The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
This
Sporting
World

BY JOHN A. CLUNEY


j. Francis Smith and Joe Null
vile are too busy to be on hand but
they will be mentally roofing for
rival college basketball teams in the
national invitation tournament at
MSG tonight, when Dartmouth
lines up against C. U. as the local
men are graduates Of the institu-
tons named. (You might try the
radio at 9:45 WINS with Stan Lo-
max and Don Dunphy as the COM
mentators) Dartmouth is the pick,
10 to IS points. NY Mirrors Charley
Segar, baseball reporter covering the
Yankees gives Hartford's Monk"
Dubiel a nice play today, two col
umn head on Segar'S smoke" read
ing: "Dubiel Favorite AT Finger
of Mccarthy Just how much
sincerity was behind Julie Kogon's
recent offer to fight Willie Pep in
Hartford for free" if all the money
of the show went to the Red Cross.
is not quite clear at this time, as
the offer supposed to have been car
ried to Hartford by Johnny Attell,
New Haven Arena matchmaker, was
unheard of by Bill Gore, match
maker and trainer Of Pep, who
is a solid 14O or better even
now. Let's hope 1t was not build
up for the third Kogon-Speary fight
in New Haven next Monday night,
because Kogon's manager is Charley
Brown, who also knows his way to
Hartford even at night, but knows
better than to have his jittery Julie
tangle with Pep, regardless of diff
ference in weight before Willie join
ed the Navy.
VVVVV
Bill Cunningham, the milk and
cream tycoon, will take his lad, Bill,
Jr., to the national swimming
championships at Yale tomorrow
afternoon, where the young Crosby
Springboard diver, can get an eye
full of many of the best mermen In
the country. OF course, the four
Cunningham eyes will be riveted on
the competition in the one Glow
boardD and three meter (high board)
diving events Remember T. SUI
fern (Tommy) Taylor of Greenwich,
standout Connecticut amateur golf
er, and competitor in national
tournaments for several years? He's
now Major Taylor of the Second
Service Command (NY) and aide to
Major General Thomas Terry,
BLACKOUT BOSS Of NY Col.
John Ryan and several Of the
old-timers downtown were sad
dened by the death Of Dave Roach,
night clerk at the Hodson Hotel for
several years =. The state cham
pion Torrington High team, AL
MOST intact represents McCoy's IN
the current Litchfield County Gold
Medal hoop play at the New City
ayr. Carmen Mele scored 80 points
against Union Hardware last night
his evenings court work reading 10
1870: the same boy who missed a
free throw at New Haven on which
several hundred Waterbury skins"
were riding f.. Pardon My Glove,
but Allie Stolz WAS a TKO victim
in less than six rounds last night,
as you might have read was this
writer's opinion Of what was going
to happen. That makes six winning
selections in succession, four OF
them SHORT ENDERS, five in New
York one in Boston as follows: Joe
Baksi over Tami Mauriello (Mauri-
clio was IA to 5 choice); Bob Mont
gomery to win title back from Beau
Jack OBJ was 8 to 50 Sal Bartolo
to take MIA title from Phil Terra
nova (Bartolo made 6-5 choice at
ringside) Lee Savold to beat Joe
Baksi (Baksi favored at II to 81
Beau Jack to beat AL Davis (Beau
Jack was II to 81 and Larkin to beat
Stolz by TKO in six rounds or less
(Larkin closed at IS to 3D..