The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-10
This Sporting World
Friday Fish And Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Somebody with a hamStrung sense of humor gave Lou Little of Colum- bia a vote as coach of the year. in the annual poll conducted by the N. Y. World -Telegram-which, in- cidentally, went to Old Man Stagg of Yale, Chicago and the College of Pacific by a considerable margin over Notre Danes Frank Leahy. Which is, perhaps, as it should be, for, Stagg, at 81 years of age, has been an imposing figure in Ameri- can sports for 50 years; and nc one can deny that he was football king of the west coast all season with his little college team which began to throw monkey-wrenches into the Pacific Coast Conference ranks from the first Saturday of the season.
 Columbia staggered through one of its worst seasons in history, with Coach Little laid up during the last two or three games and unable to sit on the bench. Yet he was men, tioned as coach of the year which shows you that it's nice to have friends, IRREGARDLESS.
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 Opportunity is hiding just around the corner, as usual and is about to knock TWICE, not once, on the boxing baliwick door of Bobby Ruff1n. Having gained the nod from Dame Fortune, when he outpointed Beau Jack, a 9 to l favorite that particular evening; Rutfin leaped into hitting head lines overnight and is now up against the following SWEET set- up: next week Friday, he meets Sammy Angott at MISC. A week or so after that, win or lose, he ] gets another chance to set back Beau Jack. Now it so happens that Angott is N.B.A. LIGHT WEIGHT CHAMPION of the world, and Beau Jack just won back the world lightweight title from Bob Montgomery, as far as the New York boxing commis- sion is concerned; so Ruffin, a second rater six weeks ago, now meets up with BOTH world cham pions in less than months time. A win over either or both of them, would put him in line for title bout in jig time, and having al- ready defeated Beau Jack, his main problem is Angott who fig
 ures to defeat Ruffin without too much trouble; but so did Beau Jack the last time. |. .. Incidentally it's $1.15 to SITS ringside for the Angott-Ruffln bout next week at
 the Garden.
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 One of the most unusual plays il basketball, is said to have come u in the overtime Chase-America1 Brass game last Tuesday night a the YMCA whereby THREE persona fouls could be charged at the sam time against different individuals who crashed into rival handling the ball. Under the rules, tn fouls, all three of them, would hay, to be made SIMULTANEOUSLY otherwise, if split-second apart only one foul could be charged. . Dr. Joe May matched Johnn. O'Connor's 150 high single in tht Elks' league last week. In fact Dr. May got his first; while Biz Bill Verriker rolled a 376 that aver. aged better than 125 for the eve. ming. In case you believe tn, GOLF season is over, except flo, folks in Florida, there is the loca foursome of Jack Freney, Charle, Connell, Lou and Fred Schuster tt disprove such belief, having playet the Chase course only last Sunda! afternoon. Not bad after the frs two holes," said MT. Freney, who divides his golf-playing between Maine, Florida and Waterbury eacl year. Sincere condolences tt George, Eddie and Louis Kaplan well-known local sportsmen who los their father, Morris Kaplan last Sun day night. MT. Kaplan, senior, wa. one of the outstanding members O. the Jewish community in this city for many years. .. Christmas greet. ings from Charley Gerace, the base. ball umpire now Pvt. c. A. Geract at Camp Wheeler, Georgia; and PFC Marty Lucas, at Camp Bruckner North Carolina, after nearly two |