European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I nothing worries Roberto sports by Dan polier Here is a Guy you should know More Hes the cuban baseball his name May be Ortiz or Estalella and his first name is almost invariably if there is any major league baseball next sea Roberto will probably play most of nothing worries not even Money he will play for slave wages because he never thought it was possible to be paid for such a Nice pastime As he lives stays at boarding houses instead of hotels and spends his Money on flashy sports if Roberto happens to be a member of the Washington senators cuban he will swear by a Little Man named Joe papa Joe is an Exlaus Dryman turned baseball scout who sold Clark Griffith on the idea of importing the citrate cuban for 10 years papa Joe has been beating the can brakes for the likes of Roberto thinks papa Joe is very funny Man because he has never been to master but Joe int so he made it a Point to learn Only two words of abut sign that he  have any trouble signing Roberto himself is no great shakes As a Lin among the 10 cubans at Washington Spring training Camp last Only four spoke Clark Griffith had to hire an inter Preter so manager Ossie Bluege could Converse with Roberto usually Speaks English to suit his own he makes himself clearly understood when he wants to bum a but Hes of dumb and Tongue tied when a manager asks Why he took a third strike with the Bat resting on his Roberto picks up american Slang quickly and uses it to express almost his favorite words Are Aykit Hokay and this Toots interests Roberto next to he loves Toots Roberto and his cuban chums always stick but Only because they Are not accepted in baseballs social other players regard them As and Are hostile toward on Road trips Roberto is never asked to be a fourth at or invited to parties or opposing players also give Roberto a rough he has become the favorite target of Bench jockeys who think he is a fat witted foreigner and throw some pretty terrible taunts at opposing Labouring under the delusion that he is Short on Are inclined to dust him off at the Roberto the athletics cuban who is built like a fire has been knocked Down in practically every league Hes but he usually gets up then lashes the next pitch out of the the new York Yankees once gave Estalella a Sharp but he proved More than a match for during batting Estal Ella waddled up to the plate to take his yelled coach Johnny they sure ruined a Good Monkey when they pulled the Tail out of Estalella jabbed Back just As he hunched his swung his arms in Simian fashion and stalked All Over the Field like a rampaging but most of the needling Hast been As Good natured As the Yankee last season when the american league Pennant race was at the crucial the Louis Browns Rode the Washington cubans every time a cuban came to Bat he was Given a hot Tongue Roberto a big went into a Blind rage when a profane remark was aimed at one of the smaller i fight for Ortiz told his Little Ortiz charged Over to the Browns dugout with a Bat on his shoulder and demanded that the player who made the last remark come out and Tom a third string Catcher stepped throw away that Bat Turner Ortiz threw the Bat aside and then started throwing it was a Short but furious slugging Ortiz suffered a broken Finger and Turner was bruised and the cuban int the worst Ball player in the nor is he the on the average he is a talented Guy who can hit better than he can Field and catch better than he can most versatile player among the cubans is Gil Berto a former minor league who played third base for Washington last sea a 6foot Torres wears his pants Long like Carl Hubbell to hide his Skinny his father Dick came to washing ton As a Catcher in 1922 but  make the he is now a policeman in like most Torres has a pleasant Dis position and Seldom broods Over his batting after a bad Day on the manager Bluege was surprised to find Torres sitting in front of his locker laughing and talk ing to what had happened to him Torres said with a Broad this is great Way to make tomorrow i play i cant do sliding Gil Torres is listed As a Pitcher on the Washington he played third base to sports service record Ucic and i cheerleaders kept the fifth army stands humming All after overhead there was the hum of p38s to prevent any interference from the to Raffe the nazis threatened to show up but did t old friends capt buddy Lewis night for Merly of Fae Washington senators tasks Over Oid Mes with Luke Sewell manager of St Louis crowns at a Burma a Roase a c47 Piir gave the coring baseball stars a hitch to the fro yank correspondent Dave Richardson tells this one on Dixie Luke Sewell and Pool the baseball stars who toured at Chennault recruited the three major leagues to play on his softball team against a ground forces Only to lose the game in the last but the humiliating part of it was that Sewell made two errors and Walker Only got a base Max Baer has been disqualified for overseas service because of an old boxing in jury and assigned to the convalescent training program at Kelly Steve another heavyweight who served with the eighth aah in England As an athletic is Back in the states getting treatment for stomach according to one private in new Guinea there was so much interest in his area in the world series that even the japs George former worlds pole vault who was reported missing after a bombing Mission Over has turned up Safe at his the i coaching clinic in Iceland has a faculty which includes such names As red yales baseball and Basket Ball coach Leo Penn state boxing and Charlie american league killed in action Aubrey Quarter Back of Clemson 1939 Cotton bowl in the Eto John Georgetown full Back and Star of the 1942 North South in missing in action cot Tom Captain of the 1940 Illinois football in commissioned let Jock former White sox and As pit As a second lieutenant while serving with the 104th infantry division in inducted Clyde Cincinnati Lethander who pitched a no hitter last into the Navy Bill Chicago cub into the army Bill third and last member of Boston red sox coaching staff to be into the ordered induction Willie worlds featherweight by the army after previously being discharged by the Navy because of punctured eardrum