The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Stop, Look and
 Listen Mr. Byrnes:
By SEAMAN Ic J. II. BANCHARDI

Basketball met with the same situation as football, but with greater success. The number ot men needed to play basketball game is almost 6 times less thnn the number needed for a football game. According to the officials, Frank Sefko of Drake University will be forced to go another medical examination as he is playing againSt top athletes of the country"
 Frank is a discharged Marine who lost an eye hitting the beach at TaraWa in the first wave. As the officials will no doubt say, If Frank can see the basket he should be able to see the enemy. Now honest ly and truthfully, is this fairp
 The ce-hockcy situation Is criti- cal. It is forced to go as far az borrowing opponent players to play or finish games, in some cases. A good example of this was the New York Montreal deal In which Phil Watson was frozen to his farm in Montreal and therefore could not participate in New York games.
 Knowing that 1t would be a ter- rife blow to the Ranger team, Mon- treal traded Dutch Hitler to New York for Watson. Montreal had n wealth Of material to choose from and could afford It. Watson played in all Montreal games at home and in Toronto while Hitler participated in all Ranger games, A noble ges' ture, indeed, on Montreal'S part,
 Another incident was the goal case of Toronto. With no goalie to rely on because of tho enlistment of Turk Brodn, Montreal again came to tho rescue. Tho Canadians, know Ing that it is unfair to have two cX. perIenccd goaltonders while another team has none, during the war days, they lent" sccond-String goalic Paul Bibcault to Toronto, This iH the type of business managing ane sportsmanShip that is keeping ice' hockey alive today.
 Athletics ls the biggest morale builder today, as proved by the rec orc -breaking attendances at all places where games are played Wherever the equipment and space Is available, serviccmcn, wherever they may be, have leagues, If this isn't possible, they at least choosf up sides and play some sort of game that is handy at the time, Why they even went go far as to have an Army-Navy World Series ii' baseball and on New Years Day to have the homelike atmosphere there was the Spaghetti Bowl if Italy. It featured an Army tean and an Ar Corps team.
 In Baltimore the past few sea' sons, the United States Coast Guarc stationed at Curtis Bay had ont of the finest amateur hockey teami ever to skate on q rink. know as played against them twice Ability enough to give the majoi league teams lot of trouble.
 On our ship alone we have load' of athletes in all sports; pro ane Golden Gloves boxers; q pro hockey player; many college football play crs class A baseball players ane high school golf champions, Thest arc q few 0! q number too nuner ous to mention and, due to censor ship regulations, I'm sorry to Sal I cannot name them. We were for tunate enough to have the formei worlds heavyweight boxing cham pion as a shipmatc, I'm speaking C. the great Jack Dempsey, Com mander Dempsey to me.
 We have gym on our ship II which there are; basketball, bad hinton, volleyball, handball ant table tennis leagues as well as box ing and wrestling matches. It's n Madison Square Garden, but it's place to relax your nerves and exer cise yourself after coming of gun watch or something of thi nature in sub-infested waters.
 We have newspaper to keep u up to the minute on news as wei as the standings and outcomeS o our ships leagues. I'm proud to sa. that as sports editor of the pape my column "The Faceoff' Is looke' forward to by all sport-minded creS members, Incidentally they numbe about so percent of the crew, in cluding officers.
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