The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-21
This
Sporting
World
Friday Fish and Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Friday Fish and Chip
Official Washington being what
S, with RED TAPE more In evidenc
that the Red, White and BLU
Secretary Walter Bollwevil Spence
If the Connecticut Interscholasti
Athletic Conference (CIAC) di
light we'll in securing an official rul
ing from the International Revenu
Department, relative to high school
acting as a collection agency fc
The Income Tax division, by takin
out the 20 percent withholding ia
from basketball officials most c
whom agreed to work in high schoc
varsity games (Class AZ for $40
s12 per game and wound up wit
school athletic association check
FOR $3.50 in the case of referee
who officiate local games.
Now, the high school associa-
tons seem to be in the position
of having to refund to the Off
Gals paid, $1.32 for every game
paid for under those circum-
stances; as the word from
Washington is that the school
authorities need not take out the
20 percent tax, unless the official
Is hired to work by a LEAGUE
or ORGANIZATION such as the
CIAC which controls and directs
the state basketball tournament
at New Haven. Locally, the high
school AA officials were told by
the local Internal Revenue Off
Gals that they should take the
20 percent tax out Of the off,
Gals pay, but Washington now
says NO, in the light Of the Of
fetal communication received
by Mr.. Spencer. OF course, the
official must declare his income
from such sources at the time
Of filing, and when his tax has
already been taken out by the
high school IA, he gets a re-
ceipt showing the reduction
which he must save and show
the Internal Revenue agent 10
prove that the tax has been paid
to the government. Specifically,
the commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington rules
that a basketball Cor other) Off
cial of an athletic contest is an
INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTOR
and is NOT AN EMPLOYE of a
high school or athletic associa-
ton, unless he is hired by a
LEAGUE which has CONTROL
AND DIRECTION of his work
DURING THE GAME. Such, of
course, is not the case in high
school games, aside from the
state tournament, in which case
the referees will be employees
Of the Connecticut Interscholas-
tic Athletic Conference.
The Crosby, Wildly and Leaven
worth high school athletic associa
ions did not wish to take out incom
AK from an officials stipend, bu
they felt they had been ORDERED
10 do so. However, they could hav
ABSORBED the tax by paying a
official So more than THE ORIGI
NAL FEE THAT WAS EXPECTED
out was not done, either, so the OF
ficial had to take the rap all tn
way through, until the present rul
ng was received from official Wash
ngton.
What was actually paid to two of
'icials OF the Crosby-Wilby basket
ball game, which drew about Ito
paid fans, shouldn't happen
iOOMBA, the candy man!
Benny Singleton, Pearl st. A.
lightweight gets his first test In tn
BIG TIME when he boxes in a pre-
minary round tonight at Rockfel
er Center gym, New York Cit,
where bouts for the annual GOLDEI
GLOVES competition will be helC
Charley Williams and Haskell Hol
nan, secretary of the PSAC wi
Benny, who is entered In tn
class at 1874 ga pound
Ellsworth Vines. former Call
Iornia TENNIS star, cracked a 60
course record by SEVEN strokes vel
terday, with an amazing Ga
Byrd. ex-N. Y. Yankee tor
Hight outfielder, Is now a top fligl
Iinksman finishing in a tie for thir
IN the recent San Francisco $I0,O(
Open. =. Coincidence Section: Bot
winners OF IRA basketball gam,
last Wednesday night at the "Y
scored IL points. In securir
DR.. John Frenzy as POSTMASTER (
the mid-winter sports dinner of u
City Amateur league Sunday niel
at The Elton. the committee
charge, headed by w. j. Derwl
feels 1t has made a splendid sele,
ton as the doctor Is distinguishe
able, pleasant and altogether 9
agreeable figure In the center OF ar
speakers table. Sergeant j,
Louis Barrow, U. s. Army, who
you might recall Is the world
heavyweight boxing champion
coming to Hartford and New Br
tain to REFEREE on SUGGEST,
nights, January 1928 Thursday ar
Friday Of next week. BUT he wi
be seen between WRESTLERS, n,
the boys with gloves on From Cor
necticut, he hops 10 Minneapoll
February FIRST.