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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
VALLEY TOURNEY
 AT BOYS CLUB
One Team Wins By FOr= felt; Warriors, Redmen
 Best; Games Tonight

Court action was fast and furious last night as six teams in the Nau- gatuck Valley basketball tourna- ment sponsored by the Waterbury Boys club were listed for play, Cwo of the three winners playing close games. the other winner taking a game by forfeit when its opponent, the Meriden North Ends, did not show up as scheduled.
 Warriors, Redmen and TigeSr were winners, the Pastimes being on the short end of a g to 26 count, as the Warriors outpointed the Mary Abbott Community clu b team, 29 to 25, in the nights best game.
 Scores:
 TOnight'S Schedule
 Four games are on the books for tonights hoop program at the Boys Club gym. The popular Ca dets, former Pou hoopsters, will stack up against the Bombers i'll the opening Valley tournament con- test at 6:30, followed on the hour by the Rover A. c. and the Tor rington Indian A. c. at 7:30, and the Shamrocks and Torrington P. N. A. at 8:30. In the final tilt of the tourney evening the Nauga- tuck zephers will try and upset the highly rated Scovill team featur- ing the Speedboy and K. of L. stars rolled into one team. Joe Mobile and Joe Runividge will handle the officiating and another packed house is anticipated for this big attrac- ton,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

LAST NIGHT the Naugatuck Valley tourney opened with a smashing start at the Boys Club. In the first game of the evening the Redmen played very fast and well organized game beating the Pas times by 8 score of 32 to 26. For the Redmen, Overton was high man making 15 Of the 32 points with Switz 8 very close second making 2 points. But the Pastimes also put up very hard fight making a very good showing against a very powerful opponent. For the Pas times Salvatore was high man and all around best player on the team making points. With .-cFarland in my opinion rated as a very close second making points.
 IN THE FINAL tilt of the even- ing the very popular Boys Club Warriors chalked up another victory to their already long list by down. ing 8 very strong Mary Abbott team. Tn this game Damelio was really black pillng up 16 points, nearly half the points piled up by the whole team, with Iannacone and Rinaldi splitting up points between them. Both boys played as good a game on the offense as they did on the defense and as good a game as they have played this year. Also for the Mary Abbott team Stop nick played a very good game mak- ing II points with Brutico making 8 points. One thing that was mo- ticable was that whenever a Mary Abbott man was going to try for a basket he was not even given a sporting chance. This was quick ly pointed out when the referee threatened to call technical against the Warriors if the booing and hiss ing did not stop. And think that this is the kind of referees we ought to have more of. Well, per- tfaps someone will say eestt4 t we cheer for our favorite team? The answer is yes, if you do it in the right way and in the right time, not when the opposing team is going to make a point or when the othd' team is in the midst of very iln- portant play. Give the other man the same chance that your own man, because I am sure that you would not want someone to say that your team had a disadvantage over their opponents.
 ATTENTION SPORTS FANS On Fridy evening the Mary Ab- bolt Community club will present a very attractive card for all sports fans. At 7:30 the Mary Abbotts will oppose the very strong Baldwin Props in the star attraction on the program. This will be followed by dancing, so bring your girl and have a good time. Come to the Mary Abbott gym and have the time of your life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
HARTFORD GEMS SQUARE SERIES WITH W.H. DEVILS
Barton, Petrafessa and Mucha "HOt"; Final
 Game Friday

West Haven, March 3-The Hart ford Gems lost two stars at cru cial stage tonight but Joe Noce and Ike Eikenberry kindled a late squirt that carried the upstate quintet to @ B to 45 victory over the Red Dev- ills before near capacity house at the high school gym.
 By winning the Gems escaped elimination from the State Basket ball league playoffs, squaring the series at one win apiece, and set the stage for a third and deciding contest which will be played at Hartford Friday night.
 The other series between the New London and Bridgeport Springwood teams will be concluded tomorrow night at New London and the re- spective winners will start the final competition next week.
 It was the fourth straight time this winter that the Gems won here and was marked by several setbacks which were overcome. However, one unexpected loss was incurred and will hurt the Gems, chances in fu- ture playoff tussles. Leo Gottleib, the teams high scorer and play maker, broke finger with four minutes to play.
 Almost simultaneously, Bob Bar ton, center and the chief Hartford scorer tonight, went to the sidelines with four fouls. At the time the Gems were in iron 38-35 but the outlook was dark. Eikenberry came in to replace Barton and Kelly took over for Gottleib.
 Eikenberry proceeded to perform brilliantly on defense and threw in three valuable points and Noce in serted two hoops at the proper mo- ments to put the contest beyond reach of the locals.
 In contrast to their Hartford meeting last week which the Devils copped 30 to 63, this was a tight guarding affair in which the Gems assumed an 11-7 lead in the quar- ter, then fell behind 21-19 at half time before regaining the fore in the third period. It was 37-32 go- ing into the final canto and the Devils made little headway before the double loss of the Gem stars provided a nice opening which was closed abruptly by Noce and Eiken- berry.
 Rocky Petrafesa, West Haven for ward, tallied Is points to lead both clubs and his running mate, Chubby Malincanico clipped in with IA, a total equalled by Barton. However, the locals with the exception of Ed Mucha were we'll checked and Bar ton was given help by Ike Cole, Leo Levine and Gottleib.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Doyle Sees Yankees In Flag 'RundlUay'
MULLIGAN BEST AMATEUR MIDDLE Scores Two KnOckOuts in Three Rounds of Dif=
 ferent Bouts

Boston, March 3 -(UP)- Ma tional Amateur Middleweight Champion Jimmy Mulligan of Lowell still is the class of New England's simon pure boxing crop.
 The southpaw slugger from Keith academy easily waded through the 160-pound division in the Irish American A. A. diamond ring t1- nals last night by scoring two knockouts before 4O00 fans at Boston arena. He flattened Ed ward Johnson of the Coast Guard in one round and then polished off Alfred Otero of Boston in two ses- SionS.
 Another Lowell lad, Joe Hebert, turned in the top performance in decisioning his rival, Tony Peppi of Boston, in the 112-pound final.
 Bobby zollo of Providence, R. T., a newcomer, snagged featherweight honors by defeating Steve Kronis of Boston.
 Other class winners were: Ban tamweight Ed Gullage of Chelsea, Lightweight Jimmy Sauer of Cam bridge, Welterweight Willard Buck less of Saugus, Light Heavyweight Mike Leone of Boston and Heavy weight Pat Devine of Cambridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
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Eyes Don't Always Have It in Track; Many Runners Have Deficient Sight; Alsab Requires Rest
 Time to Develop

glasses taped to the sides of his head.
 Chuck Fenske and Walter Mehl, Wisconsins distance aces, carried spectacles on the track. FenSke was rejected as 8 pilot in the Army Air Corps because of his sight de- ficiency.
 The eyes don't always have it in track.
 Eddie Arcaro sets you right on the current condition of Alsab, won- der 2-year-old of 1941.
 Tt was perfectly obvious to me in the race in which rode Alsab that the colt for one reason or an- other, was not at the peak of his form" says the famous jockey.
 When I hit him coming into the home stretch his ind legs seemed to buckle under him The legs of a dead fit horse, the Alsab of last sea- son, would not do that. Instead, when he felt the whip, he would charge up on the leaders and win going away. When I felt peculiar action of is hind quarters under the whip I knew we were gone"
 Consensus is that AlSab, "the an- another Man O War" of last sea son, should not have been permitted to obtain his growth and develop ment throughout the winter anc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Industrial And Mercantile Pin Matches Tonight

American Brass primers of the h. dustrial Bowling League, with a clear two game lead in the nome stretch" of the season, figures to be very tough to beat from here in as the weekly action resumes tonight at the Mattatuck alleys with the Brassies scheduled to engage Wa terbury Manufacturing in ten pin exhibition that may be very inter esting inasmuch as VIM is in third place. Chase Metal the runner-up team and defending champs, tan gles with the tough to beat Brasscos which are in fourth place at this writing.
 A Shutout against American Brass and a clean sweep by Chase entry would give the latter the league lead again, which it has had all sea- son until last week. However, the tf5 taken easily. Other games tonight in clude: Waterbury Tool vs Seth Thomas; French vs U. s. Chemical and Ingersoll vs Blake and Johnson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Pert Paragraphs Of Sport

Crosby fans students game at the Arena "wednesday night for $ round trip the Sho- fede
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 Boys Club 100 pound basketball with We- this morning and morrow at Il Hartfords Bobby Constantine showing his first fight New opposition because of defensive tactics  brought him big hand of 53 straight Michigan Forrest Evasevsi now at Pitt, what about the schedule?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
NO TRAIN AVAILABLE
 FOR YALE=HARVARD

New Haven, Conn, March - (UP)--Yale university athletic au- thorities announced today an ob- servation train would not be avail able for the annual regatta with Harvard May g on the Housatonic river.
 The New Haven" railroad, it was said, was unable to furnish a train because of heavy war business.
 Two Yale-Harvard baseball games will be played at Cambridge, June 6, it was announced, and Princeton will play here June 8. Dartmouth will play a doubleheader here June 9.
 A track meet, scheduled for Cam bridge May 23, will be held here in- stead
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Standing

Seasons records: High single, Bill Tato, Chase, 198; high three, Mike sharon, Chase ATS; high single, Chase, 800; high three, Chase, 2o44.
 BrOOkSideS Lead
 Having completed "A weeks of its 35 week schedule at the Sena Rec reation alleys, with Il weeks to go, Brookside Dairy goes into action to- night at p. m. trying to protect a one game lead over Metropolitan Cleaners in a three game series with Matzkin Furniture as the Metros take on the Speedy Parcel; Brock Hall meets Verriker Paint and the Fulton -Mochisan market teams meet once more.
 Three men, Jerry Jacewicz, Tom my Civitate and Jimmy Barber are fighting hard for high average, Jac- eWicz, leading at the moment by very small margins, 124.62 against 123.5 for Civitate and 122.54 for 1 Barber.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
THREE WAY FIGHT
 FOR FLAG IN 1942 NATIONAL LOOP
War Sure to Affect Some Teams White SOx, Red
 SOx Right Up There
BY GEORGE KTRKSEY Limited Press Staff Correspondentl

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 Miami Beach, Fla, March 3. - (UP) = The world champion Yan- kees will run away with the Ameri- can League pennant and the Card ina1S, Dodgers and Reds will stage a typical national circuit C0gfight in the matured judgment Af Jack Doyle, baseball's official pricemaker, here summing himself in preparation for strenuous season.
 Doyle, who's been quoting odds on baseball since the turn of the century, thinks the major leagues will have an exciting season and that events in the Far East and on other battlefronts might possibly play an important role in the flag races.
 Right now the Yankees are a standout and will be short priced favorite in their league" he said. You have to like the Cardinals in the National League. Few teams ever had the hard luck they did with injuries last season and yet they were in the thick of the scrap until the last week of the race. The Dodgers, however, will have to be reckoned with the Reds could come back just like the Cubs, champions for three straight years, did in 1910 after blowing the pennant in 1909.'
 Most Uncertain
 Doyle pointed out that the wars effect on baseball is something that's in the lap of the gods.
 No one can tell for sure just how hard any team will be hit" he said q had an idea that all teams would suffer about alike but look at Detroit last season. They lost Hank Greenberg which dealt the Tigers a crushing blow. That almost hap pened again in the case of Ted Will Hams and the Red But over night tine picture has changed and Williams will be with the Red SoX all season. I don't need to say what a difference that1l make in the Red Sox.
 Red OK.
 Some clubs may not be hit as hard as others. For instance, un- dertsand Cincinnati and Brooklyn have very few key players likely to be called up for service because of dependents. Cincinnati, in par ticular, is likely to have its full strength all season."
 The entire outlook is so uncertain that Doyle won't announce his open ing line on the pennant races until the Sunday before the season starts on Tuesday, April IA. That will be one of the latest dates on which he ever has given out his official odds.
 Until Ted Williams was reclassi- fled from IA to 3A Doyle had the Chicago White Sox tabbed as the second choice in the American League race.
 "Even with Williams I rank the White Sox and Red Sox almost equal in my present calculations" he said. "You know that White Sox pitching staff could carry them far. With hitters like Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman apd Hank Greenberg in the Army it'll make the Chicago staff even better.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Busy Week Of Sports For
 Nearly All Yale Athletes

With total of thirteen athletic engagements with their old rivals, Harvard and Princeton, Yale ath- letes face the busiest and most important week of the indoor sea- son thus far. For all teams except ing those in the basketball, swim ming, squash, and fencing, it will be the close of the dual meet schedules, unless the varsity hockey team Is forced to a play-off in the Harvard series, which play-off is scheduled for Boston on Wednesday March Il. As has been announced the Yale and Harvard varsity and freshman wrestling teams have agreed to advance the date of their meetings, the grappIers coming to- gether tomorrow in Cambridge in- stead of Saturday, the date set originally.
 The second game of the Harvard hockey series will be played in the focal Arena Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock. Breaking away from tradi- tion, this game will be one of gen. eral admission, there being no re- served seats and those expecting to take 1t in may do well to remem- Der that point when Saturday eve ming rolls around. The Junior Promenade will be held on Fri day night and the usual large att tendance of prom girls and their escorts, is expected. The Ellis beat the Cantabs Saturday Az in Boston and, on their home ice. they expect to close the books this weekend. The Freshman hockey teams of Yale and Harvard meet in the Arena Sat- urda vat 2 and this game will be followed by the annual junior varsity game, starting at 4.
 Hoop Trouble
 Yale's varsity basketball team which climbed up a rung on the league ladder Saturday by means of a nice win over Columbia in New York, meets an exceptionally strong Harvard team in Cambridge this Saturday. Harvard surprised the basketball world by soundly beating GG11d ldSb WCCh-GIlA dllO WILL DC uLl~ ming for the first court win over the Blue since 1897, when the teams split even. Eight straight for Yale is the record now. The Loeffler- coached Ell teams have beaten Harvard ten out of twelve times, the series being divided not only in '37 but in '26, Ken Loeffler's first year at Yale. In Princeton, Saturday Ya1e's fine freshman team will face an equally fine Tiger team in a game that should be a good one.
 Yale's great swimming team has one more river to cross before claim ing the undisputed title to the dual meet championship of the country The team faces an unbeaten Prince ton team now, leading the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming ASsocia ton with five wins, but in spite oi the fine record of the Tigers, 1t IS hardly thought that the Orange and Black metators can stop one of the greatest Yale swimming teams ot all time. Howle Stepp, former Yalt coach, is the Princeton mentor. Tnat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
ThiSSpOrting World
BasebaIl's War Program
JOHN A. CLUNEY

the government soldiers before during and after the spring training season when Daggo 400 batting following seven points prepared by Bill Brandt of the National League Service bureau:
 identical for club in the major the Ball and Bat Fund jointly $2OOO from their fund to provide baseball paraphenaa for the in the armed services
 program calls league and club official to alot possible of income to the purchase defense This phase effort will employees umpres players, operating employees to the limit of their ability to pay. . receipts both totally to the Ball that the the the admission ticket each purchaser required to buy Sl worth of defense semps
 3-Exhibiion games played army camps naval the club schedule
 allotment receipts total receipts of will be the method Each club to Wrok out its own operation o this phase o haa effort.
 games charge tickets through requested Army
 Coaches and scouts to be delegated camps and cooperation Navy players emblems their uniforms; officials available speaking morale in the Physical Fitness department of the Civilian Defense committee.
 While subject baseball Brooklyn NIGHT GAMES the 1922 which might like to clip that order tickets we'll advance and have good chance getting them
 YoRK-Friday May 9 Brooklyn; Wednesday, Friday Chicago; PA Philadelphia; Tuesday, July Pittsburgh; Tuesday, Chicago; Tuesday, Brooklyn; Friday Philadelphia Tuesday, Thursday Monday, A. burgh Wednesday, September l6, Cincinnati
 AT BROOKLYN-Monday May 25 Philadelphia Monday June 5 Thursday Wednesday, July 22 Cncnna Wednesday, July 29 St. Lou Thursday To- Philadelphia Thursday Thursday New York; Wednesday, September S. Pittsburgh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
RED SOX

Sarasota, Fla. March 3-(UP)- Outfelders Dom DiMaggio and Lou Finney were classed as hold outs today after missing the first squad drill of the Boston Red Sox. Also missing from yesterdays ses- sion were Ted Williams, Catcher Frank Pytlak, who has been classed
 IA, and Rookie Shortstop John Pesky, supposedly enroute from Portland, Ore. Williams may have started by auto from Minneapolis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Sport QUESTIONS Answered

Have you a sports question you want answered? Write your ques- ton clearly, sign your name and address and mail your query to Sports Fan Question Man, Sports Service Bureau The Waterbury Democrat, 1913 18th Street, Washington, D. C., enclosing a Scent postage stamp for per- SOnaI reply. c. Tn tennis, should a ball be- come broken through hitting, shall a let be called?
 A. Yes.
 e. How long, in minutes and seconds, did Joe Louis require to knock out Max Baer? A. Baer was counted out two minutes and fifty seconds after the start of the fourth round, which made the total elapsed fighting time, eleven minutes and fifty seconds. The bout took place on September A, 1885.
 c. Who kicked the most field goals in the National Football League in 1940?
 A. Clark Hinkle, of the Green Bay Packers, who licked 9 goals out of IA attempts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

it will be the best dual meet of the season, there's not the slightest doubt. The Yale Freshman team losing this season only to Mercers- burg will meet the Tiger cubs in Princeton also on Saturday.
 Yale and Preinceton varsity and Freshman teams will also meet in Princeton Saturday and the varsity and Freshman squash teams of Yale will play their Princeton rivals in the latters' courts. Finally the Yale and Harvard rifle teams will shoot it out in the Yale ranges Saturday afternoon.
 Another event Saturday in which Yale track and Field athletes will take part will be the IC44 champion ships in Madison Square Garden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Famous American Bowling Congress
 Gets Under Way

Columbus, O., March 3.-(UP)-A contingent of crack regulars" from eight states and hometown boost CTS" today awaited the starting sig nal for the And annual American Bowling Congress which already has set six records as to size.
 Coy. John w. Bricker of Ihio, will send the first ."tokenn bali bali crashing down an alley at 7:30 p. m. From then on, for 16 hours dail un- til May 13, an estimated 30,000 bowlers from 36 states and three Canadian provinces will roll 228,606 games for fun and more than $250,- 900 in cash and prizes.
 The first nights schedule calls for three shifts-one of regulars, two of booster" teams-to man the 36 alleys in the State Fairgrounds Coli scum building.
 The first singles and doubles games will be rolled tomorrow morn ing.
 Schedule
 Booster entries take up most e the time for the initial two weeks. Then comes a record number of regular teams, 4,O06, to try to shat ter the team, doubles and individual scoring marks in six main divisions which have stood for three to 15 years.
 The newest record on the ABC books was registered at Cleveland. In 1889 when Carl Dragotta of AL lentown, Pa, posted 527 for his share of a doubles total. Perfect 1900 single games have been rolled in each of the last four journeys including twice at Detroit in 1940. There have been nine perfect games rolled in ABC history.
 Besides the record total of regu- lar squads, The 1942 ABC already is a record breaker in five other re- spects - visiting teams, 5,171; dou- bles teams, 11,354; singles contest ants, 23,784; duration, 73 days, and entry fees $3S0,895.
 In total teams, this years classic is third to the COTE entered at De- troit and the 5,797 entered at St. Paul las year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
AMATEUR HOCKEY

Boston. March 3 -(UP)-- The Hingham Cove A. c. ruled today as New England amateur hockey champions after blanking the Lex ington Pla-Mors, 5-O, in the final game of the 1942 tournament at Boston Garden. Both teams in last nights playoff qualify for the la- tional tuorney which starts Satur- day at Boston arena.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

following a hard summer season, instead of being rushed back into training in Florida.
 All youngsters can't go on--sum- mer and winter-as did Whirlaway.
 And Ben Jones neded time to experiment. with the little dark chestnut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
CATCHING RECORD

Pittsburghs trio of catchers set a new all-time National League rec ord last season with only three passed balls among them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

Athletes of West Texas State col- lege live in tourist-court dormitory built of rock by their own labor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

Q. What was the football record of Bucknell University for 194l?
 A. They won games and lost 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
 RESULTS

(By United Press Dartmouth 46, Columbia 43. Rutgers 45, Tufts 35.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

Bin Dickey of the Yankees is the only major league catcher ever to participate in 100 or more games in thirteen different seasons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

5O4 508 542 High single-L. King, 129. High three-L. King, 36l. High game-Chase, 542. High Chase, 1854.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

Score at half time: Redmen IS, Pastimes 14. Referee: Joe Mobile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Mary Abbott
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Score at half time: Warriors l; NJ. Abbott 6. Referee: Joe Mobile.