European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                General put fast is famous backed into a Corner hat him up in sports service record m i a 1 s p o r to hype Igoe link Between old and new in boxing to his hype the famous new York journal american sportswriter who died last was a sentimentalist Liv ing in the he was forever discovering another Stanley another Jim Corbett or another Jack but his Latte Day corbetts and Dempsey always developed Glass fortunately for his own peace of hype never took their failures to he went right on predicting future greatness for other lookingglass fighters who were sensational Only in the but to people in the boxing and sports writing business who knew him during his of duty hype was a pleasant link with the pre world War i never Home character who would sit up All night telling old stories and singing old everybody loved and the stories that were told about him received far wider circulation than those he he had some strange Broadway juice stand attendants remember him As the Little Man in the Pinc Enez glasses and Turtle neck sweater who insisted on having his Orange juice served and he liked to go out on the Road with the fighters he wrote Max Baer dreaded goes arrival at his training Camp because hype would rap on his bedroom doer every morning and shame him into doing Road like most of the old school of fight hype fancied his own ability to throw a As big As a Robin and As he was particularly proud of his left at the annual journal Clambake one his associates ribbed him up to try it out on the late Tom the former Al american football player and noted Gridiron and turf official who was Over 6 feet tall and weighed More than 230 sneaking up on the unsuspecting hype let Fly with his it landed flush on Thorps Granite like Tom merely blinked and said if that the Best you can throw it it aint no for years Igoe never bought a pair of Damon Runyon fancied expensive footwear but dreaded breaking it hype took care of that detail for him and always wore the Runyons favorite Igoe Story concerns hypes vague managerial connection with Stanley the fighter whom he and almost everyone else considered the greatest middleweight of All the fabulous and unscrupulous Wilson Mizner was a Friend of and when hype took Ketchel to Phil Adelphia for a Wilson went along for the Ketchel won and made a very favor Able impression on on the Way Back Home hype was sitting in a drawing room on the train when Stanley came threw two guns on the table and said i want to talk a Little business with i think i prefer to have Mizner manage me from now looking at the hype swallowed and that next to boxing hype loved to cover the six Day Bike races at Madison Square on one such occasion he strolled out of the Gar Den with Jack then a sportswriter on the daily to have a few drinks at Mickey walkers bar across the Miley had been enjoying himself at the Bike and he was complaining because he had to leave town and go to Philadelphia to cover the army and Navy football hype said youre a much younger Man than i the Way to succeed is to do your assignment no matter How distasteful it seems to go to Philadelphia and do the Story and do a Good after each drink hype would scold Miley about not taking his assignments finally hype missed but decided that he had gone outside to buy a after a few More hype looked up and there was Miley beside him drinking a Igoe its getting remember you have to cover that silly football game in said Ive been to Philadel Ive covered the army Navy game and Ive come Navy won have a wince an ordnance set a new High jump record for India of 6 feet 5 inches in the Al american track and Field meet at the football club stadium in Marshall College of had to cancel a game with the University of Mary land after most of its varsity basketball players were called up in the draft while Stanley Louis cardinals was posing for a publicity picture at Bainbridge naval a Rookie who failed to recognize the big leaguer told him he want holding his Bat Musial Good Nat redly adjusted his grip and the photo Joe snapped the George former Nebraska and Snerl was head coach of foot bail at the University of new Hampshire before he went into the is at marys pref get school after 17 months of duty aboard the Carrier Enterprise Joe Skladony cup Pitt s All american end who left the head coaching berth at Carnegie tech to enter the describe Exa Sheville High school Star who played for Bain Bridge naval station last As the fastest thing i be seen in Earl pop who recalled that he won the featherweight of the ref in Paris after the first world was a Spectator at the Carolinas Golden Gar Wood chief of the Hull training Section Gordon John Fla predicts that sir Malcolm Campbells record of 141 Mph in a speedboat will be broken after the he maintains that motors devel oped in recent years will enable boats to reach a Speed of 200 Mph or discharged Charley former washing ton redskins from the re Chicago cubs at fort Mas transferred Norman red former marys col lege to Sampson naval training Center to succeed James sleepy Jim Crowley former Fordham who has been detached for his second tour of duty in the South promoted Earl Meadows for Mer pole vaulting Champion at University of Southern to Captain in the fourteenth air Force in China Tommy sex Brooklyn dodgers to Corporal at Robbs wounded copt George end on georgias 42 Rose bowl in Belgium Tommy Tampa Fla in killed Joe National Tennis Champion in in an air plane crash in bulldog dons while getting his Basic training at fort Clyde Bull dog exch Cago bears wont have much use for the football he is storing in his Barracks