lebengood was brought
out in front of the footlights and introduced.  He was greeted with a tremendous ovation.  Fungy
was left back home by the management because he suffered an injury to his shoulder and so could
be of no service to the club.  He carried his left arm in a sling as he appeared before the footlights.
When the game was over and we had won, the crowd asked who should send the message of
congratulation and they answered in a single voice that it should be Lebengood and he did so.
     There were messages sent from the White Sox park from former town residents, Sadie Golden,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Golden of this city, now married and living at Aurora, Ill., came
up to the game with her husband.  Jack Picus Wuinn, Mack's veteran spitball artist, former town
boy, now living in Chicago, greeted his two teammates, Berry and French at the Cooper Chariton
Hotel and Jack and his wife, formerly Miss Lambery of this city, were at the game.  Geo. Whit-
meyer, formerly of this city, now editor of a string of of weekly papers in the vicinity of Chicago,
was aslo on hand.
     Judge Landis greeted Berry and French at the hotel but, said it was too cold for him to go to
the game.
     T. D. Schneider, who has been associated with the football players and the fans since football
has taken a hold in Pottsville and surrounding territory, said last evening that the layout at the
Hippodrome yesterday in giving the information of the Maroons-Cardinals game, was the best he
has ever seen, and its originality, he says, made a big hit with the fans as was attested by the
overcrowded house.
     "The system used through the combined efforts of the "Republican" and "Morning Paper,"
and the Hipp management, was absolutely perfect," said Schneider.  He added that proof of
this was given in the comment after the conclusion of the game as the crowd left the theatre
and he explained that there were hundreds who were surprised and given a treat with the numerous
features, which explained in detail the play at Chicago.
     Schneider also took occason to refer to the wonderful order, there being nothing to make any
complaint about, that the crowd was at all times orderly and appreciative of the big feature that
was being provided for their benefit.
     "The system was so perfect" Schneider said, "that the regular football patrons could without
any trouble picture the actual play.  Not a single detail was missing, and the fans are very
appreciative of the combined efforts of those who were responsible for putting on this affair."

Pottsville Republican- December 7, 1925