European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Morse racing Hod o colossal season season before the government cracked this is Belmont 1 v suits i in s 5h the 4f athlete takes another physical a the invitation of James War mobilization the Induc Tion medical authorities Are getting a closer look at some of the nations most famous trick busted eardrums and bad who knows a gifted mus Cle when he sees said he had never been Able to understand How an athlete could be unacceptable to the armed forces and still be Able to compete in games that place such a High Premium on physical he re Quested that these 4fers be recalled and to prove he want picking on anyone in Byrnes also cracked Down on the race the race track and everything connected with a Mutual he or dered All the horse Parks to close Down and told the ticket bookies and bettors to get into some sort of War work and relieve the manpower this fadeout of the photo finish came without but there was real cause in alarming numbers War workers had been deserting their machines to watch the horses it would take a pure nostradamus to Tell you what the future now holds for wartime sports service record the touring baseball Mel Frankie dutch Leonard and Becky Walters were entertaining first army gis in Belgium when the great German counteroffensive writing Hank the sex pro football told coach Steve Owen i knew we could beat Washington because All we have to do with them is walk out on the Field against them and there Hank recently returned from will ship out again to another Tom Captain of the 1940 Illinois football delayed the German armoured drive into by setting up a Roadblock outside of town and then hitting the foe with All fire Power he could Muster from 10 antitank Jug Joe late of the Cincinnati is commanding a gun Crew aboard a merchant Jimmy Wilsons Tom is byrnes1 crackdown on racing was a stunning blow to sports but not a fatal it was the Byrnes riot act against the two legged athlete that sounded something Akin to a death As Byrnes pro All the 4f operatives Are whisked it might prove bad All let us run briefly Over the lineup and see How each sport would be affected baseball will try to operate regardless of what happens or whats it could lose its 4fs and still not be completely club owners will press into service infant Prodi latin american overage men or anything that remotely resembles a Ball they found out last year that you dont have to give customers major league baseball to pack the pro which depends entirely on 4fers and discharged probably will be the first professional sport to throw in the there was hardly enough Tal ent to go around last College football will be Able to survive since it can draw on 17yearolds and Navy 4 k College will Prosper under the same Golf undoubtedly will lose heavily under the Byrnes most of its to drawer professionals Are 4fers and their loss would bring the Winter tour to a sudden there Arent enough Good overage golfers to keep the interest boxing should seize this Opportunity to get rid of its for the most part they were a poor solid youngsters like 17yearold Billy Arnold will be refreshing and a sign of things to hockey will be virtually untouched by the Byrnes most of the players Are Cana subject to Canadian draft track capital of the world has been moved to Sweden to accommodate Arne Andersson and Gunder so it Doest matter who runs in the or Tennis has nothing to it already operates on a Par time basis with i it has taken a dead aim on and it will be interesting to see what sports had a hell of a scare right alter Pearl but bounced just like those 4fs Byrnes wants to reported missing after a b29 raid Over Benny onetime notre Dame Backfield is now commanding a cavalry out fit at Camp in addition to his regular Frank former top ranking Tennis has played More than 40 exhibitions in during his recent tour of Billy Conn rescued a Pilot from a burning Joe Dimaggio wants to get it straight once and for All he Hast asked for a add and has no intentions of asking for Marshall 1936 olympic High diving returns to Berlin every so often heading a group killed in action Joe Texas a is Al american guard of in the Eto where he was commander of an infantry company James former Cleveland ram in Germany with the infantry Dick quarterback on the 193940 Illinois in the wounded in action Simon is Boston red sox outfielder in 1925 and in the Eto when his ship blew discharged Jimmy former Boston braves from the army with a French Howie former Louis Cardinal gets a haircut where in where Hes serving with the Krist pitched in the 1939