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PLEASENOTE...SAM ZENK, Moorhead police captain, was standing in the inner doorway of the Moorhead armory, but. he had nothing to do with it. My attention was arrested entirely by a small, clean-shaven, retiring chap wh.o stood immediately behnd George Edwards and watched, with a satisfied smile, the fans pour into the gymnasium to watch the Harlem Globe Trotters play the Moorhead Bluebirds.A. M. Saperstein, Jewish manager of the touring negro quint, politely remembered our meeting when he and his cunning cagers played here a year ago, and shook hands cordially.AS MORE and more sport enthusiasts crowded through the door, shaking the snow from their coats, Mr. Saperstein, in his capacity of business manager, informed us that things are picking up, if his observations mean anything. “Business is good” in a basketball way, according to Mr. Saperstein who certainly ought to recognize business when he sees it.to‘We’re playing to 20 percent more people this winter than we did a year ago,” he said in answer to my inquiry. “We find that there are fewer basketball teams to play than there were last season but the crowds have been much larger.ByDick HackenbergDally News Sports Editor“WHETHER THIS is due to the fact that our trip through this part of the country last year has made us more widely known and recognized as a first-class attraction, I don’t know, but the fact remains that people are willing to pay to see us in action. I think more interest is aroused in a game like this than in a game between two local teams.”The Globe Trotters played before a packed house at Brecken-ridge the night before* Mr. Saperstein informs us, and says that the gate receipts were 500 percent higher than those at any previous basketball game played there this season.IEO KOSSICK, matchmaker and referee for the Elks weekly charity fund boxing cards, gave a supper at the club last evening for those associated in the promotion of the programs. Several of those attending the affair were called upon to say a few words and responded with high praise of Leo’s successful efforts in placing local boxing on such a high plane and establishing the Elks fight shows as an integral part of the conrmunit’s sport calendar.Mike Ferrozzo, St. Paul manager of boxers and the Elks twin city representative, gave the finest talk of the evening,liAnrPVpr ivhAn Hie kanHinfl.it nf
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Tue, Jan 17, 1933
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