The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-02
Reviews and Previews

The appointment of Rev. John L. Sullivan to professorship at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield will create a vacancy at St. Thom- ass church which will be hard to fill. Father Sullivan in the two years that he has served as an assistant at St. Thomas has made himself very popular with his older parishioners and especially with his younger charges. The athletic experience which he possessed made him very popular with the children of the parish as their Athletic Dt- rector. While serving in this capac- ity at St. Thomas, Father Sullivan turned out some championship baseball and basketball teams, some of the best in the city. Perhaps 1t is this understanding and handling of the younger boys which was won him the admiration of many Father Sullivan, was not known to me per sonally but I feel that sometimes reputation makes one better known and respected than personal &C., ,quaintance. I am sure that Father Sullivan has the best wishes from all his parishioners, young and old for success on his new appoint ment, but that his loss will be felt for some time to come.
 
 The Brooklyn College scandal in- volving five basketball players who seemed to have lost their sense o1 fair play, has according to my ana lysis come at a rather bad time. By this I mean that in these days wheT everything is so unreliable and be- ing watched so carefully by the gov. ernment as to judge it's merits, this scandal comes like slap in tho face to sports. But the effects O. this scandal can be enumerated il the colleges act-quickly and ap 1 point basketball CZar. And from l this corner it would seem like good idea if "Phog' Allen of Kansas University put his hat in the ring for the post.
 To many Phog Allen may seen outspoken in his warnings against gambling and corruption in Amat' eur Sports but 1t seems to this writ CT that man who is outSpoker could do 8 lot more good in thii case than one who would hesitate to come forward with accusations This situation must be ironed out now, once and for all.
 
 The Johnny Greco Bobby Ruffir bout scheduled for Madison Square Garden tonight will be very close i it is run according to plan. Ane when I say If I mean 1t because Ruffin in a statement earlier thi' week stated that he would not fight in the Garden anymore If the meth cd of scoring the fight were no' changed But according to Uncle Mike Jacobs he is going to scale the house so high that the percent age will be pretty hard for Ruffir and his manager to look the othel way on. So If this fight does come off we are going to stick our necl out and pick Johnny Greco to vii a decision.
 The Crosby Wilby tilt to be played at the Wilby Gym this night at thi writing seems to be little one sid ed in favor of the Blue and White And the Writer thinks it safe to sa that Crosby will beat Wilby a severely on the basketball court a they did on the football field. Tn Ieemen are not at their prime as ia as inter-city competition goes bu their low ebb seems to be the Gree and Whites height this season. T Wilby we say "rext year may be horse of different color" But wh can tell upsets are in the bag. w personally favor Crosby to win b about IS points.