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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

in the unbeaten class and will be
up against the TOUGHEST kind Of
opposition from Waterbury. The
winner will be recognized as state
champion, as Crosby Is expected
TO outsplash New Haven Hill
house in fourth place this season,
but in a three way tie for the
state title a year ago. Hillhouse,
however, has lost three state
champions. Baribault, Flanagan
and Novak in the 100, 900 and
individual medley events, while
Crosby'S combination of Paul
Lux, Dick McCleary, Dom Spal-
lone, Bob jackson, Ed Pagan,
Bill Webster and Vic Roman
auskas is expected TO outpoint
HillhouSe next week, while Hart
ford Public will have the advan-
tage Of its own pool tomorrow
afternoon.
Relay May Decide
Whatever difference there is
between winners and losers Of
the expectedly close meet is fig
ured TO come in the 40 yard free
style, 100 yard free-style, the
breast stroke and diving while
the medley relay may be the
event that will decide the even
tual winner.
Webster, Lux and Lombard
swim the medley for Crosby while
Hartford has Kulpanowski, Han
ley, and Yedziniak ready for the
important event with Bonce
possible starter in place of Kul-
panoWski.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
Blessed Sacramento
Shade St. Francis X
In C.Y. O. Thriller

In a game may go down as the
closest of the CYO season to date,
Blessed Sacraments got 80 points
which was just enough to make the
team a one point winner over the
St. Francis Xavier Club 30 to %
last night at Washington Park in
the game of the season. In an
other league game, st. Lucy's were
"a to 10 winners over st. Johns of
WatertoWn, and has the lead in the
second round with two more weeks
of play on the schedule.
At the Washington Park court to-
night, Immaculate Conception and
Waterville st. Michaefs are to meet
in a CYO game with another tilt
also scheduled involving Washing
ton Park Community Club team and
the st. Charles club of Bridgeport.
Score.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

Purdue Gives Coach Lambert 'Night'; His Teams
Are More Interested in Is on Scoreboard Than
IS on Hardwood

There is nothing mechanical
abut the play of Lambert creations
A stickler for fundamentals ano
condition, Piggy the Peerless be-
lieves in training for habits" so his
athletes will react properly to any
given situation and not be thrown
off stride.
Set ormations are practically un.
known, but the ball eventually seems
to arrive in the bucket.
Lambert was one of the first tC
accept basketball rs a scoring game
His combinations were the origina,
point-a-minute boys of the courts
His men have ben going at that
pace for years. Mint times in the
past 20 years. a Lafayette sharp
shooter has finished at the top OF
the individual scoring column
Jewell Young, one of Lambert's
many All-America developments
established the 12-game individual
scoring record of 1874 points in 1898
Like all good coaches, Lambert
adapts his game to the ability Of
available material.
He is great believer in what he
callst matching men. Any combin-
alton from a group Of eight or nine
regulars is likely to get the starting
call, depending upon the opposing
players-their height, etc.
Scouts frequently have difficulty
in attempting to analyze Purdue's
play.
One harried observer, leaving
the press box following an engage
ment. tore up his notes and NUT
tered: How can you tell what
they're going to do when they don
know themselves"
Lambert refuses to get excited
about rules changes, even though
he may not agree with the altera-
ton in question. Queried about one,
he asked: well, they still have a
basket at each end OF the floor,
don't they?"
Lambert's intensity seems to be
transferred 10 his combatants. His
teams are 40-minute teams.
A graduate of Wabash College,
where he weighed ia pounds when
he led the Little Giants in scoring
as a sophomore forward, Lambert
acquired the nickname of Piggy in
his old home town, Charlottesville,
Ind, during grammar school coast
ing days. AS he Skittered down the
hill, no bigger than a mite of a
sled, an old stocking cap stuck
straight out. "Pigtail" was later
shortened to the present form.
Ward Lambert has been going at
high speed ever since and SO have
his teams-so rapidly that the
Piggy" has come to be associated
with Purdue's large collection OF
Big Ten championships.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
BY HARRY GRAYSON

Purdue gives Ward Lambert q
might" commemoratioing the
famous coach's 25th season at the
haed of the basketballing Boiler
makers.
Piggy Lambert-drilled teams have
won or shared the Western Con-
ference championship II times, have
been the runner-up on four occa-
sions
Purdue's success is traced to the
Old Gold and Blacks being much
more interested in making figure Is
on the Scoreboard than IS on the
hardwood.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
'Cannata Winner OF
Boys Club Contest

James Cannata was the winner of
the defense stamps offered by the
Leaders Club to the Boys Club
member that picked the Senior
League All-Star team on the nose
in the recently completed polling at
the Club to decide the team that
would oppose the Bradley Field Air
Base quintet at the Boys Club in
the big contest tonight. Jimmy's
choice of Danny Rosa, AL Damelio,
Jimmy Roach, Tony Ianniccone and
Lazar Iannicone for the first team
and Handrahan, Rinladi, Bedell.
Chapman and Regain for the second
group proved to be the exact team
chosen in the voting by the mem
bers of the Club. This team will
oppose the highly rated U. S. Flyers
tonight at the Cottage Place sur
face.
Playoff
In the opening engagement at 7
O'Clock the Enkcors and the Zephyrs
viii clash in the long-awaited play
off for the championship Of the "A
League at the club. The Enkcors
captured the first round honors
while the Zephyrs came back strong
and won the second half OF the cir
cult. Joe Mobile will call the game
at o'clock.
The aiYnen OF Uncle Sam will
come to Waterbury this evening
with team that might be easily
labelled a college all-star group and
they should be able to take the local
all-stars into camp by comfort
able margin. A large turnout is ex-
pected for this big attraction for
very worthy cause.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
Confident Crosby Tank
Team Set For Hartford

Crosby"s yet TO be defeated
swimmers, winners Of six in a
rev in state league competition
has but one more obstacle 10
hurdle in It's quest for the state
championship, before going into
the Yale Interscholastics, March
IA at the Payne Whitney pool in
New Haven. but that hurdle
looms as big as a mountain. To-
morrow afternoon at 3 p. m. the
Crosby mermen, coached by j.
o. r. Manherz go up against
Hartford Public array that Is also
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

Following his sensational, stu
pendous and colossal 100 to rs pocket
billiard win over Mike D'Amilco last
night at the West End pool empo-
rum, Danny Martin, Jr., Is open for
all offers to travel for exhibition
purposes.
However, he may have a keen
rival late tonight when Tommy
Curleycue Coppetto defeats Angelo
Broadway" Rose. The west ends
bashful barber believes that he can
dispose of Rose before 800 p. m.
SO that he can drive to New York
for the last two bouts Of the Ruff
fin Stoltz card
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
TIGERS TOP SCOVILLS

North End Tigers were convincing
SO TO At basketball winners over
the Scoyill Training Room team last
night In game which developed
into close game for the first half
when the Scovill squad led IS to Is.
Duglecki. Guerrero, Romeo and
Gerry got going in the final two
periods to win going away with a
% field goal count. Puzas and Ches-
tone with 20 points led the Scovill
scoring.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
OAKVILLE RAIDERS
VANQUISH VIKINGS

Last evening at the Bunker Hill
Fgym the Oakville Raiders scored an
easy victory over the Vikings of the
Second Congregational church, SO to
Is. At the half the Raiders were
leading 10 to 5. During the last half
the Vikings made % points and the
Raiders 81. Jim Speraw, Bob Hassel,
and Paul Ingraham of the Raiders
chalked up 81, 10, and II points, re-
spectively. Surgener and Webster Of
the Vikings scored 10 points each.
Raiders
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
DUCCAN TAKES
GRAMMAR TITLE
Wilson Loses 1872 Bias.
ketbaIl Game for Sea-
son HOnOrS

Waterbury Grammar. school
leagues basketball championship of
the 1941-42 season went to the Dug
gan school squad which won the
major division title and met Wood
row Wilson, minor division winners
for top honors yesterday. Duggan,
led by Quattro with four field goals,
won Is to12, Cochiola and Pietro
going well for Wilson.
Next week, Duggan and the Pa
ochial league champions. from SITS.
Peter and Paul school will play for
the city school boy title. Score.
Duxynu
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
Fought His Way
Into u. S. Navy

Boston, Feb. II (UP) -
Manuel Baptiste, "a, Taunton
Interchangeable, had fought
his way into the Navy today.
Rejected because he failed to
pass the eye test, Baptiste en-
tered two boxing tournaments,
won both times and used the
Prize money to buy a pair of
sses. He was accepted by the
1savy yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
Girls Club Scores


Three victories and tie game
were marked up by Brooklyn girls
basketball teams in the Girls Club
League this week. Brooklyn Beta.
Jrs., were 8 to winners over Hope.
Vile Deta Jrs., Miss Caviello scor.
Ing 8 points for Brooklyn; Miss Sig.
more with IA points, led Brooklyn
Alpha to a 22-4 win over Hopevillt
Alpha: Misses lava and Collucc.
scored six points each In a II to {
Brooklyn Alpha Jr., win over Hope
Vile and the Brooklyn and Hone
Vile Feta teams tied 16 all with
eight field goals each. four each by
Misses Collucci and Ruccio OF
Brooklyn and three by Miss Martin
Of Hopcvillc. 2 each for Misses SEES
slemann and Reed.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
ALL LEAGUES ALIKE

Stan Musical, young outfielder,
last season batted 1873 in the Vest
ern Associate 1896 in the Inter
national League and .426 in twelve
games with the Cardinals.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
FLYING INDIAN

Joe Guyon. Jr., son of the old
Carlisle football player and former
Catholic University star, is the first
American Indian to fly for the U.
S. Navy.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
FORMER SPEED STAR

Alex Hurd, barrel-iumping per-
former. won practically all Of the
speed skating titles, indoor and out
door, on this continent from 1888 TO
1897.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
BASEBALL SCORE

Big Spring and SWeetwater High
Basketball teams recently played a
7-6 game, IN which an overtime
period was required.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
NEAR RECORD FIELD
FOR VALLEY MEET

Several additional quintets entered
the Valley tourney field last night to
bring the total entries up TO near
record size. Tonight's meeting at 3
O'Clock in the Boys Club library will
officially close the competing group
with Club Director william NJ
Johnson handling the drawings and
the other tourney details.
Frank Luke entered the Machine
Room team from Scovill's and his
lineup includes some Of the better
ball players from both the K. of LIS,
and the Speedboys with Russ Nc
Clean, Stan Grey and several other
well known stars ready to do battle
for the honor and fame Of the
Machine Shop.
Entries close tonight at o'clock
and managers are advised to be pres
ent. Play opens Monday evening
with Joe Runividge and Joe Mobile
blowing the whistles.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

According to statistics. high school
football players complete GOT per
cent Of their passes; collegians, 1872,
and professionals, 42.9.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
At The Training
CAMPS
RED SOX

Sarasota, Fla, Feb. 81 - U.PD
Jim Tabor Boston Red Sox third
baseman, practiced in the outfield
today as Manager Joe Cronin sought
hard-hitting fielder to replace Ted
Williams who probably will be draft
ed shortly.
II Tabor makes good at the new
JOB, Cronin probably will shift 10
third base from shortstop this year.
Cronin announced that Catcher
Frank Pytlak has signed his 1912
contract and that Jimmy F'oxx
practically has agreed to salary
terms"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

There are now 1903 ski centers IN
New York state. with many OF
them Boosting two facilities.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
BRAVES

Boston, Feb. q - CU.P.) George
Washburn Of Skowhegan, Me, 90
year-old right-handed pitcher, has
been bought from the New York
Yankees for an unnamed sum, the
Boston Braves announced today.
Purchase of Washburn brings to
IA the number OF pitchers who will
report at Sanford. Fla, for spring
training Monday, Washburn won 8
and lost with Newark last season.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

Rogers Hornsby, now minor
league manager, has earned about
$685., 900 during his entire baseball
career.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27

AOcoAo ..... -
Referee-~JameS Girch.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-27
Bowling Scores

GIRLS DUSTY IEtGIE
(Mattatuck I.ecreationl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Searchlights of Army
Always Ready in Field

Mobile 60-inch searchlights OF 80O,-
100000 candle power, developed by
the corps of engineers, U.S.A., and
operated by the coast artillery, play
a vital role in the nations aircraft
defense, the war department points
out. These searchlights are the re-
suit of experiments conducted by
the corps of engineers over a pc
riod of about 20 years. The great
lamps and refiectors throw beam
far up into the skies, and of such
brilliance that on fairly clear
night, a newspaper can be read by
its light five miles away.
The searchlights are carried,
ready for instant use, on balloon
tired trailers, capable of transport
ing them over the toughest terrain
without damage, while gasoline mo-
tor-driven electrical generators ac-
company them on separate trailers.
The light is equipped with high in
tensity carbons mechanically held
and adjusted as they burn. The
lights require five men each to
operate. They are also used for
general anti-aircraft defense.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Famous Channel Hoax
By Londoner Recalled

The famous channel swimming
hoax occurred on October 10-11, 1927,
when DR.. Dorothy Cochrane Logan,
a young London physician, claimed
to have swum the channel in IS
hours and 10 minutes, thereby beat
ing the record of IA hours and 81
minutes established by Gertrude
Ederle. DR.. Logan, who used the
pseudonym Mona Mcclellan, was
wildly acclaimed by the public and
was presented with a $4,000 prize
offered to the first English girl to
better Miss Ederle's record.
A few days later she confessed to
the hoax and produced as evidence
of her good faith letter written
prior to the swim. This letter ex-
planned that she and her trainer
formulated the plot as "fake to
end all fakes" and to show the need
of an international commission to
certify all channel swims by proving
how easy it is to fool the world. I'm
der the perjury law she was fined
$500 and costs and her trainer was
fined half that sum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
War at Sight Is Not
Rule in World OF A1te

War at sight is not the rule in the
ant world, but rather the exception,
despite widespread belief to the con-
trary, declares DR.. Laurence j. La
fieur, according to Science Service.
When two strangefSants meet, in
stead of instantly beginning battle,
they usually merely back off, turn
aside a little and 60 their respective
ways.
Except when slave-making ants
make raids on their neighbors and
when spring competition for extra
land causes wars, the ants OF the
Northern states are peaceful lot,
he states in a communication to the
American Naturalist.
Even the slave-making species
are not necessarily murderous in
their raids, DR.. Lafeur points out.
He cites the observation of the late
Prof. William Morton Wheeler OF
Harvard university, who watched
such a raid in progress. Slave
making ants in such raids are con-
cerned only with the pupae, or inn
mature infants, of the species they
kidnap and carry off to be their
servants. In the attack described
by DR.. Wheeler, the marauders,
much bigger and stronger than their
victims, nevertheless did not kill
them, but only carried the defend
ers out of the nest and set them
down outside, uninjured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
A Dreadful Insect

Perhaps the most dreadful, GER
tainly the strangest of Brazil's dam
gerous insects, is the sututu, a
moth which leaves on the clothes q
drop of liquid containing an egg.
This egg within a few days matches
into tiny worm which enters the
skin through one of the pores, and
grows into a maggot from half to
one inch long. A large swelling
arises, and if this is touched the
maggot grips the flesh with its pin
GERS, causing intense pain. The In
dams have an extraordinary method
of removing these creatures. They
make kind of sucking sound with
their lips whereupon the maggot
thrusts its black head out of its
air hole and wags it about. 1t is
then seized and withdrawn leaving
a gaping hole.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Switchboard.

A poem written recently by a tele-
phone operator about her work in war
time quickly gained the distinction Of
being included in nationwide radio
broadcast to millions Of listeners. The
author is Eleanora Dayton Surry, a
long distance operator in Washington,
D. C. Her poem, eve Are the
Unseen" follows:
We are the unseen-ever watchful,
never sleeping,
Binding the atoms together.
Not ours the glory nor applause,
We wear no uniform-and yet-are
part Of our lands destiny,
Guarding her secrets well.
We are the unseen-loyal-true to an
ideal,
One God-one country-one flag;
We want no praise, knowing, out there,
Men have shed their blood that we
might live 80.
With others soon to follow them.
Our reward shall be-one day-with
the touch Of magic at our finger
tips
To send across the quivering wires
One far-dung cry "Ours is the
Victoryi"
The "unseen"-the operators In the
telephone central offices-include most
Of the 100000 women in the traffic
departments Of the Bell System COM
panies, and thousands more in the
many other telephone companies Of
this country. They compose nearly
two-thirds of the 240,000 women en-
ployed by all these companies.
Though the unseen soldiers of the
switchboards" wear no uniforms, they
form front line vital to the armed
and civilian forces of the nation. They
handle calls Of critical Importance to
the country calls that speed the con-
struction Of ships, planes and tanks;
that help to move crops, machinery
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

and troops, and link aircraft warning
and civilian defense networks. In the
opinion Of leaders in war and industry
the skill, alertness, teamwork and
loyalty of telephone operators were
never so important as now.
On an average, about 100 million
conversations are being held every day
over the 23,820,000 interconnecting
telephones Of the United States. Many
new operators are being added and
many more are needed, particularly
in sections in or near large cities
where great industrial expansion is
going on. Last year in the country
generally the Bell System added
20,700 new operators, even though
nearly two-thirds of it's telephones are
dial. The fact is, telephone people
point out, that operators serve not
only in manual but in dial central
offices, handling out-of-town calls,
giving special assistance, and supply
ing information. Moreover, there are
so many things to be done in handling
the different kinds Of calls that oper-
ators perform variety of duties.
American citizenship and requisite
character, education, personality,
voice, height, reach and health are the
general qualifications for entering
training as an operator, the telephone
company reports. The beginner is paid
while learning.
1.-THE new operator not only acquires
skill under this training" switch
board veteran comments, "but she
quickly perceives and gains, like the
soldier, the spirit that underlies the
work. AS everyone knows, the United
States has the best telephone service
in the world. This efficiency is one Of
the great essentials Of victory, and
we operators, whether new or of
longer experience, are determined and
happy to do our full and important
part in bringing this victory about"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
PREPARE NOW TO ELIMINATE
ALMSHOUSES in THE
COUNTY

At the request of Governor
O'Conor, the Legislative Council has
revived the plan to establish State
owned chronic-disease hospitals to
take the place of the county aims
houses. 1t appears quite likely that
the council will recommend the
carrying out of the program.
. The proposal to have State hos
pitfalls replace the almshouses has
this background. The almshouses
are owned and operated by the
counties They have been the sub
ject of criticism for years. Even
those which are given the highest
rating lack proper medical and
nursing care; those with the low
est rating lack the equipment and
personnel to give even the simplest
forms of medical and nursing aid.
And yet the majority of the inmates
of these almshouses need the care
and attention that can be given
only by hospital.
Obviously, there is public obli-
cation to eliminate the evils OF the
almshouses, and a good way to do it
would be through the establishment
of State hospitals Governor O'Con-
or recommended such move at
the 1941 session of the General As
sembly and urged $1,500,00 bond
issue for the purpose. Before this
, proposal was acted on the Governor
shelved it, in line with his effort to
limit the capital-improvement pro-
gram while the nation was prepar-
ing itself for defense.
In view of the seriousness of the
almshouse problem, the postpone
ment was not one Of which there
could be hearty approval. Mr..
O'Conor's revival of the hospital
plan will be welcomed. Priorities on
building materials. of course, stand
| in the way of any immediate ma
jor construction program, but this
should not prevent the preparation
Of a detailed program that can be
| carried out as soon as materials
and construction workmen are avail
'ahle. Baltimore sun,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Atmosphere i'm Kitchen

Dark ivory and dull rich red COM
bine to give a stimulating atmos-
phere to a kitchen. The walls, paint
ed a gray-blue, are set off by wood
work and cabinets painted ivory.
The red which tops the working sur
faces of the cabinets in the form of
linoleum is continued above the cab
inets by a band about foot deep
painted along the wall. The win
dow, covered with an ivory vene-
tan blind, is hung with curtains Of
red and ivory plaid gingham. The
pair of small open shelves holding
dishes and pots of ivy are painted
red-so are the handles of the cabi-
nets. There are red-painted chairs
and table. The floor is covered with
an ivory linoleum, figured with red
and gray.