The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-23
Heads or Tails?

Professor Mike Jacobs of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club will uncork an 8 week lull at the nations No. 1 fight emporium when he opens the gates on an estimated 1885 ,000 house which will witness 10 round go between Al (Bunny) Davis and Rocky Graziano at Ma dison Square Garden this Friday night. And although the pricemak- CTS have rated Graziano 7-8 to 5 favorite over Davis they are read- fly willing to concede the fact that anything can and probably will
 happen if Davis is able to pierce the Italian boys defense with his puniShing body blows; this is his ace in the hole", they claimed. We personally feel that both boys will
 take the first few rounds to feel their opponent out and after that it will be the one with the most tel
 ling power, and both have plenty
 of it. While Graziano is favored because of his knockout blows to the head which are usually telling, it must be remembered that Davis if he handles himself well and is able to get in enough of his famous body clouts could easily upset the "arpplecart" And as we have all ways considered Davis the more apt of the two fighters we are inclined
 to give him the nod by a TKO within rounds. Let's hope the bookies are wrong for once.
 IN THE SPORTING GROOVE
 Jackie Sullivan, the lad who swung a heavy bat with the Brook lyn A. c. in the CAL last season and had offers from the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cards, and the New York Yankees, takes an en- trance exam at Yale on June 2nd. "Sully", whom I consider to be one of the outstanding, all around ball players in this vicinity, in his class when he enters the Elm City School of higher learning hopes to play baseball under the one and only Red Rolfe.
 Red Rolfe. as many of you who follow sports know was an out standing player with the New York Yankees and is now the head coach at Yale, and if I may say 50, is considered one Of the best. As Jack put it; T want an education that I can always fall back on first and then if I am lucky to get both then a chance at Big League base ball" This seems to us to be a very wise choice due to the fact that if Jack is able to play under Red Rolfe it will be as valuable if not more so than any minor league training he could be indoctrinated in Good luck Jack! We're keep ing our fingers crossed.
 Nothing definite or substantial as yet has evolved from the latest sal- ary wrangle between the St. Louis Cards and their ace hurler Morton Cooper. It seems logical to con- clude at present that three thous- and dollar differential in salary | would be worth paying out when | good pitchers are so hard to find | and then hold on to these days. Nevertheless the Cards evidently | don't consider the chance of win ming another pennant or maybe series with this righthader worth while. Because from where we stand Mort Cooper can afford to hold out all season while the Cards | can not. Something favorable to the player should be popping any day now. In our opinion Cooper is the best pitcher in the National League this season and if we were in the drivers seat we would capi- | tulate. And when I say that l mean but fast.
 The report via the grapevine that | Pete Gray hit .333 recently in a series against the New York Yank- eS should make some of these Yank | holdouts for more money bury their heads in shame. And those that | try to make all comparisons are just absord.
 It would be very interesting to compare notes some week and see just how much the 1000 attendance mark of last Sunday reached by Fred Davis Brassco's would decline when the CAL was in action on the same afternoon. With the fact that Davi has fielded a very strong baseball nine this season plus their two wins in two starts would seem to indicate that they could compete on a favorable basis each receiving fifty percent of the local patron age. But whether that will be the case in this particular instance or not remains to be seen. The CAL has remained unchallenged for the past number of years in Sunday afternoon baseball and it will be | ;,,4o 4N i've