The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-29
This Sporting World
MondGy Sports Wash
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

watsrbury's entry in the state Bowling tournament, scheduled for State Health alleys at Hartford Friday, May 3 will be heavy in team, singles and doubles events: led by the Mercantile league champs,
 Brookside Dairies2O Hartford beams will open the tourney includ- Ing 10 teams seeking the state championship and 10 Booster Aeams, backed by businessmen from many parts of Connecticut-ASo Soft ball, an uninteresting sport to most people in these parts about two years ago has attracted the interest
 f scores of former ball-players to the extent that they cant get enouga of it'; with assurance forth coming that the local City-Wide league will be one of the fastest" h the state,
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 Our sincere condolences to Sem
 atOr Joe, Orville and Marvin Law
 Tor in the death of their wife and
 mother, Mrs. Margaret Hyde Law
 Tor, whose funeral took place this
 morning. Absence of his boys in
 the armed forces during World
 War m and the continued illness
 of his wife has burdened the
 Former state senator and state
 athletic commissioner with more
 than one mans share o f grief in
 recent years--West Side AC
 baseball team is looking for May
 game, preferably with the new
 ly-formed Redskins club of this
 city--POlice protection at New
 Haven Arena seems anything but
 adequate; one particular fan caus-
 ing quite disturbance before two
 cops appeared at the ringside last
 Thursday; while fans were mauI-
 Ing local commissioner Walter
 Piurek to get 2 look at the ref-
 erees score card after a draw de-
 Cision.
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 Latest word on Fred DaW the Kingston, N. '. baseball promoter who worked in Naugatuck and pre- Sented professional baseball games ln Waterbury for the past two years; Is that he will open at the muni- eipal stadium Sunday afternoon, May 5, at the same time the City Amateur League is scheduled to start the 1946 season at Hamilton Park. After a few Sundays of May baseball, he will shift to night games on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights in June and thereafter-if such report goes from the status of runlor to that of reality, the CAL. will have 8 financial headache every week--Art Linkletter, the radio m. c. who does a great fob on the People Are Funny" program gave the l946 Tce-C -Capades a great plug" last week in connection with his regular program, introducing by name, three stars, including Red Mccarthy, the IS barrel jumper and Donpa Atwood, the shows queen of l the ice"--the new floor at the New HavenN Arena, used for the state | basketball tournament will be paid | Tor during the next six years, the | CI.AyC. to pay $500 each year to- | wards the bloor but the Arena Con- | oany will return $3,5OO to the con- | ference at the end of 1853. Aeree- | nent will be made that the floor is O be used for basketball and da11c- ng only--Coach Larry Amann md his state champion Hartford High swimmers made page one of he current Connecticut Interscho- astic Athletic Conference Bulletin n the form of group picture. lhe major and minor leagues and he National Federation have reach- d friendly agreement about what constitutes good ethics and good 'dlcational procedure in connection with the soliciting and CONTRACT NC or HIGH SCHOOL BOYS for ervice in professional clubs. Ths agreement provides that no profes. ional contract will be offered any 'oy who is still in high school, un- ess he has already graduated or lnless his class has graduated so hat he is no longer eligible for high ohool athletics. If bay has been n high school and has dropped out f school, no contract will be offered i'm by any major or minor league lib until after he has been out of chool for at least one year, and hen only in case an appeal Is made y his parents and acted upon by he Commissioner of Organized , baseball. For violation of this aRree- , 1ent, Q heavy fine is provided for he offending baseball club. The ontract is declared void and the oy becomes 2 free agent after his radiation.