Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday june 12, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Phillies hooked by shrewd Sam in Trade Mart a tinier Naylor co to redbirds for 3 substitutes Page 1$ redbirds Tumble dodgers from Lead Cleveland drops into seventh place still fighting Gunder arrives and talks about Dodds and Rice flying swede trains for distance run at Dartmouth Mack s son by Bob Considine there May be More than meets the Eye in the Way Bill Cox the Young Phillies owner listens to the gangsters who Are comically Yelling about the creaking up of the phys. In a Deal involving live players he unloaded his obvious number one player Danny Litwhiler and Handy Guy Earl Naylor Tor three Cardinal Bench Heaters. Litwhiler has t been much this year but he a the Best the phils have had for a few years and Only a Short time ago was headed for Brooklyn at a fancy i Ive figure Price. Naylor won t make the Hall of Fame but he can play any position pretty Well and the Phillies Are badly in need of such players. Maybe Cox figures that the Cardinal splinter collectors Are better than the Philly regulars and of course this has been moderately True the past few years. But the phils Are a pleasant Surprise this year and need Only a Little More hitting to be a real first division club. Triplett a Flop Litwhiler was calculated to Supply that. He hit .345 the first part of this season and hit .305 in his first full year in the majors. In �?T41. He smashed 17 Home runs at least one in every Park. Triplett is currently busting the Ball at a dazzling .083 clip. He was a Good minor leaguer but failed to make the Grade with the cubs and could to Cleveland a Jimmy Bivins make the Cardinal Outfield this Cleveland Kafoed Lloyd Marshall year although the club had lost in 13 rounds for his Hist defense Slaughter and Moore. Of the a a duration right heavy Adams is another who could t weight championship before a make the Cardinal Grade. Clay crowd of 18,000 in Cleveland s a City so stifling that he could powdered the Pill for .270 at hous municipal stadium. The coup de j hardly breathe. Hagg said softly ton last year. Hts claim to Fame 8ace was a hard right to mar that he might need six or seven according to the National league Shah cheekbone As he Tell Back weeks to get in Good shape but a hat into a Corner Nom a series of by added with a melancholy air that Bob pastor is still in there fighting but not in the ring. He in the Mountaineer forces. Pep and Bivins score triumphs in title bouts new York Gundar Hagg the swedish distance Ace who holds ii world records set in Sweden last summer and reputedly the greatest distance runner of All time. Was greeted at la Guardia Airport this week by an american and swedish contingent which included Greg Rice America s leading distance runner. A shall a Amer Kamka Pressman Agar glad far Mota or och Happa Gora Mitt Basta i amerikan half whispered Gundar Hagg when unveiled before the sportswriters on his arrival from a 26 Day sea and air trip to new York. A How s that Bud a asked somebody. So Sven Dahman first Secretary of the swedish embassy in Washington smiled and said that he was to take Over and transmit All questions. Sallow fellow Hagg is a Sallow fellow who looks like Hamlet in tweeds. He has Long Light hair slicked straight Back. He now weighs 159 pounds eight or nine Over his Best running weight and stands just under six feet. When chief specialist Greg Rice Shook hands with him they looked like Mutt and Jeff. Gundar can to speak a word of English and seemed a Little unhappy about leaving his sub Arctic Gavle where he is a fireman for Veteran Carl Hubbell Only Active hurler with 250 wins Connie Mack 80, has no idea of retiring As Pilot of the Philadelphia athletics yet but if and major league baseball this week was highlighted by the St. Louis cardinals taking Over the top rung in the National league ladder after breathing Down the neck of Hie Brooklyn dodgers since the Start of the season and the catastrophic slump of the indians in the american league. In the National league the Champion St. Louis cardinals stretched their percent age mint Lead to a straight half game Over Brooklyn by winning from the Pittsburgh pirates 4-3. In the last half of the ninth Whitey Kurow ski doubled went to third base on Mort Coopers sacrifice and scored on Lou Klein a Fly Ball. Kurowski appeared in the lineup for the first time since May 28, because of an Eye injury. He also singled and tripled to Lead a ten Hil assault on rip Sewell the pirates Ace right hander. Mort Cooper voted the most valuable player in the National league last season permitted seven hits to hang up his seventh Victory. Indians plummet the Cleveland indians were threatening to Knock the Bottom when he does his son Earle 51,1 out of the american league with will succeed him. A a Green books a is that a last  in a contest he hurled a Bali u1>ss Leit Hooks from Home plate Over the right except for Brief flumes of action a Field Wall in the Buffalo stadium. H jul 1 Yountis. The Boul was 322 feet away a slow. Marshall tiled in the later maybe Cox is going in for Field he was past his prime. A but you re Only 24,�?� protested one of the boys. This was transmitted quietly into Gundar s slightly flanged ears and alter a glum reply from the fabulous runner rounds while Bivins was Content to Light Only As hard As necessary events. Then again maybe its none Marshall took the seventh drop Dahlman smiled and said a the says of our business but on the surface Ping the Champ for a one count it is natural to be past your Peak it looks As if he should have asked at least two dollars Cah from wily Sam Breadon. Cox defends the Trade with the statement that his principal concern in remodelling the Phillies was to obtain a fast Ball club. All three new phils Are lightning fast. With a right to the head. Bivins at 24. And says that s the time to came Back Strong to floor Marshall become a sportswriter. Lor a nine count in tile ninth and famous miso of again in the  at 174 availed himself of Rhal brought up the question of a ten Pound weight advantage to the great misquote wherein gun Clinch frequent in. It was Bivins s a 1 was supposed to have said that stars amp stripes nag run july 5 eleventh successive Victory in a Streak which started after he was out pointed by Bob pastor in april. 42. Matchmaker Larry Atkins announced alter the fight that Bivins a next opponent would be either memo Bettina. A of Southpoint d him. Or Lou Nova. Boston a lightning Jab and he would t run for an american War Charity. He replied again that he d been done dirt and added a thereafter 1 11 always be on my guard around  a my wife feels the same Way wheezed one of the boys. A she Mast be a Nice person a said huge mirth Lessly through his translator. Here Are his plans hell go away vision in a fight that was anybody a until the twelfth. From the twelfth on. Pep had j Miami Beach  , Chicago lawyer and owner of Al Sab the turf s outstanding four Vear old. Declared a the Sab is ready to take on All Comers including count Fleet and will run As Long As he can in an attempt to beat whirl away a Niones win Ning  Sabath said that Al Sab would have his first �?T43 Start in the 30.-000 Dollar a a stars and s ripes a Handicap at Chicago a Arlington Park on july 5. He healed for a match race with count Fleet Ami whirl away later in the summer j last year in three races with whirl away Al Sab won two. However even the most optimistic turf a followers Don t give Al Sab j much of a Chance to overhaul whirl away s Money winning Mark face in the eighth which sent bar since or. Pigtail has earned 569,-919 dollars and is still going Strong. Alsabr a earnings now total 345,165 dollars in two years of campaigning. Agile footwork enabled Willie Pep some place a where i can gel close to out Point Sal Bartolo Over the to  and work out for a 15-round distance in his first de half hour each evening. Hell run tense of the Massachusetts and in the National championships june new York state version of the i 19 and 20 but does not know yet world featherweight title. 13 too whether in the 1500 meter event ians watched the braves Field f w herein he is scheduled to face Twilight bout and saw 20-year-old current Champion Gil Dodds or Pep from Hartford. Conn., rally in the 5,000 meter event against splendidly in the closing rounds Greg Rice. He said he would prefer to score a clearcut unanimous de i the latter. Veteran Connie still manages athletics at 80 their Ages Range from 72 to 82. And they Are still out Weavering the Well known Beaver on Active assignments pertaining to 1943. Which is a Long hop from civil War years that brought All three into being. Their names Are mat Winn Connie Mack and Lonnie Stagg. Admitting to a combined total of 241 years. They represent racing football and baseball although the bounding or. Stagg who was an All around Yale Star 55 years ago. Also takes in track and Tennis for Side lines. Coach Stagg recently was too Busy with his California football plans to attend Pudge Heffelfing j or s dinner in Minneapolis. The tall and Willowy or. Mack still runs his team from the Bench Ming a signalling score card largely for this purpose. A a Connie a according to Arlie Latham who played against Nim. A a was the Bill Dickey of his Day. He could t quite hit with Bill but he was a better Bat Tipper. Of. Much better. He was  and Rose to a fourth place tie with a history making thud after plummeting from first place to seventh in the space of eleven distressing Days. Victims of a sort of spider to the Fly routine the tribe wound up Only three Steps away from the basement door As the St. Louis Browns current cellar dwellers pinned Back their ears 6-0, behind the Brilliant two hit hurling of right hander Bob Muncrief. Jeff Heath and Roy Cullenbine were the Only indians to hit safely while a three run Homer by George Mcquinn in the second drove Jim Bagby to the showers with another three run outburst in the third. Vernon Kennedy relieved Bagby and issued Only two blows for the remainder of the distance. Washington a senators blew their Chance to move up within a half game of the Idle Yankees the american league Pace setters when they dropped a 3-2 decision to the Boston red sox. Home runs by Tony Lupien and Jim Tabor in the first and another tally in the seventh when Mickey Vernon let the Ball get away at first base accounted for All three Boston runs despite Only six hits. Ossie Bluege a men with eight Safe blows scored Only in the seventh on two walks an infield hit and a Fly Ball. They scored again in the eighth when Alex a m nouns pounded Tex Hughson fast Ball for a Homer. The Philadelphia athletics although Idle moved into third place As the Chicago White sox collared the Detroit tigers 3-1, his american tour will take him from new York to Chicago in its Angeles. San Francisco Boston the situation in hand. Showering Cleveland Pittsburgh and Wash Bartolo with lots which the ital in ton in that order. There will Ian seemed unable to avoid. After s be special meets in All these cities nailing him with a right to the jaw in the thirteenth. Pep wrestled Bartolo to the Canvas. Other than that neither fighter was knocked Down. The Best punch of the whole bout was Pepys right smash to the ropes. Pep sealed the featherweight limit of 126 Bartolo was a half Pound less. Fiddlers three so Here is to Connie and Lonnie and Matt Here a to their endless fling the snows of Winter May Crown their Heads. But their hearts know the Sun of Spring. They have shown us that youth s not a matter of years they have shown us that age in t wheel chair or tsars they Are fiddlers three in this Valley of fears Connie and Lonnie and Matt. Armstrong re matched Hollywood a die former triple Crown Holder Henry Armstrong. Now making a comeback. Will be re matched with Willie Joyce Gary ind. At Gilmore stadium Holly fid on june 26. Armstrong lost the previous fight but broke Joyce s jaw. Athletics sign Bert Philadelphia Bert Kuczynski University of Pennsylvania baseball and football Star has been signed by the athletic try this yourself Camp Stewart Gay in the country a first military track meet. Sex Dartmouth Miler. Pvt. D. J. Blair of Medford. Mass., won the mile run in 6.31 Over a Sand track while wearing a full pack including a Rifle. I shoes and a fatigue uniform. Governali gets a cd new York a Paul Governali. Columbia s All american quarterback of last season has been awarded a baseball letter. Governali won the Maxwell trophy As the outstanding footballer of 1942 major league standings National league american league w. L. Pct. W. L. Pct. St. Louis 27 14 .659 i new York 23 15 .605 Brooklyn 29 17 .630 Washington 24 19 .558 Cincinnati 21 19 .525 Philadelphia 22 21 .512 Pittsburgh 22 20 .524 Detroit 20 20 .500 Boston 17 19 .472 Chicago 18 18 500 Philadelphia 18 22 .450 Boston 21 23 .477 new York 16 27 .357 Cleveland 20 23 .465 Chicago 15 27 .357 St. Louis 14 23 .378 leading hitters american league National league g. A. H. Pct. G. A. H. Pct Stephens St. L. 30 105 39 .371 Dahlgren Phila. 39 139 51 .367 j Hockett Cleve. 34 141 47 .333 Musi a1, St. L. 43 166 58 .349 Wakefield. Dot. 40 173 57 320 Walker St. L. 38 142 49 .345 Cullenbine Cleve 35 113 36 .319 Herman by Klyn 46 164 55 .335 Linden n. Y. 38 139 44 .317 Kurowski St. L. 30 117 39 .333 the bengals in the league standings. Johnny Humphries earned his fourth Victory although he weakened in tile ninth and had to be replaced when the tigers threatened three York errors Detroit a first baseman Rudy York made three of the tigers four errors and his miscue in the first Cost the game. He muffed Tauv Moses Fly one run scoring arum a runner reaching third. Luke Appling then doubled driving in two More but was out trying to stretch it into a triple. Carl Hubbell this week became the Only Active Pitcher in the mater leagues to attain the coveted 250 win Mark when he hurled a one hitter against the Pittsburgh pirates against the same band of pirates 14 years ago King Carl opened fhe door to the Hall of Fame and stepped inside with a no hitter. Hub now has his sights trained on the 300 Mark but As he is 40, it is unlikely that hell be Able to join lefty Grove Christy Mathewson and other Mounds who have 300 or More big league tins. Home run leaders american league Keller new York 8 Gordon new York 6 i it tabs St. Louis 4 Chartak St. Louis 4 Mcquinn St. Louis 4 York Detroit 4 National league Dimaggio Pittsburgh 7 Nicholson Chicago 5 Litwiler St. Louis 5