The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
This Sporting World
Friday Fish and Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Friday Fish and Chips
 Having duly borrowed the anti quated SHEBANG of a well-known man-about-town and later wonder ing if I was "all there" when it steered like a "jeep" in a jungle, your humble sports scribe took off for N. Y. yesterday with the inten- tion of seeing little Henry Arms trong whale the BEJABBERS out of that wonderful little character" as Dan Parker long ago christened Al (BImmV Davis the belting beauty from Brownsville. For the past month or two, Bunny has been fighting on rain-check, so to speak, for his one-round kayo of Bob Montgomery was followed by several goings-over that were class ics of Fistiana-in leather, starting with the Beau Jack affair, though, in less than four minutes last night, Armstrong, near 32 years of age, half blinded in one-eye and hardly in the form that made him the only holder of three world-champion- ships at the same time, punched Davis as silly as Middletown Na- poleon. It seemed to me as though, in the process of giving Davis the licking of his life, Armstrong "got away with" considerable head-but- ting, forearm clashing and elbowing and shoulder work but nobody said a word, not even Davis handlers, which shows how much such un- popularity must be deserved.
 To make the evening complete,
 who should shuffle into the Gar
 den ring, with 15,000 fans looking
 on, but Waterbury's Tom Collins,
 for a six round go after Davis was
 carted out on wobbly legs; and,
 it may be that Tom, a six-round
 prelim loser at Hartford ten days
 ago, needed the atmosphere of
 Madison Square Garden to put
 forth winning effort, for he out
 pointed one Rudy (Torpedo) Reed
 of Los Angeles. Both are colored
 boys.
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 Still chuckling about the story of Broadway Sam, the well-known playboy of Times Square and environs, whose photograph, ticket office and TELEPHONE NUMBER is featured in a Dan Parker article in last weeks Golfers (and IN COLOR, already yetD whom should MT. Parker and I BUNK into, but the Great Man, himself, Broadway Sam Roth. He was pop-eyed with excitement about the national mo- tice he got at the point of sports writer Parkers facile pen, or should I say, terrific typewriter? "Broad- way" as he refers to himself, ad- mitted that he is leaving for Gros- singers in the LITVAK ALPS to- night (Friday) and in three days expects to sell $200,000 worth of Fifth War Loan bonds. Why? Be- cause he's ticket broker by trade, and trade is good, so is business and he has FOUR ON THE AISLE FOR OKLAHOMA" to the highest bid der in WAR BONDS. Frankly, Broadway Sam is quite guy, phy- sically, sartorially, and especially conversationally, and would like nothing better than to call Dan Parker from Grossinger'S CFerndale1 N. YJ and tell his Boswell from Waterbury that he had sold ONE MILLION DOLLARS worth of War Bonds, and If you think that is little far-fetched, you have yet to meet Broadway Sam. He's a with a "C" in caps, or anyway you spell or pronounce 1t and they say around Dempseys that he's as fast with frogskin as Riley Grammar. Smokes Corona Coronas, too, the real Mccoy be- cause he insisted that l try one out, and sure enough, they're not cabbage leaves.
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 Red Jim Harrington, the Sacred Heart high school lad who paced the point-makers for Ebbie Conlans basketball squad last winter, and wound up the current season by STEALING HOME to beat Thomas ton high in the Hearts final game, graduated last night as the first and only two-letter athlete at SHHS this season, was also elected president of his class and awarded the Ameri- can Legion Award given each year to each of four high school boys in Waterbury (one from each high school) who best represents the qualities of leadership, athletic and scholastic ability during four years of high school registration His cousin, Eddie Harrington, now a Marine sergeant on duty in the Pa cific war theater, won the Ameri- can Legion medal award at Crosby in 1941.
 Red Jim's dad is Bill Harrington, a;A,, aditn,. of Tho DamOcrat and