The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-09
Good Evening"!

Good Evening"!
 The high averaging team of Joe Galipeau continues at the top of the pile but his margin over Ray Mills is so slim that we may Ind new leader when tomorrow nights results are known. Tn third place we find three of the best bal anced teams in the league tied, Sul- livan, Colucci and Moriarty, all within striking distance of first place. Tied for fourth place are Mellon and Baker, who by no means can be counted out at this stage. Tn the fifth spot are Martel and Lautenschlager whose work to date has been spotty and unless they settle down cannot hope to aspire to the championship. They might be tagged as in and cutters
 We find in sixth place the clan of Jack Roberts. q strong team which has been great disappoint- ment, for at the start of the season but as the race is only half over | and they have started to click again, we have q hunch that Jack Oub thO OhA VI | the races dose of bad medicine to some of the boys with pennant hopes.
 The next five teams, Kiely Flanagan, By, Leroy and Potter are tied. All arc good teams who didn't get their share of the breaks which has been holding them down in the gallop. None, however, are set-ups.
 Trailing in order are Dodds, Mo. Lean and Pray and again we want tot call your attention to the fact that although they may be down they are not out. It Is a. good bet that they will cause more than one upset before the curtain rings down. There Is your proof that 1t is 6 merry old race.
 l Tomorrow night will sec some Oi the major contests of the season when Joe GaIipeau and George Sullivan come together and on the next alleys, Ray Mills and Frank Mellon will do their best to tae each other. To pick the winners of these two matches would neces. sitate the ability of q cIairvOyant but fin fairness to ali, we think Sullivan is due for a comeback and will take three points from Joe. But rest assured the little iron man will not go down without 6 battle.
 Between Mills and Mellon tht odds seem to be on the Mighty lit. to Atom but Mellon Is about duo to come through with some oi those big scores that they showed earlier fin the season and if he does 1t will be just too bad for little ray. Mills has been riding high and handsome of late and has avoided some of tho pitfalls in hls path but this may be one he cannot sidestcp.
 Coluccl takes on Patter and the COmbO King doesn't want to count this in the welI-known bag for Potfcr's bunch showed what thcy have when they tied last week for the high team prize with 1885 Every man hit better than 300 Watch out COlucci, there is dyna. mite in that gang.
 Nick Calabrese and Bus Wallace continue to wage a great fight foi the high average honors and tho latest averages released show then still in a tic with no. Right be- hind them in a tic with 108 arc Frank Byrnes and Bob Nelson With half tho distance still to be covered, it Is any mans fight.
 The attendance Is all that can be asked for, elghty-nlne were on deck last Wednesday and as the race is SD tight we don't think there will he many out for the balance of tho season.
 Change of scenery seems to have done George Beckley a world of good for he has been bettering his average the last ouple of starts. You know ducks arc new to George