The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10
This Sporting World
Yok-Yok end Stuff
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Yok-Yok and Stuff
 Come to think of it, Umpire Bill Summers of the American League surprised this listener a few Sum- days ago when he said the railroad companies would HOLD UP THE TRAINS leaving time until the umpS made 'em for jumps to the next city where they were to work One early evening, Summers and his partner. big, bull-necked Bill Dineen were 40 minutes late at St. Louis but the train did not move without 'em
 Going to the diner, for that big chunk of broiled COW,> Summers was tabled with an irate citizen and baseball fan, wno was fumiDg be- cause he thought he looked at a lousy ball game in the afternoon and then learned the train would not leave until the umpires got on 1t. Not knowing that he was talk ing to one of the umps, MT. Citizen squawked: Gan you imagine any thing like this? Holding up a train for two of the worlds worst um- pireS. who ought to be in jail or in the middle of the Java Sea, or somewhere. I saw that game today, which was bad enough, but those umps made it unbearable and then we gotta wait at the station until THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES get here. I'm going to write to the President - of the railroad. It's an outrage, etc, and so-forth, blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum."
 He went along in this vitriolic
 verbal vein for some time Sum-
 mers said nothing, just kept nod
 ding his head and chewing on the
 steak, which was IA not 4-F. In
 time, Bill Dineen came into the
 diner. stopped at the table and
 asked: "how'S the steak, Bill?"
 After getting an O. K. it SUD-
 DENLY dawned on MT Citizen
 that the "big, red-faced bum" he
 had been grousing about, was the
 gent who stopped at the table,
 and the gentleman facing him,
 and slowly destroying a big steak
 was the OTHER umpire of the
 game he had seen. Just to make
 sure, he asked: "are you an UNI
 PREP" Receiving an affirmative
 nod, the party of the first part
 arose, made fast tracks toward
 the door of the diner, not even
 waiting for his coffee and des-
 sert, congratulating himself, no
 doubt, that he was still ALIVE. wv wv
 Whatever hope the Bowling alley owners association of Connecticut had of getting help in the PIN BOY situation, that is, in the form of a temporary relaxation of the state labor department rule that the boys must be 16 to work in an alley as pinSetters; it has 'gone with the wind" since the publicity attending the fact that the alleys owners had hired lawyer Bill Had den of New Haven, who also hap pens to be LIEUTENANT COVER NOR of Connecticut. A $1,5OO re- taining fee was returned by MT Hadden's firm with the notice that the firm was withdrawing from the case "Exey'' Galgota, former local golfer at the Chase Club is now an Air Corps CAPTAIN at- tached to the Adjutant Generals Department. He is at Mcbride, Mis- souri Wilby's outstanding ath- lete of year or two ago, Eddie Salvatore, is with the Army engin- eers in the South Pacific area .. Clarence Janowitz, who has had close to 20 months of COMBAT service with the Second U. s. Mar inc division, now in s. F., is a Sergeant, due for a furlough home, his first in nearly three years It was real nice and cooperative of Brother Branch Rickey, pres ident of the Brooklyn Dodgers tc approve" the intended USO trip of Manager Leo Durocher OVER SEAS, where the Lip will have a chance to give the boys a peek at his PERFORATED EARDRUM which kept him out of the Army and in Brooklyn for the next base ball season. Can you imagine Rickey OBJECTING to Durocher going overseas to entertain the troops = with few CARD tricks, no doubt?
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 Big Bill Parker. the genial bar keep at Rocco Diorio's Bank street layout picked up a New York tab Ibid the other day which carried in big, black headlines: "Yanks Take Marshalls" causing him to re- mark, with a very serious expres- sion: wal, whaddya know about that? I thought the WORLL SERIES was all over last Christ. mas'."