European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1941 the and stripes 9 bums Belt in seventh loss hands Birds sixth defeat in Row june 3 two run double by Gil Hodges gave the Brooklyn dodgers the margin needed for a 53 Victory Over Louis it the dodgers first Triumph was the redbirds this season and the sixth consecutive loss for St Joe Hatten allowed the Birds hits and six the loss put the cardinals a game and a half out of first place and sent the dodgers up one step nation Al league race to sixth Hodges Gam winning double came in the seventh inning the game tied after spider Jorgen Preston Ward bunted safely and Gene Hermanski forced Jorgensen at third red Munger started for the gave up seven hits and an equal number of and left the game for Al Brazle in the seventh after Hodges Box score on Page 11 Sain throttles 51 june 3 Johnny Sain allowed Only three Hite to Lead the Oston braves to a 51 Victory Over the Pittsburgh a crowd of saw the bucs pull the first triple play 6f the National league season in the eighth i v v Bookie first baseman de Stevens engineered the triple tolling after Earl Torgeson had walked and Phi Masi had beaten out a bunt Alyin Erk popped to who stepped on first to double an threw to shortstop Stan Rojek to get Torgeson As he to elide Back into the pirates Only run came in the ninth As Ralph Kiner opened the inning to blast Bis 12th Homer o the Sain pitched chalking up his fourth Triumph of the season against four the braves got to starter Vic Lombard for three runs in the sixth to up the Bob Elliott to left to Start the an Jeff Heath promptly both scored on Torgeson Torgeson advanced to second on an stole third and came Home darks Outfield singles and Tommy Lholmes and Jim v russells double accounted for the two runs in Boa score on Page sport open play saturday june 3 Neucom play will be Gin saturday with All 12 teams in the feature will take place at Between the 7782nd of Berlin and 7891st of other two Northern division games pit be against the 7704th wac det at Frankfurt end 7772nd against Wiesbaden d at Southern division tilts Send the 7792nd wac def of Vienna against1 the 98th at co Stab of Stuttgart against the Erding base at and the 7822nd Sci wac Dei of Munich against 7733rd wag at More and the Battle of words Between Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott gets further out hand and the Only tiling that is taking a beating is the Louis claims Walcott ran away from him during their late 15round meeting and gave a Chance to catch him wife either one of his lethal even As we write this we Aie viewing with some a picture we have pasted on the office Wall that shows Champ Joe Fiat on with Jersey Joe standing right Over maybe Jersey into Champ Joe Ana knocked him we think Jersey Joe did it on purpose because it happened twice during the As a matter of fact Champ Joe didst feel so Good at the d of the fight because they had to get him Back in the ring to Tell him that he had now Jersey Atto ays has expressed the utmost Confidence his ability to win comes out with the statement that he Hopes Champ Jos is Good shape so lie toot Kayo him before the second round and deprive Many fans of seeing a flood be More ridiculous and further away trom the truth than that last statement by Jersey if the challenger could score an opening punch Kayo he would do so or he has no right to be in the same Joe the Way it stands Lonis wants Haleett in poor shape so he cant run 15 while Walcott wants Louis in Good shape so he Louis can Chase Walcott for another 15 whatever the principals think about others the majority of sportswriters about the country Are picking the Champ to out of 282 writers polled on the 230 Are Louis most of them before fhe fifth fee remainder Are taking the comes As a Surprise dec have much to cheer when nine out of the 11 boxers from Neucom won their rounds in the army trials at the other Day biggest from our is the loss by Arnold Classy co slab Mckee lost a close decision to Dick Abasial of the Pacific if Mckee was in top shape All we can say is that Abasial must be one Good the Only other dec Champion to lose was Oscar the Cinderella kid from an underdog in every one of his dec bouts Lor the always manage to come out the Winner to gain his trip to the states for the olympic according to our correspondent from Heidelberg Golden John seems to uie class of the heavyweight Burley John had Tittle trouble Tveith ecco petition and he May sail right through the army trials even Naipo the ponderous moving co Stab won his trial which May mean one o two either it Naipo has put some spirit in his fighting or the heavy weight class has Little to offer in the Way of mountaineers get Safe athletes the University of West Virginia May be air corp minded the next few years As far As their basketball team is three last years Camp Lindsey dec Are planning to enrol at Home of the according to received Here John Allec Ronald Garber and Murrell at the present awaiting discharge at Camp Are planning to enrol at West in addition to this 4 fourth member toe title winning Cage Dallas is undecided whether not to follow his teammates eater Dpi amt Ohio Abner is Dae to leave the dec in Bob picked As tie standing eager in the dec last plans to go to Bis Home Indiana fsr his Cage Glenn Behemoth tackle for the Wiesbaden commanders Grid also plans to matriculate at the West Virginia could it be that the boys were influenced by the fact that safes athletic Bert is the brother of Dud now Bead too bal coach at the Mountaineer institution Rachis 5hitter pc Blanks 1 new 3 Raschi gained acis sixth straight pitching world Champion new York Yankees to a 10 Triumph Over the Detroit tigers before Raschi yielded five hits in out hurling Young Art Houtteman of tigers who charged with the Isle seventh As against no the Yankee right Bander helped win his own Ball third this Yea Rover Raschi opened the eighth inning a moved to second on a to third on a ground and then scored As Johnny linde31 laced a double to left end the scoreless Lindell the game in the fourth inning Charley in left Keller in at tempting a shoestring of a line drive broke two Bones in his left left fielder will be sidelined three to four the Yankees the drive by Wertz of the hurls shutout yanks Vic Raschi bests Young dirt Houtteman in Duel nats snap Lenons skein woolens hit edges tribe june 3 demons Streak of consecutive scoreless innings was snapped at 28 As the Washington senators edged out the Cleveland be Tore r 4 f Hay Scarborough bested Lemon the even though each hurler gave up five Scarborough was in less trouble during the Earl Wooten drove in the win Ning run in the seventh for Washngton after Gil Coan was sacrificed along took third on an infield Wooten drove a ground Ball Down to third base and t took a Bop past Ken de Stewart drove in first run in the fourth after Coan singled and stole Cleveland Wash Egton a r h a r h 4 3 of 402 4 0 of 0 0 if j 2 is 206 Stewart of 2 1 406 in 360 in 3 0 c s0 1 311 381 c 301 c 0 p 399 c 3 8 t 200 Sullivan a 0 0 0 totals j 5 totals 2 5 for Early 8 Cleveland to 618 i 1 100 5 1 two base police uncover syndicates attempt to fix Ball games june 3 chief Joan Gold has said he has evidence gambling Syndicate interested in throwing baseball games had operated in three North Carolina Gold said the Syndicate allegedly had a hand in the throwing of a Carolina game May he declined to name the other two Barney Pitcher manager of the Reidsville and de an official of the Flor Tri state league and the Blue Ridge league were banned Ironi organized baseball last tuesday Lor police chief Littlejohn disclosed at Joe age he had assigned detectives to investigate reports of a betting at the Florenc Charlotte game May Ittlejohn said the investigation produced no indication of a lion player tops Gehrig new june 3 coh Imbia statisticians have discovered thai third baseman Adam Rakowski hit safely in every one of the Lions 13 games this season and had finished with an average of Points Maher than Lou Gehrig hit in tigers in the fourth inning went for two Box score on ii Chicago nips phils in 12th june 3 Waitkus opened the 12th inning with a raced to on a combination passed Ball and wild throw by Andy and the scored on pm Cavary Pettas single to give the Chicago cubs a 21 Victory Over the Philadelphia dutch Leonard Andrush Rookie cub went Down the line in a scoreless Duel Tuzil the Lith when both sides Del Unnis Sla mined his sixth Homer of the year for the Philly the cubs scored their run As a result of a collision in the Outfield by Eddie and Richie Bill Nicholson pop Fly dropped for a double As the result of the Outfield he scored 6n a sacrifice and Al Jong Mccall fanned 11 he bowed out for a Pinch hitter and Dob ionic added another to that total in Rifae Leonard yielded Only three hits in nine rounds and then weakened to be nicked for five it was his fifth loss do Berzups second Relief Box 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