The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
This
 Sporting World l
A Little Of
 This And Thot
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

WaGefDufy ana NduBaJuCk OAu very well as regards the disposition of three gold key awards by the Connecticut Sports Writers Alli- ance and the Waskowitz Trophy. Key awards have bene voted each year of a sportswriters' dinner to three Connecticut men "who have done most for Connecticut sports over a period of years" The Waskowitz Trophy, donated as a memorial to a New Britain sports man tremendously interested in high school athletic competition is emblematic of the state high school football championship.
 Naugatuck's Peter J. Foley, one
 of the finest coaches, sportsmen
 and gentlemen that this writer
 has known, and Daniel F. Par-
 ker, the Waterbury "boy' who
 made good in the big town and,
 ill 20 years, has become an 1N-
 TERNATIONALLY known figure
 in the newspaper world because
 of his courage, ability, sense of
 humor and fair play were voted
 two of the three gold key awards
 which will be fittingly presented
 to them at the 1945 CSA dinner
 at Hotel Taft, New Haven, next
 January 29. The Waskowitz Tro-
 phy did not go to Waterbury,
 but Waterbury boy, Billy O.
 Brien, coaches the team that won
 it this season-New London Bul-
 kelley, state football champions
 of 1944 by vote of sportswrit-
 CTS committee whose work keeps
 them in direct contact with high
 school football throughout the
 season.
 Back to Pete Foley again-he's professional Pollyanna, seldom smiles or kids" anyone-but he's 8 he1luva lot of MAN and can get as much out of ANY boy, both in CHARACTER and athletics as any individual in this broad land of ours. Whats more, his public rec ord since 1908 proves such state- ment. AS for the gold key award to his next January-it's been OVERDUE.
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 Plans are decidedlG lin the works for a NEW Baltimore City Sta dium to replace the twenty year old wood-seated horseshoe Setup which enclosed 75,000 people last Saturday at the Army-Navy game. The stadium cost $l,100, 900 to build; the next one will cost nearer to $5,OOO,0OO, maybe MORE, but there will be something to look at for the next FIFTY YEARS when and if it is finished Alderman Phil Platcow of New Ha- ven tried to get through 8 petition for a David E. FitzGerald Memorial field to be built between Congress avenue and the Derby tracks, but the comnitte of aldermen on streets and squares" gave him permission to WITHDRAW his petition. Which is a Philadelphia lawyers way ot telling him that his idea is out like the morning milk =. .. Roger Bresnahan, the duye of Tralee' died in Toledo yesterday of a heart ailment, at GA years of age. Won- der if Waterburys Joe or Roger Connor ever played baseball with or against him, when the duke played with tine Giants for about six or seven seasons. Born in Tralee, Ireland, he is supposed tc have invented the catcher's SHIN GUARD sometime before 1910 Chase and Tool is the hoop head liner for tomorrow night at the "" You will be WRONG ii you wager on WRIGHT against Willie Pep tonight in Cleveland. The boys probably won't try too hard be- cause it's for the Cleveland Christ mas Basket Fund, helped by boxing each year through the efforts of Ed Bang. sports editor, who is to Cleveland what Arch Ward is to Chicago. Mark Kelly to the west coast and Dan Parker to New York