The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
This Sporting
 World
Friday Fish and Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Friday Fish and Chips
 Locking the barn door after the horse is stolen is a familiar pastiine with most organizations after some- thing goes wrong, yet, l would be so bold as to suggest to the Connec- ticut Interscholastic Athletic Con- ference (CIAC) that 1t spend some of its annual basketball profits for a decent floor and other equipment at the New Haven Arena, before some kid breaks leg tripping over an alleged basketball court that features CRACKS an eighth of an inch wide and is so 8 W, unpublished and lumpy that 1t tires a high school player in half the time that fatigue would bother him. were he playing on a decent surface, which he is certainly entitled to in an or- dinary game, let alone a state tour nament.
 The New Haven Arena manage
 ment can hardly be blamed for
 the lack of decent equipment for
 the state meet as the same set of
 shaky FANSHAPED backboards
 and KINDLING WOOD floors,
 laid in sections, was used last year
 the year before and perhaps years
 before that. Perhaps coaches and
 referees can do little about it, for
 the GAG is comprised of a group
 of high school princi. .ls who
 have about as much idea of Mod-
 ern Basketball competition as
 third grade pupil has of the theory
 of Relativity. Tomorrow, they will
 use the best equipment in the
 state for a state SWIMMING
 meet, but 1t will cost them noth.
 ing, imagine, for the pool and
 building (the $5,000,000 Payne
 Whitney Gym) belongs to YALE.
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 You can get 9 to l odds, If you are willing to hope that Lee Savold will have one of his good" nights again Joe Baksi tonight at MISC, where the Kulpmont coal-miner has been rated a favorite, due to his convincing win over Mauriello and the fact that Savold fast, hard puncher has always looked bad in New York but is a WOE-4DBEATER outside the big town. Personally, l like Savolds chances, as Baksi is easy to hit, but it's a question of HEART" not hands, ability or ex- perience that will decide the issue.
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 As for the Boston bat, for the NBA :eatherweight title, the smart pick Is BARTOLO, from here to Helsinki, though the champ Is quot- cd as a 6 to choice on the Boston morning line" .. Millionaire Mike Jacobs got 50 mad about Sam my Angott's loss of title to Juan Zurita, that he is charging $l6.5C ringSide for Beau Jack and Bunny Davis next Friday light and its only TEN rounder. A PART of the proceeds goes to the Red Cross, but that's just to make the umpchaye feel they have an out" for paying $l6.50 for a $760 fistic number. However. CHAMPAGNE will be CHEAPER THAN WF.ISKEy come April Fools Day. Many people are still of the opinion that Chick Shea is the New Britain High coach of basketball; though Chick has been in the Coast Guaru for several months. The hoop brains in the Hardware City is \rt 1koWitz, a husky ex-player whose kids won a great game for him last night. . Oddly enough, the only team which beat Torrington all season, In a three minute overtime game, won by ONE POINT, meets 1t again for the STATE TITLE, after which both clubs go to the New England tour ney at Brown. FLASH :dont be surprised if Hartford's Willie Pep can't make the featherweight limit (l26) any more and will have to give up the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, ala Kid Kaplan. He's been in SICK BAY at Sampson and Bainbridge for three months, and is bloated to a whopping l4S, according to some reports.
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 After playing along through an interesting season of weekly games at the Brooklyn "Y' hut, the h. dIstrial Girls League is to be af- forded the comparative luxury Of finishing the season on the central Y. M. c. A. court, starting Tuesday of next week, according to arrange ments made by Ed McGrath. chair man of the IRA basketball! commit tee. Not that the Brooklyn court is not good enough, but the girls in the league would like to lay a game or two on the bigger and better surface where the boys in the league play twice weekly. And, in vi of the keenly contested competition in their league, the lassies are entitled to the break" which they are going to get, thouUh if was no easy matter to