The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-31
This Sporting World
Spinning the Wheel
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Spinning the Wheel
 Baseball promoter Fred Davi has been "hounding" the Boston Braves front office since last spring in an attempt to bring the Hub Club to Waterbury's municipal stadium, for s game against the strongest Brass co team he can get together. He has . temporary date of Thursday, August g, but the contract is not signed, but may be very soon. With Tommy Holmes, batting .369 and the new manager Del Bissonette, who guided the Braves farm club at Hartford to the Eastern League championship with much help from pitcher Pete Naktenis; should attract at least 5000 fans to a local showing; given good weather on the day or night of the game.
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 Though the New Haven Arena has been dark to boxing for several weeks, General Manager Nate Pod oloff has lad his eyes wide open while Matchmaker J. (Gaspipe) Voc- cola of Bridgeport has put together two Waterbury cards at municipal stadium that attracted about $14,000 worth of fans. AS a result, Gas" as the vociferous, fast talking stocky gent from the Park City is known to the Connecticut cauliflower trade, will be the new Arena matchmaker in September; New Haven's Charley Brown having been unable to make financial Ego" of the job which he tackled a few months ago. Eddie Cavanaugh, Wilby football captain and all-state lineman last fall is the son of Eddie Cavanaugh of Pine Hill athletic fame in the peg-top trouser era, and nephew of the east ends Bill Cavanaugh, former secretary of the local BPOE. Coach Tom Purcell will have the Wilby lads out for football TO- NIGHT, 6:30 at Bunker Hill stadium. All Wilby boys anxious to make" the 1945 team are asked to be on hand.
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 Bob Trocolor, New York Giant
 baseball scout, who will be at Torrington August 13-14-15 for the tryout camp set up for ambitious big-leaguers from the Naugatuck valley cities and towns, has had quite a career in sports, and a master of Arts degree from Col umbia for teaching them at the famous N. Y. university on 96th street. Bob was with the Alabama Crimson Tide Rose Bowl team of
 1887; has played football, baseball
 and basketball for LIU; was a pro hoopster with New Britain and
 R. l. teams of the American League; started a pro football
 career with Paterson in 1940; then made the NY football Giants for four years. Currently. when not scouting, he manages the Eddie Grant American Legion baseball
 team at the Polo Grounds =. his kick scout, George Mack is credited with snaring Phil
 (Scooter) Rizzuto for the Yankees. He is a forrneS boxer. Both Tro- color and Mack will be at Tor rington, and maybe the one and
 only Carl Hubbell, too, according to present plans. Hub" is in charge of the entire Giants base
 ball farm system . Up at Har- ward, right now, there's lad talk ing a summer course in something
 or other, who is rated by track experts who have seen him pick
 'em up and lay 'em down" as able
 to break Preacher Gil Dodds in-
 door mile mark. He's SAILOR and his last name is SINK, 19 years old, attached to the Navy SUD- ply school at Harvard. Dodds is also studying at Harvard this xuna-
 mer, having received his divinity . degree in June from Gordon col- lege of Theology and Missions in Roxbury, Mass. Top-price for the Tippy Larkin-Willie Joyce glove duel Friday night at MISC is dozen dollars .. There's NINE rounds main go set for Wor-
 cester this week between Tim
 (Buddy) Hayes of Boston and Rocky Pragano of Stamford.
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 Arthritis in both arms, in addition to the bad deal he believes he re- ceived when his bout with Tami Mauriello was stopped after two min- utes of action, hastened the ring re- tirement of Waterbury's Charley | Eagle with Q questionable TKO the | only really black mark against him after 12 years of giving and taking thousands of punches. Once again, for the ''steenth" time this season, Ned Farley and Harold Beebe were low gross scorers over the weekend at Country Club of Waterbury. Ned | had q nifty 7s on Sunday, four over | par for his best round this season Judge Tom Weary of Naugy got below the 30 mark with 39-40-- 79 PFC Winnie Kelly. my form CT wrestling partner at the Demo- crat; now with the Third Marines, Is very much OK as of July IS somewhere in the Pacific several people in Waterbury may be glad to i know. He had quite session of chin i
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