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The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-21
Lumberjack Prisoners

During the first two months OF
1945, prisoners Of war In wood
ed area Of Michigan produced
439,26 pulpwood sticks, 80, ,733
railroad ties, l72.5 .594 cedar posts,
and 1868 cords of chemical
wood.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-21

At one time, canister was
wicker basket for bread or
fruit. 1t came from the Greek
"Kanastron."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Football Fans Really Are COaziest People
By DAN PARKER

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

TODAY'S SPORT PARADE

Philadelphia, Dec. l - (UP) This shrine of independence played host today to its guardians of the future and although 1t was simply foot ball game between Army and Macy, the contest held its own in antiquity in a city which worships symbols of the past.
 It can't of course match the Liberty Bell, Independence hall and the Betsy Ross house. Yet this game between Americas embyro generals and admirals can look back quite Q ways. Back to the gas light days of 1890 when Benjamin Harrison was president and the Great John L. was heavyweight champion.
 Football at the academies goes back beyond that first meeting. At West Point it's in the records in 1850 almost two decades before Princeton and Rutgers began inter- collegiate competition. It seems e certain Cadet Philip H. Sheridan was marked delinquent for kicking football in the vicinity of the bar racks" AS Gen. Sheridan he lived that down.
 The Annapolis introduction was in 1869, when Middle brought out @ ball and general free-for-al re- suited. Actual competition at Anna polls started in 1879, Captain J. O. Maxwell, 80, writing:
 By authority our men went out to "Belns' the tailor and he made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
1O2,O0O FANS TO SEE ARMY AND MODES
By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer

Philadelphia, Dec. l-(UP)-Af- ter a year of waiting and a season of fretting, Army and Navy squared of on the turf of Municipal stad- ium today In the first all-undefeat- ed classic of their long, hard-fought series.
 With President Truman heading a horde of 1o2,000 fans, the game of the year" returned to its pre-war setting after semi-private showings at Annapolis, West Point and Ball. timore the past three years.
 And as the two Titans of the col- lege football world stepped out for a 130 p. m. EST, kickoff in weather that was expected to be clear and cold, Ar1ny's crashing Cadets ruled 8 26 1-2 point favorite. It was 6 case of Damn the torpedoes" as the gold-helmeted horde from up the Hudson sought to wind up it's second consecutive unbeaten and united campaign with Its 18th win in row.
 The pre-game show will be all 1t was in former years, with the corps of cadets and middies parading with magnificent precision before the kickoff. Then they'll be at it.
 The lineups:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
BartoLo-T erranoUa Pushed Back a Week

New York, Dec. l. (UP) - The signing of a featherweight title match between N.B.A. champion Sal Bartolo and Phil Terranova for Detroit, Jan. 25, was postponed to- day until next week because of a back ailment suffered by Nick Londes Detroit promoter.
 Londes and Michigan's boxing commissioner, John J. Hettche, were scheduled to arrive in New York today for the signing, but the trip was postponed because of Londes' Sacro-Iliac condition.
 It will be the third title meeting between Bartolo of Boston and Terranova of New York. Bartolo wrested the N.B.A. crown from Ter manova on March 10, 1914, and de- tended it against Terranova, May 5, 1914 Both bouts were signed at Boston
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Allie MinutoIi Next for Brody

Hartford, Dec. 1 The magic name of Dennis Patrick Brady adorns the billboard of coming at tractions at the Hartford Auditor ium once more. Which indicates an- other bumper crowd of boxing fans will be in that arena Tuesday night when the Scotch-Irish lad with the kick of a mule in his fists faces Allie Minutoli.
 Brady's power-laden fists have f1attened IS of the 20 victims stud ding his unbeaten record, the New York youngster aiming his sights at his South Brooklyn rival in an eight-round bout topping Tuesdays show here.
 Mlnutoli is rembered here for his two rousing scraps with Bobby Po- lowitzer, many thinking he had beaten Bobby in their first clash, though teh decision was draw.
 That was the most exciting battle of the year here, one that for sus- tained excitement has had few equals in the ring here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
KeiserL Leads
 Florida Open

Orlando, Fla, Dec. - (UP) - Herman Keiser, whose principal claim to fame as a golfer IS that he came from Toledo, O., the home town of Byron Nelson, threatened today to rise in his own right by setting the pace in the $10,0oo Or alndo Open Golf tournament.
 Keiser only two months out of the Navy, shot 8 two-under-par-69 yes- terday to lead two highly regarded veterans, Ky Laffoon of Chicago and Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va. Kei- ser's two-day total was 69-67-136 while Laffoon with 69-68 card and Snead with a 68-69 were deadlocked at 137 apiece.
 The tournament dark horse, Less Kennedy of Uawtucket, R. l., who equalled the Dubsdread course rec ord with par-shattering 63 the first day, shot a second round 75 to stay within two strokes of the lead- CTS. His 138 total tied him with Ben Hogan of Hershey, Pa, winner Of last weeks Montgomery, Ala, open.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

sleeveless jackets of canvas laced in front and drawn tight to At the body. All I knew was that canvas wet from sweat or water was mighty slippery to hold on to. I learned that from furling sail, especially in cold weather"
 With that outfit, Navy played 6 scoreless tie against group of cole lege all-stars in the superintend- ent's COW pasture.
 In 1890, the Tars challenegd West Point and were accepted, despite the fact that Army knew nothing of the game. tThey1l probably be a little sorry for the challenge today). The game was played before a handful of spectators on the plains.
 The Cadets were SO inexperienced that one lad tackled 6 Midshipman and, mistaking cheers for jeers, po- litely let him 90. The Middle scored to start Navy of to 6 24-0 win, the greatest 1t has had in the entire series.
 Thus it was begun, this Army Navy series It has had it's ups and downs, its thrills and its heart aches. There was the period from 1894 through 1898 when 1t was halted because the fans had become more unruly than the players. Tenn pers were so ragged that 8 bucolic admiral challenged temperamental general to a duel.
 Revived, 1t rolled merrily along until once more 1t was halted in 1918 and 1929 by joint manifesto of the Secretaries of War and Navy. Feeling was so intense that partici- pants were accused of using brass knuckles and meat cleavers and the secretaries promlaimed:
 The practice in peace of those operations which most resemble war must be condemned notwithstanding the fact that they are manifestly beneficial as military training"
 There was much talk that the game produced unfriendliness be- tween the services, chatter denied by men who palyed the game. They in- sisted 1t forged lifelong friendships among men like Buzz Berries, Slade Cutter, Oscar Hagberg and "Swede' Larson of the Navy and such Army stars as "Blondy" Saunders, Rosie O'Donnell and Monk Meyer. And men like those should be the qualified judges. They stood shoul- der to shoulder the past four years --and that wasn't a picnic from which they just came home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
TOOL, WATC0S; MATES, RENRUS Al S0 PAIRED
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Six Industrial Recreation Asso- ciation GRA) league basketball teams will provide a second success sive Sunday of basketball tomorrow afternoon in the usual triple-header at the Central YMCA. Two "B" teams. Mattatuck Manufacturing and Benrus Watch, both winners last Tuesday and Sunday, meet in the first of three games at 1:30 p. m. with Joe Mobile as referee.
 Waterbury Tool and Waterbury Companies, the latter coached by crafty Matty Sheehan are paired in the second game, scheduled for starting at 2:45 p. m. with the feat ure attraction expected to come from the Chase vs Scovill basket ball battle, set for D. m. The dou- ble-referee system will operate for the last two "A" games: Ralph Santopietro and Frank Berardi to handle the games.
 Benrus Watch, in It's first league game last Sunday with Bristol Company, finished with 8 ten-point edge, 28-18 while the Mattatucks, the Benrus opponent tomorrow, were 20-13 winners over UST1me last Tuesday evening. "Whitey" Hopkins, Stefanelli and Len Radke are the Benrus scorers. Mattatuck guards will have to watch Hopkins getting dozen points against Bris- tol last Sunday, F'ournier of the Mattatucks matched that 12 points in his game against USTime.
 Recap
 ScoVill forced American Brass to go "all out" before losing by g points, while Chase won by 12 over the Sheehan Watcos, a young, but potentially able club that Is sure to come along" as the season pro- gresses. Scovilps center, Jacovich i and Schlosser will have Chase's 5-4, 2l0 pound Paulauskas to handle tomorrow; but Rocco Rinaldi, Weenie zenich, Howie Kraft and Schlosser may outscore the Chase point men, though Matty Koch's IA points against Watcos will have Scovill guards playing him close all the time he is in there.
 Waterbury Tool and Waterbury Companies may turn in a tight con- test, with Freddy Coelho, Dick Ja- nuska and Wrinn the boys who give Tool guards Bulette, Vaughn, Moore and Walsh the most trouble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Counterfeit SaIivo ests
 Bit BoffIinq

New York, Dec. - (UP) The baffling case of the "counterfeit" saliva tests threatened todd to bring about an open break between the New York and Maryland Rac- ing commissions.
 Officials of the New York Con- mission charged that saliva from farm horses had been substituted for saliva from horses racing at the Pimlico Track in Baltimore, infer ring that trainers there were at tempting to cover up the use of stimulantS.
 Ashley Trimble Cole, chairman of the New York Commission, noti- fled the Maryland Commission that further saliva samples from Pimlico would be sent back untested be- cause specimens which have been received at our laboratory since about the middle of November have not originated at Pimlico and do not seem to be intended to be ac- cepted seriously"
 Chairman George Mahoney of the Maryland Commission responded that the attitude of Cole and the New York Commission was "to say the least, puzzling."
 Mahoney said the Maryland Com mission made no secrete of the fact that Saliva sent to New York was not from race horsese at Pimlico. He said that samples from Fred erick County farm horses had been sent to confuse trainers at Pimlico who allegedly have been using stimulants on horses there.
 Within the past month eeight trainers at Pimlico have been sus- pended for alleged use of drugs on their horses.
 Mahoney said that because of dope scandal at Pimlico he had en- gagged a chemist, J. c. Munch of Upper Darby, Pa, to make saliva tests of horses several days ago. He said that at the same time the work horse tests were ubmitted to New York to make 1t appear ethat no change had been made.
 The Maryland Commission, he said, had used the New York Con- mssion laboratories for nine years and emphasized that only five cases of use of stimulants had been dis covered in approximately 11,O0O tests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Navy Ready to Win Lose or DralU-Fitch

Annapolis, Md, Dec. l. (UP) - Vice-Admiral Aubrey w. Fitch, su- perintendent of the Naval Academy. today compared the Army-Navy football game with the odds which confronted his command just prior to the battle of the Coral Sea.
 And Fitch said:
 ."The Navy is ready-win, lose or draw. It will be 8 great fight.
 My hat is of to the winner"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Miami Eyes Bowl Game

Miami, Fla, Dec. 1.--UP)-Mi- ami University President Bowman AShe, joined his student body in hoping that last nights B to up- set over Auburn commanded suf- ficient attention to put Miami in the Orange Bowl football game against Holy Cross.
 Miami potentialities had been discounted principally because Or ange Bowl promoters were "too close to the forest to see the trees. "
 Overlooking Miami'S brilliant rec ord, which was marred only by a 27 to q defeat to Georgia early in the season, the Orange Bowl committee searched elsewhere un- till last week when 1t became ap- parent that they might do better in their own home town.
 The Hurricanes played inspired football, pulling away in the last half to score four touchdowns af- ter being held to to tie at intermiSSion.
 It was a great comeback for a team that was ridiculed last year as the "weakling of the Southland" with only one victory in nine starts.
 At the finish, the 21,60l partisan fans rose and changed We want the Orange Bowl repetitiously The football players hoisted Presi- dent Ashe to theier shoulders and carried him in triumph to their dressing room.
 William N. Preston, committee man for the Orange Bowl, indicated after the game that Miami was under serious consideration but that no definite opponent had been selected for Holy Cross, the New England team which was invited last week end upon completion Of its schedule.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Koeon Outpointed By Pat Demers

Worcester, Mass, Dec. 1-(UP)- Pat Demers, 135, of Brockton scored a 10-round decision over Julie Ko- gon, 133, of New Haven, Conn, in the feature bout at Mechanics Hall last night.
 Tn preliminarieS Jimmy Mooney 14S, Moncton, N. B., stopped Dolly King, 147, Springfield CD; Basil Mizera, 163, Boston technically knocked out Jimmy Hardaway, l66, Springfield CD; Lou Burke, 13S, Moncton, N. B., drew with Redcap Cooper, 143h, Springfield (4; Johnny Parker. 143, Springfield stopped Chick Jones, 14o, Boston %
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
YoIe-Hurvord
 Pre-Gome Pickups

New Haven, Conn, Der. Foot ball took over New Haven bag and baggage last evening as thousands of fans crowded the Elm City to see the 62nd meeting or Yale and Har- yard The vanguard of fans and writers arrived early yesterday morning, and many were surprised to find that all the local hotels have been sold out for over month in preparation for the first peacetime renewal of the ancient classic .. Many of the Alumni of both schools will be seeing their first Bulldog Cantab fray in five years, and many additional thousands of football hungry war veterans are on hand to witness the contest Press tickets were oversubScribed long ago. Restaurants were also jammed as the owners of the local places played merry tune on their cash registers They had big torch light procession and rally on the Yale campus last night with under graduates exhorting their team . |. AS the Blue team finished its final practices under the watchful eye of Coach Howard Odell late yesterday afternoon, the team was inspected by Handsome Dan V, mascot, who was sporting bright new blue blan- ket All around the field were posters put up by students calling for 8 Yale victory .Harvard's team was quartered at Choate School after going through light signal drill in the Bowl earlier yes- terday . Street corner peddlers were displaying their wares at all central streets with thousands of buttons, pennants, feathers and chrysanthemums being sold The weather man has promised cold and crisp day for the game, fore- casting perfect football conditions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
ramps Rout Zephyr Five

Naugatuck, Dec. 1.-The Bristol Tramps, paced zy two Hartford Sars, Johnny Dobreski and Bill Bores, made their State League debut most auspisious one here last night by Soundly trouncing Otto McCann's zephyrs, 51-37, be- fore & sellout house.
 The locals held 8 12-8 lead at the end of the first 10 minutes, but from then on 1t was all Bristol. Joe Joyce of Waterbury played a bangup defensive game for the winners, time and time again breaking up Zephyr passes under meath the hoop.
 The box score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
AL PRIEST WINS

Boston, Dec. 1-(UP)-Hard-hit- ting Al (Red Priest of Cambridge was ready to lay claim to the New England middleweight crown today after punching out unanimous de- cision over tough Billy Furrone of Philadelphia.
 Favored by a five-pound weight advantage last night, Priest pleased a partisan crowd Of 2,680 at the arena by defeating Furrone who twice has gone the distance with the sensational Philadelphia school boy Billy Arnold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
EAGLES AND
 SKINS SHARE PRO LEAD

Chicago, Dec. l--(6pecial) The mighty will tread cautiously along the championship trail tomorrow as the National Football league pre- sents the last full slate of its first postwar season.
 Washington and Philadelphia, tied for the eastern division lead with six victories and two defeats apiece, will keep Q sharp eye on pair of pitfalls known as New York and Pittsburgh. So little as a tie for either of the leaders may mean the difference between place in the world championship playof against Cleveland and second place money.
 Cleveland, meanwhile, will be en- tertalning the Tanks, whose chief concern will be @ desperate effort to come to the end of the merger between the Boston Yanks and the Brooklyn Tigers with an upset vic- tory.
 Other games find Green Bay and the Lions battling for the runner up share of the championship purse in the western division, while the Chicago Cardinals and Chicago Bears close their seasons in the 48th renewal of the oldest rivalry in major league football.
 Giants Could Win
 New York and the Eagles in the Polo Grounds will attract most of the attention. The Eagles ran over the Giants, 38 to IT, earlier in the season and, barring psychological factors, appear to have an edge. But in the Giants, they will be meeting a team which periodically through out one of its worse seasons has shown the old time Giant f1nesse gling crew got up to put the skids and power. Steve Ovens Strug- under Detroit's championship hopes two weeks ago in one of the major upsets of the season.
 With Bill Paschal again available for the fullback spot and Rookie Junie Hovious doing the passing the Giants will present the best bal anced offense Owen has been able to muster all season.
 What help the Giants might ex- pect from a natural letdown in the Eagle attack after last weeks su- perb effort against Washington should be dissipated, however, by the importance of the game in the Eagles drive toward their first championship. The Eagles cannot afford to tie, let alone lose.
 Washington lost more than an undisputed lead in the race last week when Wilbur Moore came out of the Eagle game with a fractured arm. But the loss of the veteran back should not be as much of a handicap this week as it will be later on, provided the Redskins re- member to keep a sharp eye on Bill Dudley. The Steeler star lost none of his driving power and de- fensive skill while in the Army Air corps.
 Breather
 Cleveland can afford to lose te the Tanks. but 1t is not likely that Adam Walsh and his younf Ram; have given defeat any thought Theirs has been a most remark able season and there is enough pride among Waterf1eld, Benton Matheson and Co.,, to want to wind- up the schedule with a victory. Ii the Rams keep firm enough grir on that pride, tomorrow's task should not be overly difficult.
 Green Bays winds up its season and that of the Lions, with another chance to try the Detroit pass de- fense, which surrendered 35 points to the Packers in one quarter al Milwaukee earlier in the season and came a cropper against New York not to mention Cleveland or Thanksgiving morning.
 STANDINGS Eastern Division
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Thomoston Hiqh Upset by Alumni

Thomaston, Dec. Thomas tons 1o45-46 basketball edition at the high school proved a weak foe for the more experienced Alumni five last night and had their sea- sons debut spoiled with 37-32 de- feat. The losers nevxt tangle with Regional High Tuesday night. The score.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
BASKETBALL RESULTS
(By United PresS)

(By United Press) Wright Field GA, Great Lakes Naval 51.
 Manhattan College 53. American International 35. Rutgers 60, Rutgers Army Spe- cialized Training Program 45. Detroit 72, Hillsdale 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
oLYMPICs WIN

Boston, Dec. 1-CUP)-The Bos- ton olyn.pics play the Baltimore Clippers in Boston Garden tonight after trouncing the same team "a last night to regain first place in the Eastern Hockey League.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
JONES RuSY GuARn

Boston-Ellis Jones. the Boston Tanks one-armed guard from Tulsa, is the only football player who has appeared in three New Years Day Bowl games and twice played with the collegians in the All-Star game in Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
STANDINGS Eastern Division

1UNUIIUW H 0AmtS Chicago Bears at Chicago Card inals.
 Green Bay at Detroit. Philadelphia at New York. Pittsburgh at Washington. Tanks at Cleveland.
 Last Weeks Results Chicago Bears. 28; Pittsburgh, T Cleveland, 28; Detroit, 21 Thanksgiving. Green Bay, 23; New York, IA. Philadelphia. 16; Washington, o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
CAMP LEE CENTER

Camp Lee, Va, - Orient Martella, formerly of Penn State, has for the second straight year clinched the center berth on the Camp Lee foot ball team.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
CARD CANCELLED

Providence. R. T., Dec. i-(UP)- The fight card scheduled at the Elks auditorium here last night was cancelled because of the severe snow storm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01

Ohc!alS: Referee, Harry o. Day hoff, Bucknell; umpire, Frank S. Gergin, Princeton; linesman, Philip E. Genther, N. Y. U.; field judge, Ray J. Barbuti, Syracuse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
COACHED IN AUSTRIA

New York-Harold Anson Bruce named head track coach at City Col lege of New York, formerly coached in pre- -Anschluss Austria.