The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-28
s' ------~=----------- This Sporting World
Just A Few Lines
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

II you would like to get your minC off the war, taxes and rationing fol about three hours, the place to dc 1t is at New Haven Arena where the 1943 Ice-CapadeS, which opened Thursday night will amaze you by its dash. daring and quality of ex- cellent entertainment. If you are 8 female of the species, the costumine lighting effects. pretty girls and handsome chorus boys will have you buzzing well into December. Strict ly a must" for anyone's money and so reasonable too, when you compare 1t with the $40 burlesque the chumps are fed in New York and made to like it :. Smith is a common name, but there's nothing common, ordinary or haphazard about the manner in which Lou Smith. general manager of Rocking ham Park race course, up in Salem New Hampshire, does business Threatened with & paddock, because of transportation difficulties, when the railroad people had to cut out special trains to the track: Smith was next buffeted by a horsemen's strike which came when purses were cut to $400, but he strengthened that out, he raised them back to $500. and finished with an extra week to his Fall season; and at the close of business last Saturday his books showed Rockingham had con- tributed more than $1OO,000 to na- tional and New Hampshire CHARITIES. All that despite loss of all business one week ago Saturday when the track was FROZEN so badly that all races for that day had to be cancelled. Because the track did not fold on three different occasions. the state of New Hamp- shire collected $86l ,0oO for its "cut"
 In the shadow of the press-box
 at the Crosby Wilby football game
 at the city stadium, sat a young,
 green-sweatered man. who would
 become IA on Wilby's draft list
 and ordered to report for duty immediately if Coach Jimmy Lee
 knew he was on hand. He was Eddie Salvatore. last seasons foot ball and basketball captain, and one of the finest high school backs to grace a Connecticut gridiron during the past five years. How Wilby could have used him Thurs day. Last year he led Wilby's greatest football team to eight or nine victories without Q loss marked against the Wildcats all season The Petes McSherry
 (two of 'em) father and son, watched younger brother Pats work for Crosby in the latter's last game before graduation Pete, former Crosby end, went well for the University of Con- necticut this and last season Park Department Bill Derwin takes as good care Of newspaper men visiting the stadium as an official of any park department of any state. You oughta see the fancy PRESS TICKETS he got out, with pictures, ribbons neyery- thing the only dinner for the new world feather champ. Willie Pep of Hartford, before he goes to Florida will be held Sun- day night in Middeltown. which is his home town, for Wee Willie was born there before moving to the city of Insurance ard state off, cials Crosby scored nearly 20 first downs yesterday against Wilby which give you an idea of what the Wildcats were up against
 Long James Calvin was there. too, with his lovely titian- haired twins. Marcia and Marita: while 5 year old Bill ODonneIl with Papa Hank and Mert Con- nor's bright-eyed boy. Farrell looked things over: and from Vol colt street were my prize nephews Johnny and Georgia Maher, eight year old Georgia winning a "bet' of & Crosby souvenir which John ny must pay for, when Wilby lost the game.
 The young men around town. who used to be short of coffee money before Pearl Harbor, are now wagering on HOCKEY games as well as football and fights.