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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
This Sporting World
Grondstond PIoy
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

National Boxing Association Abe Greene's proposal of INTERIM TIONAL boxing bouts to promote ALLIED UNITY might be worth a second thought, when it was issued yesterday, were 1t not for the fact that it looks so darn RIDICULOUS in the light of the accompanying NBA quarterly ratings which insists on listing Sal Bartola of Boston as fea CHAMPION, despite the fact that the NBA top challen- ge., Willie Pep of Hartford defeated Bartola TWICE in Boston, FOR THE TITLE, the last time so easily that the fans got all the worst of 1t. Here we have a case of supposedly intelligent official, trying to do something for ALLIED unity, when he will not recognize as champion, the best featherweight to come along in 25 years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Hi-Y Court Contests Keen

Starting the second week of bas- ketball play in the Hi-Y "A' league five teams share the lead, namely Beta, PiLambda, Karra, Tech, and White Elephants.
 Tn the B" division, Epsilon and ColnitCS are out ahead.
 Two games are scheduled to be played this evening, starting at 6:30 Lancers vs Tech while at 8:30, Will by vs Kara. Both games will be interesting to watch, Lancers and Wilby are out to get back in the win column att he expense of Tech and Kara.
 Wednesday at 6;30, Gamma Psi vs White Elephants. Thursday at 6:30, PiLambda vs Beta and Fri day at 6;30 Sigma vs Alphia.
 The Hi-Y "B" League division is idlet his week, due to lack of playing space. Schedule of 'B" League will be resumed next week. Standing;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Lawrence Skotinq Champion At "

New Haven, Jan. l6-The age of seventeen is hardly a time to talk about changing careers, but that re- gently was the subject of Jimmy Lawrence, former Midwestern anna terr figure skating champion and now one of the top billed skaters in the Ice Capades
 First off, Jimmy is enjoying his last season of skating before Uncle Sam beckons him into the armed forces And after that the St. Paul "bombShell" thinks he may follow in his fathers footsteps as a journa- list.
 But it's a pretty good bet that he'll return to skating, because when you're a champ at seventeen there seems to be little logic in changing. In the meantime, Jimmy will be seen in his powerful and talented display of skating, along with l52 other skating artists, when the Ice Ca pades comes to the New Haven Arena on January "A for a nine day engagement.
 Matinees at 230 are scheduled for January 27 and 28, and the nightly performances begin at o'clock. Tickets are now available at the box office and by mail order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Three (. Y. o. Games Toniqht

CYO basketball league games scheduled tonight, include two at Webster school gym another in Naugatuck. St, Lucy's, unbeaetn to date is paired with Sts. Peter and Paul with Immaculate Conception to meet St. Thomas, both games at the north end school gym, Whistling Alfonso Monti will handle both en- counters. In the borough the two St. Francis teams, one from the "hill' the other from Naugy meet in Naugatuck High school gym game to be referred by Jack Stinson All scheduled games tonight, are, of course, contingent upon weather conditions.
 Last night St. Anns was surprised by Mount Carmel in close game which ended 28-24, the defeat cost ing the French club a one-third share of league leadership. Perrone and Mastrianna scored 20 points for the winners, Stefanelli getting 10 for St, AnnS'. Mount Carmel now shares first place with St. Joseph anc St, John of Watertown teams. Score,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Basketball Scores
lRY IInited PreSSl

(By United PreSs) Great Lakes Naval 30, Bowling Green 57.
 Hamline 66, Drake A.
 Iowa State 50, OttumWa Naval 48. South Carolina 3l, Georgia l6. Norman, Okla, Naval 57, Nebraska 34.
 New York District Coast Guard GA, New York Coast Guard Recev- ing Barracks 43.
 Mississippi State 47, Louisiana State 39.
 Marshall 75, Cincinnati 37. North Dakota Agriculture 62, Moorhead, Minn., Teachers 35. Valley Forge General Hospital 6l, Villanova 3l
 Haverford 46, Pennsylvania Mili- tary college 45.
 Bartlesville, Okla, Phillips 88. South Plains, Tex A,AF. ST.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Pep No Better Than NBA Top Challenger
tReg. T.. S. Pat. off, BY JACK CUDDY

New York, January l6. -- tUP) - Jumping Joe Savoldi, one of the wars mystery men, returns to the mat at Philadelphia tomorrow night after an absence of nearly lS months-most of which were spent at various European fronts on secret missions for the Armed Forces.
 Exact details of Sovoldi's actvi- ties over there must remain cloaked for some time, upon orders from Uncle Sam; but no Hollywood scenarist is needed to imagine the perilous enterprises probably under taken by this linguist, Notre Dame graduate, and bone-crushing ath- lete.
 T am not permitted to say much about my duties overseas" the brawny, black -haired wrestler ex- plained today at the Al Mayer Toots Mondt booking office, You see, I'm still subject to recall if they need me again"
 Have you been discharged from the Army"
 II wasn't in the Army
 What were you in?'
 Let's say I wasn't in anything. Iet'eS just say l was working Tor the government on special assign ment. Yes, am permitted to tell what areas 1 visited, They were North Africa, Sicily, Italy-includ- ing Salerno, and France--including Normandy Yes, was under ire plenty, at times. No, l wasn't wounded" He grinned and added, This scar on my cheek and these cauliflower ears came before the war"
 Jumping Joe, who contributed the drop kick" (under mans chln) to wrestling, probably was picked for his secret duties because he provided a triple threat on the various fronts, with his languages, intelligence ana braWn,
 He speaks Italian without an sc- cent having been born and given his early schooling i'll Italy. He under stands and speaks French fairly well, having lived in pre-War France more than eight months At Notre Dame, under the late Knute Rockne he won his varsity letter as iull- back for three seasons; and he was graduated with B. $. degree. He won Jim Londos claims to the heavyweight wrestling champion ship in 1883, and lost them to Jim Browning in '35. He played pro football briefly with the Chicago Bears before turning to the more lucrative field of modified mayhem.
 Jumping Joe admitted that he had made good money during l2 years on the mat. Now, at 36, he has fine home at Harbert, Mich, where his ll-year- old son, Joe, Jr.. enjoys a private beach on Lake Michigan. Just before the war he opened a soft-drink manufactury; but he had to close after Pearl Harbor, because his brief career as a manufacturer did not entitle him to priorities on ingredients.
 Savoldi believes that the war will have two affects upon wrestling, There will be boom in the sport when peace comes,' he said, for thousands of service boys have be- come interested in 1t because of their training in commandos tac- tics. And this commando training probably will make further wrestl- Ing much rovyher than 1t is now with q tendency toward gouging, chopping, putting and kneeing. Meanwhile, modernized wrestling of the present must be given credit for contributing much to commando tactics--lmprovementS that have out-dated the old jul Jitsu of the ,JananeSp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Sacred Heorts
 Face Washington

Sacred Heart and Washington (Conn) high school basketball teams take the Wilby gym courteto- night in a scheduled basketball game which, if won by the Hearts will put Coach Epby Conlon's team pretty close to automatic selection for the CD state tournament at Hartford in March. Sacred Hearts have already defeated Morris twice, Terryville and ThomaSton. Wash ington and Sacred Heart Reserves will meet in 7:30 p. m. prelim game this evening, the varsity con- test to follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Mercantile Pin
 Matches Tonite

Mercantile League bowl1rs will assemble tonight at 9 p. m. at the Sena alleys for the regula" weekly competition under the following schedule; Metropolitan Cleaners vs Sullivan's; Matzkin Funrriture vs Fulton Markets; Stroberg and Son vs Speedy Parcel; and CRL vs Brookside Dairy.
 Metropolitans with a 34-l7 won and lost record, leads the league to date one game in front of Matzkin team which has 33-l8 two Up on Brookside Dairy. defending cham pions, now in third place with 3l games won 20 lost. Eddie Schnitzels 45l and Bill Tatos 188 stand as high three and high single thus far this season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16

short hole l drove a ball into a lake which served as a hazard. IN MOTHERS FOOTSTEPS
 "Freckles saw the ball splash and went after it. She got 1t all right, but 1t seems there were hundreds of balls submerged in the lake. and she brought up eight doggoned near drowned herself, and she's too valuable a caddie to risk losing her that way"
 Last spring FreckleS had a lit- ter, and neighbors and friends swamped Bergin with requests for n pup He gave all away except one, which he calls Caddie.
 None Of the others inherited mothers talent for nosing out lost golf balls. Most of them use them as teething rings. But Caddiei has been going along with his mother on golf ball hunts mad bids fair to emulate her as a lost-ball re- trieVer.
 Just goes to show the mother influence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Catholic High Junior Girls Won

Junior girl hoop teams Of Water bury Catholic High and Sacred Heart high scored less than F points total, as Catholic won an 8-t game from the Hearts last night al Washington school gym. Brophy
 center forward for the winning girls combine scored all points for her team, Misses Garfield, Nor. rissey and Ciano getting each for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
$l0O, 900 Shoreboven Golf Club Burned

East Norwalk, Conn, Jan. l6 --- (U.P.) - The fashionable Shore haven Golf Club was levelled by a $l00,000 fire here today, and the lives of Mrs. Frank Stiles and her two children were endangered as they were trapped in & bedroom over the banquet hall.
 Mrs. Stiles wife of the club steward tossed the children, aged 3 and } into the arms of fremen, and then was rescued from a porch roof.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Ferris UnobIe To Loeofe Swift Swede

New York, Jan. l6.-(UP)-Sec- retary Dan J. Ferris of the Ma tional Amateur Athletic Union, said today he had bee n unable to contact Swedish runner Gunder Hagg, re- garding his proposed American in- door tour, since receiving word that he would try to make the trip here by boat instead of plane.
 He may be on the way over now, for all know" Ferris said.
 Hagg is slated to begin his Ameri- can tour in the indoor meet ta Pihl- adelphia on Jan. 27, competing against top American milers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
PeroIto Wins

Holyoke, Mass, Jan. l6.--CUPj- Joey Peralta, 137, of Tamaqua, Pa hammered out an unanimous deci- sion over Ruby Garcia l36, Of Puerto Rico in a l0-round feature bout at Valley Arena last night,
 In preliminaries Maurice La vigne, l47, Montreal knocked out Jimmy Riley, l50, Worcester @ Buddy Hayes, l25, Boston, decisioned Eddie Reardon, l27 Hartford Conn. (N; Young Tiger Flowers, l39 Worcester drew with Hubert Win field, 133, Valley Stream, N. Y. t6); Al Hallie, l46, Worcester decisioned Perry Cooper, l42, Springfield G
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
PorochioI Leoque

St. Ann's and St. 'Ioseph's were very easy Parochial basketball league winners of two games played yes- terday. St. Francis Xavier was de- faeted by the Trenches 24-6, Com- merford getting both field goals scored by the losers; Malenfant scoring 10 points, Duqetette 6 for St. Ann's.
 In the St. Joseph-St. Thomas game, the Lithuanian lads were paced by Januska with points, the team leading 60 at half time, and going on to win it's fourth straight game in league competition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
IR A Girl Hoop Comes Toniqht

Defending champion Chase Brass ard Copper Company girls, winners Of their opening game of the season ,st week. will take on U3rime girls tonight, also winners last week in the l. R. A. league basketball test tonight at St. Joseph's hall; che winner to take over leadership of the ciTcrit which ;egan it's 1945 sea- son last Tuesday.
 Benrus and Scovill girls are pair ed tonight in a 7:l5 D. m. game, the winner to have 500 mark in the standing, loser to drop into last place of the four team league.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
(By NEA Service)

NDy ANEA PNA NANsSSI
 Akron, Jan, lG-FreckleS, four year-old Dalmatian belonging to Preston E. Bergin, war production drive administrator of a rubber company, is the best lost golf ball retriever extant.
 Bergin, who lives only DO yards from Akron's municipal course, was surprised when att he age Of ioul months F'reckicS began bringing home golf ball following hei daily half-hour walk, He soon dis covered that on calm, warm days she could scent the enamel on a ball for a distance of 30 feet,
 What with the golf ball and caddie scarcity, Ber9in trained FreckleS to confine retrieving tc the rough, and 1t wasn't long be- fore he had changed her fbrom a pointer to a spotter
 BARKS IF PLAYABLE
 Freckles knows golf now, When she finds n lost ball in the rough, she barkS if the ball is playable, brings it out If It is an unplay able lie. Her judgment is inlalli- ble. She does not pick up the ball until 1t stops rolling, never cheWs one,
 During the last three years, FreckeS has recovered 5000 of the now precious white pelletn. Roaming alone in search of them, her record is 43 found in less than an hour. A fragment Of dog bls- cult is her reward for each re- coVery.
 Besides her master, Freekles frequently assists other players who lose balls. All Bergin has to say is Find the ball. Frecklcs," "
 We don't let her retrieve balls from the water" explains Bergin "A couple of summers ago on a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
MoIoney Wins

Andolina and Cardella scored plenty of points to help Maloney to one-sided 27-3 American division. Public schol league basketball vic- tory yesterday afternoon. Score:
 MAInNEX
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Standing

High single girls-T. Sullivan l22 High single girls-TD Sullivan, 303
 High single men--E. Manganaro 1858 High three men--E Manganaro 36l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
"A' League
"B" League

the Hearts, who were 5-4 leaders at half time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16

Results Birches 3, Naples 0 Walnuts 2, BambooS ] Cedars 2, Oaks 1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
ROBINS
OLDTIMEHs

Score at half lime; Robins TO-, OldtimerS 2. Referee: Art VeTry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Lost Nights Fights
lBY UnLted PreN8

New York, (St. Nicholas Arena)--. Huberto Vavala, l35, Mexico City, knocked out George Dusty Brown, I36 IA, Philadelphia. (D.
 Baltimore Buddy Walker l03 I-4, Columbus, O., decisioned Yan- cey Henry, 107, Los Angeles, (l0).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Totals
., ',.. lS
 ANDERSON

Score at half time: MalOney 20, A nderson 0. Referee: Nick Tolomeo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
NIT. CAIIME

Score at half time; Mt, Carmel r, St, Ann l5 Referee; Barone.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

Notwithstanding suits.
Under the brilliant light of Eros
day the edges of the asteroid ard
easily visible and the Earth Men vail
toward the nearest edge only twd
miles away. AS they go they care
fully drag rock anchors to be Surd
they stay on this amazing little noun
tain plunging through space.
On the way one explorer dragS his
anchor at the edge Of pit in III,
ground - a hole perhaps 400 fee
acrosS-and everyone peers down.
There instead OF darkness, j.
light. The explorers find they art
looking right through Eros and ou
the other side a mile away, fWXkht
asteroid is quite thin at this Y1lt
Some of the party decide TO go dowI
in the hole and up on TO the other sur
face and meet the rest of the grouI
who will walk over the edge ano
around that way.
Crawling down into Eros depths
the party finds that the weight o.
their bodies vanishes as they neaI
the center Of gravity. And as they
keep crawling through the hole away
from this center point they are climb
ing UP and NOT DOWN. The ex
perience rivals what every small boy
has wondered about on earth-whai
II would be like TO drill a tunnel
through the earth TO China.
Eros, the explorers find, Is brick
shaped, all right, and its rotations
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

ration points 49, quarter of pound
Of butter-four ounces each.
The problem on Eros would not
be how to get off the tiny brick
shaped surface but how to stay on
it, for the velocity of escape there is
only IL yards a second. Any sprinter
could run few yards and then take
off into space and become, himself,
a separate satellite of the sun.
Coming in just at sunset on Eros
the visitors find that the sun is not
golden red as on earth, for there is
no atmosphere to scatter the white
sunlight. One instant the sun is white
and then-as the rim of Eros casts
its shadow-there is darkness.
With the darkness comes chilling
cold, because the absence of an at
mosphere on brick-shaped Eros re-
moves the blanket" effect of insula-
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22
By ROBERT ID. POTTER
Science Editor


PEOPLE go to Coney Island and
other amusement parks of the
nation to get the chills and thrills
and fun of the bizarre, but the rage
of the 21st century may be eXcur-
sions to that brick.shaped rock in
space that is the asteroid Eros.
Shut your eyes and hear the bark
or making his pitch at the Trans
Planetary Airport in 2045 A. D.:
'Hurray, Murray, Murray ride
the giant rocket ship to Eros. Feel
the thrills of land where you have
no weight. See a day that is only
five hours long. Walk around this
fantastic spinning mountain in space
that is a mere 100000 miles from
the earth.
"See the suns corona and the
stars so clear you can pick them out
of the sky. See what the earth looks
like from another planet Feel the
rocky dust Of the pIimordial cosmos
beneath your feet Take home a mete-
orite TO your friends.
Cast your own footprints as pi-
oneer of transplaHetaFy travel in the
virgin pumice dust of tiny Eros-the
microscopic asteroid that looks like
brick, spins like a top and baffled
those dumb scientists back in 1945."
And the barker wouldn't be far
from wrong.
The invention of the w rockets
has raised the possibility that man
can some day leave the earth. And il
can be done if speeds can attain seven
April ~, 1915
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

off is necessary because Eros has
great importance in calculating thet
distance between the earth and 6he
sun. Because IL is only 140tt" o
miles instead of 100000 miles a~d dy,
like the sun, astronomers can meas
ure its distance much more exactly.
They can then use this exact dis.
tance, plus the various angles in
volved, TO calculate the suns distance
from the earth by simple triangula.
ton methods of surveyors.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

them. man on earth, with even
the best telescopes, has seen them
SO exactly.
The chilling cold grows greater
and almost unbearable, but some
three hours later, the sun comes up
as abruptly as it had dropped below
the horizon at sunset.
With sunrise comes warmth and
heat and the temperature mounts so
rapidly that visitors from the earth
welcome the shelter of their asbestos
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

miles a second
some 25,000 miles an
hour. This is the
so-called velocity Of
escape" to get away
from the earth's
gravitational pull.
Already rockets go
Is miles a second.
But on tiny Eros,
only Ia miles long,
and about four miles
wide and two miles
thick, the pull of
gravity is so low
visitors from the
earth would weigh
onlY about six red
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

ton which the air
provides on earth.
In the darkness
the stars and plan
cts appear a clear
and brilliant and so
near you seem to
reach out and touch
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-22

o V eT ana over
explain why it
reflects varying
amounts of light
TO the cart h.
s o m G times its
broadside acts as
a mirror TO rel
file CT sunlight.
while n Xt its
edge is presented
a n d re fle e S,
much less light
For the returnI
trip to earth the,
pilot guns" his
space ship gently.
so at 1t WILL
leave Eros with
out kicking the,
asteroid off its
solar orbit.
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