The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
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Sporting
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BY JOHN A. CLUNEY

0OAAO Va C41S @61 men WOTklnR
In Connecticut, fell to batting the
breeze about basketball last night,
all of them sure that ''the director
q. Edgar Hoover will be very glad
to hear our game turned out so
well for the Red Cross" when they
were informed that the cash total
will pass 1900. Speaking Of basket
ball players, one Of them said that
one Of the court treats Of the year
was the FBIs Ronnie Phillips, a
former Syracuse All-America hoop
ster playing against the Wesleyan
Coaches Earl Ruth, North Carolina
sharpshooter, in the first of two
games for the Red Cross played at
Middletown.
VVvVVVV
Jerry Giesler, famous Califor-
mia criminal counselor at-law and
recent successful defender Of the
little English movie-man, Charley
Chaplin. who loves" American
justice but not American citizen
ship, is a former chairman of the
California Racing Commission
who will head up the newly
formed American Football league
professionally to be composed of
teams on the west coast. With
the National Football league
scraping the bottom of the COL
legiate barrel (frosh and sophs)
for grid material, where are the
players coming from for the NEW
league?
VVVVVVV
Anchors Aweigh to Jimmy Longo,
as nice lad as ever wrote a sports
line! Seaman Jimmy showed off for
New Haven today and U. s. Navy.
assignment. Hopes he can eventually
get out to Great Lakes where he
will have a chance to furlough in
Chicago once in while, so that he
can go to an OPERA, for classical
music is his dish in the line Of en-
tertainment-believe 1t or doubt! d.
Starting Thursday of this week,
worlds featherweight champion
Willie Pep has three bouts signed
in three cities fairly we'll apart
and as far west as Chicago where
he meets Freddy Dawson, CYO 1876
pound champ Of 1941 on May IL
10 with Philadelphia bout against
Jack Leamus on May and before
that the warmup with "Snooks"
Lacey at New Haven Thursday
night. Should Lacey let go as much
as he did against Phil Terranova,
ex-NBA champ, Pep will be In
plenty Of trouble off his two-weeks-
ago showing against Leo Francis a
fair fighter, whose body punches
hurt Pep because the latter took
of 10 pounds in a short time, and
was in poor physical condition as
result. Jack Henry, the ex-
FBI and radio man now with o
s. Time Corp, will be one of the en-
tertainers tomorrow night at the
IRA basketball banquet at the
YMCA. which is good news to those
of us who saw Henry steal" the
show at the recent Elks' Club In
stallation show. Representations are
his dish and he's got PLENTY on
the horsehide! . . ToastmaSter j.
Francis Boland has strict orders to
keep any potential W1NDBAGS IN
check, so that the awards, some %
of them to be made by Gordon
Keeler, and the entertainment and
music can go on as scheduled. Herb
Smith, general secretary of the
"Y" and Joe Rimany, Jr., its ply
steal director will have a few words
to say, with George Ryan, Eddie
McGrath and the local Sportswr1ters
also on the speakers list.
VVVvVVV
Scovill,s Flo Reynolds, knowing
that she was too good bowler
for other Scovill girls in the re-
cent Scovill Sweeps, when $24O in
prize money was won, refused to
compete in the women's division
but she did agree to the suggestion
to try her luck and skill against
the men; finishing with a LAG sec
ond high single, which won her
the price of pair of nylons II
she knows a guy, who knows guy,
whose uncle works in place where
they get a few pairs every Shrove
Tuesday Good sport, that gal!
Pete Naktenis, the bespectacled base
ball pitcher who did his Sunday
stuff for Middlebury Of our City
Amateur league, has again refused
to report to Nashville of the South
ern Association; asking his release
to stay at work in a Hartford war
plant. and pitch Semi-pro ball on