Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: London Stars and Stripes Monday, February 19, 1945

You are currently viewing page 7 of: London Stars and Stripes Monday, February 19, 1945

   London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Sports the stars and stripes Page 7 where theres a have own Cage 1 Arhat inn is shuttle Fleet at a deck a strictly Navy version of the i is the latest addition to the sports Parade with hoop oomph tuition Tating Ever in the tank decks of lists when army vehicles Are Back beards with baskets that fold up to the overhead when the ship is loaded have become Standard equipment aboard the the steel deck with wooden Block to  will never replace Hardwi Dod but the Cracker Box with its narrow boor and Low overhead is familiar to anyone that played Small town High a cobol its impossible to schedule games More than a Day in Advance and no league Competition has been but ships returning unloaded from the continent have Little trouble in arranging tilts with other ships in although the baskets Are slightly lower than regulation the Low ceiling and narrow court produces a close in game that puts a Premium on shipmates of the rival teams frequently crowd the ends of the court cheering on their and tank deck basketball is beginning to compete with movies As the favorite re few records of the Many internship contests have been but a Strong bad for the mythical tank deck championship of the Eto is being made by the uss list the tank deck terrors of the 139 Are undefeated n 11 hoop engagements afloat and two coached by of Kansas a former Kansas state football the 139s 12man squad is paced by coca Tain Tom Dicker Momm of speedy Little High scoring co Captain Bjorne pm of new at and guard Bob s from Are a pair of six footers who Supply the starting fives paired with Dickerson at Forward is Claude Momm of while John s 1 a former Star at East new York vocational High rounds out the starting Robinson due to take 2nd exam new new York sunday news said yesterday that sugar Ray the uncrowned welter weight Champ who last june was Honor ably discharged from the army under singularly mysterious has been ordered to report 27 for an other pre induction As a result of this latest the news All the speculative gossip about exactly what did happen to the once popular negro on the eve of his scheduled sailing for european fighting fronts Vith heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and a quartet of Kisser ring stars came alive with a bang last the ship sailed without sugar and he was sent to fort Jay on governors from which he was transferred to Halloran the army kept quiet about his being there until Louis and his troupe arrived in this was next word on his status came when he was discharged with a Section army regulation which Means that he was discharged As the army puts is the Jacobs Beach version of the hit tank towns without delay Robinson began fight ing for he hit the Small towns first and last hauled into where before a House he cooled George sugar Costner in of the the news said it was Learned that the Type of discharge Given to Robinson last june is what is called a White discharge White the Ordinary Man discharged under Section eight gets a the White discharge is an honorable dismissal from the service and the Blue designates that the discharge has been released with Robinson is scheduled to fight Jake Lamotta at Madison Square Garden Friday does it again Alan naval v12 trainee at Yale clipped four tenths of a second off Johnny Weismueller record for the 100yard free style when he churned the distance in seconds in the 20yard Payne Whitney gymnasium practice Tarzan Mark was made 17 years Mcspaden tied in Gulfport play Mcspaden and Sammy Snead were tied at the end of 36 holes for the Lead in the Gulfport open Golf tourney yesterday with scores of Snead shot a 71 yesterday after tying the great Southern country club course record Friday with a 65 while Mcspaden was deadlocked by virtue of two Byron Nelson of Toledo and Claude Harmon of Grosse were tied one stroke behind the Leonard Dodson and by were next with behind the sports headlines v Tami Mauri Ellolee Orr a heavyweight Battle scheduled for has been called it seems no one thought to figure out it was Good Tex Omas said his Boxer  fight on that basketball coach Dwight Keith has been named to handle the get Friia tech Back Fidd under new Mentor Bobby Dodds with Ray High school signing on As line University Cage team is achieving some sort of record for major College Rives this the futile bears have lost 17 straight with the opposition averaging 64 Jackson Rex former notre Dame Star and South Carolina Grid re ported to the naval air tech Enright Nicast training Center Here As physical training he succeeds Marty former Texas aggie Backfield Star and w Bill has been introduced into the state legislature to Fine athletes three grand and three years iia the sneeze for soliciting and accepting Springfield 111 in against gamblers was started Here Penalbert Schwartz introduced a Piffl providing a Fine and five years la Hoose Gow for a conviction on f wanted Given e your question or problem to help the stars and caven1 or Apo Telephone base and my Tisino men and women there will meeting of the recently organized army no club tuesday evening at at and Park George of Young and and of Masius University reunion dinner Ion dinner will be held at the Allied on for All alumni of Yale reservations should be sent to Donald american bribing Schwartz was Captain of the Northwestern swimming team in 30 and an olympic team member in one of georgias greatest ends in the late has resigned As assistant coach of the bulldogs to enter Nash Veteran manager of the Nashville vols of the Southern is the loops top record the Only manager to serve 20 or in the Southern he is starting his has won the most has never lost a split season winning he is the Only manager to twice win More than 100 with new Orleans in 26 and Nashville in in six years with Nashville he has copped three latest name mentioned for the National hockey league almost As hard a Job to fill As that of the baseball commis is chief of staff at a Mhz in who out passed Sammy a Caugh for the redskins last underwent an opera Tion on his nose in an attempt to get Back into the a former Indiana Frankie has busted his beak nine sports editor of the Brainerd Dis made his own copy Here by win Ning the District Golden gloves Light weight Keith abandoned his Type donned ring togs and stopped Pete Kocka in the Southeastern conference schools except Vanderbilt will enter a team in the basketball tourney starting at Louisville in last years tourney Kentucky topped Tulane for the Bill Brandt quitting National league Post new for the past ten years publicity director for the National handed in his resignation yesterday to write the history of Brandt took Over the publicity Job when Ford Frick moved up and became league sports departments throughout the country will be sorry to see the popular former new York times sports writer go because no no matter How stupid or went Richard sets modern Mark As canucks win Montreal canadians downed the Toronto Maple Here last night in a National hockey league game that saw the score tied three times and Maurice Richard of the canadians break the modern scoring held by Cooney Weiland of the after a scoreless first period Elmer Lach and Fernand Gauthier pushed hockey league standings a Ltd a Ltd Montreal 32 5 3 67 Boston 14 23 2 30 Detroit 24 11 4 52 new York 8 23 8 24 Toronto 19 18 2 40 Chicago 8 25 5 21 Home second chapter tallies for the canucks and Nick Metz counted for the and in the torrid final chapter Mel Hill and Art Jackson tallied for the followed by goals from the Sticks of Montreal Glenn Harmon and Maurice Richards Gam winning tally was his 44th of the season and in addition to breaking the modern Mark it tied the old record set by Joe Malone of the canadians in Clapper leads Bruins to nod Over rangers Dit Clapper belted three goals into the new York Ranger nets Here last night to Lead the Bruins to a Victory in the fight for fourth place in the National hockey Frank Mario collected two goals for the hustling Boston club and Bill Jennings pushed Home the sixth while the rangers Only tally was rammed Home by Bill old man9 Tilden still Able to bang that Cannonball new feb Bill seven time Winner of the National Tennis title Way Back displayed flashes of his former Bril Liance Here last night when he won the three singles a Benefit for the Grissinger can before big Bill Defeated his former doubles Vinny 6 4 in one lost to John 7 and then came Back in his third set to de feat 6 the 52year old Tilden teamed with movie hero Errol Flynn against Richards and Nogrady in the doubles but the latter pair came off Bill Lee a holdout Bill who won ten and lost 11 for the futile Phillies last joined the holdout ranks announcing that the terms of his 45 contract were Bill Tilden ticked off the global wire these yanks they even work radio by coconuts 18 yank ingenuity reduces the manifold problems of modern warfare was emphasized today in two War department Dis closures and in the Saga of a Sailor who operated a Clandestine radio station in the Philippines by distilling alcohol from a native drink made of Coconut development of a new Al purpose Field pack which soldiers themselves helped designed by practical tests and a miniature ice Cream factory for use in the tropics were announced by the War at the same a who had been marooned on a philippine Island for nearly three told a press conference Here How he operated the radio station for a guerrilla the William of said we had no Gas to operate the so we distilled alcohol from a native drink made of Coconut this worked and we were Able to operate Between 50 and 75 in after working for almost three we made our first Contact with san identifying ourselves by simple the department said the new pack is a combination of combat and cargo containing toilet mess kit and two Days the combat pack will be used in the cargo in which an extra tenting equipment and similar articles Are will be left in rear the ice Cream factory is capable of producing the cold stuff within 15 minutes in temperatures As High As 120 the department Vandenberg wants no strings 18 Aithur Vandenberg plans to ask president Roosevelt if there Are any strings attached before he accepts the invitation to be one of the eight Ameri can delegates to the s a n Francisco world Security con the associated press re ported although Van Denberg would not discuss the matter his friends said he had made it Plain he does not want to be bound in Advance by any Vandenberg commitments beyond the Broad principles Laid Down at preliminary Dumbarton Oaks at the same time Vandenberg was re ported agreed with his colleagues if he he will go As an individual and not As official gop Swiss to freeze nazi credits 18 Swiss Federal Council decided yesterday to freeze German credits in Switzerland in order to investigate reports that there has been a flight of German capital to this there have been reports that leading nazis were preparing for flight from the Reich by sending funds to Neutral reds to Aid Warsaw rebuilding 18 has agreed to meet half the financial and technical requirements for rebuilding answering a request of the polish provisional Moscow radio announced japs develop new aircraft new 18 Model japanese planes make future Allied air operations in the Pacific anything but a the Magazine aviation declared saying that two Jap fighter types Are capable of 400 speeds while seven other models can exceed 350 Miles an thefts Cut supplies to China 18 thefts have bitten into hard gained equipment and supplies for despite american and chinese attempts to establish new in the Kunming area since 104 jeeps and three trucks have been stolen from the americans 70 jeeps and one truck were american collusion in the looting cannot be ruled a brings in the Black and a machine gun could make an unscrupulous american wealthy for Ordinary fuel brings a it is still possible to buy a pack of tax free american if the smoker is willing to pay from marching pcs from red path 18 great number of american and Allied prisoners of War whom the germans Are transferring out of the path of the russian armies Are making the trip on the american red Cross the Geneva convention permits prisoners to make maximum daily marches of up to 12 unless longer ones Are necessary to reach food and landings in Denmark hinted 18 army and Navy journal suggested today that the allies May make a Landing in Denmark or Northern speaking of the Crimea conference and its mention of attacks on Germany from the the Magazine said this suggests an amphibious expeditionary Force Landing in Norway or Den or near the danish which Churchill has favored in grew welcomes even an imperfect peace new 18 Secretary of state Joseph grew in a speech last night declared that the peace plan to be bom at the forthcoming United nations conference will not to a perfect but if it should be condemned or discarded because it is not the alternative will assuredly be another world creating an effective body to keep the peace will be grew but it was encouraging that the charter of a new world order is being worked out in it framework of Public discussion on a scale never known Stettinius visits Vargas Rio de 18 Secretary of state Edward Stettinius in route from Russia to Mexico City for the inter american arrived Here yesterday by army plane for a meeting with president Getulio on Stettinius had visited Mon capital of the Independent negro Republic of in West made 9th of 18 Robert 36yearold has been promoted to brigadier As Deputy commander for operations of the 9th air it was announced last no Allied Aid for nazis with the 18 Reuter germans will get no help from the Allied occupation beyond what is necessary to prevent starving people becoming a Joseph civil officer of the 7th said in Canby we had a sympathetic interest in the local inhabit but we have no such interest in the German if their rations get too it will be just too no rations will be brought into Germany until their food reserves Are so Low that the starving population becomes a Dick Tracy by Courtesy of Chicago Tribune by Chester Gould gravel Gertie u want it that w that the was it will be from now an employee at 12 dollars a week your room and Board will be 12 dollars a week we fee theres something More Here than meets the gravel Gertie has another reason Tor wanting to5tav Here a big reason lil Abner by Courtesy of United features by Al cart a no naturally a million m3uue3nt be y met a two v thar some this dough thet lady a  she be sues she disguised a but a snipped her see thet this Law crime Lac who Evah 3h bring into this 0 moot room rent what must by of cowl Dollar Bill is merely i takes care of  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade