The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28

World
Spinning The Wheel
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Phil (Baby -Face) CaSman OF
New Haven, a basketball buddy Ct
mine for 10, these many years, VIII
rival the Thunderbolt and Hills
Homestead as Savin Rock attrac-
tons from April Is through Labor
Day, for the very good reason thai
he is going into business at the
popular West Haven recreation ren-
dezvous-and, if anybody wants to
play CRIBBAGE for the steak
Sandwiches and beer, curly-haired
Casman will sit right down, apron
and all, to decide the issue. So-called
players of the Godfrey Mcdonald
school of fifteen-two fifteen-fouI
can hereby take warning that Phil
won the cribbage championship OF
NEW BRITAIN during March,
though he lives in New Haven.
WV WV
AS long as we are on the SUBJ
ject of hearts, clubs, diamonds
and spades there will be a card
tournament and oratorical contest
Thursday night at Washington
Park where Thomas Parnell
Conway and associate EARBEND-
ERS, will play host to the Engle-
wood Club, which includes Frank
(Outstep) Downs, the VERGE of
Company G; John and Ray
Wrenn, Frank Rotella, the gent
with all the DOUGH Chi, there,
Adolph) and AL Paul, the high
school teacher with the two first
names. Conversation, during the
tourney will be limited to
six million words per player, upon
authority of New York's DUMB
DAN MORGAN, so-called because
he rarely stops talking, even in
his SLEEP Among the base
ball fans watching the Yankees
workout at Atlantic City was
Waterbury's Fred Bowling, who
pens laugh-line as follows: 'if
Joe Mccarthy, can get suit to
fit me, Ill try out for Dickey's
job" Over in New Britain
there lives colored man,
CYCLONE, by name, who has
been in close touch with BOX
ING since 1861, which was the
first year of the Civil War. Today
at plus 10 years of age, he's hale
and hearty enough, though
handicapped with the loss of sight
of one eye, though he still keeps
his hand in" as a trainer and
rubber for young boxers, and he's
as happy and friendly a person
as one could meet in a walk from
Calcutta to Oslo Waterbury'S
Jackie Traver may decide to shove
off for Atlantic City any day now,
for a baseball tryout with the
Yankees. At %, he is draft eligible
and figures to be called up any,
time, despite his war work in the
Chase plant, which, like other in
duStries will have to shed 100000
of 100000 young men 10 through
rs now on DEFERMENT.
WV WV
Just got peek at the OFFICIAL
score of the worlds MIA feather
weight championship bout held re-
Gently in Boston, when Sal Bartolo
of East Boston relieved New YorkS
Phil Terranova of his title in IS
rounds. In Massachusetts, there are
three officials, two judges and
referee in charge, and they use a
point system with a maximum OF
TEN POINTS TO THE ROUND,
making a possible $50 points for
boxer going IS rounds in a title
bout. However, what I wanted to re-
port was that on all three score
boards of the officials, there was not
a SINGLE ROUND with a point
score of LESS THAN NINE, with
the total 143 to 1872 in Bartolo's
favor. On ROUND BY ROUND
basis, also shown at the bottom of
the score, Referee Johnny Martin
gave Bartolo 0 rounds, while one Of
the two judges saw six rounds ALL
EVEN. Yet, there is continued cri-
ticiSm from one direction that the
Connecticut system, allowing a five
point maximum to a round, and
ONE official, is COMPLICATED?
Bartolo, by the way, will give
Terranova chance to win back the
title, IN BOSTON, Monday night,
April 10, in the Boston Garden.