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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
AMERICAN BRASS VS J, s. RUBBER
 ON " COURT

If the basketball action that char acterized last seasons meetings be- tween tonight's hoop headliner op- ponents, American Brass and U. s. Rubber of Naugatuck is even re- motely repeated, IRA. league fans will have little to want for. Directed by Joe Boley ard Henry Cieslewski, experienced players, the opposing hoop forces will need little to spur them to their best efforts: with USR not only defending champions. but undefeated this season to date in three games. ABC has dropped but one of four games. and with the natural rival developed since last season when both teams went right down to the wire, tonights contest leaves little to be desired.
 A "Comer"
 Big Al Povalaitis, a competent high school and college swimmer. has developed into a better than average basketball player, and may make quite a difference in the Brass attack, teamed up with Sonny Rl- naldi, Al Damelio and Al Monti with Slason, Paddy Damelio and, per haps, Coach Boley also ready to play.
 The borough combine, sharpened with non-league games in Nauga- tuck, has a formidable outfit in Chet Wojack at center; Bobby Rhodes and Lefty Farrar at forward, Bill Schel land Bob McDermott as guards with two or three capable reserves. Win or lose, U. s. Rubber is also scheduled for action next Sunday against Scovill ERA. which is also very much in the title race for first round honors at this writ ing.
 In "B" division game tonight preceding the Brass Rubber contest. Seth Thomas of Thomaston and Mattatuck Mfg. teams will take the YMCA floor at 8 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03

C. Y. o. Results And Schedule

Best game of the young CYO bas- ketball season was recorded last night, when St. Francis Xavier edged SS. Peter & Paul, l5-l4 de- spite a l0-5 lead at half time by the Hill" team. Each team wound up with six field goals; Zeno scor- ing three for the losers Simpson, Lyons and Hanlon two each for the winners.
 Naugatuck St. Francis was also a winner by 37-25 over Immaculate Conception the borough boys having comfortable 17-9 lead at half time. Lynn and B. Mascola got points each for the winners; German and Evon 14 for the I-C club, coached by Eddie O'Donnell.
 St. Lucy's won the north end special" in a g to IS game with St.. Thomas, each team getting but 3 points in the first half of the game. F. Muccino and Menotti scored l7 for the winners, Hayes, O'Connell and Nido each for St. Thomas.
 Tomorrow night, western division St. JoSephs goes to Watertown for a scheduled game with St. Johns at 7:3O D. m. with local game to show St. Ann'S and St. Patrick's at the Maloney gym; which Alberto Monti will handle as the whistle tooter. At Sprague gym Friday night St. Mikes of Waterville and Mount Carmel are paired for action, Paul Barone to handle the game as official.
 Standing
 Eastern DiviSion)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
ENGLISH RAGING DIFFERENT
 THAN IN U 5 4
BY ROBERT L. MEYER United Press Staff CorrespOndeu

London, Jan. 3-UP)-Suspensi of racing in the United States came as a surprise to England where the national paStime sport of Kings and Commons alike-has managed to keep going under wartime handi- caps much more severe than those which led the U. s. to ban the sport effective today.
 To give up their beloved horse and dog racing is unthii.kable to cock ney and royalty alike although the former was stopped for 8 while during the war. The average Eng lishman sympathizes with what the U. s. horse players are facing.
 On this war-weary island, the great spectator sport of racing has become a morale builder for war workers who pack racing plants at pre-war numbers and make the totalizers click at a merry race.
 The reasons England has been able to preserve and restore the sport after some suspension without taxing the countrys war facilities are:
 1-The country was divided into three regions and horses permitted to race only in area where trained with the exception of about a dozen big open events each year. This pre- vented promiscuous shipping of horses about the country, thus avoiding criticism that sprung up in the U. S. when citizens were unable to obtain train reservations and saw horses riding in "parlor car" style to race tracks around the country.
 2-Curtailing racing to one day weskly-Saturday afternoons when the war workers enjoy half holi- day, thus avoiding the abSenteeism criticism which was heard in the U. s.
 Police On Job
 3-Keeping tight police check on motorists in the vicinity of the tracks, thus limiting crowds to use of local rail and bus systems and avoiding the cry that rose in the U. S. when newspaper photographs showed track parking lots filled with automobiles bearing B" and e" gasoline ration cares. There is no civilian gas here anyway except for business purposes.
 Admitting gasoline of horse and dog owners to keep them from transporting entries more than 50-mile radius by road.
 England also banned racing under lights. Like the horses, the dogs now race only on Saturdays with crowds sometimes as high as 50,000 in Lon don's White City stadium .Bett DTS poured $188, ,O00,00 through totalizers last year at dog tracks alone and that amount does not include what was bet with private bookies.
 The chief reason for England's decision to maintain limited racing was to preserve the breeding indus try. This proved successful as shown by recent horse sales at Newmarket where some of the highest prices in history were paid. Meanwhile, in Ireland, frugal farmers are becom- ing rich off greyhound breeding, with prices ranging from $3,20O to $5, 800 per dog. Recently the English greyhound jubilee time sold for the record auction price of more than $80,00C.
 Even King George deals in the Sports of Kings" He paid more than $5,O00 last September for Bay Filly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03

Hart, predicted that there's not one in 10 of us jocks who will or can work in war plants
 But the persons who manned the mutuel windows and other track jobs were for the most part ready to pitch in and do their bit. There were a few dissenters, including one owner who said he was going to have a rest on the Florida beach, es to recover from shock"
 The closing of tracks came as Herbert Bayard Swope. recently re- tired chairman of the New York State Racing commission, reported that the 1944 season was the big gest in the history of the state where the sport originated in this country. That was when the first English governor of New York laid out course on Long Island, in the same locality where the Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Jamaica tracks are located.
 The sport has come a long way since them. More than $20, 900 ,0O0 was raced for in 1944 by some 12,00O horses. More than 5000 thoroughbreds are now being raised annually in the United States where the vast majority of the worlds greatest money winning horses have been produced. The U. s. gives the most valuable stakes ever run for in the history of the world, its winning sires and dams have brok- en all records, at home and abroad, for the earnings of their progeny, while U s. breeders. owners. train CTS and jockeys also hold similar distinctions In their departments.
 The closest country to the U. s. ih this respect is England, where racing continues on a curtailed basis The sport was blacked out there during the height of the Nazi blitz but was revived and was pros- pered. Racing, both horse and dog. is limited to Saturday afternoons when war workers have a holiday. But its operation there is vastly different from what 1t was here. except for a dozen big races the horses are restricted to racing in LIlC bCkAliOIg III WAA4Sll bAlCy Gk v trained, thus preventing promis- cuous shipping of horses about the country. Racing there has not re- suited in war plant absenteeism - the principal reason behind war mobilization director. James F. Byrnes' request for a shutdown of the industry in this country-and those who patronize the races there do not burn up gaoline.
 Teh war manpower commission set up a recruiting office at fair grounds, New Orleans, after the close of racing there yesterday and estimated that five per cent of the 5000 employees and other persons whose living depended on racing there already had applied for war plant work.
 The WING had two officials inter- viewing the track personnel at Trop- ical Park, near Miami, Fla. and area director Louis A. Miller pre- Gicted that a great number of the 2.6OO affected there would be "sal- vaaAd''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
(Reg. U. s. Pat. Of.) By JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Jan. 3-(UP)-A whirl on the sports-go-round:
 The Baseball Writers Association of America is now balloting on ad- ditional immortals to be honored in the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, ". Y. We hope the boys don't for get Dizzy Dean. or Dig, in his hey day with the Cardinals, was not only great pitcher but one of the games most colorful characters. He succeeded Babe Ruth temporarily aS MT. Baseball"
 Lew Diamond, the Honest Breakman" who manages light heavyweight champion Gus Lesne- vich, has this favorite story: In 1921 Jim Coffey, the Irish giant, came to New Orleans to fight Mar tin Burke. Burke invited Coffey to his home to meet Papa Burke, who was born in Ireland. Much im- pressed by Cotfey, Father Burke warned his son that no American 1rishman could beat one born on the Old Sod. Martin went through with the bout; and papa Burke wept bitterly at the ringside as his son belted the daylights out of the Irish giant for IS rounds.
 Coach Adolf Rupp of Kentucky us Wildcat baSketeers says there's little chance of the team finishing its 20-game schedule unbeaten, be- cause they'll soon lose big Alex Groza, center and leading point maker. He'll be able to play in only three more games before entering the Army. The Wildcats have won nine straight.
 John J. Phelan, the double-t talk ing ex brasSiere manufacturer whose term as chairman of the New York boxing commission was sup posed to expire Jan. l, will contin- ne to make the jabber- -Wocky until such time as Governor Dewey ap- points his successor. Arturo Godoy. the Chilean heavyweight who lost twice to Joe Louis in title matches. is scheduled to arrive from South America Jan. 2l. And Mike Jacobs was slated to return to New York today from Miami, Fla.
 If you are a rod-and-gun guy, 1t may concern you to know that the appointment of $806,50O among the states for the resoration and deyel- Opnent of wild-life resources dur ing l046, under terms of the Pitt snan- Robertson act. is the smallest since the act became effective in 1e38. Incidentally, entry blanks are ready for the annual George Rup- per fishing contest. Information and blanks may be obtained by writing the George Rupper Fishing Contest, z. Q. box F. Little River Station, AEinini 38, Fla.
 sgt. Jack Leaman of the New Or- leans Army Air Base writes in to correct the impression that John foxl Da Gr0sa, Holy Cross coach, EnRented the @subterfuged defense'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
This Sporting World
Equine ChuckIe Dept
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

King Richard the Third of Eng land offered his Kingdom for a horse. when a noble steed was shot from under him. Too bad he could not be in Florida, California or New Orleans TODAY where potato patch in little corner of the coun- tryside would not only buy a good horse, but the half-starved owner would throw in his best wishes and a Happy New Year greeting, if he could momentarily forget the sudden shutdown order of War Mobilization Director James ByrneS which got the New Year off to a bad start for most of them, such as their plugs put on most of the time without the aid of an electric battery-or something!
 Strange as it may seem, the good old PUBLIC that comprises
 the legions of $2 chumpS whose money supports wealthy norSeMCn, racetrack directors and owners, trainers, breeders, jockeys, 'swipes' and stable hands in the style to which they were accustomed, ac- cording to their social rank, of course; was the direct cause of the ByrneS order to STOP PACING TODAY; for had the boys and girls not been so anxious to get to the track by burning up prec- iouS gasoline and staying out of war jobs to do so; racing would go on six days week as per usual.
 And then, to aGd insult to tn- jury, bone-headed Bobby Permane, a jockey, wants to know :'What could do in @ war plant?" insist ing he was going to gallop horses until the heat WaS off. Some how or other, that silly crack by a successful jockey, wirn too mucn money, brought to my mind Wa terbury's Harp Dunn, also lit- tie guy physically, smaller and much older than Permane, but with more courage in his feet than the jockey has in his heart. Harp, about 35 years of age, has been an overseas SAPPER for two years, the most dangerous job in combat for ground troops; GI Joe who must go ahead of his buddies and dig up CAMOU- PLACED MINES, cleverly hidden py the Germans. They can blow Q man to Kingdom Come, if he makes one false step.
 For nearly week, we have been hearing and reading of the poor, horSemen who are stuck" in Florida, New Orleans and California because they do not have money enough to get their horses and themselves back home. To which one might inquire: What license has poor man, unable to support himself, much less a thoroughbred horse, got to be competing in a RICH MANS business?" After all, what HELP does horse or dog racing give an individual or th'' country? Improvement of the breed?-As General Anthony McAuliffe said to the German commander: NUTS and with cashews, yet!
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
Singleton Wins; George Butler Loses

New Haven, Jan. 3 - A kid who is looked upon by experts as having everything that goes to make up a budding champion of the prize ring, Charles Russell Howard, will fight in special four rounder against Al Carter of Waterbury at the New Haven Arena next Monday night.
 Howard fought in New Haven once before, dazzling the highly promising Young Andrews and the customers with a brilliant display of flsticutfS. Since then he has had four pro fights in New York, the latest at the Gardn on December 2. and he won them all.
 Benny Singleton of Waterbury fights Johnny Bo Harris of New York in one of three eight-rounders co-featured on the bill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
LEAvENWORTH VS WILEY IN
 LOCAL CLASH

Anxious to follow up its impress sive victory over Naugatuck with convincing margin of superiority over its first local foe, Leavenworth Tech Tigers have been readied for the hoops again. this time against Wilby's wildcats; the game to go on tonight in the Wilby gym at 8:30 D. m. Having smothered Shell ton high and outpointed Naugy's Greyhounds in a driving finish last week. the Tech team. coached by Bill Tracy is confident that Wilby will not provide the opposition of which Naugatuck was capable; though too much of a letdown and good" night by Wilby's Frank Silva might make much difference in the final outcome.
 Tech WeIl-Balanced
 Leavenworth has plenty of height, considerable speed, three good ball. handlers, fine dribbler in Ciarlone and a smart, needy forward in Joe Eiduks with Piersall apt to get 10 or more points in almost any game because of good "eye" for the hoops. Wilby has only Silva from last seasons array, who will team up with Young Jake" Lawlor at forward; Eddie Danaher to play center; Beaulac ard Rittucci at guard and Squires, Lezottes and Darlington for reserve duty.
 Ansonia at Naugatuck is another valley league game of importance scheduled for tonight.
 Close One
 Last night at West Haven, Crosby dropped its first game of the season, "heartbreaker" in the form of a 34-36 game to West Haven High; which had a big 20-12 lead at half time. Crosby tied the score at S2 points late in the last period, but could not go ahead; hoops by Camp and Provost clipching the game for the Shoremen. Score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
SwOpe's 1914 Report Is Sad Anti Climax
 By DAN PARKER

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
SchnitzeI And
 Brooksides Best In Mercantile

Teams and individuals really Init the wood" last night in the Mercan- til League at the Sena Alleys when the high thre strings record was broken twice. Eddie Schnitzel Of Matzkin's Furniture and the Brook side Dairy Club were standouts while Metropolitan Cleaners won a 2-1 nod over Stroberg and Son by two pins in the last box, when Tato hit l38 against J. Brick, who de- cided to roll first though he was ahead, Tato needing a mark and seven fill to win.
 Schnitzel rolled 166, and 125 for high single and set of 451; Brook side had 648 single game and 1898 total; Metros winning their last game 588 to 586; Brick chopping to finishing with IF. Scores:
 MERCANTILE LEAGUE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
Singleton, Harris At New Haven

New Bedford, Mass, Jan. 3-cUP) Benny Singleton. 1855 stellar schoolboy lightweight from Water bury, Conn, held his l2th straight triumph today after decisiyely out pointing Jean Barriere, l31, of Montreal at Bristol Arena last night.
 Tn preliminaries: Tony Ferry, l25, Fall River, decisioned George But Ter, l23. Waterbury, Conn. (6) {: Freddy Gilbo. l36, Lowell decisioned Joe Monteiro, 132, Wareham (6); Johnny Nara, l57. Boston, tech- nically knocked out Frankie Wal lace, l57. Boston (4).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
odoy's Sport Parade

against the TT" attack. Leaman says that Jimmy Phelan, while at the University of Washington in 1940, cooked up the same shifting defense formations to use against StanfordS Cinderella team. It worked, too, until the last quarter when Albert. Standlee, Gallerneau, etc., ripped off three touchdowns in quick succession.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
Ice Chips

Notes on Ice CapadeS and some of its 153 skaters who will be at the New Haven Arena from January 24 through February l. there are 50 stars in the Ice Capades service flag. and five of the half hun- dred called to the colors have re- turned to their jobs after being dis charged. they are Eric Waite, Al Surette, Leo Loeb, Bill Provost, and Rae Russell. Rae is a fem and served in the WAC. Miss Russell and her sister Ruth make up one of four sister pairs in the Capades. |. the others are Denise and Francine Benoit, Dorothy and Mary Crowder, and Mildred and Irma Cyr.
 There are four husband and wife pairings with the Capades Edythe and Nate Valley skate together. |. they, incidentally, call Westport, Conn, their home town. stilt skating Pm Taylor's wife, Bettyc, is an aide to the Ice CapetS. .. Charlie Uksilla is stage manager and his wife, Vida, is wardrobe mistress. they also coach skaters. and Ice Capets Lorraine Halsey's husband, Harry, is advance technician with the show.
 New Haven is planning 8 gala re- certion for little Ann Robinson, the Elm City Miss who is starred with the Capades. she joined the skat- tug show last year az girl in the line Onlv 1T she's been a pro more than year. and at Is was a national champion. Me-iden has a partial claim on Miss Roola- son. her father. Donald Robin son, was a native of the Silver City before moving to New Haven. .. you don't have to go to the Arena boy office to buy tickets. you can crder them by mail and be sure or getting the best seats available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
P0FochioI Hoop League

Though Blake scored points for his team, none of his mates were able to find the hoops resulting in a 19 to ! basketball victory for SS. Peter and Paul over St. Mary's yes terday afternoon in a Parochial league game played at Anderson gym. Dwyer got points for the east end outfit Score.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
WEST HAVEN

Score at half time: West Haven 20, Crosby 12. Referee: Richards. In a hotly-contest prelim, Lawlor came through for Crosby with two timely twin pointers for 17-l6 vic- tory over the West Haven Reserves.
 Other Scores
 Bulkeley (Htfd) 4S, Woodrow Wilson 34
 Lewis 30, Meriden 23.
 Stratford 77, Shelton 19. Bassick O3pt) 43, Danbury 1S. Stamford GA, New Canaan 22. Derby 39, East Maven 25.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
NOT IN LINE OF DUTY

Paporte, Ind. (UP) = Police Sgt. Charles Olson, working his usual midnight . to 6 . am. station trick, read a Chicago newspaper account of an appeal for rare type 3 blood to save the life of hospital pa- tient. He left for Chicago as soon as he got of work, returning minus 8 pint o blood, in time to begin the next days work without sleep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03

Tomorrow. St. Margarets opposes Sacred Heart at Kingsbury gym and St. Arn's engages St. Thomas at Maloney. Paul Barone will handle the St. Margarets-Hearts affair; Al Monti the Maloney game.
 St. Joseph's and St. Francis are down for a Friday clash at Leaven- worth gym at 4. Al Monti will ref- cree,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
CAT AND DEER FRIENDLY

Kerrville, Tex. (UP)-Add cat and deer to the list of animal friendships. Tabby and a deed on the w. E Dieterat ranch near here have played together since the deer was fawn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-03
Basketball

Purdue A, Notre Dame 32 1ndianna 53, University of Mexi- co 33
 Kansas State 64, Oklahoma 53. NJ. 26.
 Texas Field 45, Marquette 42.