European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Only Way we could avoid the problem of predicting the american league pen Nant race this week was to turn it Over to Joe manager of the Boston red Joe has lost 12 pounds where his pants meet his Vest and is in better shape to handle a problem or a hot grounder than he has been in several being of Irish and san Francisco Irish Joe didst need to go into a trance to size up the american he called for a cup of drank it and looked at the Tea leaves left on the Bottom and sides of the All Irish athletes since finn Mccool and Brian Boru have used that method of picking winners except Dan the heavy weight wrestling Champion of a few years Dan didst drink he had to consult with Paul his wrestling any time he wanted to know who was going to win and who was going to pitching will decide the american league said Cronin after draining his the Yankees and Detroit have Superior pitching staffs and they will probably fight it out for the any club like the which can boast of a pitching staff including Hal dizzy Trout and Ruff must be Given a Chance to win the and the have added Al Hes just been Dis charged from the sports by Tom Shehan re y if it bothers him that wont help the Chicago who can Tell much about Chi Cago its another club like All i can say about the red sox is that when Doerr and Wagner went into the service last year we were Only two games out of first we finished we might have finished higher if we had brought Ben Steiner up from Louisville to replace Bobby but Louisville had a Chance to get into the playoffs and we  break the it went into the Little world since last year weve lost Tayor and Par int an experienced Catcher on the r Fred who is up from the Only Catcher we were in the Market for but then just about every other club is looking for a George Metkovich will play first until he goes into the Ben Steiner will play Skeeter who has a Silver plate in his will play shortstop until he is called up for Nick Polly and Jack Tobin Are our Jack is a brother of the braves and Hes just been discharged from the he went to training Camp with Louisville in 1942 and stayed there until he went into the weve got Bob Johnson for left he had a Good year last Pete Fox will play the other outfielders on our squad Joe Cronin thinks the rest of the american league will Trail the Yankees and Detroit tto sir Feir the yanks have Tommy Floyd Bevens and Walter if Joe Page Ever develops control hell be a winning to won four straight when he first came to the Yankees last but then he was knocked out of the Box five times the Browns figure in the were All interested in How Pete their on armed is going to make they Tell me Hes a Good Cleveland will have to classed As an unknown until it solves some of its the indians have a Good Young Pitcher in Steve the As have a Good pitching staff and a steady Newsom and Flores must be rated Good pitchers in these Dick Bush and Kell will be starting their second year As a Washington its hard to Stanley Spence May have to go into the and that will make quite a George Case had an Arm operation this and m i this season Are Leon Lloyd Chris Tom Mcbride and stove the pitchers Are Joe George Emmett Mike red bar Joe Wood Jim Wilson and Oscar Eddie Lake and Jim Bucher Are the extra Cronin starting his Lith year As red sox has reported in Good phys ical condition for a very urgent Joe never lost his ability to he took himself out of the infield when he began to expand around the Middle and found himself tipping his Cap to grounders which should have been sure Johnny Pesky was available to play shortstop and there want too much incentive for Joe to punish but now Pesky an Ensign in the Skeeter new some May leave the red sox any Day Cronin May have to go Back into the red sox minus the 12 pounds that used to interfere with his Joes quite capable of playing wartime big league Cronin trains with red sox at making Patty former women and Helen Fanner ten Nis Are among a group of athletes who have agreed to submit to exhaustive physical examinations to determine whether sports Are harm Ful to contestants the thoroughbred club of America is gathering photographs of famous race horses to be sent to hospitalized veterans As Equine in the next group of sports leaders to go overseas to establish coaching clinics will be John Jack Penn state athletic Trainer director of athletics at Oberlin Ohio College Oscar Ossie Syracuse univer sity football coach Iowa state teachers College and Arthur Hutchins of Lake and the Southern football officials Bill lbs War reported from Germany that when an artillery outfit moved up near the town of Alsdorf the gis found they had to Corral half a dozen horses before they could Start then someone got an said a Bulldozer and it Cut a Circle of turf around the some of the artillerymen volunteered As jockeys and a horse race was staged right there in the Middle of the sports service record Cologne the betting was and a Roan plow horse named Marjorie won All inducted Willie worlds featherweight Champion who was discharged from the Navy in february into the army at fort hospitalized Jimmy for Mer Chicago Green Bay packers and Brooklyn dodgers in Arkansas after receiving the purple heart for being wounded during combat service in new transferred Bill former new York Yankees Back to the United states after Man aging the Navy baseball team during its exhibition tour of the Pacific wounded George Star end for the Georgia Rose bowl team in necessitating the amputation of both killed forger inter nationally famous in Italy where he was serving with the 86th of the 10th Mountain division James former Allstar american league soccer in Man Mountain the now minus famous whiskers and enlisted in the army As Frank shows some of his old tricks to physical instructors at fort