The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
This Sporting World
Friday Fish And Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Friday Fish And Chips
 Little barrel -chested Greg Rice, in my book one the greatest compe- titive athletes of all time, when you consider his record, his courage and his physical handicap of a double hernia which must be strapped up every time he runs has given the finest and most enlightening de- scription of Gunder Hagg's running form of any that I have yet come across. The grand Notre Dame athlete, forced to complete in race at a distance he had not travelled for more than a year to build up'' Hagg'S box-office power in the Swede's first race in this country this year, had nothing but praise for his conqueror, which is just an- other reason for his athletic and characteristic greatness Here's what he said about the Swift Swede's Ire faxed rhythm" as he so splendidly describes the form that has had | track coaches, competitors and fans buzzing for three months:
 That fellow is the last word in relaxed rhythm. He doesn't even feel the track. He glides over it, saving inches on every stride. He wastes no l pnprOU Ho hoctjk ip% but wears down opponents with that frictionless lope. The Indians must have run like him."
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 Ike Williams, the New York color ed lad who takes on the slugging Springfield negro Tommy Jessup at Hartford next week Tuesday, seems to be a worthy opponent if for no other reason than he has a win over Jimmy Hatcher, Well-knoWn to local ring fans; and is also credited with draw against Beau Jack. An Interesting angle on the good Bull Dog colt. Rodney Stone, a win her recently at New York is that the horse, sired by a colt named after an equine breed, was also named after a famous bulldog. Here's how:
 "As Harry La Monatgne was about to call Rodney Stone Cave Canem, Latin for Beware of the dog" he met Bob Sedgewick of the Westchester Kennel Club.
 What was the name of the best bulldog you ever saw?" asked the owner of the Bull Dog colt.
 Rodney Stone.' replied Sedge- wick.
 So the winner of the Sanford and Albany Stakes at the Saratoga meeting at Belmont and candidate for the 2-year-old championship was named. Rodney Stone, owned by Dick Croker, mopped up at dog shows more than generation ago.
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 Within week, jockeys riding fees were raised at Narragensett
 from $25 to $35 per winning mount to minimum of $15 from
 $10 when the little guys finish
 "out of the money" Now the
 trainers of the first four horses
 to finish in the $25 ,OOO Narragan- sett Special September 18th are
 to get a nice financial break, es- pecially the trainer of the winner,
 due to the following announce
 ment by Judge Jim Dooley, boss
 of the Pawtucket, R. l., track:
 "T'he management have decided
 to add a trainers award of $2,600
 to the Special, said the Judge,
 "it will be split four ways. Fifteen
 hundred ($1,50O) dollars to the
 trainer of the winner, $750 to the trainer of the second horse, $250
 to the third and $100 to the man that trains the fourth"
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 Just few shorts, on the guys who write Sports. 7. Jerry Crean, sports editor of the New Britain Herald, received a letter from a Hardware City boy in late July. The virile young man, a former amateur box CT, was stationed with the MacAr- thur forces in the South Pacific war theater. This is the last let ter I can write you for quite whiie" he wrote: Because we have a lot of work to do and not much time to write letters" It was his last letter to anyone, for he was L i11ad iy, ortinv, A,,n,1ct Qrl Cow, Cohen, sports editor of the Meriden Journal, can write better review of Motion Picture than half the New Workers who get paid for noth- in else But Myles Standish, mem- Der of the Connecticut Sportswrit- CTS Association, from the Norwich Bulletin, has a son about IS years of age, who is an accomplished golf CT, for lad 90 young, and could be another Bobby Grant within a very few years .. Bill Harding, New Haven Journal Courier sports boss, is reported definitely on the mend after long siege of Illness that gave him little chance of survival for many weeks: but he has the consolation and help Of his friends in the Elm City, who are legion. :. William Patrick O'Connell, Republi- can sports ed, never tires of talking about or listening to stories of the good old Eastern League baseball days when bellylaughs came fast and furious at the games, and "on the road" . Chick Kelly, American sports editor, is reading up on the battle of Bunker Hill' since he be- came a good neighbor up that way. having forsaken the wilds of Vol colt for greener fields closer to his daily work. However, Chick will never give up his Tin Hat, SO that that the Wolcott Fire Department will always remain cherished memory of happy days with the smoke -eaters hard by Southington mountain.
 Art Mckinley. sports boss of the Hartford Times, writes two columns every day, including many weeks uhen he waS not ahle to leave his