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Fur Flies As Baksi’s
Managers Battle
By DAN PARKER
HYMIE W ALLMAN, a high class furrier, thoughe he had seen every
thing In the fur line until he ventured into the fight racket a few years
dgb as the financial backer of Joe Baksi. That was carrying things too
lur. Now Hymie has revised his concept of skunks, weasels, foxes and
wolves—including those who go around with permanent waves, masquer
ading as Persian lambs.
During a lull in the mink market yesterday, Hymie gave me an ear
ful of his woes and I can assure you they shouldn't happen yet to a
sheared Bessarabian beaver. They started a few years ago when a young
Branxite named Vincent Pinto came to Hymie with a big lug of a coal
cracker from Shamokin, Pa. who said he was a heavyweight lighter and
needed a backer. Fur has been flying ever since.
“I have a cousin of mine" Hymie said, “that is, he's my wife's cousin
—who had been in the fight business for years and I promised to speak
to him. Next day I meet this cousin of my wife's a party named Nat
Wolfsen, which he's a plumber, and a good one, too. So I says to him,
‘Nat, plumbing you don't want, yet. Maybe you'd like to go back to the
fight business, yes?’ Anyway, I take him to the gym with Whitey Bim
stein and look over this bird Baksi and we all agree he’s got promise. So
I hustle everyone concerned down to my lawyer and wc sign Baksi up to
a contract under Natey's and Pinto's names. I told the lawyer to leave
my name out so in case we have a law suit I won't be responsible for
something I don't know anything about. Wolfson, is to get 37 1-2 per
cent, Pinto 12 1-2 percent and I'm to get 12 1-2 percent out of Natey's
share.
■’Soon l find Wolfson the plumber doesn't know anybody in the
fight business so I hustle Baksi some fights myself. But after every
fight Baksi would disappear and that's the last I’d hear of him till
the dough was gone. Meantime I'm paying all the bills and not getting
a nickel. Then Baksi wins a few fights in Baltimore and Washington
and makes a name for himself. So 1 meet .lack Barrett, Mauriello's
manager in the gym and said we’re out so much and how about giving
us a break? Mauriello will belt him out in a few rounds and it
wouldn't cost you nothing. I says and at the same time we'll get our
money back. Barrett says okay. So Baksi licked Mauriello and from
then on it’s easy sailing for Cousin Natey. Mike Jacobs demanded an
exclusive contract on Baksi's services but 1 won't go for this. I tell
Mike my bond is as good as any word and I don't want to be sold to
anybody. That's how 1 got on the outs with Jacobs and from then on
Cousin Natey took over.
“After licking Mauriello. I went. on a vacation to Atlantic City. Jacobs
called me up there and asked me how about Baksi fighting Lee Savola two
weeks after the Mauriello bout. I said if it's okay with Cousin Natey, I'm
willing. The match was made and Baksi got licked. Meantime, I'm asking
Wolfson, this cousin of my wife's who ate at our house all this time—and
what an appetite the Wolf has—I'm asking him all this time where my
share is and he keeps telling me he's just about breaking even. I wait
for three more big purses and still no dough so I bring suit against him,
and that's what, stopped the return fight with Mauriello. After that, it
was a case of law already. I took him to Supreme Court Justice Eder
and an agreement was made whereby I was to receive 30 percent of
Wolfson's net. He was appointed trustee for my share by the court. Two
weeks later he reneged on the agreement and got an appeal lawyer to
take it to the Appellate Division.
"Jack Kearns in Chicago advised Natey—this cousin of mine that
I got—not to give me the right time because he had John the Barber
chasing him all over the country when he managed Dempsey, which
the razor king didn't get a nickel. But being made a trustee made him
already responsible for my money, which would make it an embezzle
ment. Anyway, the Appellate Division refused to reverse Justice Eder
and also denied a motion for an appeal to the Court of Appeals.
That's how the matter now stands. I’ve sent Plumber Wolfson a reg
istered letter, asking for my end of it and he hasn’t even acknowl
edged it. so last week I got out a Magistrate’s summons which he
must answer May 3. I'm asking for S1.500 in cash which I laid out
and my 30 percent of his share for the last three fights. I got a
beautiful name in business. There's not a blemish on my character
si ace 1926. when 1 started out. But business ability Wolfson hasn’t got
frem here to there. Wolfson claims he had to hock his ring to feed
Baksi. He hocked it for S15. Can you imagine how long fifteen bucks
would satisfy Baksi’s vulture appetite? I tell you. it's awful. A few
more like me and this boxing game would be cleaner."
The rules of the New York State Athletic Commission make it il
legal for managers to take more than 33 1-3 percent for their share of a
fighter’s earnings. Wolfson ithe guy Wallman means when he says T
got a cousin of mine”) collects 50 percent of Baksi s earnings and pays
all expenses out of his cut. Out of the 30 percent of his share he is sup
posed to give Wallman, Hymie is obligated to take care of Vincent Pin
to, So far Vincent hasn't needed a single expert accountant to help him
with his income tax. because even a discoverer of heavyweights can
figure out all by himself how much 12 1-2 percent of nothing is.
(Copyright. 1945. King Features Syndicate)
-BASEBALL’S NEW MR. BIG ... NO. 2
Czar Has Authentic Sports
Handles Himself Well at 46
Background; Chandler Still
Second of a scries
By HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor
New York. May 2.—With his heart
set on a clerical career, the ever
smiling: Albert Benjamin Chandler
matriculated at little Transylvania
College in Lexington in September,
1917.
The boy destined to become the
governor of Kentucky at 37 and
to distinguish himself in the
United States Senate before being
named Commissioner of Baseball
at 46 sang “Irish Eyes are
Smiling” in a rich tenor so well
and often that for a time the
nickname, Happy, became Irish.
The college president’s secre
tary, learning of his financial status,
helped young Chandler obtain work
In a laundry. When the old college
caretaker noticed the happy-go
lucky freshman's trousers becoming
dangerously thin in the worst places
he offered to have his wife mend
them. Happy was traveling so light
he had to toss his only pair of
pants out a dormitory window to the
caretaker.
Chandler toiled in a restaurant.
WOTked in coal mines and steel
u0gm to obtain an education and
• law degree. He had a musical
opportunity, but neither that nor
the ministry was exciting enough
for this swashbuckling young man
with an amazing knack for making
friend6 and remembering names.
In 1918 Chandler interrupted
his college career to enlist for
service in the World War in a
volunteer Kentucky company.
Chandler has an authentic ath
letic background in addition to
being an ardent fan in all sports.
He won letters in baseball, bas
ketball and football at Transyl
vania, captained the cagers in
1919 and ’20. pitched on the base
ball team, played end and quar
terback in football creditably de
apite injuries. He also served as
a cheerleader.
Chandler was graduated from
Transylvania in 1921 after spend
ing the summer of ’20 in the Red
River Valley Baseball league of
North Dakota, where he was paid
9150 a month and expenses, more
money than he had ever earned
In his life.
In 1922 Chandler entered Har
vard Law school and got a job
coaching nearby Wellesley high.
Later he went to the oil fields of
Lee and Estill Counties in Ken
tucky, where he managed a
baseball team.
He accepted a position as a
teacher at Versailles high and at
the same time entered the Uni
versity of Kentucky Law school in
Lexington. He also became coach
at Versailles.
rot the two years that follow
ed. Chandler was up at 6:30 to
catch a car to Lexington. He
’ across the campus to attend
catch a car and return
Happy Chandler warms up for
a big job.
to Versailles, where he taught
two classes in history. Following
class, his work as coach frequent
ly kept him busy until 10 at
night.
Graduated from the Kentucky
Law school in 1924. Chandler
practiced law and coached at the
high school until 1926. In the
autumn of 1927 he was assistant
coach at Center college. Returning
to Versailles, he remained there
until he entered politics in 1929.
Touring battlefronts and out
posts in the fall of 1943, Senator
Chandler demonstrated judo and
other tricks taught in ranger and
combat schools.
Happy Chandler shoots golf in
the lofty 70’s and at 46 is still
thoroughly capable of taking care
of himself in almost any kind of
company.
NEXT: Happy Chandler the exe
cutive who does big things.
Girls' Club Sports
Girls' Club softball game has been
goining along well with Duggan de
feating Slocum in a game yesterday
by 11 to 8, pitchers J. Marcuccio
and V. Guerrera allowing Slocum
girls but live hits. Other scores:
Duggan defeated Sprague 19-4;
Hopeville edged Bunker Hill, 7-6;
Anderson won from Sprague, 17-3,
and Slocum defeated Duggan 10-5.
Chandler May Hold Both Jobs “If Necessary99
A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
Piloting, Making Double Plays,
Smash Hit At New Jersey High
Janet Bette Jacobs . . . double play.
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
BY JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York. May 2. (UP)—Leonidas
Ernest Durocher, who makes it
plain there is a definite connection
between his middle name and the
Nway he manages the Brooklyn
Dodgers, riffled through the roster
today and concluded that he hadn't
made a change in the starting line
up since Sunday.
"It must be the schedule or the
weather,'1 mused Durocher. who
with his boss, sooth-sayer Branch
Rickey, has collaborated to make
Ebbets field in Brooklyn, baseball's
counter-part of confusion to the
pentagon building in Washington.
The status quo of the lineup was
something rare indeed for the cur
rent edition of the "Flatbush
Floogics." who in their efforts at
diamond "floy floy" have sent nine
different starting combinations in
10 games against their bewildered
opposition.
But today, barring more splashy
spring weather, it will be the same
old story. When the Dodgers tee
off against the visiting Boston
Braves. Durocher will shake up the
old fedora and snatch nine more
names out for a starting lineup.
No longer can the vendors at
the Brooklyn ball palace chant "you
can't tell the players without a
program." With Ernest Leo Ernest
at the helm, the fans can’t tell
anyway.
Actually, it isn't as bad as that
and much of the puggling has been
born of desperation. After all. the
Dodgers generally were consigned
to back row tenancy and never fig
ured to cause a. first division hous
ing problem by trying to muscle in
among the elite "first four.
Tire fact that Durocher, with his
machinations, has managed to keey
them either in the first division oi
right next door in fifth place, where
they are now .seems to be a minor
miracle in itself. Aside from suet
oldsters as major league batting
champ, Dixie Walker. Catcher
Mickev Ov.en, ar.d Pitcher Cur
(Dan 1 Boone) Davis, he ha.sn’i
much talent on hand that woulc
click with a good minor league clul
in peace time. Hence, he has hac
to resort to something like a base
ball version of the Notre Dam<
shift, with players going from posi
tion to position not only in th<
batting order but on ,the playinj
field.
ino piayer nua uccu ***
position in the batting order fo
each ones of the Dodger garni
played to date, and only two, Thin
Baseman Bill Hart, and Righ
Fielder Walker, have played ever;
game in the same spot afield.
In the batting order Durocher ha.
had three players in the leadof
spot, although now he seems ti
have settled on Eddie Stanky fo
permanent occupancy there, Th
little second baseman, who tool
over after Duroeher's two-da;
comeback experiment at the key
stone sack, not only is hitting •
sharp .345 atop the order but ii
field he has yet to make an erro:
with 56 consecutive chances han
died cleanly.
Batting number two in the im
portant spot behind the runnel
Durocher has worked five player,
including two catchers and in thi
three and four power positions hi
has had two men each. Fifth, sixth
seventh an eighth spots have beei
in a continuous muddle with fou
different players having worked it
each one.
Tliere have been three left field
ers, French Bordagaray. Morri,
Aderholt, and Angie Galan, an(
three center fielders. Louis Olmc
Elmer Durrctt and Goody Rosen
At first Galan can have his big mit
back after a two-day experimen
with Rookie John Douglas failed ti
pan out. Stanky s spikes have pri
oritv on the second sack now, bu
at shortstop Eddie Basinski s field
ing gives him only a bare margii
over Mike Sar.dlock's hitting am
neither is secure. Owen and 42-year
old Clyde Sukeforth, Pitcher Ha
Gregg s personal backstop, share thi
catching and as for the pitching
Durocher needs another hat, a 10
gallon one for that.
Last Night's Fights
Jersey City, N. J.—Joe Curcio 148
Newark. N. .J., knocked out lienr:
Jordan, 147. Philadelphia, (1).
(New York, (Broadway Arena)—
A1 (Bum my) Davis, 146 1-2, Xen
York, outpointed Eddie Saunders
156 1-2. New York, (8).
Add Fl*jlit Result*.
Hartford, Conn. — George Cited 1
Doty, 150, Hartford, knocked ouj
Freddie Graham, 155. Brooklyn, N
Y.. (5); Nick Stato, 136.
Springfield, Mass. — Knocked out
Bobby Matthews, 132, New York
(4); Roto by Polowitzer, 129. East
Hartford, derigioned Joe Monte
1.28. BAri>uv6*I4. <£>.
BY BILL BLOOME
NEA Special Correspondent
Englewood, N . J„ A pretty girl is
like a melody at second base for
Dwight Morrow High of Englewood,
N. J .
According to Billy Beck, Janet
Bette Jacobs, manager and sec
ond basegirl, is as good a ball
player as you would want to look
at in the Jersey school’s league. In
a normal year, says coach Beck,
Janet would be his regular second
sacker. But he is blessed with an
exceptional inner quartet this sea
son and Janet has to be relegated
to second string.
Janet, 16, 5-4 and 120 pounds,
brunette and very attractive, has
been playing ball as long as she
can remember. Her brother Bob,
former Dwight Morrow football
player and now a battalion adjutant
at OCS, Fort Monmouth, N. J., was
her first tutor.
Definitely not the tomboy type,
Janet simply likes to play ball. The
boys on the squad accept her as
they would any candidate. She
shags flies, takes her turn in batting
practice and goes through infield
practice. The boys give no quarter
and she asks none.
Beck, who spent last summer as
sisting Carl Hubbell at the New
York Giants’ school, doesn't pamp
er her.
Janet has good form (batting)
at the plate. A switch hitter, she
steps into the ball with a 34-inch
willow like a big leaguer. She hits
a sharp ball and gets good distance.
A good waiter, hurlers don’t find
her easy to pitch to. Beck is espec
ially proud of her proficiency with
the drag bunt. She beats out a lot
of them.
But it is her ability at defensive
play that makes one gape. Like a
professional, she hits the bag left
, foot first on the double play pivot
and makes the resultant snap throw
: to first as though it were second
i nature. She has the sixth sense
■ baseball looks for, moving in the
, right direction with the crack of the
. bat.
Ladylike at all times, Janet is
: looking forward to college and a
i journalistic career, not sports es
i pecially.
But Janet Bette Jacobs ought to
; make a good baseball writer.
Jack Barry Today
Jack Barry, above, shortstop of
Connie Mack’s S100.000 infield
of 3A~odd years ago. launched
his 25th season as Holy Cross
coach by seeing 18-year-old
• southpaw freshman Jack Tiv
nan pitch a no-hit, no-run game
repelling Charlestown, R. I.,
Naval Air Base, 7-0.
Monogan Shea
Join City League
An "official" battery of Mayor John
S. Mcitagan and President of the
Board of Aldermen Patrick Shea
has been “signed" to open the 22nd
City Amateur League baseball sea
son next Sunday at Hamilton Park,
at 4 p. m. when traditional inaug
ural ceremonies will take place be
fore the second of two games sched
uled on the No, 1 diamond.
On Friday 'tight, managers and
CAL officers will meet with Presi
dent Bill Derwin at the Republican
sports department at 8:30 p. m. to
hear a report of a by-laws commit
tee. select umpries, and complete any
other details prior to the first
league games of the season.
Frick Upholds Braves
On Umps' Reverse
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New oYrk, May 2. 'UP'—Presi
dent Ford Frick of the National
league today disallowed the New
York Giants' protest of their game
was won by the Braves, 13 to 5.
Manager Mel Ott of the Giants
protested the game on the grounds
that the umpires reversed a deci
sion after a pitch had been delivered
to the next batter. The dispute cen
tered on a ground ball which the
umpires at first ruled had hit a bos
ton base rimner. making him an
automatic out. After a ball had been
pitched to the next batter, however,
Manager Bob Coleman of the Braves
protested that the ball had hit the
glove of Ewald Pyle, the New York
pitcher, before the base runner. The
umpires upheld Coleman and re
versed their decision. Ott's protest
was based on the grounds that an
other play had occurred and thus it
was too late to reverse the decision.
Pitch No Change
Frick held, however, that the re
versed decision was the correct de
cision and that the fact that a pitch
had been made to the next batter
did not alter the situation on the
field. He also pointed out that Bos
ton later scored eight legitimate runs
which would have been ough to win
the game even if the four runs
I. R. A. Athletes
Given Awards
Nearly 200 men and women mem
bers of the Industrial Recreation
Asosciation attended the second an
nual aw-ards dinner last night at
The Elton, with trophies and prizes
distributed by Gordon Keeler to
Scovill, U. S. Rubber. Waterbury
Companies. Benrus, U. S. Time girls
and Scovill girls as champions and
runners-up of “A" and "B ’ basket
ball league and the girls circuit dur
ing the past season.
Edward T. McGrath, chairman of
the physical committee of I. R. A.
presided as toastmaster, asking
various members of the competing
teams to '‘say a few words'' relative
to activities of the past season on
the YMCA and St. Joseph courts.
Still Speeding
' Air Forces Photo from NEA)
r Lt. Rex. Mays makes first non
stop, coast-to-coast flight ever
made in an A-26 Invader. Form
) er two-time automobile racing
1 champion, now director of me
dium bomber pilot training at
t 6th Ferrying Group base In
Long Beach, Calif., flew 2200
1 miles in eight hours and four
minutes.
scored in the disputed inning—the
thrid—had been ruled out.
Frick revealed that he had cen
sured the umpires involved for
"carelessness.” The umpires were
Walter Henline, George Magerkurth,
Bill Stewart and Tom Dunn. Hen
line was the umpire in charge.
Inter-Church
Softball Loop
A softball league comprising six
teams from as many Protestant
churches in Waterbury has been or
ganized for opening game May 23
and may be the fore-runner of a
"year round" sports plan submitted
by William J. Derwin. supervisor of
recreation of the Park Department
to a group of ministers attending an
organization meeting last night. An
entry fee of $15 for each team to
cover league operating expenses has
been agreed upon.
The teams to take part in the
softball play includes:
St. John's was represented by Rev.
Boston Lackey; Second Congrega
tional. Rev. Harry Liebeck; Bunker
Hill Cong.. Harold S. Rogers; and
Mill lain Union, Jerry C.pelak. Rev.
Daryl E. V/illiams requested a fran
chise on behalf of Protestant Con
gregational church while Rev. Ro
bert A. Heydenreich expressed the
desire that First Lutheran be allot
ed the sixth berth in the circuit.
'Revenoors' Pin
Winners Feted
The first annual bowling banquet
of tire Waterbury Internal Revenue
office was hel dlast night at Jack
Caldg Nineteenth Fairway in Wa
tertown. Jim Donahue took the high
single prize with a string of 146 and
also the high three with a pinfall
of 340. Mike Ryle nosed out the
group with an average of 100.7 with
Wally Cook right on his heels with
an average of 100.6. Gay Price was
awarded a special prize for having
bowled the greatest number of
games, 78, with an average of 98.8.
Bill Crennan and Ann Garafar.o
were awarded a special surprise
package for their interest in the
league during the year.
Those attending were Joe Caro
lan, Joe Cassidy. Wally Cook, Jim
Donahue. Ann Garafano. Harvey
Hoagland who managed to group,
Eddie Murrane, Peg Neagle, Gay
Price, Roland Ruggiero, Mike Ryle.
Guy Sandulli, Willie Stokes, Harold
Brennan, Bill Crennan. Kit Nolan,
John Cardan. Maprice Shea. Homer
Ruggiero, Eddie Biancardi. Mike
Ciano, Louis Masters, Betty Bitrlin
ski, Doug Heaven, Jim Lawlor, Bill
Bauket, and Larrie Shea.
Secretary and treasurer, Jim
Douglas, was chairman of the league
and the event. He opened registra
tion for members interested in a
series of golf events to be codnucted
later this spring and summer.
Col. Eagan, N. Y. Ring
Boss, at Taft Tonight
Watertown, Conn., May 2.—Col.
Edward P. Eagan, chief boxing and
wrestling commissioner of the State
of New York, will speak here at
the Taft school this evening at 8:30
in the Bingham auditorium. His
talk which will be supplemented
by collateral slides, will be on the
Army Air Forces Recreational pro
gram. which he headed for many
months prior to his discharge re
cently to assume the post to which
Governor Dewey appointed him.
The speaker is a graduate of Yaie
University, where he was captain
of boxing. In the following year
he was awarded a Rhodes Scholai
ship to complete his formal educa
tion at the University of Oxford.
PAL'S SINGLE
SPOILS N-H GAME
FOR J. HAYNES
BY CARL LUNDQUIST
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
New York, May 2. — (UP) — It
was just a garden variety single
and pitcher Joe Hajn.es of the Chi
cago White Sox never gave it a
second thought as the ball whistled
past his ears and into center field.
That was in the third inning at
Detroit yesterday, but before the fin
ish that hit loomed bigger to Haynes
than the mightiest home run ever
smashed. For when it was all over
and the White Sox were 5 to 0 win
ners over the Tigers. Haj>’es had
come within just one pitch of turn
ing in the first perfect no-hit game
in the major leagues in exactly 23
years.
An there was irony at every turn
in his failure to achieve the greatest
distinction that can come to a
major league pitcher. The author
of the hit was his personal pal and
ex-team mate. Jimmy (Skeeteri
Webb, who couldn't have picked a
pitcher in either league that he
would rather have spared such a dis
appointment. Webb, with the White
Sox last year, came to Detroit in a
trade that sent Joe Orengo to
Chicago.
It was on April 30 in 1922 that
Charley Robertson, also a White
Sox pitcher, tossed baseball's last
perfect game and as was the case
yesterday, the Tigers provided the
opposition in a 2 to 0 Chicago vic
tory.
For Haynes, previously a nonenti
ty in the majors, it was "just one
of the breaks of baseball.”
• I dcn’t care too much as long as
we won and since somebody had to
get a hit, I'm glad it was Jimmy,”
he said.
So-So Pitcher
Tlie six-foot, two-inch native oi
Lincolntcn, Ga.. won only five
games last season and In liis seven
year major league career at. Wash
ington and Chicago he never wen
more than eight games in one cam
paign. He said he never had a bet
ter break with his control and
praised catcher Mike Tresh for siz
ing up the batters properly. Aside
from Webb's single, only . six balls
were hit to the outfield and of the
28 men to face him no ether batter
even gave a fielder a hard chance.
He struck out one man.
It was the second one-hitter
pitched in the Majors this season,
Hawk Wyse of th? Chicago Cubs
turning back the Pittsburgh Pirates
with a lone single last Saturday. Un
like Haynes, however. Wyse walked
three batters and two others got on
through errors.
The victory. Haynes' s-cond with
out a defeat, kept the White Sox in
first place ahead of the idle New
York Yankees in the American
league. Th? Sox got only six hits
themselves, scoring four runs in the
fourth off starter Walt Wilson on a
single, two triples, two walks and a
balk.
Woods Hell
In the only other Major league
game yesterday, the Boston Rtd Sox
won their fourth straight game, top
ping the visiting Washington Sen
ators, 5 to 4. to qualify as base
ball's "hot and cold" club. The Red
Sox. who dropped their first eight
games, continued to get adequate
pitching and timely hitting to pro
long their streak on the right side
of the books. The Senators got only
four hits, three of them by George
Binks. Emmett O’Neill, the Red Sox
starter, who yielded only three hits
up to the eighth, was relieved when
he singled to drive home two runs.
Outfielder Eton Culberson led the
Boston attack with three doubles.
All other games were postponed
because of rain.
YESTERDAY'S STAR—Joe Hay
nes, 27-year-old right hander for
the White Sox. who misssd a per
fect game no-hitter against Detroit
by one single, to win, 5 to 0.
Mercantile Loop
Honors Metros
Andy Juliar.o. Benny Marcoux.
Prank' Lacilla and Tony Greco will
continue as officers of the Mercan
tile Bowling League for another
season, according to a vote of mem
bers attending the annual league
dinner last night at Harmon's
Grill: where the 1945 Metropoli
tan Cleaners were honored for win
ning the championship in a roll
off with Brookside Dairies.
Toastmaster Chick Kelley distri
buted $600 in prize money to teams
and individuals after announcing a
nominating committee of Joe Sulli
van, Benny Marcour and San:
Greenblatt which suggested re-elec
tion of the league officials named
above as president, vice-president
secretary and treasurer, for the
1945-46 season. Speakers last even
ing included various team captains
President Juliar.o: John A. Cluney
sports editor of The Democrat and
William J. Derwin. supervisor ol
recreation of the Waterbury Park
Department. A plan for special cer
tificate awards to '400" bowlers next
season was discussed.
Ex-Colgate Athlete
Draft Objector
Boston, May 1—(UP)—Josiah R.
Lancaster, 32, of New York, former
Colgate University athlete, was or
dered held in $1,500 bail for a fed
eral grand jury when he pleaded
innocent before a U. S. commission
er today to charges of failing to
submit to induction into the U. S.
Army.
Asst. U. S, Atty. Thomas P.
O’Connor said that Lancaster did
not report for induction at Cam
bridge as ordered April 13 The de
fendant, he said, claims to be a na
tive of Buenos Aires and a conscien
tious objector.
During the last World war he was
a member of the AEF, of which he
became champion heavyweight box
er. Upon his discharge he made a
worid boxing tour with the famous
Duke of Hamilton. Upon our en
trance in the present conflict Col.
Eagan joiner the Army Forces to
take charge of its extensive recrea
tional activities.
Friends of the school are coi
dially invited to attend the lecture
in the Bingham auditorium.
This
Sporting
World
By JOHN A. CLUNEY
Winning Horse
Kayos “Pug"
Two knockouts, one in the ring
and the other at the racetrack
next day, when a 100 to 1 shot won
for a prizefighter is the subject dis
cussed at frequent intervals by Sam
Golden former New York manager
of gents with tin ears. Here's how
he tells it:
“My greatest thrill in sports was
having a fin on Jim Dandy when
that son of Jim Gaffney stunned
the turf by beating a classy field
for the Travers Stakes at Sara
toga in August, 1930, in the mud
at the juicy odds of 100 to 1.
One of my battlers had been
kayoed the night before. We had
bet our end on him so the five
represented our entire fortune.
Among the stars in the race
were Gallant Pox and Whichone,
both at short odds. Few outside of
former Postmaster General Jim
Parley and Sam Rosoff, the sub
way builder, gave Jim Dandy a
chance and I though we might as
well be broke as the way we were,
so put our fiver right on Jim Dan
dy’s nose.
Some jockey I'd never heard of,
P. J. Baker, was riding our horse
and he got the son of Jim Gaffney
off like a streak. The stars in the
race were too busy jockeying and
watching each other and when
they got ready to run Jim Dandy
was out in front running lickety
split.
When he came under the wire
and made our five bucks $505, my
battler promptly went out again—
without being hit.
Tlie blow was too much for him!”
wvVVVVwv
Spinning the Wheel
Large Dick Sweet, the U. S. Rub
ber basketball player and referee
has transferred to Hartford where
he Is in the RADIATION business,
due to a business proposition just
■as “sweet” as his surname. His
hop from rubber to radiators was
made two months ago and his new
job is so good he is taking up week
end golf. . . Dula Kovach, who has
faithfully trained with Charley
Eagle at the Boys’ Club for the
past two months, has a spot on the
Nova-Eagle card tomorrow night,
meeting Jerry Btrthiaume the Mon
treal “schoolboy ..lugger ’ in a four
rounder. Hartford's "Red'’ Doty, a
TKO winner last night over Freddie
Graham at Hartford, is also on the
Boston card, sponsored by Callahan
AC at Mechanic’ Bldg. . . MacGreg
or-Goldsmitli sporting goods com
pany puts out a monthly periodical,
the current issue of which contains
a splendid article with pictures on
Bert Shepard and Pete Gray the
crippled major leaguers who are
making good in great shape thus far
this season. . . Better Late than
Never Dep't: Sincere congratula
tions and my very best wishes to a
grand old guy. a good sport and a
fine sportswriter, Hubert M. Sedg
wick of New Haven, active dean of
Connecticut sportswriters who pass
ed his 78th milestone last Sunday
One of his well-wishers was “Mr
Baseball'’ himself. Cornelius Mc
Gillicuddy of Philadelphia (Connie
Mack to you, Joe Connor i . . Amer
ican Brass Company photogs took
some swell shots of company and
ABC sports association: biggies; Rat
Wrenn, pres.; at the newly-bough!
Hop Brook golf course in Naugy. Yoi
should s;e Johnny O’Connor s PUT
TING STANCE. It would make
Horton Smith VERMILLION with
envy. . . Ford Frick turned down
the" Giants' protest of the Boston
Braves April 19 win, 13-5, when
umps reversed a decision AFTER
A PITCH TO THE NEX~ BATTER
Box Score
WASHINGTON
a b r h
| Case. of . 3 1 0
1 Myatt, 2b . 3 2 n
Kuhel, lb . 3 o o
Binks, rf . 4 0 *
(’rift, 3b . 2 « <>
Torres, ss . 4 o 1
Powell, If . 4 ft o
< Jtierra. «• 4 b o
Niggeling, p .... 2 b b
a-Chipple . b 1 0
Pieretti, p . 0 b o
3 <
1
9 1
i :
b *
i <
b :
o f
ft (
Totals .3b 4
BOSTON
ab r
Newsome, ss .... 4 1
Steiner, 2b . 3 b
Metkovich. lb . . 4
Johnson, If . 3 b
Fox, rf . 4 b
Tobin. 3b . 3 o
< ’ulberson, cf .. .. 4 1
Oarbark, c . 2 2
Holm, c . 1 b
O’Neil, P . 3 b
Woods, p . 1 0
4 24 D
h
b
n
(*
o
0
1
o
lft (
2 1
n (
n f
3 1
fi (
n r
o <
Totals ........ 22 5 10 27 11
a-Batted for Niggeling in 8th
WASHINGTON . . 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0—*
Boston . 120 002 00 x -i
K—Newsome, RBI—Binks 4, Fox
Newsome 3. Metkovich. 2BMetovich
Sulberson 3, Newsome, Binks. Sf
— Case, Myatt. DP—Johnson anr
Steiner. Deft—Washington 4. Bos
ton 7. BB—Off Niggeling 4. O’Neil
3. SO—By Niggeling 4, Pieretti 1
O’Neill 3. Hits—off Niggeling 1ft ir
7 innings, Pieretti, 0 in 1. O'Neill
4 in 7 1-3; Woods, 0 in 1 2-2. Win
ner—O'Neill. Loser—Niggeling. Um
pires—Stewart, McGowan and Wea
fer. Time—1:52. Attendance 1,919.
(Bjr I'nited Pre**)
AMERICAN LEAGI E
(Leading Batsmen)
Player — .Club g ab r
Stephen, St. Louis.. 7
Kreevieh, St. Louis. 7
Ross, Detroit-Clev. . 8
Hall. Philadelphia. .11
Dickshot, Chicago.. 8
Hockett. Chicago... 8
NATIONAL LEAGI E
(National League)
Player—.Club g ab r
Ott. New York.12 37
Holmes, Boston ....11 47
O’Brien, Pittsburgh in 38
Nieman, Boston ..10 33
Hausomann, N. Yk..l2 48
23
23
29
48
33
h
7 10
3 8
3 11
6 18
8 12
r, 12
per
.435
.391
.379
.364
.364
15
10 20
3 14
11 12
10 17
per
.368
.304
.334
Home Runs
Nieman. Braves . 4
Derry. Yankees . 4
Ott. Giants . 3
Lombardi. Giants . 3
Weintraub. Giant* . 3
Havas. Athletics . S
SENATOR AND
COMMISSIONER
CHECKS DRAFT
BY STAN MOCKLER
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
St. Louis, Mo., May 1.—(UP) —
Sen T. B. (Happy) Chandle,, new
commissioner of baseball, today
denounced the "practice of drafti/.g
4F’c simpiy because they happen to
be ball players.”
He told reporters at a press con
ference he had discussed "this prac
tice with the President of the
United States before J came here.
Mr. Truman said he would loik
into the matter.”
"I fear,” Chandler said, that
somebody has abused his authority
when physically unfit men are in
ducted into the Armj sin’p!y be
cause they happen to be bail play
ers.”
Tour MiJlion
"Baseball,” he said, ‘has demon
strated its worthiness to -ronstactr
tion. There are 4,000,000 4F's m
this country. If we cannot spare
400 or 500' of them for the sport
the servicemen want, we can t
whip anybody.”
Chandler is in St. Louis to wi -
tless tonight's flag-raising at Sports
man’s Park by the American league
champion Browns.
His statement regarding 4F's was
in response ot questions on spec fis
recent cases.
Also attending the one-hour con
ference were Aha Bradley presi
dent of the Cleveland Indians; Don
Baines, president of the Brown.;
Les O'Connor, chairman of the aci
visoty committee of the commis
sioner’s office; and Will Harridge,
president of the American league
Chandler revealed a plan was
under consideration to move the
commissioner's oificc from Chicago
to Cincinnati. Many of die major
and minor league owners, he said,
fed Cincinnati would be an ideal
spot because of iis central loca
tion.
Also, he said with a grin, "It's
near Kentucky
He said that O Connor, lo g the
right-hand man of the late Judge
K. M. Landis, has agreed to remain
with him for at least one year.
Two Jobs
unanaier empnasizeu ai. uie auui,
of the conference that he had not
yet signed a contract, and that un
der the original agreement lie has
between 30 to 60 days ’’to think it
over".
He said there was certain pics
surc for him ip retain his off: c
as the senator fiom Kcntuck., out
added that he felt if it became
necessary lie could retain both of
fices ' if one did not conflict wi h
the other. "
AMERICAN LEAGUE
\pMprda>'* Rcssh 11
I
Boston Washington 4
hi- ag<- 5, Detroit 0
Philadelphia at New York (post
poned, rain)
Cleveland at St. Lou-s (postponed,
rain)
Standing;:
V I, Pot G B
Chicago . 6 - .750 —
New York . ... 7 4 .6j6
Detroit . 6 1 .600 1
Philadelphia ...... f< 5 .'>47 1 !j
Washington . 6 6 ..'>00 -
St. T.ouis .. 4 .4 4 4 3 la
Boston . 4 S .333 4
Cleveland . . 3 7 .322 4 ’2
(.antes lotlnt
Philadelphia at Yankee Stadium
Washington at Boston
Chicago at Detroit
Cleveland at St L->uis (Night)
- «
(inmr«t lomorrow
Chicago at Detroit
Philadelphia at New York
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Uklerdnj'x lteKNiilt
Ronton at Brooklyn (postponed,
rain)
New York at Philadelphia (post
poned, ran)
St. Louis at Pittsburgh (postpon
ed. fold weather)
(Only games scheduled)
Standing:
W
New York . S
<Chicago .. 7
St. Louis . 5
Boston . *
Brooklyn .......... 5
Cincinnati . ;>
Pittsburgh . 4
Philadelphia . 3
(■nines TihIht
Boston at JSbbets Field
New York at Philadelphia
St. Louis at Pittsburgh (2)
Cincinnati at Chicago
(witncH Tomorrow
• ‘incinnati at Chicago
Boston at Brooklyn
New York at Philadelphia
St. Louis at Pittsburgh
; Drew, Dave Butler
Boxing Winners
New Bedford, Mass.. May 2.—(TJP'
—Lige Drew, 150. of Snringfie d
scored a unanimous decision over
Solomon Stewart, 151, of New York
in a 10-round feature bout at Bris
tol Arena last night.
In preliminaries: Tony Soave. 35H,
U. S. Marines knocked out A1 Pinel,
158, New Bedford ((>>: Dave Butler.
132. Waterbury, Conn., decisioned
Jimmy Belmont. 136. Brockton '6':
Jack Cavanaugh, 162, Springfield
outpointed Johnny Parren. 158, New
Bedford (4);
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