Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday August 14, 1943the stars and stripes weekly to amp be # weekly Roundup yanks cards lengthen leads scrap for second in american top spot in this Roundup must again go to Gunder Hagg. No doubt there Are Many sport contestants in America who Are going to be glad that Gunder made his Farewell appearance this week. Now there will be a Little More room in the headlines for them. But what can the headline maker do about it. Only rarely does a runner like Hagg appear breaking or threatening records every time he runs. This week it was the american outdoor two mile record and Hagg not having anyone else a record to break broke his own stepping it off in 8 513 9 9 the new York giants had a noteworthy week tying a major league record. A a eighteen of their men had the extreme Good Fortune to get on base but were left stranded there. The giant batters actually scratched oat 18 hits and were gifted with seven walks and yet each Man who came a with team mates on base was so dumbfounded at the sight he just stood there open mouthed and swung or flied out. Eighteen hits and seven walks and Only six runs. A the giants even lost the game. 9 9 golfing news of the week recorded the win of Craig Woods Hyder cup team Over Walter Hagen a challengers by eight and one half Points to three and one half. It was a red Cross Benefit match and Drew 10,000 spectators to rolling Plum hollow at Detroit. Tennis news featured the win of Bob Falkenburg brother of Jinx the Beauty and Tom the other Tennis Star. Bob took the National Junior title. A a after losing to straight major league games the desperate dodgers of whom More elsewhere on this Page took on Camp Shanks and a wonder of wonders won a game 7-3. Must have been inspiring to those dejected bums. 9 it at Belmont Park Lochinvar broke the track record for the mile and three sixteenths in winning the 15-grand added merchants and citizens Handicap making the time of 1 55. The 41st running of the Gold cup saw Coopet Lead All the Way and beat off the pack in the stretch. Eddie Arcaro who was suspended from the track a year ago when atop occupation he forced breezing Home into the Fence at the Aqueduct was granted a License this week to return to jockeying. 9 9 not every Ball player in the world refuses to play with the giants. There was a Young High school boy this week maybe he was too Young to know better who was approached by the braves and offered a Bonus of 10,000 dollars and a monthly salary of 400 dollars to play with the braves. But when the giants matched that offer the youngster chose the giants Over the braves a a. Well you might say it was six of one and half a dozen of the other. The Young fellow was Dick Lajeskie Passaic n. J. 17 years of age a shortstop of great Promise. 9 9 Bird Hunters who had Long faces Over the prospects of getting ammunition for the coming season can smile a wee bit now. The War production Board this week was reported ready to release enough materials for the manufacture of too million Shotgun shells for Hunting. No Shotgun shells were manufactured last year and Hunters expected the worst this fall. But it seems that game Birds Are damaging crops and their destruction is desired. Still too million is Only one sixth of the peacetime output. _ 9 a track experts Are predicting that aspiring american distance runners will adopt new training methods As in consequence of Haggis visit. The swedish Star has a strenuous but effective system. He does 90 percent of his conditioning by running Cross country. 9 9 already Bill Hulse by training this Way was Able to run the fastest outdoor mile Ever made by an american 4 06. Before he took up the arduous routine of running to Miles across country like the great one Hulse considered he was Lucky to get under the wire in less than 4 10. How much was due to the training and How much to the will to stick with the flying swede Hulse cannot know. Any Way Hulse is now a Man of Promise and May Well be the one to make that legendary four minute mile. 9 9 after manager Pepper Martin got through trying to pitch for his Rochester team in the International league the league president Frank Shaughnessy hurried through a ruling that Only regular members of the pitching staff May pitch. That was this week when Pepper the firebrand was watching his team take a 19-7 mauling from Baltimore. To save his regular pitchers Pepper put himself on the Mound. Ile was pounded mercilessly and then completely angry he sent in a Catcher As Pitcher. By this time the fans were mad and baseball writers said Pepper was making a farce of the game and so president Shaughnessy passed a Rule. 9 9 boxing bouts this week featured some old timers All coming through with wins. There was Henry Armstrong hammering out the 22nd Victory of his comeback Campaign Deci Sioning Jimmy Garrison of Kansas City at Portland Ore. Joint creaking Fritzie Zivic draped sgt. Young kid Mccoy rated a promising one Over the ropes in the fourth round at Pittsburgh. Chalky Wright joining the maritime service technically knocked out Angel Avilas mexican Champ in a Farewell appearance. And then there was that fast and furious heavyweight fight at Chicago when Lee Savold dumped Lou Nova in the Middle of the second round. Lou returns to ranching. A Cpl Joe Baily senators Cleveland tigers struggle in tight race hey chum Durocher still playing Short Flatbush fans weep jul bums sad slide this week marked a new Low in the turbulent Brooklyn dodgers attempt to overhaul the High fit ing cardinals. When tile bums tosses reached ten in a Row even i the most optimistic of the Flatbush fans was ready to toss in the Towel. From second place they had slumped in two weeks to fourth i and were 16 games behind the cards. Pittsburgh was the first to move up beyond them and this week the reds slipped by. Ever since the now famous clubhouse strike the Brooks have been on the skids. Getting rid of Bobo Newsom their leading hurler in Hagg bows out in slow time Grid stars Start training for annual opening classic training began this week for the football classic which annually serves As the forerunner to the Gridiron season the game Between the College All stars and the world professional football champions. When the stars line up against the Washington redskins at Dyche stadium Evanston iii., on August 25, there will be Many evidences of the effect of the War upon the game. This time Grid fans Over the nation Are not picking their favourites As in the past. The All Star team will consist of men from last years team some men now in College some men from the services and some professionals. On the All Star squad this year Are such players As Paul Gover Nali the passing expert from Columbia and Frank Maznicki former Boston College Star who played with the Chicago bears last year. There is Charles trip i who shone on the Georgia Rose bowl champions and Tommy James of the big ten champions Ohio state. From Washington state College comes Bob Kennedy Stellar Back and Corwin Clatt of notre Dame and Roy Mckay of Texas Are there As is Bob Steuben the Missouri Star. Harry Stuhldreher the Wisconsin coach who Heads the All stars coaching staff has with him such experts As Frank Leahy notre Dame babe Horrell Urcla Wallace Butts Georgia Lynn Waldorf. Northwestern and it. Tony Hinkle great lakes naval training station. The redskins have been Espe i Dally hard hit by the War during the Lay off months and will Nave a team considerably weakened by inductions and enlistments. Dutch Bergman is coaching Washington taking the place of Ray Flaherty who directed the redskins to their greatest triumphs. Flaherty now a Navy lieutenant is coaching a team at Camp Farragut Idaho. Among the players lost to the redskins Are such stars As Al Aldrich de Justice Jim Barber and Bui Young. Gunder Hagg Sweden a flying fireman failed in his quest of the i dreamed of four minute mile in i his Farewell appearance at new i York but won the eighth straight race of his american Campaign by stepping the mile in 4 06.9. Although Hagg did not set any record he gave a Brilliant demonstration of his competitive spirit when he beat off a courageous Effort by Gil Dodds to take him in the stretch. As they headed into the first turn on the last curve Dodds suddenly spurted up beside Hagg and seemed to Cut in on him. Gunder took a scornful look and went to work and in a Jiffy the Duel was Over. The first Quarter was terrific with Hagg leading in 59.8 seconds but the second bogged Down and the crowd sensed that a record would not be broken. Hagg afterwards said he was very disappointed with his a a slow time a but was glad he could keep his record clean. He plans to spend two weeks sightseeing in this country before returning to his fireman a Job in Sweden. During Haggis american tour proceeds of his meets were earmarked for the army air Force s emergency fund. Here s the chronicle of Haggis remarkable running in America june 24�?5, k 0 met r race in new York. A slow 14 48 5. July 2�?two-mlle run Chicago 9 02 8. July Ion two mlle run in los Angels new american outdoor record 8 53 8. July 17�?mile-run in ban Francisco 4 12.3. July 24�?mile run in Boston new american record 4 05.3. July 31�?mile run in bearer Ohio 4 05.4. Aug. 2�?two-mlle run in Cincinnati new american record. 8 51.3. Aug. Llu mile run in Nev York 4 04.9. An Effort to bring about Harmony on the club was a sad move indeed. Trading Dolf Camilli and Johnny Allen to the giants in addition to the Sale of Ducky med Wick to the same club added the finishing touches to the Brooklyn debacle. Branch Rickey in an Effort to appease the fans issued a statement this week in which he said that he accepts full responsibility for the slump which has Cost Brooklyn ten straight losses. Rickey also said that he does no to want a second place club but wants a Winner and sooner or later will have it. The avid dodger fans done to like that idea of a Winner sooner or later. They want a Pennant now and not in �?T45 or �?T46. The hot August weather Isnit Likely to help the bums either. Old Paul Waner 40, and the ancient Johnny Cooney 42, Are crumbling under the heat and Durocher has been forced to use Reserve outfielder frenchy Bordagaray and Rookie Louis Olmo in place of the two veterans. A Cpl Bill Gilham this weeks play in the major leagues showed the fans several things including the fact that the Yankees and the cardinals Are headed for another october clash in the world series. The Brooklyn dodgers dropped another notch in the league standings and Are now holding the fourth rung on the National league ladder. This was accomplished by the simple expedient of winning one Gams Cut of four this week. Yesterday the bums came to life after a in game losing Streak and trounced Cincinnati 5-1, scoring All their runs in the seventh inning. Pittsburgh dropped Tif out of six but still managed to hang onto second place. The pirates took it on the Chin twice 2-1 and 2-0, in yesterdays swing shift double header at Shibe Park. Schoolboy Rowe twirled four hit bail in the opener and Dick Barrett Beld the sues to six hits and fanned eight in the Nightcap. Boston winning four and losing Ane during the week yielded sixth place to Jimmy Wilson a cubs. The Phillies meanwhile climbed to fifth. The new York giants Are stoutly clinging to last place but they found a tenth in Nung punch yesterday and tripped the league leading cardinals 3-2. St. Louis wins in the american league the Yankees increased their league Lead to seven and a half games Over the second place Washington senators despite losing to the Browns 9-1, for the yanks second straight lass to St. Louis. Steve Sundra held the new yorkers to one hit Charley Keller s 18th Homer of the season while the Browns clouded lefty Marius Russo and Jim Turner for to blows. During the week the Yankees could do no better than break even in six games and the rest of the league taking heart has raised the cry a a Stop the yanks As the new yorkers started their final Western trip of the season. The senators won two out of five during the seven Day stretch and ousted the Detroit tigers from second place which they had taken Over for a few Days. Chicago. With two and four slipped to third place As the tigers dropped to fourth. Cleveland moved into a tie for third place in the american league and the Browns with three and three dropped into seventh place As the red sox playing 500 Ball during the week moved into sixth. The athletics dropped five out of six and and Are still firmly entrenched in the cellar 22 and a half games away. Baseball lost popular idol when Dolf Camilli retired the retirement from baseball of Dolf Camilli announced definitely by him this week takes from the ranks of Active sports one of the most respected competitors. Dolf was highly popular with Ball fans wherever he played. In 1941 he was the outstanding Star of the dodgers Pennant drive. Camilli has not been physically Well the last two seasons and agreed to play with Brooklyn this year Only after Branch Rickey made a trip to California to convince him of the teams need of him. The slugger who once was voted the most valuable player in the National league was batting Only an anaemic 346 when he was traded last week. Feeling that he could be of no real service to the giants he decided to retire. Dolf spent eight years in the minor leagues before coming up to the majors in 1933 with the cubs. The following year he was traded to the Phillies for Don Hurst. In 1937 he hit his Peak batting 339 for the phils and was promptly traded to Brooklyn the following Winter. Camilli never hit 300 for the rums although he averaged Over 26 homers per year and too runs batted in. His Best year with the dodgers was the Pennant year in 41 when a hit 54 Home runs to Lead the league in that department and batted in 120 runs. Besides helping the Brooks Ove. The Fence this record won Foi Camilli the coveted Honor As the most valuable player in the National league for 1941. Dolf the father of five children had the unique distinction of being designated last year As baseball a outstanding father. Major leagues american league w. L. Pct new York 61 39 .610 Washington 56 49 532 Detroit 51 48 515 Cleveland 51 48 515 Chicago 51 49 510 Boston 49 52 .485 St. Louis 45 54 .455 Philadelphia 40 63 388 National league w. L. Pct. St. Louis 66 33 .667 Pittsburgh 54 48 529 Cincinnati 54 48 529 Brooklyn 63 50 515 Philadelphia 49 66 467 Chicago 47 54 .465 Boston 44 63 .454 i i a 63 376