The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
This Sporting World
Friday Fish And Chips
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

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 It didn't take the Sena Colts long to make their presence felt in the national duckpin bowling tourna- ment now in progress in Providence. Arriving Wednesday afternoon, they rolled 1910 the same night to take the lead in the mems booster team division. Among the women, Flor ence Reynolds of this city and Wa tertown rolled a 391 high single and paired with Jean Baker of Vest port in the doubles, each rolling 35l; and, best of all, Miss Reynolds leads the women's all-events division with 1,O86 The little guys from the Hawaiian Islands are doing right well for themselves in two national tournaments for different sports. At Boston, three boys from Honolulu, two of them Japanese Americans, won championships; while in the ABC "big-pin" bowling tournament at Buffalo, N. r., team that came 1900 miles to roll in the l6 pound ball action scored 2,575 the team Nag being the Malahini Keylers.
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 Massachusetts boxing commis- sion of reviving those JUNIOR boxing titles; by okaying a Tippy Larkin vs Willie Joyce bout April 29 as a junior-welterweight title bout; the winner to get GOLD BELT emblamatic of the cham pionship. Nat Fleischer, MIR BOXING himself, in person, and not a movie, will make the pre- sentation, according to promoter Slippery Sam Silverman, the chain-store boxing magnate, own CT of six to eight clubs including one that operates in Mechanics Building, Boston; though the Lar kin-Joyce battle goes into the Boston Garden, where Rip Valenti and Company usually holds forth.
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 Willie Whalen is the new golf professional at New BritalnS Shut tie Meadow club, succeeding grand | old Val Flood, 7S year old pro and | greenskeeper and former bare knuckle fighter whose resignation took place last October. Frankie Sarro will replace Whalen at Yum ble Brook. The T-B men gave Whalen a nice sendoff this week; Bud" Geoghegan coming up from West Orange, N. J.. and his new job at the Crestmont Country Club tG be on hand when the boys" were toasting the popular Willie h. cidentally, the town of Torrington, businessmen and brother Elks did itself proud at last nights testimon- ial dinner to an excellent coach, Connie Donahue who has kept the New City on the Sports Map for many years.
 The popular and able Connie has been coach at Torrington High for | the past 10 years, succeeding Tracey | Carey #. Kiwanis and Rotary clubs compete il golf during the outdoor season and on the bowling | alleys during the winter months AviglianeSe baseball players work | out at Fulton Park, Sunday at 2 p. | m.
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 Middlesex County baseball league, which includes Middletown. Port land and other teams have offered the Connecticut Baseball Empires | Association a $l0-$8 rate of pay per game for the season, City Amateur League managers might be happy to know, when 1t comes time to vote finally on a $3 minimum for an ex- perienced official at Hamilton Park on Sunday afternoons.
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 Proud Papa Dep't--Ed. Fitzpat- rick, former City Amateur League president and prominent theater manager, ankling up and down our Broadway with his lad, It. Neil Fitzpatrick, for the past two years an Army Air Force bomber pilot with plenty of overseas service in- cinding Chiang Kai-shek's back yard.