The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-23
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Good Evenengl
By sHoRT-CIRCUIT SAM

Good Evenengi
 Ray Mills is still leading the race but the pack is closing in on his heels rapidly. Jack Moriarty, in second place picked up a point on the Mighty Atom when he took four from George Sullivan last week and is only a single point be- hind first position. In Q race as tight as this one, a point looms large and it is going to be inter- esting to see if Jack cannot only pick it up but go ahead.
 Joe Galipeau and COlucci are within striking distance of the cOy- eted position both being in a tie for third place, only two points be- hind Mills. Either of these teams is in a fine spot to shoot the works and glide on to glory. But did someone say that the path of glory was not strewn with roses?
 After the regular league games were rolled last Wednesday night, eight pin crashers representing the Stores department stayed over and rolled an eight man team picked at random from the Meter depart ment. Total pinfall for three games decided the winnah and the meter gang came down the home stretch with 123 pins on the right side of the column. Last week we warned the boys who watch the ledgers for Fred Dunsmoor that we thought they were giving away too much weight but they insisted on keeping the chip on their shoulders so 1t was necessary for the iron men to clip their wings. So, that's that. Dick Hyland was head man. Dick sent 356 pins 1n- to the pit. Johnny DeVito came in with 353 and Charlie Gerillo's 344 brought him in third. The Meter department's average of 107 pins per man bore out our last weeks prediction that they are one very bad gang when they work as a unit.. Do we hear some other de- partment saying, "Give us a chance"
 From The Sidelines!!
 When the match between Kiely's Mctermen and Galipeau's Store room boys was about to start, 1t was noticed that Bob Nelson, the star bowler of the Sales depare- ment, was included in the Meter department. From the sidelines arose shouts of "HOw long have you been a meter tester, BOb?", which brought the answer from Joe Galipeau, "The Meter depart- ment will not roll unless they have the Sales departments star bowl- cr."
 Harry Bergen, who was watch ing the match, shook his head and commented, "Tell me, why the me- termen have to take Nelson when they have about twenty of the best bowlers in their department"
 We noticed George Beckley wearing a new pair of spectacles last week and came to the cOnclu- sion that we are going to consult an Optician after watching George roll 139 in @ little blood match against Eddie Imbert after the reg ular league games.
 A IndLCU LlldI ouoO Soh" siderable interest is the one card ed between Proxy Tom Flanagan's s "Vegetarians" and A. Joseph Col ucci's "Combowlians". Tom claims his team is the one that Is going to stop the "Combowlians" winning streak while A. J. opines his gang are no fold-ups and will be 8 notch higher after tomorrow nights games.
 Before the episode of the eggs in which Jim Kfely was the victim of a hen fruit switching act en- gineered by Tom Flanagan and a few of his stOOgcs, there were just a meager few that kalew Ray Lau- tcnschlager Is in the egg business but from the whispering campaign that followed in the wake of the egg job, Rays egg factory received plenty of advertising.
 Add another new papa to the growing list in the league-Ray O'Neil was presented with bounc- ing baby girl last week. Congrat- ulations to the proud parents.
 FFO1n OnC WHO nHu HIS cur ClOSc to the ground we learned that Frank Mellon is contemplating rad- ical changes of his teams lineup for tomorrow nights games. We don't think that mutinOus rum- blings are causing Frank to try the lineup switch. It is just an attempt to break the hOodoO that has been lowering over his club for the past few weeks.
 H. Buckingham" Bergen and Joe Blum, the man who nearly cor nered the egg plant market a few years back, stayed over to root. (Yeah and ?!""!??)
 They acted bit bored toward the end of the match, probably due to the one sidedness of the affair. MT. Blum went as far as to re- mark that he would have been bet ter off had he gone home and read Alley-Oop.
 Who Revived This Question?
 Some unl1ind person raised the age-old question with Jim KieIy last week of (Which came first the chicken or the egg? We don't know how the question was set-