European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May 1948 Patton to face Strong competitors in olympics 24th to top f r j Frankfurt league nines May 17 s 24th to took Over first place in the Frankfurt National league by nosing out handing the latter its first league defeat of the season after three Hanau atop american league clubs by Downing the Hanau Charles Ronk Wen the rout for Hanau striking out nine scattering seven Norman Church of Hanau and Tom Harrell of the signalman each had two the defeat dropped the signal men into a three Way tie for second with the 7772nd which outscored Griesheim and the 26th which trounced the 24th All carrying 32 Pitcher Joe Zielik of the 26th was the Days outstanding per striking out and scattering eight Bingles along the Way with the bags full in the fifth Zielik retired the next three batters by strikeout in the other american league Catcher Charley Hotts two successive homers paced the 709th my 264 lacing of the 884th Hott had a perfect Day at garnering three for sparking the 7702nd and to a 76 Victory in the National league was Pitcher Mike whose second Homer in the eighth provided the margin of Strusowski had connected for the circuit in the first with one in the other National Joe Triano and John kaolin heavy stick work led the 97th to a 132 Triumph Over Faith Apo 025 000 8 3 24th Apo 002 201 8 9 Zielik and freeware Berry and 709th my 651 305 1 003 100 4 7 11 Brook Miller 7 and Blevin Pura 7 and Hott 000 001 8 5 000 010 73 setting Pace in be Loop 17 the 382nd my Ball club is at the top of the be Loop at the end of the second week of play with a record of five victories and one Bremen Barracks holds Down the second spot with four victories against one the policemen won three games last weeks they Defeated the and romped to a 208 score Over the 7775th last years second place the Navy seems to be getting off to a Good Start this at the end of the second it is in fifth place with a record of two Vic tories against three Wranau Hanau Doxtator and 556th 7702nd Clutts Ronk and 110 110 1 401 010 Al 10 Morton and Kato Strusowski and yes 100 100 2 10 5 031 122 14 2 Burkhart 7 and my Daniels Arno and Home runs spark Tornado Victory bad May 17 special the 6th to current leaders of the Heidelberg dubbed the Ramblers in an exhibition the tornadoes hitters lived up to their reputations As Geronimo Mcconnell collected 4for 5 including a run in the Charley me Guire pounded one out of the lot in the second an the Battery of Bob Walton and Johnny Coats accounted for six More hits As they each got 8th to bad nauheim Walton and Coats Alexi 012 006 15 s 000 030 4 standings 382nd my Bremen Marine be Navy 319th staging ares 7775th no Denham w 5 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 Heidelberg slates weekly ring cards takes 71 May 17 in introductory offering of a series of regular weekly boxing the Heidelberg team Defeated the 15th winning five matches by featherweight Joe Manalo Heidelberg Cuadra in a three round and teammate Vernon Borzer decision Ned Bill Roberts in a Light heavy weight lightweight Bill Elliott turned in the Only Victory for the 15th taking a unanimous decision from Andrew Heidelberg is seeking opponents for future matches to be staged every Friday evening at the outdoor swimming arrangements May be made by calling the officer at Heidel Berg 8457 or bulls like too May 17 police cancelled a Bull fight Here because the bulls fought with each other instead of with the Bull Gardner 7 and Heliotrope jumped As in Mark trains trog legend 17 won the title of the most glamorous Frog in All Calaveras county toy taking first place in the 1948 International jumping Frog she also won for Trainer Phil Soyette of who groomed the Winner of the annual a throng estimated at More than this Little Mother lode Community and surrounded Frogtown Arena As Little Heliotrope 11 feet 5 inches to defeat the second Best swamp athlete by 16 inches in the 21st revival of the famed to Safe event was inspired by Mark trains classic the jumping Frog of Calaveras written almost a Boston tally wide open scramble looms in dash events May 17 dash championships in the com ing world olympic games today shaped up As a wide open despite the fact that Mel Patton of the University of Southern California is Able to put in a claim for a new world Mark of seconds in the 0100yard Jim Russell tallies for the Boston braves against the Chi Cago the braves won the game by a score of re impressive in is a triumphs by Dwight correspondent Tmay 17 the successful weekend in Vasion of Vienna by the Salzburg area command it became apparent As the Ufa baseball league headed int6 its third week of that it is strictly up to the potent 1st 16th reds to uphold the baseball Stocky of the big City against from Salzburg ran up a goo sized foot Ball score in Vienna Over the burying the 796th my under a 213 the invading Sal burgers ran into considerably tougher Competition the next afternoon As they edged out the 7791st comfortably going into the seventh the Salz burgers suddenly found them selves with a Ball game on their hands As the 7791st batsmen came to life to run up All five of their runs in that one the powerful 16th info weekend invasion of Linz developed into a pair of utter the reds warmed up against the 25th winning then really turned on Power 1o smother the 24th i standings Frankfurt National league w 24th to it bad nauheim 3 1 97th 3 1 7702nd 2 2 556th 1 s yes 1 8 Hanau 0 3 american league Hanau 7772th Hanau 26th Apo 24th Apo 709th maps Griesheim 884th w 4 4 3 Berlin w 3rd 16th 5 7782nd 6 7826th 5 Tempelhof 4 57th 3 16th Andrews 2 Mcnair 2 759th my 2 civilians 1 279th 0 l 0 1 s z 2 3 1 1 1 4 3 4 s i857 1429 Erding trounces Augsburg 224 May 17 runs by Mclean and Haber powered the Erding Lair depot nine As they lambasted the Augsburg in an exhibition Carl Hinkle got a round tripper for the losers in eighth 1 Augsburg i feb 000 492 Erding 408 380 3 Brandow and be Cheri Johnson 7 and Lujack old timers trip and South May 17 always foot Ball at notre a record practice Day crowd of saw Johnny great Irish play his last and greatest game the notre Dame old timers Defeated the 1948 Lujack completed 15 out of 29 passes for 138 it was the first time in recent history that the notre Dame varsity had lost a practice Windup Haas May survive fractured Skull without operation May 17 Temple University physicians announced they will attempt to Rem Edy Bert Haas Skull fracture without resorting to an the hard hitting third baseman for the Philadelphia was struck by a liner off the Bat of teammate Eddie Nathan babe the Phillies publicity said Haas suffered a depressed fracture at the rim of an Eye and that the doctors will lift the Alexander the phils Are experimenting at using Harry last years batting King now benched for weak at third the spindly sprint off his present will be the Best thing the has to offer in the world it May not be the chances he will get plenty of Competition Dusky Lloyd who will be com Peting for the Republic of Panama Herb who will be run Ning for Jamaica and John the australian to men Tion Justa gets test Friday Labeach proved his ability in big time Competition at the 22nd annual West coast relays Here when he pushed Patton to his world record in the 100yard event and then went on to tie the world 100meter dash Mark of in an other who has been clocked in on a grass track in aus will get his big test on Fri Day when he competes against Labeach and Patton in the Coli Seum in los the j Trio also probably will get into action against each other on sat urday at the California relays in Patton and Labeach stole the so few at Fresno the rest of the athletes did not do tour All 13 Junior College and High school relays records were either broken or other olympic prospects Patton and Labeach had world and National and the Compton Junior Rodege broke the National mile relay for schools of Type with a record of there were a flock of other Good prospects to 3come out of the Fresno among the better were Roy Coch ran of the los Angeles with a seconds Mark in the 400meter hurdles without being Steve Seymour of the same club heaved the Jav Elin 224 feet Willie san Diego College leaped 25 feet inches in the Broad for an other Good chess player 3rd new May 1 Keres of Russia and Samuel re Shevsky of the shared third place in the world chess Champion ship after the final round was played in Moscow radio reported Mikhail Botvinnik already had won the title and his fellow Vassily was champs prepare for 48 race winners in last years 500mile classic at Indianapolis Driver Maurice Rose in oar and car owner Lou hold the Borg Warner trophy which they Hope to win again May