The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
Monday Sports Wash
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

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How many times in the course of
boxing events would you hear of
two fellows in main event, whose
LAST NAMES begin with the LAST
LETTER Of the alphabet? However.
such is the case tonight at Boston
where Fritzie Zivic meets up with
Ralph Zannelli. Both have plenty
of ZIP, incidentally. Fritz as a
boxer, Ralph as a rugged individu-
alist who is about as easy to hurt
as an ARMADILLO. After the
exhibition of BLUE CHIP football
playing that the Washington Red
skins in general and Sammy Baugh
in particular gave at the Polo
Grounds yesterday, several of the
SID E w ak QUARTERBACKS
who took in the game are not now
so sure that the big, bad Chicago
Bears will run away with the
Skins at Soldier Field next Sunday.
The Luckman-Baugh aerial duel
should be something to see, and
with 100000 seats available all that
is needed to rival the Rose Bowl
classic is decent break from the
Weatherman.
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Jim (Metropolitan) Carr is of
the opinion that some great
times can be had at the Bunker
Hill Stadium this winter, which
has been flooded for skating, and
banked, with room for bleachers
from which people could look on at
various fancy SKATING exhibitions,
group formations, comedy on ice,
etc. Benny Singleton, a IT.
yearold colored kid from the
Pearl Street Community House
has been entered in the New
York Metropolitan AAU and
! Daily News annual GOLDEN
/ GLOVES boxing tournament,
scheduled for January 7th. He is
a featherweight, scales 1876, and
gives much promise, according to
his current tutor, Charley Will
Hams, who boxed in Philadelphia
before coming to Waterbury. Ben
ny looked very good a year ago
In the Boys Club SILVER
GLOVES tournament. He will be
entered in the sub novice class at
the N. Y. G. G. event and may go
long way within the next two
years with all sorts of opportunity
ahead during the postwar period.
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No less than six service stars
show on a flag in the window of
the Franklin family in Rutherford,
N. j. one of the stars being for
Tom Franklin, member of the
Pennsylvania basketball squad. A
former Rutgers student, Tom is a
Navy Viz man and has five broth
ers "in" Dick in the Seabees; Emer-
son, a Tech Corp. with the Army
engineers; Bill an Air Force staff
sergeant; John Navy Lieut.. JIG.
on battleship and Bob, a Viz stu
dent at Stevens Tech One of
the most enjoyable of the many
Christmas greetings which came
this way, was from a youngster-
manager of the Boys Club Enkcors,
a hoop team named for the late
Knute Rockne, Enkcor being Rocks
name c.~2lled backwards. On the
tail end of a little basketball story,
in which his team will take part,
the manager scrubbed in pencil:
P. 81, George Evon, and we, the
Enkcors and all other Victory
League participants, wish you a
Merry Xmas. Right from the
heart, too, for that's the American
Boys way Of doing things. If he
doesn't like you, you will know it
soon enough From North Africa
comes a VMail greeting from Wa
terbury'S Johnny HOLMAN and from
Ellington Field. Texas a nice card
from bombardier Johnny Thomp-
son g. One of the prettiest of the
,-rNS car6s was mailed by Haskell
b. Holman, in behalf the Eureka
-~4J-> ,-4.,, d LEGAL DGS. e team
Police com?iss'Oror Wendell
Cross has sent out a rather unuual
Christmas card to his many friends,
which includes the Story of the
origin of the Christmas Tree. All the
way from Windsor Locks comes a
card from Private Red Jim Glad
ney of Washington Hill and the
Waterbury Democrat From
Boston, the Tipperary Twins, Jack
| O'Brien and Eddie (Old Sarge)
Mack, send holiday greetings; and
from Southington. happy word
from Mr.. and Mrs. Butch" Ster-
MAX -. Cousin Chick Carney, now
up north in the Saco, Maine coun-
try fur- trapping, no doubt sends
his annual Merry Christmas" and
from the Great Lakes naval train
ing station is one from Mickey
the one and only, one to a CUSTOM
er, high-falutin' salt of the sea,
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