The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
Italian-American
League Notes

Every notorious person acquires
a legend which is repeated round
the world by word of mouth until
it is solidly established among all
the other popular fallacies which
people know as a fact. The leg
endary Colgate team is placed If
this category through its own fault
Because they happen to be in first
place now, their minds, heart and
disposition is absolutely running
away with them. Undoubtedly Col
gate is the team that can boast of
a team that has punch that is a
punch, but even the greatest
puncher of them all, Jack Demp-
sey, was beaten, so the odds that
Colgate will finish in first place
are placed at 30 to /. AS a descrip-
ton of this team Of a thousand
tender words in one-bums.
Temple, with the addition of
"L'Amour" La Vecchia, is planning
a new method OF attack to break
into the win column-a reverse end
run on a split play from unbalanced
formation through a 6-2-2-1 de-
Tense with "L'Amour" rolling a
powder puff down the alley toward
the head pin, ending up in the gut
ter.
"Chimpanzee" Garafolo states
that some day he will be classified
as having lived and wrought mir
acles, one of them being the dis
tribution of hair tonic to his team
mates in a futile attempt to i'm
prove their bowling results. Opti-
mistic as hell, anyhow!
Please bear attention, members!
A first year member of our league
confronted the secretary as to the
reason that he didn't get a write
up all year. Now, isn't that pecu-
liar? When every other member is
delighted when he is ignored in
being praised and pampered, this
guy tells me that a write-up of
will put him in strong with
his girl-friend, felloW-Workers, and
his father might give him a bigger
allowance, so with due respect to
love, fellowship and his pocket
book, please bear with me while !
give you an autobiography of this
egg since the time he first came
into our midst.
He had been seeking admittance
to our fold for years and finally
an opening presented itself SO into
our league he came. Woe is the
day of his entrance to the Ford
ham team! When the teams were
first being arranged, he made an
awful pest of himself by attempt
ing to pick his teammates and team.
He bIibed the secretary with the
that he would easily
wind up the season with 100 aver
age, promised to lay down in aver
age the first round and then really
open up.
He chose the secretary's team.
Fordham, to be his team. What a
blind fool our secretary was and
what an injustice and dirty trick
F'ordham was submitted to.
Well. to continue with our great
friend who forcibly demanded that
he get a write-up. The first few
weeks he had his colleagues believ-
ing he would be the find of the
year, the backbone Fordham need
ed, the highest average man in the
league and that he himself would
put Fordham in first place and
keep them there the entire year
What a bum he turned out to be!
The modesty he struts around with
and the Dragging he elucidates on
when he occasionally happens to
hit a hundred game Is really I'M
bearable. The criticism he shouts
and whispers, the disgust he dem
onstrates with his teammates and
that marvellous bowling and results
he talked abott have yet to put
Fordham in first place. He was
supposed to be the greatest pinner