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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
ROBINSON 3 TO 1
 OVER R. SHANKS
Colorado Cowboy Shapes Up as Soft Touch for
 Negro Tonight

New York, Aug. 21-(UP)-Ray Sugar" Robinson, unbeaten Har- lem Negro welterweight, Is a 3-1 favorite to powder Ruben Shank former sugar beet former of Dem yer, Colo, tonight in their 1O- round bout at Madison Square Gar den.
 The experts don't expect the bout to go beyond six or seven rounds they expect Robinson, the dancing dynamiter, to open so many old cuts on the westerners face that the referee will stop the brawl long before the final bell.
 In that case, 1t will be Robinson's 34th straight professional victory. It is also Shank's 34th professional engagement, but he has lost two decisions and was held to a draw. He makes his Madison Square Gar den New York debut against Robin son.
 Each principal IS only 21 years old and in excellent physical con- dition. Shank will have a weight advantage of about five pounds, probably 148 to 143, but he is be- lieved to lack the class of Robin son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
SAVOLD, MUSTO AT
 WASHINGTON, D. C.

Washington, Aug. 21-CUP)-Lee Savold of Des Moines, Ia, recent conqueror of Lou Nova, ruled a favor1te to defeat squat Tony Musto of Chicago in their thrice postponed 10-round bout at Grif- nth Stadium tonight.
 Savold seeks his 18th consecutive victory over man who stayed nine rounds with Joe Louis last sum- mer and then lost to Tami Mauriello in New York last month.
 A possible shot at Billy Conn or possibly Joe Louis is the prize that will reward a decisive victory for either If the Army gives a go-ahead for such a match.
 Savold is expected to weight 1s0 an Musto, POP.
 The fight has been successiyely delayed by cold contracted by Savold. a conflict with a baseball game and weather.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Four C.Y.O. Ball Games for Sunday

Mount Carmel parish baseball team of the CYO league has won but one of five games played to date and will face another setback Sum- day in stacking up against the un- defeated St. Johns of Watertown, unless the Town Plot boys can turn in the surprise of the season by outscoring the well-balanced Silktown club, paced by Avery Rowlinson, star schoolboy pitcher.
 All games and the standings follow:
 SS. Peter and Paul vs. St. Fran cis: Washington 2; Newell.
 St. Joseph's vs. St. Michaels: Waterville 2: Holihan.
 Immaculate Conception vs. Sa- cred Heart: Fulton 1:30: Napoli.
 Mount Carmel Vs. St. Johns: Fulton 4; Napoli.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Waterville Kids Are
 Track Champs Again

(Chase); second, Pollard (Chase) i; third, Geary (HamiltonD.
 Sack race, won by Keaveney (Hamilton); second. Knapp (Water- ville); third, D. Greatorex (Chase)
 Relay race. won by Waterville (Bird, Hughes. Buell.. and Knapp.
 INTERMEDIATE DIVISION SO yard dash, won by Ricard, (Water- ville); second. Quattro Porter) ; third, Creel (Fairlawn).
 Broad jump, won by Sheehy (Chase); second. Synott (Fair- lawn); third, Quattro (Porter).
 Relay, won by Waterville park (McAree. Seeley, Mccarthy and Ricard).
 JUNIOR DIVISION = 100 yard dash won by Carmody (Hopeville) ; third, Lyons (Waterville).
 Running high jump, triple tie for first place between Carmody and Dubuque of Hopeville and Mo- Carthy of Wateryille.
 Broad jump, won by Carmody. (Hopeville): second. Lyons (Water- ville); third. Dubuque (Hopevilie).
 Relay, won by Waterville park (Lyons, McAree, Whelan and Hic@bo1s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
PISKIN TO TEST GOMEZ AS NEGRO FACES NUNzIO.
Newark Boy Has Defeated Roach; Fans Strong for
 Indian from Cuba

With Indian Gomez, sensational Cuban middleweight, and Willie Roach, the Wilmington, Del, baby tank, selected to take on tough op- ponents in eight-round bouts, the largest crowd of the current season is expected to take in tonight,s fight card at Randolph Cloves stadium.
 Gomez, who made 8 great hit in winning over hard-hititng Jerry Fiorello last week, will go against Mike Piskin, Freehold, N. Y., 155- pounder, who has met many of the best welters and middleweights in the country.
 The slashing Cuban showed that he can hit when he floored Fiorello, one of the most rugged fighters of his weight, and also demonstrated that he can take punch when he arose without taking a count after being dropped in a furious exchange of punches.
 Lester Krell, prominent Arizona sportsman who brought Gomez from Havana less than a month ago. has sent word that the Cuban will be even better tonight than last week. Krel bases his statements on the fact that Gomez was last minute substitute last week and that the youngster was trying too hard, 1t being his first appearance in this country.
 Beat Champ Twice
 Piski, however, knows how to take care of himself and points to his two wins over Freddie Red" Coch- rane, welterweight champion of the world. Mike also has beaten Bunky Wall, Oscar Poindexter, Tony Fer rara, Wicky Harkins, Saverio Turiel- To and Ernest "Sat" Robinson.
 Roach, who is just about the nearest thing to perpetual motion seen in the local ring, will face Nun- zio Bisogna, Newark Italian 135- puonder who upset him several months ago in his home town, Will mington, Del. Like Roach, Bisogna is said to be an aggressive fighter and can take a terrific punch.
 Roach handed Matt Dougherty, classy Milwaukee lightweight, a sound drubbing week ago, and showed a relentless attack from the opening bell to the last. Several months ago in New Haven Willie all but chased highly rated Julie Kogon out of the ring only to sec Kogon get the decision.
 
 Prelims
 A pair of six round bouts on to- nights program call for Al Renick, Hartford welterweight, to mix 1t with Frankie Young, New Haven slugger, and Billy Marcus, Hartford lightweight, to face Julian Malavez, fiashy Puerto Rica 135-pounder.
 Willie Shanks, Montreal Golden Gloves graduate, ad Al Barbosa' Hartford middleweight, will clash in the four round curtain raiser.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

When 1t comes to running, jump ing and throwing things, the Wa terville kids seem to have an edge on everybody else, as Waterville Park track and field team, coached by Steve Moran, won It's third straight city championship yester- day with 39 points in an inter play ground meet at the Municipal Sta dium. Waterville won all three re- hay events among the midgets, in- termediates and juniors. Hopeville was second as a team with 20 points, Chase third, with IA.
 We'll Handled
 William Josiah Derwin of the Park Department directed the meet in superb fashion, as the playground event each year is one of the most important athletic events of It's kind for kids" IS years of age and less. Jim Carr ofilciated as starter. as he has been keenly interested in Waterbury track and field perform ers for many years. Score:
 MIDGET DIVISION = 70 yard wash, won by Knapp (Waterville) ; second, Bird lWaterville); third, Buell. (Waterville).
 1otat0 race, won bg LCvelcg,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Willie TurnbulL
 On FiUe Winners

Pawtucket, K. l., Aug. 21.- (UP)-LittIe Willie Turnbull, 17-year-OId apprentice and CO., holder of the world record for most winning races on a single card, was the toast of New Eng land horse racing again today for his latest feat of pilOting five winners in yesterdays pro- gram at Narragansett Park.
 Four of these triumphs were consecutive, starting with Guy Hawkes. in the second race. The Hot Springs (Ark.) lad, who is part Indian, was last aboard Mack's Dream in the sixth, but then came back to steer Arthur Murray to a win In the seventh.
 At Rockingham Park, Salem, N. H., last month Turnbull tied the existing world mark by winning seven races.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Indian And Willie Roach Back Again 7onigh
Tons Of Ammunition Moved Up For Grand American -Trapshoot
Handicap To Be Shot Over 200 Targets

this being an event where two clayS are released simultaneously.
 Recently commissioned in the Army as a first lieutenant, Joe Hiestand, the Hillsboro, O., farm boy, is teaching gunnery to air corps men in Moultrie, Ga.
 Lieut.. Hiestand has won every honor possible except the handi- cap. His greatest accomplishment came in 1888, when he broke 1179 consecutive targets from the 16- yard line, a record that experts in- sist will stand for all time.
 Walter Beaver of Berwyn, Pa., is one of the few top-notch trap shooters who has won the Grand American dicap. Although scratch is 16 yards, Beaver won in 1883 from a rise of 25 yards, the maximum, and he is the only man in the 42-year history of the event to win from that distance, break ing 98 out of 100.
 MRS. HALL IS GREATEST WOMAN SHOTGUN ARTIST
 Other crack shots who will take part are Maj. J. B. Grier, now Sta- toned at Governors Island, N. Y.; Capt. Phil Miller of French Lick Springs, who has won many thou sands of dollars and a houseful of trophies; Hale Jones of Wood River H., twice high-average gunner o1 North America; Karl Maust o1 Columbus, O., not only one of the best, but also one of the largest; H. L. Cheek of Clinton, Ind, who hopes to emulate his father, Ben F., who won the handicap; and Rudy Etchen, one-time sub-juniol and junior champion of the trap shooting world and son of Fred one of the top scattergun in- structors
 Defending North American clay targets champion in the women's division is Marie K. Grant of Fort Dodge, Ia. A longtime competitor she won her first title last year with 97 out of 100.
 Mrs. Lela Hall, comedy missus o1 a Strasburg. Mo, innkeeper, is called the greatest woman shotgun artist of all time.
 Mrs. Hall has won five of the last seven North Amreican clay target women's championships.
 Some old-timers say only Annie Oakley was in a class with Mrs. Hall but others contend the famed Annie couldn't shoot in the same league with her.
 Ready on the firing line.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
International
 League
BY UNITED PRESS

Baltimore belted Toronto twice, 6-2 and 1O-9. as Montreal mauled Syracuse. Al, in the only games scheduled in the International league Thursday night. Marvi,-: Gen. ter held the Leafs to six hits, includ- ing a homer by Al Rubeling in the sixth with one on. in the first game. In the second Toronto trampled Clyde Smoll under a six-run bar rage, but the Orioles came back with three runs each in the second, third and fourth and edged over another in the sixth to win out. Johnny Wyrostek homered for Toronto m the ninth with one on.
 Chet Kehn cut down the chiefs with five hits as Ed Morgan and Jack Graham led three-run homer barrage for the Royals. Morgan blasted two four-baggers and Gra- ham one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Favorites Won
 Softball Games

Benrus and Waterbury Tool, fa- vorites for last nights playof games of the Industrial Softball league, won their tests as expected by comfortable margins; American Brass batters being unable to get a loud foul of Lombardo and Yar- nall, as Benrus won to 3: while Brownell twirled . two-hitter to pace Waterbury Tool to an easy o-2 win, the winners getting l4 hits of Schum, one of them homer by Mike "Camilll" Lauditti.
 Tonight Waterbury Manufactur- ing and somers Brass will meet at the Municipal Stadium lots, French and Manville also being paired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
ThiSSpOrting World
A Hiss From Lady Luck
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

tiOO Discovery SHOW and you lost 1t the money about its only time would bit letting the bite twice However like the other daysoME PEOPLE WILL NEVER LEARN.
 added local Broadway outstanding other decade will not hned the absolutely one the book" and true a carpenters LEVEL
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 time in two years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

prized title of all, will not handi- cap him too much under the sys- tenn of firing over 200 birds, instead of 100. The title he won last year, as are all except the handicap events, was decided from 16 yards.
 The only man to finish on top in two races at the 194l tournament was Lieut.. Victor Reinders of the air corps, then a chemistry in- structor at Wisconsin, hailing from Waukesha in that state.
 Lieut.. Reinders shot at 300 championship targets during the five-day meeting, including 16- yard, doubles and handicap events. and broke ETA to cop the All-Around title. He also captured the doubles championship with 96 out of 100,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
FIGHT RESULTS

New Haven, Conn: Willie Pep 128. Hartford, outpointed Nat Liftin 132 1-2, New York (10): Van Mo Mutt. 157, Baltimore. knocked out Art Tatta, 157 1-2, New Haven (3)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
DODGERS BUY PITCHER

New York, Aug.-Brooklyn pur- chased Fred Falzone from Durham sent the 21-year-old right-handed pitcher to Indianapolis on option.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

Boston, Aug.-Catcher Ernie Lom- bardi First Baseman Max West and Outflelder Tommy Holmes had K rays taken of various battered lhonAA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
PEP WINS NO. 47

New Haven, Conn, Aug. 21-UP) Willie Pep, 128, undefeated Hart. ford featherweight, punched his way to his 47th straight professional box~ ing triumph here last night, winning . l0-round decision over Nat Liftin, 132 1-2, New York.
 Pep won every round and never was threatened.
 Van McNutt, 157, Baltimore, knocked out Art Tatta. 157 1-2. New Haven, in the third round of a scheduled eight-round semi-final bout.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
RUS ELLIOTT DEFENDS CLAY TARGETS TITLE

Russell Elliott, moustached vet eran of RaytoWn, Mo, will defend the North American Clay Targets championship. Breaking 199 out of 200 last August, he beat a field Of the worlds greatest.
 Elliott hopes that his distant yardage in the handicap, most
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

John Deere's first steel blow. made in 1887, was forged from 8 saw blade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
75O,OOO Birds To Be Thrown In Tournament
By HARRY CRIMSON (NEA Service Sports Editor)

Dayton, O.-Something like 750,- 900 clay targets wil be thrown and tons of ammunition will be fired during the 3rd annual Grand Amer ican trapshooting tournament at Vandalia Field, hard by Dayton, August 24-28. The big show follows preliminary events, August 21-23.
 This expenditure of war material has the blessing of Uncle Sam, who is using trapshooting in air corps gunnery drills for practice at bring ing down moving targets.
 Despite the war, reservations in- dicate an attendance close to the 1941 figure of HOO. Considering the situation, any gathering of more than 1000 men, women and children for the sole purpose of shooting down clay birds has real worthiness and significance. Competitors are coming from every state, Canada, Cuba and the Canal Zone.
 Trapshooting has it's own per- manent home. Vandalia Field covers NdoL hCICdbCt WAblA n AhA bO NAob house and a stretch of 24 traps in perfect alignment over a distance of a quarter of a mile.
 UNKNOWN ALWAYS
 WINS HANDICAP
 Grand American Handicap, the most unpredictable event in the sport, this trip will be shot over 200 clay birds and will embrace the last two days. In past years the handicap has been decided in one day over 100 targets.
 It remains to be seen whether the claim of high-average trapshooters that they will do better in this $l0,000 event over the longer route will be substantiated.
 The tradition that an unknown always wins the Grand American Handicap was carried out last year by Walter Tulbert of Detroit, who took the number after a shoot-off by breaking 99 of 100 from the 18- yard line.
 Tulburt, an expert at skeet,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

which is trapshooting's first cousin, came to the tournament mainly out of curiosity. His victory netted $1 900 in addition to several val uable trophies. He hopes to become the first man in history to win the Grand American Handicap more than once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-01
HARTFORD WOMAN NAMED BY (. 0. P.

Hartford, Conn, December l. - (UP) Mrs. Gertrude Kittield, ce-chairman of the local Republi- can Town Committee, today became the party's new National Committee woman, succeeding the late Miss Katherine Byrne, Putnam.
 Mrs. Kitfield was elected at a meeting of the State Central Com. mittee late yesterday, polling DO votes, to IS for Mrs. Bernard H. Matthies, Seymour, and one for Mrs. Corine Alsop, Avon.
 Mrs. Alsop withdrew in facor Of Mrs. Matthies after the Seymour woman's name was placed in nom- ination.
 Tn withdrawing, Mrs, Alsop made a speech to the committee members, charging Mrs. Kitfield's nomination was dictated by State Chairman J. Kenneth Bradley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-01
PLANES DIRECT
 ALLIED ATTACK
Constant Pounding of Jap Positions in North New
 Guinea Continues

General MacArthur's Headquar- ters, Australia. Dec. 1 - OP0- Allied Aerial Forces on the Buna front in New Guinea gave continu- ous support today to the ground forces fighting the Japanese in the narrow jungle beachhead.
 American planes directed artillery fire and bayonet raids against the heart of the enemy defenses. Along much of the Is to 20 miles of Jap anese perimeter defense, Australians and Americans were close enough for bayonet fighting.
 Artillery and mortar fire fiared along the entire front after Austra- Hans who knifed through the enemy lines Sunday to the shore of Holni- cote Bay turned, 300 yards below the Coma Mission, down the beach toward Sanananda and Buna, to roll the enemy back upon himself.
 While some planes directed ground forces, others maintained a heavy pounding, with bombs and gunfire, against the center of Jap anese resistance, stretching six miles from Sanananda to Buna and the Buna Mission.
 Martin B-26 marauders and North American B-25s bombed the area in relays. concentrating on the air strip and plane dispersal bays ai the Buna Mission, on Buna itself and on various artillery positions They used 500-pounders on the runways and smaller bombs, includ- ing incendiaries, on Buna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-01
u. s. SUB SINKS
 8 JAP BOATS
Breaks Navy Records; All Accomplished in Single
 Cruise
BY FRANK TREMAINE (United Press Staff Correspondent

Headquarters, United States Pa cific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Novem- Der 30. - Delayed) = (Up) -~ A United States submarine operating in Japanese home waters has broken Navy records by sinking eight enemy ships totaling 10000 tons and dam aging and possibly sinking four more totaling up to 25,000 tons in a single cruise, it was announced today.
 The little undersea boat, lone wolf of the Far Pacific, sang five of its certain victims in sight of people on the Japanese coast and of these three were sunk in Japanese harbors.
 At one time on a cruise which matched for intrepedity and insouci- ance any in recent naval history, the crew of the submarine lay off the Japanese shore watching the races at the track of big city and making bets on the results.
 Unfortunately, Lieutenant Con- mander Thomas Burton Klakring, Jr., said today at the headquarters of Admiral w. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, the winning post was obscured and il was necessary to call off the bets because the horses could not be seer as they crossed the line.
 For long, lonely days, the sub- marine cruised in search of enemy ships, the crews playing cards, read. ing the ships newspaper which was published each morning, listening to the only radio station they could get - Tokyo. They listened to the Viennese waltzeS on the musical pro- grams and laughed at the Japanese propaganda.
 They listened vainly, Klakring said for any report of their own opera tions.
 After long days would come the sighting of an enemy convoy. Then began the grim business of stalking the prey, for hours and hundreds of miles, until the time came for the kill, then 8 blazing few minutes of packed ferocity in which the sub- marine loosed its torpedoes while guns blazed at it and depth charges probed for it, and sometimes enemy airplane bombs hurtled down at it. All the while the crew. forbidden to talk, made bets on the probability of Torpedo hits by means of the sign language.
 The submarine returned to its base to the blaring of Navy band ashore, the crew cheering at the Beer Barrel Polka" to be met by a truck filled with ice cream, milk
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21 Luke street, and George Traver, Orange street.
 All are members of the auxiliary force, and have received the neces- sary training in the essentials of fire fighting.
 There are 10 vacancies in the de- partment at the present time. caused by enlistment and draft for armed service, and it is estimated that as many as dozen more will be called to the colors in the near fu- ture. During recent meetings of the fire board, complaints have been voiced by various members that it was not safe to have trucks go out to fight fires in their present undermanned condition. It was de- cided at last weeks session that some members of the auxiliary force would be appointed to remedy the shortage.
 Bremen appointed at tomorrow's meeting will take their positions with the understanding that they are appointed for the duration of the war only. However, it is also understood that the new appointees will be first in line after t.-c war. in the event of resignations or deaths.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-01
MUSSOLINI SAID
 TO BE VERY ILL
Makes Italian Situation Graver; Nazis Spread
 Report About Pope
By JAMES CHAMBERS United Press Staff Correspondent

London. Dec. 1-(UP)-Contiu- ental reports reaching unofficial quarters in London today said that Premier Benito Mussofini was seri- ously i'll, further aggravating the already tense Italian war situation.
 The reports had no official con- firmation but said that Il Duce had been confined to bed for two weeks The nature of his ailment was. not disclosed but it was described as serious. It had been reported inter- mittently for several years that Mussolini was suffering from a chronic heart ailment.
 A grave illness for Mussolini at this time would strike Italy at critical hour now that it has been officially singled out as the target of an expected Allied offensive.
 Reports on conditions within Italy since the opening of the Afri- can offensive have left little or no doubt that morale is deteriorating sharply and there have been in creasing signs Of Nazi concern over the weak link in the Axis partner ship.
 Should Hines or death remove Mussolini from active leadership at this time the results might, it was said, prove so far-reaching as to provide the determining factor in aany Allied offensive to knock Italy mt of the war
 Northern Italy is already under heavy Royal Air Force bombard- ment-an attack so heavy that re- ports from some European quarters assert that panic and nervousness are spreading through the Italian populace. particularly as residents of the northern districts are evac- uated supposedly to safer regions in central Italy.
 Southern Italy faces the prospect of equally heavy air attack as soon as the African campaign is con
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-01
ONE DEATH AS
 DIM-OUT BEGINS
Cities in New Areas Virt- ually Blacked Out; War;
 dens to GO On Duty

Boston, Dec. 1-(UP)-A single death was recorded today as New England's new dimout regulations went into effect and coastal H. lumination was reduced from 40 to 50 per cent.
 Business sections of cities and tDgns were reported so adequately shaded last night as to remind ob- ssgvers of previous blackout tests A 9o-mile-an-hour speed limit gov aEned motorists in the area, and home life continued behind win. dows that had shades drawn tc three quarters of their length.
 One fatal accident was reported in Beverly when Harry ". MacNeil 64, was killed by truck. George P. Carnevale, of Beverly, who said he did not see the victim until the machine had run him down. blamed the dimout and the fact tat his truck had to operate with shaded lights.
 Several thousand air raid war dens and auxiliary police were ex- pected to be on duty within the next two days to advise citizens oi aow to comply with the new regu- lations and to see they are en- forced.