European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dont forget the old Yankees sports by Dan polier when Larry Macphail and his Rich Dan Topping and Del Webb bought the new York people didst exactly throw their hats Over the grandstand and they didst do any in they were too they had of that for a Long time the Yankees were on the but they never expected to see the Day that Macphail would replace de Barrow As Boss of the Barrow himself had frequently said that the Only Way Macphail would get the Yankees would be Over his dead and there was some pretty Strong talk that judge Landis would never approve any Sale of the Yankees that had Macphail involved in but Landis passed on and under pressure from the Ruppert heirs to finally disposed of the team to the Macphail syn another bidder for the Yankees was Tom Yawkey of whom Barrow secretly hoped would buy the but Hawk yes hands were he had to sell his Boston team first and theres no use pretending that the Yankees will Ever be the same under laughing Barrow and Macphail Are As different As Day and a sober Cousin de is probably the soundest Man in on the other is a always ready to explode with a new stunt to stir the Mac hails style thrilled Brooklyn and but in dealing with the Yankees Larry has a clientele of a different to most Yankee the Mere thought of Macphail in Barrows Drivers seat must be the Yankees were never accustomed to the spectacular shenanigans or the noisy Ballyhoo that Larry peddled in Brook the Yankees were built of sounder the word for it is possibly they All had right Down to the Bat the Yankees had something too they ruled baseball with a big the dickeys and kellers were some of the great est sluggers the game has Ever enemy pitchers cracked before them and so did most batting probably the greatest of All the Yankee team was the 1927 managed by scrawny Little Miller with Ruth and Gehrig slamming the the Yankees roared through the american league like a tank in a their at tack was known As the five Oclock Light because it was usually at the approach of 5 Oclock and the eighth inning that they started tearing a Pitcher after clinching the Pennant on labor they kept right on they wanted to win every and they nearly they set an Amer ican league record by winning 110 games and losing Only Ruth had his biggest smashing his own record for Home runs by belting Gehrig banged out 47 and topped the team in hitting with a in the world series that the Yankees were opposed by the Pittsburgh under Donnie the pirates never had a worst of they knew the Day before the series opened in both teams worked out at Forbes the pirates took the Field by the time the Yankees the pirates had showered and dressed and were in the Waite Hoyt pitched batting practice for the and under Huggins orders he Laid the Ball in there straight As a the hit Ting exhibition that followed was Ruth stepped in and hit one Over the Fence in Gehrig hit one in the seats in Lazzeri hit one against the stands and Meusel hit one Over the Loftfield watching from the stands were Paul and Lloyd a couple of pretty fair hitters they actually winced every time t y Ruth gets ready to a Ruth or Gehrig slugged the Ball out of finally Lloyd turned to he there sure big Paul nodded and they walked out the rest of the Pittsburgh team they had seen enough to know what was in the the Yankees won the series in four straight its going to be hard to forget great Yankee teams like Macphail  for get sports service record k s ome statistics hound in the Chicago White sox front office has figured that Lylw saved the club 90 dozen baseballs last year by just being in the in when Luke was slugging for the american league batting he fouled off More balls than any two major leagues most of them were the Over thereof bitty Grant has moved to the Philippines with the fifth air Force and was recently camped one Block away from the Home of sex Middle weight Champion Ceferino one of the ath Letic instructors at fort is who knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round at in under the name of Gypsy jockey Don has finally cleared up the mystery of Why he is he was bom with deformed shoulders and cant turn his arms or hands Joe Louis has a new Apo Hes refereeing i boxing shows Al Schucht is writing a Book on his South Pacific Uso tour and plans to Call it i had Bamfo North westerns great negro is Back in the states after completing 56 missions in the Eto As a fighter whatever became of Kii Fey the dodger Pitcher Captain of the 1937 Harvard football with the Silver Star for gallantry at the Moselle River in where he lost his right promoted exc ardinal to sergeant at Albrook Panama Porter former athletics to Captain at Buckley col transferred chary a Detroit second from marys preflight school to the Jack Sonville discharged Carroll one of americas leading from the Navy with a add because of an injured right Elbow inducted Manuel Bantam weight boxing into the army Stan 1943 no batting into the Navy Ron right fielder of the Phillies into the rejected Danny Cardinal for the second time because of an old knee new the which seems to special be in football comes up with another Good one in Buff Donelli former Boss of Cleveland rams Dorelli is training of the Sampson is