European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1943 the stars and stripes Page 0 Home sign for match new March 3 grat move was made toward arranging a return middleweight title fight Between Champion Rocky Grasiana and Tony Zale at Griffith in late Graziano signed a Vontitte 10round bout with George Sonny Horne at Washington thine Arena on april promoters Gol die a earn of Washington and Al Well of new York said they regarded Tegra Ziair Horne match not Only As Rocky Graziano great fight in it but also As a stepping Stone to toe Graziano Zale title the Horne bout be Graziano Tost fight since he wrested the 160pound Crown from Zale at Chicago stadium last Stormy petrel of the fight has no License to fight in new York state of difficulties Over Faffing to report three offers of fight he has been indirectly barred in several other states be Carree of the dishonourable discharge he received the army for being absent without despite Graziano Lack of Wel come in other areas he wih be permitted to fight in according to who said Tine is Striet of Columbia boxing com Mission had sanctioned the Gra Sian Horne match w e i theams promotional explained to reporters at the signing ceremonies in Broadway offices that the District commission had approved the bout because Rocky was giving his purse to he emphasized that the Champion who receive Only one or the Home gambling evidence nil probe pistol Pete Eye injury forces Riffin to retire Froin ring action hew March 3 up Bobby Ruffin of Astoria former lightweight announced his retirement from the ring because of an Eye after Bis last fight with Al pen at Ridgewood Grove on Buff in discovered that he was going Blind in his left to save bit he underwent Art opera Tion for detached my sight is he believe the Eye will be rangers nip Toronto in drive for playoffs new March 3 new York sparked by the Brilliant goal tending of sugar Jim shut out the league leading Toronto Maple before a crowd of at Madison Square the Victory gave the hangers a six Point go rep on third place As March 3 Clarence Campbell the National hockey league received evidence which he said gave him the basis for an investigation into gambling Lead to the suspension of one or More Campbell was Given the evidence by Detroit police commissioner f Harry who stipulated thai it must be kept confidential because the hockey investigation is Cimental to a general criminal the information was revealed Campbell and other league officials at a Public hearing before governor Kim Campbell said he would proceed cautiously in his own it vesti gation because of the damage that could result for the league and navys Pete Williams undergoes raw Navy Grid Ace has operation March 3 pistol Pete Star Navy football bade and is recuperating from a rare operation on the but is doctors say he will be fit and ready to play again next fall Kermit chief of surgery at the naval Academy said George Bennett of Johns Hopkins Hospital per formed the ankle condition was apparently the result of a football Perkins it involved a Small Loose Bone known As the astragalus and held the danger of becoming a bothersome floating the operation is known technically As Osseo chondrites the condition usually occurs in the knee and not in the per Kins he said Williams is but fat become a a cast several approximately 130 professional bouts during the past he Defeated such prom intents As Beau Johnny Cleo Harold Mike Chalky and Auie Rampart ties with shot silk in Miami race six year old and three year old hit the wire nos Tonose in a dead beat in the added Black Helen closing feature of Hialeah 40day Well Ridden by jockey Mike Basile moved into the Lead at the three Quarter pole and stayed there into the where shot Mcook closed fast on the inside to gain a tie in the last 10 As they boiled toward the they matched strides like horses on a merry ground and got Inch separated them in the final ernsts Alfonie was five lengths off the time for the mile and a Furlong was Flat it was the fifth dead heat in the 40day Rampart paid and while shot silk re turned and Alfonie paid 350 to top weighted at 112 and shot silk carrying each won s it was the first dead heat in the history of the Black for fillies Ard first run in they drove toward their first Stanley cup playoff in six it prevented the Leafs from Widen ing their twi Point Lead Over the Idle second place Detroit red Henry was excellent no place like Home new March 3 in the first 144 games played in the basketball association of America this the Home team won 78 of the games for 54 per Bay Kayos Brown while fans boo March 3 Elmer violent the Hastings a heavyweight knocked out Willie new York City in of the fourth round of a scheduled 10 round fight before booing it was hardly a contest As the Veteran who has twice met challenger Joe pummelled brawn almost at the final blow came shortly be fore the fourth ended when Ray landed a looping right to the Brown simply sat on the Canvas through the count of Union March 3 mail who came As close m anybody to lifting Joe Louis Crown said he had out things about the exam their fight Joe Walcott told the North kiwanis if Joe Louis in going to fight the sums Lof fight i fought last Otbo Traer thought to found out things about Louis december fight that i didst said the who knocked in Ilia Down As a partner in the bombers Walcott did not Bay what under found9 weakness  picture of his Knockdown of Louis Iri Jersey Joe says lie knows just How she challenger said he was going to advantage of weaknesses he discovered in there Are six Kidskin Camden who Are going to be the proudest six kids in said whose six youngsters were at borne in Walcott said he regretted very much an ultimatum from louts demanding that he for title go ii with a certain time or Elss the would get another Joe Louis will be warned when i get him la Taj ring the night Tuune the fight is carded for Yankee As he notched his i second shutout of the season and the first for any goalie in the Garden this previously he had shut out the in Detroit on christinas the rangers gave their Little net minder his sole tally when Edgar Laprade backed the rubber be Hind Turk Broda Vivean Dahal minutes after the game after that both goalies were in Henry had been a slightly doubt since he fainted after the rangers last there was nothing West about his Mormance nigh ii per Harmon leads at Palm Beach Palm March 3 a Claude Harmon of Palm Beach led professional golfers in the ninth an Nual pro Amateur at the fashionable Senri Nole dub with a playing the par72 course he knows so teamed with Eusworth new to tie for the Lead in team play with a b3 Sam hot Springs and George Bridgeport the hormonal Vord score to share the the Duke of teamed with Bobby was Wen bade with a Locke tied for second among the pros with Ben Hogan hersh3y at pros team with amateurs As Well As shooting individual honors in the today 36hole Dirk Ger tied in women Golf meet Ormond March 3 Agnes Wall of Meno Minee and Carol Diringer of Tiffin Ohio tied for medallist honors in the women South at lactic Golf miss Wall scored is consistent 38 miss Diringer was out in 40 but came Back in 36 for her 76 match play begins today with the final round a Edued for players if charges were preferred without sufficient no wire recordings i am very impressed with what i have found he 1 now have a Takeoff Point established for my i might make a suspension of one or More players if come upon More information necessary to supple ment what is contained in this re toy stated that the Detroth did not have wire recordings made of Telephone conversations in which Gambler James 36yeaiotd parole was alleged to have talked first to a player with the Boston Bruins and later to Hava called a player on the new rangers urging him to make a bet in the conversation with the Bruins allegedly made while the team in Tamer reportedly received information that the Boston team was in poor condition Campbell silent president Weston Adams and coach Aubrey Dit Clapper of the Bruins and Jack manager of the Detroit red were the other hockey officials to attend the after studying the he formation from refused to whether a Boston player was involved As previously reported by two were he but neither was located in Mac rockets Harris for Cash from Brooklyn new March 3 Brooklyn dodgers of the a lamer Ica football conference the contract of halfback Elanor a Harris to the Chicago rockets for an undisclosed amount of an outstanding Middle distance runner and a olympic candidate while still at Morgan state joined Tho dodgers at the Start of the 1947 the who admitted they were reluctant to part with the negro Saiid the move would help both Harris and sic weighs 175 is 5 feet 1c inches in tract he beat the vaunted Herb Mckenley Mclean is fourth in Holme Kollen ski meet 3 combined div Nhill and slalom races of the Holmen Collen the worlds biggest was won by the swedish olympic Olle who placed second in the slalom he was fourth in downhill Aak Nilsson and no ways Marius Riksen tied for second and the Barney Mclean was after Brilliant skiing placed him third in the slalom event the slalom event was won by Nilsson in second was Mann in third was Mclean in and fourth was basks to in 142a the ladles slalom was Fey Borghild Niskian of Norway who also won the downhill Sweden Sarah Thomasson russian Semi Rasumov fell ing run and did not the women combined event was won by Niskin with Thom Sossos