The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
TAl. Sporting W.rld
WOOD GOOD FOR SWELLED HEADS
By JOHN A. CLuNEY

By this time, that bespectacvled young man, down at Yale, for whom a major league pitching ca reer has been freely predicted since last season, might have a sneaking suspicion that Yale university and particularly its baseball team, can get along fairly well without his athletic services. Wren college athlete reaches the point where he has the nerve to suggest to the coach how much work he shall do and under what conditions, then. for the sake of the sport, whatever it might be, and the subsequet re- suit on other players, it is time to call a definite halt. Coach Joe Wood of Yale's baseball team did exactly that in the case of Johnny Broaca yesterday, when the star finger was dropped for the Yale team for good, following the pley- CTS refusal to pitch against Al5ie Booths semi-pro team which shut Yale out to 0 on Tuesday after noon. Broaca, who was given credit for winning the intercollegiate t. tie for Yale lest season practically single handed has made things par ticularly tough for Wood this sea- son. It looks like an open and shut case of inflation-of the cranium. Broaca, in a kids explanatory man. ner, after he had been dismissed walled that he had told Coach Wood that his arm could not stand more than one game week, be- cause he bears down with a fast ball." Yet he has ambitions to make the big show after his col lege days, and possibly wanted to protect the arm, which might earn him important money later on. Can you imagine his telling Joe Mccarthy of the Yankees, for in- stance, that he would pitch only once a week? Smoky Joe" gave him more than one chance to be a good boy this year, but the lad seems to think he's bigger than the team and coach combined. Which is a terrible attitude to take under any circumstances, and can only put any athlete in one place and that is on the outside looking in. WHAT'S THE DELAY?
 Although it is two weeks this balmy evening that the now famous glove switch" was put over at the New Haven arena in an anna teur boxing bout, and an even week since Commissioner Tom Donahue heard all the evidence in the case, the boxer, young Joe Sulots of Hartford, his handlers, Jack Wernick and Pat Shea and Referee Frankie Portelle still stand suspended. The plain fact of the matter is that someone lied right to the commissioners teeth, and yet he will not issue a finding on the matter which is most simple to handle, for anyone that wants to handle it. Donahue's campaign to retain his post of boxing commits sioner may have decided him to pigeon-hole the matter which is of vital importance to the boxing game, so that he will make up enemies before the state athletic commissioner from July is named. It's cheesy politics at best, but quite in keeping with Toms timid- ity in making definite decision one way or the other, where the feelings of both sides have to be considered.
 In the present matter, the evi- dence at the hearing showed plain ly that a switch" was made, and that lighter, skin-tight gloves had been substituted for eight ounce mittens in good condition. But the commissioner has not yet made up his mind as to who's to blame. It was probably just a little misun- derstanding on the part of everyone concerned.