European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Dick sports editor that wrinkled 85yearold face of Connie Macks must have truly beamed when his athletics took measure of the Yankees in both ends of i their memorial Day bargain those victories probably made him the happiest Man in checking tote we find that this was the first time since August that the As took a doubleheader from the new the Yankees looking More and More like the Bronx bombers of it was even More re the Harris men have lately been the hardest hitting team in either of the major the Canad Anborn Philadelphia shaded Yan Kee Spud Chandler in the opener 1 to Chandler allowed but three but Cut a wild sandwiched Between Eddie boosts double and Elmer which spoiled brother babe ruths first coach and broke into the news again during this in the second it was another of his Joe who hurled the 4 to 0 heres one for Ripley in the second game of the memorial Day doubleheader Between the braves and bespectacled Earl Boston first equalled a National league record when he finished the game without having handled a the same game in which Charley red Barrett showed a Flash of the form which brought him 23 victories in without issuing a he allowed the dodgers but five in the opening game Between these two lefty Warren Spahn won his eighth consecutive Victory of the current Campaign for the this years Boston red sox have thus far proven they Are not an away Romyome Ball they have won but two games while dropping on their present trip around the did you notice where Stan Spence of the Washington senators has cracked out three Home runs in the last three games giants new june 3 master Mel Ott remarked that the new York giants had a youngster1 on the club who was bound to become a top ranking everybody in the popular Little managers office thought he was referring to Clint the fabulous Texas As if Reading the newspaper boys the National leagues Home run King smiles and said i dont mean Al though Hes plenty in re Ferring to our scotch Bobby boy is a natural the boy is a Ott i dont believe there to a position he cant and he can the lad has a smooth Hes bound to prove popular with new York Thomson apparently is one of those the 23yearold Glasgow born now re siding Here came up to the giants at the tale end of last season highly regarded As an outfielder and As a third base Short in experience apparently the Only thing Thomson lacks is he has played Only a Little More than one scouted by George Veteran giant Ivory Thomson attended a Polo grounds tryout that was in he was sent to Bristol in the appalachian league where he to get into 15 games be fore he joined the after his discharge Early in Thomson was promoted to Jersey City where he banged out 25 Home runs and batted in runs in 150 he reported to the giants at the end of the International league season and batted in 18 two of his blows were Home los june 3 Theusch trojans Pell Mel Pat ton yesterday equated the Sec Ond world record for the 100yard dash for the second time in nine Days to Lead his teammates to an Victory Over the Urcla Patton pulled up lame with a slightly pulled Tendon at the end of the Century and was forced to withdraw from 220yard his other because of a  tall the second Mark will not be submitted for approval As a Patton ran the Fresno relays with no Tail two meet records fell in the a clause one in mile As Duclas Frank Fletcher turned on a terrific burst of Speed in the 50 Yards to nose out teammate Ralph Gold and uses Jim Slosson in the old record was set in 1935 when Ross Bush of us ran it in Servo Aims for comeback june 3 manager Al Weill announced recently that former welterweight Champion Servo has gone into training at Asbury in a comeback aimed at regain ing the title he relinquished last fall when the new York boxing commission suspended nats sell Mae Kiewice june the Washington senators have sold Utility infielder George an outfielder Felix Mackiewicz to Jersey foul Ball a 1946 retrieving record of 26 foul balls in 40 amiable Al Madison Square Garden skating instructor is out to better Mark this he is with some of his prizes while Yankee Charley Dressen looks this genial ghost of the new York ballparks seems to favor the spot Between third base and left Field and in picture on the Green demonstrates his flawless International news photo american league batting Mcquinn new York Dimaggio new runs Keller new 35 Boston 31 rims batted in Keller new York 35 Williams 29 Dimaggio York hits Dillinger Louis 52 Kell Detroit 49 Chicago 49 Home runs Keller new 13 Williams 11 stolen bases Dillinger Louis 11 Philley 6 strikeouts Newhouser Detroit 71 Feller 63 pitching w l Hutchinson 5 1 York 51 National league batting Mize new Walker runs Mize York 42 Thompson new York 34 runs batted in Torgeson 36 Mize new York 35 hits Baumholtz Cincinnati 52 Mize new York 50 Slaughter Louis 50 Home huns4 Mize new York 14 Miller Cincinnati 10 stolen bases Torgeson 7 Haas Cincinnati 6 Robinson Brooklyn 6 strikeouts Blackwell Cincinnati 46 Branca Brooklyn 42 pitching w Spahn 8 0 Hartung new1 York 4 0 split with giants new june 3 there was hubbub in the Hub City today of the same sort that gripped the town when the red sox were running away to the Pennant a year this time the braves were the Center of sex the still strictly1 dark horses in the National league Pennant moved to third place today by sweeping their Sec end doubleheader in three 20 and 87 Over the Pittsburgh Sain in shutout Johnny pitching his fifth Victory and his second was Superb All the Way in win Ning the opener in which he held Pittsburgh to three hits and struck out two of the hits were by Hank Bob Elliott drove in both of Bostons one on a in the second Boston won out in the 10th inning when Johnny Hopp singled and scored on Connie ryans Long Ralph Kiner hit two Hom ers for Pittsburgh and Cully Rikard got the braves made four runs in the eighth to go 73 but Pittsburgh tied it up with four in the Ricards Homer accounting for two of the 9th inning Homer the Pace setting giants came rom behind to defeat the reds at Stew 139 after Cincinnati ook the first 53 on Eddie Millers two run his 10th of the in the the saints came from behind to take he second game with six run sin he seventh wid three More in he Ernie Lombardi and Johnny Mize each drove in three runs on three hits with Lombardi and Bill Rigney getting homers and Frankie Baum Boltz hitting one for Cincinnati Relief Pitcher Harry who won the first game when he took Over for starter Ewell was charged with the he came in to Bear the Brunt of the big attack in the Black Well went out with Elbow Jinx holds Good the second place getting the most out of their Jinx Over the Defeated them for the seventh straight time this at 43 to move within a half game of new a triple by Clyde Mccullough scored Bob Sturgeon with the winning run in the peanuts Lowrey hit a two run Homer for the cubs in the Brecheen loses the dodgers lambasted four Cardinal hurlers for 11 hits and breezed to a 61 Victory behind Rookie Harry Taylor at Dixie Walker and Carl Furillo each made three dodger hits arid Peewee Reese smashed his fourth Homer of the Harry Brech the dropped his third decision of the year and his second to an umpires decision which toppled the ghz athletics from among the top team san the Amer ican baseball league of Japan sunday is being protested to eighth army special services ghz special services announced after to the 1st cavalry division troopers Satur Day at Camp the athletics were on the Short end of a 21 score in the eighth stanza sunday where the first base Umpire called for a forfeit to the the George Bents urged the forfeit because ghz Jeanv Captain Robert Hackett went onto the Field to protest to the chief Umpire that a balk had been the alleged if it been called As a penalty against the would have advanced runners from first to second and from third to Home tying the score with no men the athletics claim their team Captain breached no since they believe time had been called by the head Umpire when he went on the saturday Rentz had barred Robert ghz playing from the Ball and sunday he ordered Onge into the dugout after the latter pro tested the balk with Ghys saturday loss and the sunday forfeit sent the 25th division into first place in league the Twenty fifth division led by Pitcher Richard shutout the Kosse base nine last sunday at Kobe by a score of the first Man crossed the plate for the Stags in the first the victorious nine scored an other in the still another in the three in the seventh and put the game on ice with two in the with this game to his Burkhardt now has a total of five wins to to Lith which had been tied for second place with the dropped its game to the 4th replacement de both games scheduled Satur Day and sunday Between 24th division and in corps were rained a doubleheader was scheduled for yesterday after Tokyo softball league wednesday june 4 Doolittle Field is band is medics is Washington b Field is stars stripes is i Navy tops Cornell afr Cayuga june 3 in the final big test before the fanned Poughkeepsie navys varsity Crew Defeated Cor Nell by four feet in a last ditch Bat the yesterday along the two mile course on Cayuga san june Bok vegetable eating 24 year old who won the Boston Marathon last month in the fastest time in history int sure he will the korean team for next years there Are Many Fine distance runners in my i am one of he who said his name Means slow in arrived Here thursday in Back to his native land with Kee Chung Winner of the olympic Marathon at Berlin in 1936 and Seung Yong both of whom competed in the Boston they plan to sail next wednes Day aboard the general you can Tell friends will have a team at the next olympics under Korea own Suh announced with he expressed Surprise the americans never considered the koreans As particularly great distance run schoolboys in teens have been running Over the Hills for Genera runs for 10 or 15 Miles for fun Are common in korean Vil Suh Pacific and stripes Page three june 3 the american gophers wish that Bobby Locke would go Back to Hunting tigers or whatever else they do in South the Knicke Clad Winner of Goodall invitational tournament offered his Victory formula yes and steady that was what the blond1 belter from the Veldt said was the main Factor in his great Triumph Day in which he came from be Hind with closing round four Par 68 to pass the Pace Vic Ghezzi of Kansas i want worried when Lew Worshard and Ghezzi got ahead of he i concentrated on playing a steady game and the patience to wait for the if there were any Transvaal perfectionist made his final match score of plus 37 was amassed with sparkling Chip game featured by seven Boundary clouts Kramer hurls Browns to Victory the Yankees put on another tremendous burst of Home run at Cleveland to in an american league Joe Dimaggio hitting two and George Mcquinn and Charley Keller get Ting one1 Cleveland also went for full distance Bob Hal Peck Eddie Robinson getting dimag gios second Boundary blast came with the bases loaded and broke a 7all tie in the the see Ond game of a scheduled double header was rained Jack Kramer pitched his first Victory in More than a month at Louis As the Browns won from the he pitched shutout Ball after the first inning and gave up but six hits in the who Are playing a running game this de a double steal for their first tally in the Bobby Dillin Ger and Johnny team ing up to work the trick play to Browns now have stolen 25 two More than they stole All of last Jeff Heath hit triple and Homer and Vernon Stephens also hit a Homer for the the second game was rained the Washington at Detroit and Boston at Chicago doubleheaders were both rained shot and putting that was a intently spectacular throughout the five round scramble at Char Les River country Locke trailed Lew Worsham of As play opened and they just Matching Par he to pick up steam in the later rounds and raced ahead of in winning the first prize the Par Buster from Down Africa Way gained his fourth tout raiment Victory since coming to the United states two months Ghezzi with his plus Ellsworth vines with a third place plus Jimmy de Maret with fourth place 17 Herman Barren with a plus agreed Locke would be the Man to beat in the National june 3 the Louis Browns of the Amer baseball league have chosen san for their 1948 Spring Bill de vice announced last de Witt said the Browns had decided not to to Miami be cause there would be inadequate playing facilities next he Laid Miami officials planned to enlarge the Orange at thee Pense of the Ball Par which is adjacent to nor Pacific coast league Hollywood Oakland 3 los Angeles san Francisco 2 13 innings san Diego Sacramento 3 Seattle at Portland International league Toronto 1st game Buffalo 5 Montreal Rochester 3 Jersey Newark 4 x Only games american association Kansas City Milwaukee 10 Columbus Toledo 3 Only games scheduled Southern association Memphis Little Rock 2 Nashville Chattanooga 4 Only games scheduled Texas league Tulsa fort Worth 5 Beaumont san Antonio 5 Dallas Oklahoma City 4 Shreveport Houston 1 Junior president Johnson is take pictures of you crime stoppers for Magazine we really cot a were All out to help kids Htmat need we feel that idleness makes trouble for a lot of we believe in Odd jobs after our motto is it new june 3 at last like the big time Colt that millions of turf fans had touted him to scored a stirring Victory yesterday in the Milean Dahal Belmont stakes and threw the Battle for three year old thoroughbred honors into a soaring to the front in the stretch in this most grueling of the triple Crown Phalanx put on a Brilliant burst of Speed to outlast the Longshot who finished a fast closing second ahead of another who disappointed his backers by failing As the favorite in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness had a new rider yesterday in Young Ruperto Dono who succeeded the Eddie american league w l Detroit 24 14 new York 21 17 Cleveland 16 15 Boston 19 19 Philadelphia 18 20 Washington 16 19 Chicago 18 22 Louis 15 21 be 5 6 s Amateur golfers compete new june 3 Golf association revealed yesterday a total of including a record number of Ama will compete in 26 qualifying sections today for the 126 places still available in the Field for the open championships at Louis june mondays results Boston at two Washington at two postponed 1st game Philadelphia 000 000 2 62 Louis 004 030 Fox 7 to 0 Philadelphia at 2nd game 1st game new York 020 050 41 13 0 Cleveland 000 140 220 9 11 2 winning Home Dimaggio National league w l pvt go 15 is n new York 22 Chicago 22 Boston Brooklyn 21 17 17 19 4 Philadelphia 23 Cincinnati 17 23 Louis 15 23 t mondays results 1st game Pittsburgh 031 Boston 001 Fox 294 winning Home 2nd 10 innings Pittsburgh 010 000 204 0 7 10 9 Boston 000 101 140 1 8 14 3 winning Home Kiner Chicago 200 010 010 4 1 Philadelphia 000 100 3 11 1 Home Louis 000010000 1 Brooklyn 031 Fox 6 11 0 winning 1st game Cincinnati 200 010 002 new York 000 111 000 winning 2nd game Cincinnati 500 200 200 9 10 3 new York 200 110 63x 13 15 2 winning Home Home 5 8 0 381 Home Well informed and temperate expression of opinion about improvement of practices of the military establishment has a place in army Par 3d we Cir 103 6 apr All letters must be if the writers name will not be Only questions of general interest will be and no per Sonal replies can be letters containing language considered offensive will not be discuss one topic in keep letters i id 200 words include address and additional signatures will be acknowledged when written in full address comment and query Pacific stars and Apo Anthony advises May 23 have a problem what has been on All of our minds for some As we have been Reading of the marriages of gis of British and other girls the following question comes to our Why cant we marry japanese girls during our tour of duty quite some Many of us have become quite fond of girls Over cant this democratic army drop some of its Pride and let us go ahead in spite of the racial differ we Are supposed to impress the japanese with the truth that All men Are created Why dont we practice that we preach lets hear from some other outfits and see what they think about this 13 Ems names withheld the marriage Between american and japanese nationals is looked upon with Disfavour because an alien marries an american citizen does not automatically become an american present immigration Laws restrict Japa Nese nationals from coming to the United also there is no guarantee that americans discharged in Japan will Ber authorized to live indefinitely in hence any marriage an american Soldier and a japanese girl May result in permanent information May 29 in reference to the article in regarding Massachusetts state these bonuses May still be Massachusetts is giving for duty within the Continental limits of the and for duty other state Bonus rates May be obtained by writing to the Yokohama of the veterans of foreign Apo vow Apo 503 local jokes preferred May As a War Bill Mauldin was but who enjoys seeing bitter emotionally ironic cartoons of of the past few Days for would much rather see some topical cartoons by local something More a propos to the there is a great Deal of humor in this Why not let those gifted gis put some of it in stars and stripes we All get a kick out of schemers and in sure there Are others who would be willing to contribute if they were Given a Morris Bureloff Apo 24