European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Smashing Power at As displayed by shortstop Richard May put the 6th tornadoes in dec world series tornadoes sweep clean the sixth transportation corps which has swamped army opponents All is gunning for the dec baseball championship by Michael Valenti photographs by Erich Engel we be used to Call ourselves the but a Panther jumps in and claws you to so we changed the name of the team to the tornadoes cause a Tornado sweeps clean when it goes we move in and they know weve been the Milton Bola of the sixth transportation corps truck battalion Tor rubbed huge Palms the Batter caught the signal and cracked out a Long double to Mann Heim stadiums left and the base runner rounded third and crossed the Karlsruhe 385th maps were Al ready looking for the nearest storm cellars and it was Only the fifth score nine to once More the hottest baseball team in the Heidelberg military Post were Busy razing h opposition again As they had in Twentyfive of their Twenty six previous undefeated in eleven league games the tornadoes were by Way of forging five and games out m front of the their nearest responsible for the tornadoes record is a sincere team spirit backed up by a rollicking aban Don at a pitching and the spark plug that is thirty six Sinfo Otto sergeant Bola All Twenty four men on the squad believe implicitly they can tear through the league bowl Over the other league winners in the second military Down the other command and come out top dog in the i world series set for september they Are working earnestly toward continued on Page 23 Fleet base running helps the team Roll up fat scores first Sacker Horace Nelson follows a line
