The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
This Sporting World
Friday Fish And Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY


 If the City Amateur Baseball league is fortunate enough to secure an acceptance of it's invitation to Glenn L. Martin, to attend the third annual Hot Stove" session at Hotel Elton, January 2l in the form of a mid winter dinner and entertain ment, men most interesting Ameri- cans of current record. Not that the internationally famous multimillion- ejie BOMBER BUILDER from Mid C,le River, Maryland is a particular ly brilliant after-dinner speaker fc: he is not-but he does employ 35 900 people in one plant and is so thoroughly democratic and regular that it was a distinct pleasure for some Waterburians to meet him last September at his All-American Amateur Baseball Association tour nament in the city of Baltimore.
 His ideas on AMATEUR BASE BALL will be interesting, too, for he takes an ACTIVE rart in the pro motion of the national pastime for BOYS, and the younger, the better. He's dead against" anything phoney in sports. In view of the fact that he came to Waterbury with his Mar tin Bombers baseball team a year or so ago, there is good chance that he will do us the honor to come again for he will be always vel come. MT. Martin likes what he saw of Waterbury and Bill Derwin, first; vcie-president of the AAABA anG president of the CAL who would like to have him meet as many local people as possible.
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 Not one Waterbury bowling league is sanctioned" by the National Duckpin Bowling Congress accord ing to list of Connecticut alleys published in the current issue of the "Duckpin World" official publication of the NDPBC, which encourages sanctioned" leagues because the fec is very small in comparison to the TAX that has been saved you in the defeat of the 20 percent tax Oil bowling. Think it over'. A golf clubhouse in Massachusetts that burned up and down this morning is situated in THREE cities and towns Part of it is in Salem, another sec- ton in Marblehead and third part in SwampScott.. That should be a great party tcnight for a grand old man, Val Flood, 80 year old golf professional at Shuttle Meadow club, New Britain, a former BARE KNUCKLE fighter; who has spent his past 9 years at SIM, is married 50 years and is ten years older than the three score and ten" allotted to each human in the BIBLE. Shamed by Waterbury's $35O,0O0 Municipal Stadium, the city fathers of New Haven have appropriated $55. .00O to turn Beaver Park into 8 city stadium which will include out door and indoor conveniences for football, baseball and track athletes. . Mrs. Rachel LaTell. 123 pound housewife of Vestal, N. Y. and mother of three children, rolled the first PERFECT SCORE of 1945. with a 300 in league competition, and in her first of three games, rolling 140 and 135 after the DREAM GAME, which was the 18th perfect 300 in 28 years of association his tory at Endicott, N. Y. And, don't forget, those g-pinballs weigh l2 to l6 pounds EACH, which is why they have FINGER HOLES, 50, for a l23 pound woman to roll perfect 3GO is like splitting a BULLET with an AXE, the bullet shot from a service pistol g yards, which is what Davey O'Brien, former foot ball All-American from TCU now with the FBI, can do consistently.