forget the surprise party in Pottsville and the players figure that a win over the Jackets would make the fans forget all about last Sunday's disaster. It is true that the players worry just as much about the folks back home as they do about the old ball games. The Packers are in fair shape. Eddie Kotal is sure to get into the game but it is doubtful whether he will start. Tom Nash is in the best shape that he has been for weeks and he may be in the opening lineup. Ashmore and Perry are not right but Capt. Lambeau is switching Earpe over to tackle and playing Darling at center. The Jackets haven't been saying much about their physical condition but it is well known that several of their boys are not quite in the pink. However, Homan and Elkins are stepping along lively these days and they are apt to cause the boys some trouble on the offensive. The Yellowjackets' management reports a fair advance sale of tickets in this afternoon's game. The park seats about 8,000 and those in charge are looking for a big house although they think chances for a record crowd are not so bright. For some unknown reason, the Yellowjackets haven't been drawing as well as in past years. Last Saturday, when the Chicago Cardinals played here, there were less than 3,200 in the stands.

FOOTBALL AND HOCKEY STARS CROWD HOTELS

NOV 29 (Philadelphia) - There are athletes galore parked at the Adelphia hotel Wednesday night. Aside from the Packers, the Providence Steamrollers stopped off en route to Pottsville; the Cornell university squad, some forty strong, checked in about 7 p.m., and there was two professional hockey teams, the Providence Arrows and the Quaker City All Stars, besides a half dozen boxers fighting at the Armory Thursday night. It was quite a gathering and the coeds, who are as thick as padlocks in Green Bay, had quite a time giving them all the once over. If looks count for anything, football is a parlor game compared with hockey. These puck chasers are carrying slashed faces and cauliflower ears not to mention black eyes and lame ankles. After looking 'em over, Jug Earpe said he would stick to football and his knitting.

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS - MR. ZWIEBEL TALKS

NOV 29 (Green Bay Press-Gazette) - While scanning the columns of the Pottsville Republican today, we ran across the "Sport X-Ray" column conducted by Ed. A. Zwiebel, Jr., sports editor of the mining country daily newspaper and found that Mr. Zwiebel has a lot to say about out Packers. We had considerable trouble trying to dope out just what Mr. Zwiebel was driving at, and could not see where there was much logic in what he had to say. Personally we think he is "all wet" and does not know what it is all about. However, we are passing it on to you for what it is worth. He says: "Folks who sat through a brief but fine specimen of a blizzard at the Minersville Ball Park yesterday afternoon saw two things, the playing of the best and the worst football teams in the National league as of that date. The Maroons looked like Frankford showed two weeks ago, while Green Bay looked even worse than did the Maroons against the Hornets. Pottsville played what was probably its best game since championship days, while Green Bay got out of its system the "off day" game that sort of comes to a football team once every season. There is probably not a team in Joe Carr's circuit that could have defeated Pottsville yesterday. Pottsville's victory over Green Bay is really more than simply a game won. They trounced a team that crushed them. This is evidence that Pottsville's fighting spirit has not been crushed because of the unsuccessful season. A team that will put up the brand of football before a handful of fans such as the Maroons dispensed yesterday are certainly deserving of a more kind fate. It proves that the club is arriving and had they not been called upon to play such a silly schedule prior to the Frankford game the story might have been different. Green Bay looked very, very silly at times. This aggregation came here ballyhooed as a team coached by a pupil of the great Knute Rockne. The Packers certainly did not evidence that they had any of the Notre Dame's intelligence among them. The Packers played dumb football. That's about the best way that I can describe it. They committed offenses that you would not forgive a high school team. They were consistent, however, because they always did the wrong thing at the wrong time. Thanks to their lack of football intelligence and the great game staged by the Maroons, we are able to boast of two victories in the National league. The Maroons would have won this game no matter what the Packers did, but it would have made a better game had the visitors used a little intelligence. The greatest offense the Packers committed and for which they should be called upon to pay dumb tax is that they passed in their own territory. Twice they did this and each time it resulted in a Maroon touchdown. They have not even learned the value of the forward, and a team not knowing this don't know much football. Not only did the Packers play a poor brand of football, but they looked like poor losers. There was no excuse for either. They were "crabbing" at the officials all afternoon. That kind of playing helps the other team. Seeing that they were being hopelessly beaten, they took it out on the officials. In fact they so abused the officials, using bad language, that a fifteen yard penalty was inflicted in the dying moments of the game. Pottsville doesn't like that brand of ball." Perhaps Mr. Zwiebel is the fellow that wanted to know if the Electoral College had any football players worthwhile.