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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
STANDING

Who said that Bill Caligan's Cost team couldn't win without E. F. Copp in the lineup? We'll, in his absence from the team this week, the Cost team won two games from the Production team. They would have won three if it hadn't been for Roy Kroms 146 in the last game.
 A. c. Becker, Oakville's star bowler, was still off form this week, only rolling 265 against his Oak vile partner, Brandley, who rolled 292. It was heard that MT Rocker didn't want to bowl, but the cap- tain of his team couldn't get a substitute. That's the kind of spirit that keeps the league rolling along smoothly!
 Drinkwater brought some noise- makers and razzers along, but that didn't stop Bill Caligan from hol- lering. He was heard over all the din.
 There was quite some excitement at the beginning of the second game as the Production team shift ed their lineup and Bill Caligan said that he would do the same. Ii was heard that Drinkwater couldn't razz Caligan and that was the rea- son for the change.
 Bill Caligan was high for the winners with 334 and Roy Krom was high for the Production. Great News Flash! Make way for the Chasers! That seemed to be all the noise during the even ing and it looks as if they were right because they won three games at the expense of the Engineers.
 The Chasers brought in a ringer, Ritucci, who used to bowl in the league, and I think that it was too much for the Engineers. The En- gineersr seem to have lost their prestige as they are now tied for third place with the Cost team.
 It looks as if Tim Ferris is try ing to take away the honors of the loudest hollerer on the alleys, but I think that he has a very slim chance against Bill Caligan.
 A sight worth seeing this week was the expression of glee that Sam Eusey's face showed after rolling 13 in the last game. He sure was tickled. I think that this is the highest game that he has ever bowled.
 The Chasers have started a final
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Hooks and
 Slides bY Bill Braucher
Golf: HclD! HeiD!

Golf: Help! Help!
 For the last three years the United States Golf Association has been taking beating in the matter of money and now has decided something should be done about it. On the outer leaf of its annual executive committee report is printed, in red ink, what almost amounts to an apepal for aims. Il goes like this: Three hundred and thirty-siX golf clubs have resigned their mem bership in the association during 1893.
 "The gam eof golf deserves your support.
 "The activities of the association, already curtailed, the high stand ards of play and conduct cannot be maintained as heretofore unless supported by the golf clubs of the country. We urge that you can tinue to support the game through Iyour membership in the association and when occasion offers the op- portunity, bring back old or bring in new members"
 DdI6 1OCS PAVFVoV
 A year ago there were 1191 golf clubs enrolled as members of the association and regularly paying their dues of $50 per annum. On November 30, 1888, there were only 855 clubs in good standing.
 Back in 1930, the total gate from the four tournaments sponsored by the U. S. c. A. was $53,432. In the following year, due partly to the retirement of Bobby Jones, the gate amounted to $20,140. In 1892 the tournaments took in $15,967. Last year the total was $12,031. Hundreds of men who used to pay their club dues regularly, en- abling their clubs to pay the regu- lar installment on the mortgage and sent the annual fee to the U. s. G. A., now are building roads or digging sewers under CWA aus- pices. l talked with a former prominent club member in a mid- de western city. He has to work with a pick and shovel to win a livelihood for his family. He has not played golf for IS months.
 
 Pass Along the Pinch
 Golf clubs, struggling under the burden of mortgages that in more prosperous years were carried cas- fly, And they must eurtali at every possible point to keep going. The economics are passed along to the U. <. q. A., which now finds it- self viewing with alarm the great decrease i1 membership.
 The self RovernlaK fradR has aa- aifmed strong tOadarnhia Of Amars len'n Rolfing forces. While it ire. quentiy has been tho target of earping critics because Of Its inter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
TODANS
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BY HENRY McELMORE

BY HENRY McELMORE
 United Press StaR Correspondent
 New York, Jan 16-If a few weeks from now finds me in the right wing of the Bellevue observa- tion ward, hand in vest, hat cock ed, and shouting: q am the state! I am Josephine! Wherelnhell is Napoleon ?" you may blame the New York State Athletic com- mission and it's recent report in which wrestling was declared on the level and strictly okeydokey. I have read the report back wards and forwards, up and down and sideways, and had 1t transla- ted into eight languages, includ- the Patois of the Japanese head hunters, but 1t doesn't make any more sense than a Gertrude Stein interpretation of James Joyce with a hangover. All I can gather from the report is that wrestling is an honest robbery; a crooked, double- crossing, legitimate business; IS contaminated and pasteurized; has for it's coat of arms snowfiakes rampant on a field of blackjacks and chisels, and is on the up-and- up and the down-and- down.
 Determined to get the thing strengthened out before I started pouring syrup down my back and scratching my waffles, which is the first sign of approaching battinessS l confronted General James J. Phelan, chairman of the conmis- sion and the man who gave the immortal report to the world.
 General" l said, "this report, to say it nicely, doesn't scan. Will you enlighten me?"
 "Wy dear sir, what do you mean?" replied the general with a hurt look on his face.
 "Of course it scans. We simply found that wrestling was honest and on the level"
 "Well, then, general, if they're on the up and up why do you in- sist that wrestling events must not be billed as matches but simply as exhibitions? If they are on the level why not call them matches! And if they're just exhibitions why not let the National Vaudeville as. sociation run the business? And why does the commission insist having licensed referees superin- tend each event, and why does the commission recognize certain wrestlers as the champion of the world? What is he champion at? acting? groaning? grunting? fin- ishing matches exactly at II p. m, when the curfew rings, or what?
 Really, you miss the point, replied the general.
 Maybe so, but I've another question I want cleared up. 1T wrestling is on the level enough to command your supervision, why does the commission allow but ting, slugging, biting, tackling and what not in the matches? Why not make wrestlers wrestle?
 That's just my point," replied the genenrl. Its because the boys do things that he make the pro- motors bill wrestling as exhibi- tions." U
 "In other words, general" said going out the door, "wrest- ling, like the Einstein theory, is bent space and thus beyond the of a mere sports writer"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

Promising nothing, but working earnestly to get at the bottom of the mess in which physically un- fit boys of 16 and under are rapid ly becoming "punchy" as the pro- motors have it, Lawlor is planning a huge elimination tournament in some key city of the state, during which every amateur boxer of rec ord will take part before 1t is over and a committee of four judges of ability and character pick out the boxers, whose licenses should be taken up and the boys prevent ed from boxing as amateurs until such time as they reach the proper state of physical perfection and fistic ability.
 Pruning Knife
 The result will mean the elimin- ation of scores of youths now mas querading as boxers, who are be- ing harmed physically in every bout in which they participate, be- cause they have no boxing ability, are in poor physical condition, yet are being exploited by greedy promoters and team leaders, who are literal "bloodsuckers" of the lowest strata in human society. The fact that the boys receive ntle or nothing for their services, many times entertaining boxing bout in half-starved condition, is becoming very well known, and if such con- ditions are not eliminated by next summer, amateur boxing will have to be taken out of the realm of Connecticut sport from which revenue is derived.
 Fast One
 Only last Friday night in Nor wich, Waterbury boxer, Young Sharkey by name, is alleged to have used the amateur boxing li- cense of one Joey Longo taking part in an amateur bout as Longo. Sharkey is a seasoned fighter of many years experience, but is not being blamed as much by Com missioner Lawlor as the handlers who brought him to Norwich to compete as an amateur. One of the handlers, Danny Christie, the only one who owned a state second 8 license has been suspended in- definitely. That situation is com paratively mild to some of the things that have been perpetrated under the guise of amateur boxing and right under the noses of state boxing inspectors, most of whom do not know what is going on in the city in which they work, or when they do know, politely turn their back to "give the promoter break" It seems that nothing but the death or serious injury of some half-starved boy will bring out the real harm that is being done to Connecticut youth by hu- man lice allowed to operate as matchmakers and team-leaders. | Tip-Off
 The Sharkey incident in Nor wich is just minor case of put ting something over" in which no one suffered physical injury, but the operation is indicative to a slight degree of what has been going on for several years. Fol lowing the proposed elimination tournament, a supervision of am- ateur boxing is expected t6 be made so stringent that it will take plenty of nerve to ''put something over" for it is understood when Lawlor gets through shaking up his doc tors, inspectors, matchmakers, team-leaders and promoters, the boy who does the boxing will be given a fair deal which he has not had and doesn't know how to get.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Meet To "Weed Out" Unfit Anaateur Boxers
ST LUCY'S BOOK | BRIDGEPORT FIVE
Locals to Open Home and
 Home Series in Park City February }

Bridgeport, Jan 26-The Holy Rosary quintet, the team which is threatenin gto dethrone St Angus tines in the Senior Holy Name league here, will play a home and home series with St Lucy's church team of Waterbury.
 St Lucy's combine, playing its first year in Waterbury hoop cir cles, will come here to open the series at the Warren Harding gym Saturday, February 3. The Brass City squad is making a fine show ing in it's initial year.
 Among the aces are several who are well-known to scholastic fans here for their work with Wilby and Crosby. Dom Spadola, last years Wilby ace, is to play a forward with Ralph Santopietro, ex-Crosby ace, at center. Two other Wilby men, Julie Martino and Freddy Lacovino play at the guards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
K. of l.. Juniors
 Defeat Cowboys

A capacity crowd watched the K. of l.. Juniors nose out the Cow boys by a score of 1917 last night at the Brooklyn "" hut, Povalai- tis getting 10 points for the win- ners, and Griska playing nice de- fensive game. The Juniors play again tomorrow night against the Unknowns and Monday take on the strong Brooklyn "Y" Eagles. In- cluded in the K. of l.. Juniors squad are the Povalaitis brothers, Griska, Sully, Balanda, Lejauska, Meyers and Smudin. The score:
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
MILL PLAIN LEAG

Tonight at 7:s0 o'clock the sees ond round play in the Mill Plain league begins at the Mill Plain sym when tho Tri-Y boys. winners of the first round titlo meeting the Mil Plain Rangers in the main contest at s:30 ?. m. The MidKets and Borkerson Mills start the pro- gram while the Maple Hills and East Enders clash Rt e:e0 D. ul. Alden White of Roxbury will otIis eiate the games.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
NEXT WEEKS PREDICTIONS
 GnSf VIC Chncnrc

This is going to be some battle with the boys from the cellar, but we expect to see the Cost win two games.
 Plumbers vs Engineers
 We think that the Plumbers will come through and win two games from the Engineers but they will have to watch their step If Seaver and White start hitting them.
 EstimatOrs vs Production
 The -Cstimators were too lucky this week and we think the Pro- duction team will be able to take two games from the Estimators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Au-Afncrican Five
The Five Highest Averages
Pickups Here and Thcre

We wonder if Sam Eusey will be able to wear a hat any more! Per- haps he might do better if he had athletes feet.
 We wonder if George Drinkwater will ever stop raging Bill Caligan :?
 We wonder how long the Chasers will keep hollering, "Get out of our way. We're on our way up?"
 We wonder when the Plumbers are going to change the name of their team as there are no Plum bers on the team?
 We wonder what wuold happen if all the boys paid for their bowl ing on bowling night!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Last Nights Fights

At Philadelphia - Frankie Pe- trolle, Philadelphia, defeated Bucky Joney. Philadelphia, (S); Billy Shuts. Philadelphia, knocked out Joe Moore, Chester. Pa (3); Benny Britt, 132, Philadelphia, defeated Joey Allen, 133, Camden, N. J. (51.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

pretations of amateHrism. it cannot
 be said that the golf fathers weFs not doin sthe best they could to dehne and defend this anma aHaas eurisnl---whieh, by the war, ls q pretty tough word Co handle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
LawlOr Starts Action To
 Clean Up Conditions As
 A. A. U. Votes Hands Off,
Waterbury Boxer and Handlers Involved in Norwich Mess Which Brought About Suspension
 of One License
By JOHN A. CLuNEY

Now that the Connecticut branch of the Amateur At- etic Union officially vetoed the suggestion of State At- etc Commissioner Joe Lawlor to help handle the much gned amateur boxing situation in this state the Connec cut boss of boxing is ready to set sail under his power
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Take Keer O
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By DAN PARKER

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26

Iotals ........:......7 IT Score at half time: K. of l.. Jrs II, Cowboys 5. Referee: Barnes !Wilby). Time: Four S-minute per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-26
Splits And Chops From 7he
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drive to get out of the cellar and the way they have been bowling, it looks as if the fireworks have started.
 Tim Ferris, who has come back into form, was high for the Chas- CTS with 35 anud Don Seaver was high for the Engineers with 285.
 I wonder what has happened to Seaver and White!
 Second Great News Flash! The first game of the season to end up in a tie was between the Estimators and the Plumbers. The roll-off was won by the Estimators and they also won the last game.
 The dope was upset this week. The Plumbers were due for vic- tory, but the Estimators seem to have turned the tables.
 see that Travisano has put in a new anchor man, Sullivan, but do not think he will last in that position. The reason might have been to stop the losing streak.
 Travisano was high for the Es- timators with 31 and Harry Hubert was high for the Plumbers with 320.
 There is getting to be a lot of excitement in the league as there is only a difference of five games between the first and last place, and there are only six weeks to go. The next round should prove to be interesting. If the Estimators drop a few games, it will be anybody's choice for first place. Let's all try to be there for the last round and see who will win out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
Socialist Leaders Pave
Way for Fascist
Dictatorship
BY A. MUNCH-PErERsEN

TEN years ago, there was estab-
lished in Denmark the first
social democratic government. For
five years, Denmark has now the
second Stauning- government, to the
complete satisfaction of the Danish
bourgeoisie. This is coalition gov
eminent, but the large majority is
composed of social-democrats. and
minister of state Staining is their
leader.
When the government is too thor
oughly exposed for the betrayal of
the working class, these social-fss-
cists have always good excuse: the
government has majority only in
the second chamber (Folketinget)
but in the first chamber Gand-
stinget) the majority consists of two
bourgeois parties. the Party of the
Big Landowners" and the Con
sentative Popular Party
According to ocial-democratic
propaganda, this reactionary major
ity is the cause of all evil. The
social democracy mas done every
thing the Danish bourgeoisie urged
it to do, and the cial-democratic
leaders share with the capitalists
the responsibility for all the fascist
measures Of the government.
There was no workers opposition
in the parliament until November,
1882, when the Communist Party
almost quintupled its votes and sent
two Communist deputies into the
parliament.
The upsurge of the revolutionary
movement and the opposition OF the
workers and small farmers in Den
mark in connection with the coming
into power of the faScists in Ger
many has led the bourgeoisie to de-
mand from its government stronger
measures against the revolutionary
movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
5 Years Of Social Democratic Gou't in Denmark

And the social-democratic leaders
also drew lessons from the events
in Germany and endeavored above
all to fulfill their task better than
did their social-fascist brethren in
Germany, and to show to the bour-
geoisie that it would be much more
to their advantage to leave them
their part in the state apparatus.
And this is why the social-demo-
cratic government of Denmark, I'M
der the fake slogan: Fight against
Nazlsm and Communism, usherS in
whole assortment of fascist meas
ures: depreciation of the currency,
legal destruction of cattle, now up
TO more than 100000 heads, higher
duties and indirect taxes. These
measures artiflcially raised the
prices of meat, sugar, coffee, butter,
margarine, wheat and other neces-
sites. So it happens that Danish
butter cost twice as much in Copen-
hagen as in London.
This policy increased the profit
for the big landowners, while the
industrialist magnates we're sup
ported by the state through subven-
tons supposed to "set production
going"
1t is true, the parliament was
compelled to spend millions for I'M
employment relief, but for the in
dividual unemployed the relief was
cut, and the government increased
the power OF the whole hostile vel
fare organization.
The social leaders full
fill their most important task, as
the main social support of the bour-
geoisie, by doing their utmost
through the trade unions which
they dominate to hinder the work
ing class from going over to counter
tacks against the bourgeoisie
Here they use the important argu-
ment that the workers must have
regard fer their own govern
ment." The social-dsmccratic gov
eminent has made use of all pos
sible means to prevent labor strug-
giles against the capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09

routine, etc, the Roosevelt machine driving toward
monopoly war and fascism. has the fullest support
Of the Republican Party. They are both the wings
Of the Wall Street vulture.
And the Socialist Party in its own way serves
the interests of capitalism too.
The masses, who have been plundered by the
N.R-A, and who are eager to fight it, will be
trapped and tricked if they follow the opposition"
Of the Republican Party. For the Republican Party
will continue the Wall Street program of Roosevelt
with equal fidelity and ruthlessness
The Communist Party alone boldly proclaims
its enmity to the entire Wall Street program Of
the government whether administered by Repub-
hcsns, Democrats or Socialists.
The fight against the Roosevelt NRA. slavery
can only be class fight. waged on revolutionary
lines leading 10 the destruction Of the whole profit
syST~P'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
NaziS in Ne.V York Harbor

VIGILANT and timely action by the In
ternational Labor Defense in New
York snatched Theodore Eggaling, Ger
man seaman of the albert Ballin," Ham
burg-America liner, from certain behead-
ing in Fascist Germany. Eggaling was
arrested by Mayor La Guardia's police
after Nazis in Yorkvile beat up several ant-Fascst
workers who were walking peacefully past Nazi
beer-hall dive
Eggaling, German citizen, through the help of
the New York police and officers of the Nazi steam
ship company was shanghaied on board the ship
He was chained in cell on ship board very much as
the Naz butcher Hitler has chained Ernst Thae-
mann to the foul dungeon in Moabit prison
Even after the LID. attorneys Sol Cohen and
Joseph Brodsky, obtained Federal writ of hab eas
corpus the Naz ship officials refused to release
ther prey The LID attorneys stood their ground
and it was only seconds before the ship was sched-
uled to sail that they succeeded in saving Eggang
from the death that the Nah madmen are plot
ting for Ernst Thselmann and other anti:fascist
fighters.
The excuse given by the Naz ship officials for
claiming Eggaling to the ships cell assumes that
every reader of American papers is either a fool
or an idiot "Eggaling was returned to the liner"
said a Hamburg American Line official to the New
YORK Times, as humanitarian move as he could
speak no English
But the militant American workers caring not
at all whether Eggaling spoke English or not,
through their defense organization, the LID,
cheated the NaN butchers of their victim, the sea-
man, Eggalng.
Only world protest, only the broadest united
'front.' action, only the constantly increasing demand
Of all forces against the Fascist murderers will
save that other seaman, now tortured in the Nazi
prisons, Ernst Thaemann. Continue and broaden
the fight against fasc;sm. Save Thaelnann and
deal blow to bloody faScisn!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
The Republicans Get Ready
for the Elections

THE Republican Party has just elected
a new Chairman of its National Com
mittee, Henry P Fletcher, and adopted its
new Congressional platform. 1t is getting
its organizational lines ready for the cleo
tions
But does this mean that the opposition
OF the Republican Party to Roosevelt is an opposi-
ton to the Wall Steel policies of Roosevelt that
the Republican Party is opposed to the advance of
Fascist rsactic. that stems right out of the Roose-
vet P-cgram' Il would be pure delusion to
TIM: Sc
I-c;cT IS tied up With the ruling class as closely
as Rcc1cyclt e, ard Eoo5cvelt is tied up with the
Wal Street crowd as firmly as Fletcher is
Within the limits of minor differences over spoils
OF Office, Of various governmental questions OF