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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
.S0cr0naents Us St. ThonaUs TOnirhk

The Blessed Sacrament C.Y.O. basketball team will collide with the St. Thomas aggregation at the Webster School gymnasium tonight at 2 o'clock in . practice game. All members Of Che eAcra. ments are asked to report at Web. ster gym between e:30 and ! ?. M. The sacranaents will meet s. JO- seph's in their first league con. test next week.
 The sacraments are also schea. uled to play SC. Francis Of Naug. atuck ct Naugatuck tomorrow night at : o'clock in . practice tllt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Local Uconns
 Win By69-35

Coach Earl Killians Waterbury Branch of the University of Connec- ticut. basketball combine ran rough shod over the College of PhArmacy basketeers of New Haven as the lo- cal aggregation won, 6e-s6 at the Wilhy gym last night before . small Turnout.
 Franny Meyers paced the Brass City attack with 25 points while Santoro and Semenkovich contri. buted to the winners cause by drop. ping in a points between them. Pa. gano sparked the losers with seven doubletons.
 The UCONNS led all the way, holding a decisive 5i-26 lead going into the final stanza. The water bury Branch aggregation will col. lide with the Y.M.C.A. Varsity at the Central Y tomorrow night. The summary:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Chase Park Basketball

The Knaves defeated tine Corsairs, 5o-22; the Spiders downed the Cru- saders, 40-i6, and the Jaspers beat the Cavaliers, 2e-i5; in the Chase Park Junior League Basketball com- petition at the Chase Park gym last Saturday morning.
 Caulfield, Moroe, Mango and Cote paced the Knaves to their g point decision over the Corsairs while Mee- han tossed in i2 points for the losers. Jackie Hanlon and Paul Bazzarini were high scorers for the Spiders who downed the Crusaders while Of- ficer and Mike Solognita paced the Jaspers to their decision over the Cavaliers. The scores:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Three NZ Clubs Refuse to Disclose Grid Draft Choices
NeWhouser, Ferriss And
 FeIIerShone

the second successive year, south. paw Hal Newhouser of Detroit had khe top oarned.run mark for Amer- lean League pitchers, iDi, but he rellnqulshed the top ipio won.And. lost percentage Co Dave FerriHs Of Boston, oficlal statistics revealed today.
 Newhbuser won the earned run tltle with i.ei runs per game in i0ls, T'he southpaw won 70 games and lost nine for Q .TeS percentage, thereby yielding that department to the rlght.handed Ferriss who won % and dropped six for on .eO0 mark. Newhouser's % trlumphs tied him with Bob Teller of the Cleveland Inc tiians for the most victories in the circuit. Teller, however, lost ii games for Q .os4 percentage, The Cleveland fire-baller ranked third in earned runs with 2.ie. 4purgeon (spud) chandler oe the Yankees was second with 2.iO runs per game, co. cumulated during 90 victories and eight setbacks.
 Taughson Won %
 Fifth .aO.game winner in the American League last Summer was big Cecil (Tex) TEughson of the Red Sox, who won % and lost ii for .eao mark. Hughson's earned run average was 2,T6.
 While the brilliant Teller took neither the earned run title nor the won-lost honors, he nevertheless topped all hurlers in the circuit in several other departments.
 The 2e-year-old speedball see from Van Meter, Ia, broke q 42- year-old strikeout record by flaming .34e opposing batters. Previously, Rube Waddell, of the io4 Philadel. phia Athletics, held the standard with 34S strikeouts.
 Teller appeared In more games than any other moundsmen last season, Ae, and he was the most fire. quently worked, toiling in 37l inc nings. The Indians right.hander pitched the most complete games, 36, allowed the most hits, 2T7, and the most bases-on-halls iS3.
 Teller Sets Other Records
 Tn addition to pitching the sec. ond no-hit, E1o-run game of his career against New York at the Yankee Stadium, April 90, Teller fashioned two one-hitters, two three-hitters, four four-hitters, and 10 shutouts.
 Feilers pals of one.hitters raised his lifetime total to eight, beating Addie Joss record of seven.
 Ferriss, who defled the sophomore jinx, surrendered the most runs, i09, and the most earned runs, oo. Louis (Bobo) Newsom of Washing ton hit the most batters, seven, and orval Grove of the White Sox was guilty of the most wild pitches with 10.
 Altogether, nine hurlers who worked in 10 or more complete games, posted earned run averages under three 6 game. Tn addition to Newhouser, Chandler, Teller and Hughson, Floyd Bevens of the Yankees, Paul (Dlzzy) Trout of the Tigers, I'd Lopat of the White sox, Milton CMickey) Haefner of the Senators, and Newsom turned in earned run totals under the three- run mark.
 Allie Reynolds, recently. traded from Cleveland to the Yankees. was taken out of, the most games, lo, while Chuck Embree of Che Indians and chunkey Ed Smith of the White Sox each were yanked iS times.
 As Q group, Chicago pitchers yielced least earned runs per game, 3.i0. while St. Louis hurlers were the Anost liberal with 3e5 earned runs allowed per contest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Walsh Has Strong Y Varsity for Wednesday Game

May former oasketban players ot the three high schools in this city will make up the Y. M. c. A. Varsity Basketball team which is scheduled for a game at the ventral YM.CA. with the University of Connecticut Extneslon Center team at P. M. tomorrow night,
 It will be an all-veteran team who saw service with Uncle sam, six in the Navy, five in tn Army and one ip the Marine Corps.
 Player-Coach
 Don walsh will be both 0 player and coach ot the team and Is e for- mer Trinity player ard also played for Crosby few years back. Others
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Bombers And Gents Victors

Dave Karpovich's il points paced the Brass City Bombers to their decisive 37-29 triumph over the Washington Hills in the Washing ton Park Community League last night. Billy Overton dropped in i7 points to give the Gents of the Hill a 4s-25, decision over the Cenxals in the second game of the evening. Danny Rosa sparked the Washing ton Hill offensive while Ed Carey was high man for the Centrals. The summary:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Basketball Coaches HaUing CT Trouble! Men Like La Brucherie Got Around It
me HARRY ORAxeoN NRA sports EallnE


 New York=(NEA)--Ite the base keehall coaches turn to have or trouble.
 As paFaaoxlcal As N IaAy seem. a plethora oe talent makes his job harder than ever, With the fresh. man rule still relaxed, bigger squads were inevitable.
 With the bulk of the schools play. ing suicide schedules, Dr. Forrest Allen os Kansas predicts that there will not be on unheaten team this winter.
 ~An overly large squad is In itself Q problem" says phog Allen, but Q bigger one is that ell the returning veterans want to play. Most of them played Q while in the Armed forces, Some started and learned the game while In uniform, It's only natural that they want to continue In col. lege.
 "But only five boys can play At Q time and only 60 many are mak. ing travelling squads.
 This is causing unhapplness that coaches find hard to dispel"
 what they termed or trouble plagued football coaches the past two campaigns
 Particularly hard hit along this line were Minnesota, Alabama and California. Alabama had an unde. feated, Record-wrecklng young Rose Bowl team in le4b. There weren't too many places for returning vet. erans. The result was that Frank Thomas, i'll ct the outset, suffered his worst year. Bernie Herman, e martinet, didn't get Minnesota's difficulties ironed out until late in the campaign just concluded, but when he did the oophers closed with e rush.
 Bill Kern of West Virginia insists college boys have changed, I doubt that. 1t is just that the oIs were changed. The youngsters are the same, have as much spirit and are as eager as ever.
 But" says the head man of the Mountaineers, If treated my boys and talked to them like pr. Jock Sutherland handled us at Pitts hurgh not 30 many years ago, I wouldn't have had Q team on the field"
 Generally speaking CTS lacked the old college try. Many of them had been in something vastly more important than football for as long as four years. They couldn't be pushed around like the younger fel- lows, had to be handled altogether differently.
 One of the finest jobs along this line was turned in by Bert La Brucherie, who becomes 0 new fig- ure in the national picture in the Pasadena Rose Bowl on New Years Day, when all-conquering UCLA de- ploys against Illinois.
 The Uclans' young homegrown alumnus drill-master-not yet A. was coaching Los Angeles High only two years ago, but is an excellent organizer of material and coaching staff and a sharp casting director.
 A rabld T-formation addict, La Brucherie is a solid offensive coach despite the smart defensive tactics which paid such rich dividends in the slop against Southern Cali fornia
 The stocky La Brucherie is no worrier but is extremely serious and studious about football. His is a quiet personality and he has Q keen sense of humor.
 The strongest point in La Bru- cherries favor, however. it that he is well liked by his squad and staff.
 Bert La Brucherie is & players coach. The boys play as much for him as for alma mater or anyone else.
 That's the easiest way to get it out of them.
 In that way they are doing what comes naturally,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
" Cify-Wide
 Cannes Tonight

Games eoheduled for Y.M.C.AA City-Wide Basketball League will be fin play tonight. at 7:s0, the North End Triads. the winners last week over the Globe Trottsrs, win be playing the Brooklyn Branch team while in. the g:sO offering North End Tigers and the Central "" Imperials will battle 1t out for league standing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
NTRRAEEDIATF ,IRACTJF

IhursdaY Dec. 18th -6:30 PM, Rovers VI. Pembertons: 7:sO PM. Maple Leafs vs. oakville; e:30 PM, B.C. Varsity Practice.
 Saturday. Dec. 2ist -6:O0 PM, Warriors vs. Enkcors; 500 PM, Boxing and Wrestling Glasses.
 The State team travels to Bristol to play the Bristol Boys Club in g state League game on Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
P0rOchi0L League

St. Johns basketball quintet from Watertown makes it's debut in the Parochial School league this after noon when it meets St. Joseph's at the Russell School gym at { o'clock. Paul Barone will handle the of- ficiating chores.
 In the only other contest sched- uled today Sacred Heart will meet SS. Peter and Paul at the Ander- son School gym at { P. M. with Al Napoh refereeing.
 FLYING START
 Austin, Tex-Jack Gray, who has been on the job 10 years. was Texas basketball coach at 25.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17

gym Thursday afternoon at s:SO o'clock. The local high school girls have defeated Morris and IAtchileld High School girls teams to date. and will be out to add Washington to the list of their viotiEnG
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Boys Club Sports
GROUP CLUB L

Tuesday. Dec. iTth -6:3O PM. Panthers vG, Kings; 7:30 PM. Hearts vs. Falcons; 8:S0 PM, State Team Practice. -
 Wednesday, Dec. i8th--e:30 PM. State Team vs. Rocknes; 500 PM, B!C. Varsity vs. Wallingford Townies
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
NoN.UNIoN TALK

Columbus, O.-Coach Mike Peppe says that harring ineligibilities his swimming team looms as the strongest ever to represent Ohio
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
Thonl0sf0sa Girls Face WnahinQfon

Thomaston, Dec. 1.-The Tlhom- aston High School sirh basketball team win play. the Washington High School naaidens at the looal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17

Minor B bowling teams will note that they will not bowl on the next two Tuesdays, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
cRuaAnERe
CORsAIRs

Totals 3s 3 ss Totals .. ila 0 22 Score at half time: Knaves ss; cofsalrs 10. Referee: T. Daley-J. Eaylor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
ALI IN FAMILY

Evanston, Ill. Three pairs of twins are on Northwestern's bas- ketball squad. They are Lawrence and Loran Day, Bill and Jim Stricken and Bob and Joe Hughes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-17
HILLS

Totals ..ls [ 4s Totals .. t2 1 RS Score at half time; Gents i5, Centrais l2. Referee; oullter.
Ad-daleel., 1946-06-12

(Reprinted by request, due to an error)
The Syrian Jr. League of Cleveland, Oh.
held it's 18th Annual Mothers and Daugh-
ters Banquet in the Ballroom of the Gle
veland Hotel, Tuesday night, May 18th
with an attendance of $50 people
Mrs. Alex Kerbawy was Chairman and
toastmistress of the evening.
The Commute was composed of Mrs.
VIM. George, Mrs.Bert Razik, Mrs Bert
Haddad, Miss Evelyn Kassouf and Miss
Rose Anter of the Syrian Jr. League. Miss
Mary Nahra was chairman of the Syrian
Capricornian Club.
Mrs. Norma Wulff, President of the Gle
veland Board of education, Mrs. Marga-
ret Ferguson, President of the Information
nal Institute of the YWCA, Miss Anna
Montague, Sponsore for the Syrian Cap
r~icorian Club of the YWCA, and Mrs.
James Sovolos who spoke in Arabic.
The Syrian Jr. League presented Cor
denias to every mother present and cor
g to all the speakers.
Highlights of the various speeches eu'
logging Mothers was this important fact:
Mrs. Wulff stressed the fact that due to
the Syrian mothers upbringing there has
not been any Syrian child d~elinquents to
date in greater Cleveland.
This is a record of which every Syrian
mother can we'll be proud of.
Entertainment was provided by the Sy-
rian Jr. League, and the Syrian Capricor'
Man Clubs.
Entertainers were, Mrs. Neal Thomas,
Geraldine Saba, RosamOnd BOuhasin, Flea
nor Bird, Ida Morad, Dolores Ferris, Clio
ria Morad, and Mrs Alfred Anter.
Ad-daleel., 1946-06-12
A M E r c A
By Edgar A. Guest

God has been good to men He gave
His Only Son their souls. to save,
And then He made a second gift,
Which from their dreary lives should lift
The t%yrant's yoke and set them free
From all who'd throttle liberty.
He gave America to men
Fashioned this land we love, and then
Deep in her forests sowed the seed
Which was to serve mans earthly need.
When wisps of smoke first upwards curled
From pilgrim fires, upon the world
Unnoticed and unseen, began
Gods second work of grace for man
Here where the savage rOamed and fought.
God sowed the seeds of nobler thought;
Here to the land we love to claim,
The pioneers of freedom came;
Here base been Graded all that's best
In every human mind and breast.
For full four hundred years and more
Our land has stretched her welcoming
shore
To weary feet from soils afar;
Soulshakled serfs of king and car
lave jorneyed here and toiled and snug
And talked of freedom to their young,
And God has smiled to see
This precious work of liberty,
and watched this second gift He gave
The dreary lives of men to save
And now, when liberty's at bay,
And blood-stained tyrants force the fray
Worn warriors, battling for the right,
Crushed by expressions cruel might,
Hear in the dark throug which they grope
America glad cry of hope;
Mans liberty is not to die!
America is standing by!
Worldwide shall human lives be free;
America has crossed the sea!
America! the land we love.
Gods second gift from Heaven above,
Builded and fashioned out of truth,
Sinewed by Him with splendid youth,
For that glad day when shall be furled
All tyrant flags throughout the world
For this our banner holds the sky;
That liberty shall never die.
For this, America began
To make a brotherhood of man.
This poem is translated to Arabic
by Checri kanaan, the publisher of the
Guide and it was in The Detroit Free Press
the month of June, 1922
SsS, oA - SHALL eAA
Ad-daleel., 1946-06-12
(Sports)
HELLO

HELLO DETROIT
In one of the most thrilling games your
correspondent has witnessed in the Syrian
League The Aitaneet defeated St. Maron's
by a score of 1 to 0
Again Eugene Haddad pitched great
ball but only to lose on an error by the
right fielder. st. Maron threatened to
score in the last half of sevent but again
ran into some hard luck, with the tlelng
and winning runs on 3rd & End Ziggy
Shahen lined to short stop Jimmie Haddad
and his throw to his brother Phil at End
doubled the runner to end the threat and
the ball game. George Bouhasin pitched
brilliantly for the winners
In the first game Checker Bar Ice Cream
defeated st. Elias by a score of 16 to s. 1t
was the third straight for the Checkers
leaving them the only undefeated team in
the Syrian League.
The Knights of st. George drew a Bye.
Suday June 9
Aitaneet 6
st. Elias a
knights of st. George Z
ST. Maron IL
Checker Bar Ice Cream drew a Bye.
Standing to date . . &.
Wnn nct
Ad-daleel., 1946-06-12
DETROIT GROCERS
f L E G
OFFICERS and DIRECTORS

Louis R. Shame receives rousing cheers
At another rousing meeting held May
18th, the members of Detroit Retail Gro
GERS Association again showed that they
are on the way to having the nations lar
gest and most active grocery trade orga'
nization.
A throughly democratic meeting, it was
marked by constant activity and scores
of individual members spoke their minds
on various topics.
Members only
Admittance was by membership card
only, restricting the attendance to grocers
who were interested in grocers' problems,
and assuring keen interest and an unset
fish purpose.
The meeting was called by the authori-
zed Board of Directors, under official pro-
cedure as provided by the Association by
Laws, for an election of officers and direc-
tors.
Free Nominations
Tn addition to names presented by a no.
minating committee, under prescribed By
Law routine. nominations for each offlce
were made from the floor, Ballots were
|tabulated by a committee OF retail grocerS
picked from the floor
All Grocers
All elective officers and directors are
REQUIRED to be active food merchants now
in business, and all those named were such.
Names of Officers
Following were elected to the Associa-
TONS offices:
.President:-NOrman Uelsmann
First Vice-President:- E. ]. LaRose.
Second Vice-Presiden-George Salhaney
Treasurer:-Ralph Kuhr.
New Directors
The officers automatically become mem
bers of the Board of Directors, and in al,
dition the following grocers were elected
to the board, making a Twenty-Five man
directorate:
Sam Haboush, George Nelson, Fred Herr,
Adam Morad, Gene PM, Anthony Coosala,
Louis Fulgenzi, Mitchell Housey, Stewart
Robertson, John Scservish, James Asher,
Tom Hakim, Leo Nouhan, Victor lanelll,
George Samra, Elmer Collins, Cameron
Benningfield, George Nasher, Nick Topor-
clan, Gordon Trayev Ernest L. MURPHY ny,
Lester N. Chensue, George Atkinson, no
man Garwood, Martin BonkOvich.
Cheers for Retiring Secretary
That the services to the grocery trade
of Louis r. Shame are highly and sin
cerely appreciated by So per cent OF the
members of Detroit Retail Grocers' AS
ISOLATION, was made unquestionable by the
%rousing cheers given to him when he went
on the platform to speak to the meeting.
Althoug he assured the grocers that be-
cause of his private business and condition
of his health he must positively decline to
serve the association in any official capa'
city, yet many of the grocers jumped to
thier feet to present motions to decline his
withdrawawal from official activity, which
were supported by the entire audience.
Voted Honorary Life Membership
When Mr.. Shame still insisted on decli-
ming to serve in an official capacity, al
though stating that he would always help
whenever help is needed, he was given a
rising vote of confidence and thanks, and
was voted an Honorary Life Membership
Ad-daleel., 1946-06-12
Standing to date

Board of Directors, that they suspended
the official from office, pending the cleo
ton which eventually cleared up the mat
ter.
Board To Employ Secretary
AS the position of Secretary of the as
ISOLATION is not filled by election, under
the Bylaws, but is appointed by the Di,
r~ectors, the new officers and board will
hold a meeting to transact business inclu'
ding the appointment of a new Secretary
to handle the associations affairs from
here on.
Ad-daleel., 1946-06-12

One day a minister woke up and looked
out the window of his house and saw a
dead jackass on the street.
He telephoned the police and told them
about it. The sargent said :"Your a minis
ter it's your job to bury the dead
The minister answered Yes but l tele'
phoned you because I'm supposed to mott
fy it's nearest relative first.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-30
REUTER- TO SPEAK AT
COOP CONGRESS

Columbus, Ohio. -(CNS)- Walter
Reuther, president of the United Auto
Workers CLIO, will be featured speak
er at the National Cooperative con-
gress in Columbus next month. He will
speak at luncheon meeting on Rural
Urban Cooperative Relations" Fea-
tured with him and speaking on the
same subject from the farmers point
of view will be M. w. Thatcher, gen
eral manager of the Farmers Union
Grain Terminal Association. The Con-
gress will meet from September 9 to
II.
Speaking in July at a meeting of
union and coop members in Flint,
Michigan, where 100000 capital was
recruited for the establishment of a
coop store, Mr.. Reuther said, "As pre-
sident of the UAW-CIO have directed
the education department of the union
to place the organization of co-ops
near the top of the agenda. We are
really going to get serious about CO.
operatives and throw our full strength
into building them in cooperation with
the Cooperative League and the pro-
gressive farm organizations"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-30
4 GREAT WRITER
Celebrates HIS
68TH BIRTHDAY

On September goth, Upton Sinclair
will celebrate his 6Sth birthday Sep
TENDER too is the month in which
in the world-famous Lanny Budd
series, A WORLD TO WIN, as its cur
rent selection.
For more than As years this great
American author has been writing
books that have fired the conscience
of the American people. The occasion
of his 6Sth birthday is being made
big event in labor circles as we'll as
literary circles since Sinclair has de-
voted his entire literary career to a
one-man campaign against injustice
and bigotry.
In 1911 his novel, THE JUNGLE, ex-
posing conditions in the Chicago stock
yards, created a sensational stir,
brought on congressional investiga-
lions. No book since UNCLE TOMS
CABIN had such a tremendous impact
on the American public. Sinclair has
written other books exposing the coal,
oil, steel and automobile industries,
u Id CoplOhd5C5 lnO plSoSs anu
other. fields of American life.
The esthetes have tried to dismiss
Upton Sinclair as a "pamphleteer"
but he ranks today among the out
standing American novelists; and was
recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in
fiction. His books have surrounded the
globe being published in 40 languages.
The spark that vitalizes his writing
comes from his participation in all |
the currents of life. Sinclair has |
on picket lines, joined in de-
and has even at times
suffered arrest. He has taken political |
action, campaigned for parties and
he is considered to be truly
and at one time was run
ler-up candidate for the governorship
If California. The life he has lived
ends vigor and realism to his writing.
A WORLD TO WIN deals with the
asst years of the second world war.
Among its historical characters are
2 d r., Stain and Churchill and the
ARA tive takes its presidential
gent" hero into Germany on a secret
and into the Soviet Union
md China.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-30
LABOR GROUPS LAUNCH
CAMPAIGN TO BOOM
C0-OPERATIVES

ST Paul, MINI. = (CNS) = Fifteen
unions in st. Paul, Minnesota, are
starting program to make their mem
bers coop conscious Chairmen of CO.
op committees within these unions
will invite all committee members and
their wives to social affair and meet
ing to discuss consumer cooperative
publicity, organization, investment and
patronage.
The move is under the direction of
William Gydesen of the Central
Trades and Labor Assembly of st.
Paul. Similar plans are under consid-
GRAFTON by unions in Minneapolis.