European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                10 the stars and stripes commanders grab Northern regional Gage conquer 1st in playoff fro these new York giant players Exchange notes on the operations they had in left to right Are pitchers Dave Oslo and Joe who had Elbow outfielder Bobby a knee outfielder whiter an ankle they working out Kincs in Spring training with the giants in their training Acme reds victors in  Edge 32 As defeat nats March 15 Ewe i generally regarded a the major leagues Foremost Pitcher in made his 1948 debut for Cincinnati As the reds eked out a 32 Victory Over the Louis cardinals before babe Ruth was among the spectators who watched right hander Blackwell yield three hits in the three innings he the cardinals tied the score at 22 in the top of the ninth when Enos coun try Slaughter homered off Harry Gumbert the won the con test in the last half of the Frame when Virgil Stallcup singled and scampered Home on Frankie Baum March 15 Simmons made his Spring pitching debut an auspicious oae by handcuffing the Detroit tigers for four innings and turning out the winning Pitcher in the Phila Delphia Phillies 91 the Rookie struck out three tigers and gave up one hit and one walk in his four inning dutch Leonard finished up mid gave up one Rookie first led a 12hit phils clubbing stubby Overmire for a two run Homer in the second inning and driving in another run with a single the it was the phils first exhibition we St Palm March 15 runs in the eighth inning gave the Philadelphia athletics a 52 Triumph in the rubber match of their three game series with the Washington sen the As pounded Rookie Pitcher Vernon Curtis for three Drew three walks and cashed in on an error by another Short Stop Jim in the Field the As looked they scored four double three of them involving Pete Eddie Joost and Rudy san March 15 up Cleveland Speedball Ace Bob Feller made an unimpressive Start in the exhibition season As he and right hander Bob Lemon event Down to a 65 defeat at the hands of the san Francisco Feller started on the to own for the giving four hits and three runs before retiring in favor of Lemon atthe end of the seals touched Lemon for four More including a two run rally in the which sewed we the March 15 Billy Southworth of the Boston braves warned his players that unless they try pick off plays in exhibition lie will order them out earlier in the morning to practice these deceptive Southworth also announced that he would make cuts his squad before the team Breaks Camp Here april purchased and drafted players must be Given a full months trial and therefore cannot be Dis posed of before april this Rule does not apply to operatives re called from minor league March 15 Dimaggio celebrated his 1948 debut with a Lothian engr Home run with two men on to give the new York Yankees a 58 Victory Over the Boston red sox before a record turnout of the red sox had broken the scoreless Duel in the top half of the 10th on two hits and errors by Phil Rizzuto and George the yanks tied the score before Johnny Lindell and Tommy Hen Rich were walked and Dimaggio unloaded his cleanup de Lopat started for the giving up Only one hit in three he Wes followed by vie Raschi and ratty Windy Ellis Jack Charlie Stobbs and Harry Coleman shared the pitching for the Gumpert was Stobbs the March 15 Only six three of them the Boston braves bowed to the new York i the new after scoring single runs in each of the first three innings off Vern subsided until the when they pushed four More counters across while Ray Hardee Fetzer a Pinch hit double by Bobby Brown of world series Fame produced the last two March 15 Jack Sid i Bob Thomson and Bob Blattner whacked homers As the giants Defeated the White in the rubber match of a three game those and a triple by accounted for All new York Bill who relieved Frank Papish in the was the Larry Mario Picone and Ray Poat worked the winning chores for the with Poat the siesta time for Senor Casey its on old Spanish custom a4d portly Hugh Brooklyn Relief takes a siesta on the dodger thai dodgers their training in dominican by William correspondent Bremerhaven March 15 than frenzied a turned out see safes Camp Lindsey commanders slip past the to capture the Northern regional Champion ship basketball 7 constabulary had walloped Safe the night to the commander their first both finalists will represent the Northern District in the Neucom playoffs in playing against the Winner and runner up in the Southern regional Turko gets clincher the two teams battled frantically for the in which the game ended with double fouls being called on both at the final unnerved by the roars title six foot four Safe Center John Turko saved the from going into an overtime by splitting the hoop his toss to Ioe the Victory for Safe it missed his Point could have sent the game into overtime if Turkos free shot had gone the Sharp shooting arid fast breaking play of squads had the crowd gasping with admiration for a game in which the score never varied More than four and saw the count tied up on eight the Lead change hands 10 times before the winners broke deadlock in the final period to capture the in the first Quarter Safe trimmed constabulary fou Point margin to Lead at the end of the Lindsey knots count score was tied four times in the second which ended in an in the third Canto the Lead alternated once for both and was tied once by Safe when Murle Darnell connected with a Long set shot that knotted the count at Turko broke the knot for but George Russell and Macdonald co Stab out front to end the the final Canto started out in a 2727 deadlock after safes for Ward Ronald Garber made Good his penalty the period was a Duel Between Darnell arid Ivan who took their chances from my court to make Good for six and seven the score was 3736 at the final before Turko collected his sensational  penalty toss that gave Safe the three men hit double figures in the title leading the victors was Murle Darnell with 13 while Powell and Russell shared Honor for the losers with 11 scribe name top Ca Gemei in by Bill Zalenski staff correspondent 15 s while the Champion furs tense Bruck and runner up prepare for Neucom finals Munich thoughts of the Souther battalion level turn tourney teams and i divid having sat through All 11 g that the particular to div dual we came up wit the following Al tourney team con and Bob Hen formerly Flanc furs Tea Feld Bruck dust a iwo Charles of the 4th Ziemer was tourney outstanding the sit six footer did everything a supposed to do with a Bas Ketba his 73 an average of was High for the Hill earned the other Forwand spot on the basis of his aggressive play and scoring Brunne ran away with Center Leaf ing fusty in scoring with 69 poin i and playing an important role the eagles fast Dostal and Simmons were p haps the two Best defensive me on the their Johnny ont spot play was a crowd Lea coaches name 11 men to Allstar team bad March 15 up Neucom athletic offi today released an Al Southern Ginals team selected by coached in the recently concluded tournament in those men named were forwards Dave Ziemer and John Mccormick 4th Arii George Herzo base Ceni Furstenfeld Nick 6th con Dick 1st an3 Mintus Henry Kaseane Don 1st and Bob s take Lead in nil Whitewash 30 March 15 Toronto maps Leafs blanked the Chicago before a turnout of to take Over first place in the s National hockey league it was Chicago 10th by Toronto and marked the last engagement Between the two before the game the Blackhawk held a mathematical Chance for the Stanley cup but the defeat completely eliminated the Chicago failure to Dent the nets dropped Stireo Hawks away from the leagues div dual Gaye Bud Poile and Bentley now Trail the buddy Oconnor of the rangers and Elmer Lach of three and two Toronto Ted Kennedy started the scoring in the first sinking a goal at after intercepting Johnny Mariuccio across the Harry Watson made it 20 in the second period wife assists from Syl Apps and Wally Bill Ezinicki took pass from Gua Morton to the final score in third