The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-31
This Sporting World
MulligatauUney
By JOHN A. CLUNEY


 Some of the best literary eve. wash this week is Westbrook Peg. ler's pieces about movie man George Raft Ca little guy with extra high. heels) using Lippy Leo Durochers apartment to clip sucker for $18,. 300 via 13 or 14 straight passes with the dice, mostly "big Dick and little Joe" (10 and 4). Leo was quite hustler since his East ern league days, and when it came to cards, dice or shooting pool, he was about as easy to shave as g division of Cossacks. Remember when Brother Branch Rickey put in the mo gambling for more thar 8 quarter" rule with the Brooklyn Dodgers3 One of the reasons is supposed to have been that Du- rocher was into" most of the play CTS on the club for poker winnings
 Pegler, a sportswriter for
 good many years before he be-
 came nion-consciouS, mentions
 Mack (Killer) Gray, the Raft
 "bodyguard'' I saw the pair of
 'em one night in New York, Raft
 with high heels and everything;
 and this guy Gray Ga phony
 name) weighs about 132 pounds
 with washers in two pockets, also
 appearing as though he needed a
 couple of blood transfusions-bu
 quickl Now it develops that
 Durocher cannot get by as a
 manager without Chuck Dressen,
 who has quit Rickey for Mac
 Phail; Dodgers to Yankees in l947.
 One of the Dodger players is
 supposed to have said a few thou
 sand times, that Dressen picks
 the starting lineup each day;
 decides when the pitchers go in
 and come out, and generally runs
 the team, while the Lip gets
 the big money and tries to out
 shout umpires; most of whom
 could scrambel his brains with
 two or three well-directed punch
 es, if the Lip wasn't protected by
 big Jim Moore and his blackjacl,.
 Bob Steele, the WTIC commen- tator and sportscaster, whose day begins at 5:15 A. M. will be the principal speaker at tonight's I. R. A. annual sports dinner at Patsy Browns Silver Chalet where 28 trophies and prizes will be pre- Sented to various team and indi- vidual winners. They made a nice display in Joe Sullivan's window all week .. Louis Bruscino, one of three brother barbers in the west end, called the turn on the Fran kie Frisch for Yankee manager real, if it goes through that way. Each season Louie likes ''the Tanks against the field" in the Ameri- can league and felt a week ago, that Frisch, an experienced, popu- lar New Yor.er would make a good manager for the 1947 Tanks: even though he is coming from the Ma tional league; as is Chuck Dres- sen; but they would have Bucky Harris to help them out until they "learn the ropes" One of the best schoolboy games Of the sea- son may develop in Cheshire Sat- urday, when Eastern Military Aca- demy, explained by Waterbury $ Eddie Cavanaugh meetes the best Cheshire Academy team of several seasons; good enough to beat the Columbia Frosh in New York and lose in Hanover by only l point to Dartmouth Frosh. Chesihre's Jim- my Pickett may play against EMA's s Cavanaugh for the first time since the Crosby Wilby game of last season A boxer was stopped in 3 rounds at Holyoke the other night; listed as Joe Brown of Wa terbury.
 In picking Phil (Sippican House) Casman of West Haven as it's con- missioner of basketball officials for the 1946-47 season, the statae bas- ketball league has not only made smart move, but one that will give it added stature and class around the state, inasmuch as Casman, a veteran active official himself not only knows the game, the league and brother officials, but has the all-important judgment to see that any given game is properly handled through proper assignment of one or two officials. The teams are said to want only one man per game, but that will mean trouble on those big armory floors such as Waterbury (80 by 50) in league as fast as the statewide organiza- ton; especially under the present rules. No one man can do a first rate officiating job on a floor of that size Incidentally. the popular Phil will be working in the newly formed American Basket ball league of which New Haven's Maurice Podoloff is director-g gen. eral.
 Readers got a bum steer when Andy (Pivits) Pavlikovic was an- nounced as the new coach of the Torrington Redskins, who have been coached all season by Ed 1anpht former Notrn Dar1nn ljne