The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-11
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Friday Fish And Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Speaking of LIPS, there's Leo the Lip Durocher, well-known manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Liverlips George Fuller, the Norwalk heavy weight boxer, and, of course, when in New Haven, there's always Col onel Lips main stem stopping place, which happens to be the sub ject of this plug for a guy with a heart like a house. Lest forget, Col onel Lip is the New Haven sports man who used to round up the HUMAN DRIFTWOOD in the vicin- ity of Church and Chapel and from a few outlying districts, each year during late November and see to 1t that they were warm and well-fed for few hours through the medium of a TURKEY DINNER and all the trimmings on Thanksgiving Day or close thereto. Tall buns, short buns, lean buns, fat buns and just buns that had all they could do to breathe were treated to real white turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and some thing to WET THEIR WHISTLE once year by Colonel Lip, or to give him his proper name, Louis WeinStein.
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 Passing by, in, or out of his es-
 tabliShment recently hundreds of men were attracted to the Richard K. Fox worlds championship belt, given by the publisher of the pink and black Police Gazette to fel- lows such as Terry McGovern, Abe Attel, Stanley Ketchell, Joe Cans, Mickey Walker and Jack Dempsey.
 Weighing about 22 pounds, worth $1,000 or more it is made of silver and gold, with diamond and oth- CT stones also used for decoration; flauntS figures of bare-knuckle
 boxers done in SOLID GOLD, a thistle, harp, U. s. shield, rose, American Eagle and few other things. include photograph of Richard K. Fox. Best of all, in gold letters, it reads this way:
 For the worlds baMtamweight championship" the mis-spelling making the huge belt all the more attractive. It is really quite an eyeful for the boxing fan, young one and Old Timer, who can re- call the days when 20 round fights were regarded in the same mental category as six round bouts of to- day.
 Tn the window of Lips place, the famous belt is flanked by two fam ouS pictures, one of them a crowd photo of the men who suffered through the heat of that day at Toledo in 1919 when Jack Dempsey all but murdered the giant Jess Will Hard; the other a drawing of the late Professor Mike Donovan, father of the present New York boxing ref cree; teaching ex-President Teddy Roosevelt to box at the New York Athletic Club. T. R. as he was known in Bull Moose Party days, lost most of the sight of one eye in a sparring match with Donovan.
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 The Phoenix avenue combination of G. Ms meaning George Mulh- gan and George Manaway has been having tough going, due to illness, the little guy winding up in the hospital with a frozen toe, which he did not get from trying out 8 new BUCK AND WING step out doors. Mulligan, ST.; has been bat tling LA GRIPPE and without his right arm, Manaway, things have been downright difficult Add Proud Props: Joey Evans, the sports minded Democrat composing room lad, and Red Jim Mccarthy of the Elks, Chase Companies; and the U. s. Army. Long Life to the little ones, men.
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 New Haveners, including the sports scriveners are putting out the steam for Frankie McGowan of Branford to get the Boston Braves managerial job, chucked by Casey Stengel. Frankie, grand player and very popular will not get it be- cause the new Braves owners want NAME manager and some play CTS that can get close to first div iSion berth {. However, McGowan in Boston would do well Ann Robinson, 19 year old New Haven amateur skating champion now has a contract with the Ice-Capades and will get & spotlight all by her. self at the final performance Sun day night in the Arena. She has been skating at New York's St. Regis Roof Because our Wash ington Hills brought New Ravens Bob Barthelson to Youngstown for the NABF tourney last September, Bob. New Haven boy, just got a New York Giant big-league contract for $400 a month and a sizable bo- nus, when he reports to Gabby