The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-17
This Sporting World
Monday Sports Wash
By JOHN A. CLUNEY \

The situation may have escaped the attention of a group of Water bury schoolboys, when the Yankees were shut out 70 last week by the Chicago White Sox, who scored their 2 runs in the TENTH inning; but the identical teams and pitch CTS played before Mary Abbott's city schoolboy champions at the Yankee stadium several weeks ago; when the two Bills, zuber for the Ynaks, Dietrich for the White SoX, were on the mound for the American league rivals; the game going II innings to 4-3 Chicago victory. Both pitchers turned in an excellent job that day, as they did last week, but the Yan- kees just can't seem to get zuber any runs to work on" Incident ally, the Mary Abbott boys, their coach, Dr. Joe May, and other mem bers met Coach Art Fletcher in par ticular; who was acting manager at the time, during Manager Joe McCarthy's illness. Now Mccarthy is back with the Tanks but Fletch- CT was taken to a hospital last Thursday with a heart attack and may not be back for the remainder of the season.
 Since Tony Masone's aeroplane
 exploits have become little more
 widely known than his golfing &C.,
 tivities at East Mountain, he has
 been dubbed the "Lindbergh of
 the Links" He first became in-
 terested in flying-machines when
 a French fighter pilot, on Arm
 istice Day, November II, 1918
 landed near hospital in France
 where Tony and other American
 boys were recuperating, after ac-
 tion with the 82nd Division. "Fini
 la guerre, fini la guerre" was
 shouted many times by the
 Frenchman, who celebrated the
 end of World War by taking
 several of the American dough-
 boys flor a ride". Masone, just
 about over siege of influenza,
 got such thrill that his interest
 in aviation never waned, so that
 today, he owns a plane and is one
 of the best and most careful pilots
 to handle a plane at the Mt. Tobe
 airport AS for his golf, there
 was no particular reason for talk ing up the game, but he learned
 it quickly, and now scores 75 to 80
 almost every time out on the mu-
 nicipal course . Many Water
 bury men and women who played
 golf at the old Highland course in Meriden, remember Joe Curtin, as-
 sistant to J. J. (Bud) Geoghegan, club professional there for several
 seasons. Joe was the "G. I. Joe"
 who recently won the U. s. Army Open golf championship outside London. England with a sub-par 75-7l-146 score, defeating Cpl. Charley Wipperman of Harrisburg, Pa.; by two strokes.
 Naming of Century Milstead to the post of athletic director and business manager at the Gunnery School, Washington, Conn; recalls the great Yale tackle, who, despite his huge bulk, could get down field IS fast as jackrabbit. He came to Yale in 1923 and later played 3 years of pro football with the New York Giants the current under ground rave" in Yale athletic cir- ,luss is 1T year old Art Dakos, To- we'll, Mass, high school boy, whose aerial pin point heaves in Ell grid lrills have been amazing. Until last August 1, he had never thrown a pass, played backfield post or been n a T-formation, but Coach Howie )dell may make him number one quarterback Odds are strong | hat Joe DiMaggio, out of the Army | with stomach ulcers, will not bo cen in a Yankee uniform this sea- ion.