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Waller Ostergaard i i sing the lyrics on the popular aes Barracks bag Quot program tuesday aug. 17, at 8 pm. Nary team in do face Lumberjacks hand braves beating by s take Licking in a Sha Kolot league game played Ai Johnson Field the Falcons baseball learn again Sank i he nay barnacles 6-2. Sgt. Auric Hess held the sailors to six hits and chalked up la strikeouts. The Falcons nicked Pitcher Hickl for 12 hits. With r. A Johnson Siny a and s e r a f i n each Gerung two for four. I Hue took hitting honors for the barnacles Wuh a double and a single i he Falcons were never headed jumping to a two run Lead in Tho Arles with a double and a single the sixth and eighth. Ski in Oij a Grevoy Itcik unit correspondent it mounties 7 commanders i i he mounties alter a two week rest went Back to their winning ways by Floun cing the command ers 7-1, in a Sha Kolot league bail game played at Al Biar. The game was a Long Diawn out affair and the last three innings Wert played with or. Moon As a Spectator. Hitting honors went to Bill Findley Vini it s. Ham. And Pete Sinai with two hits apiece Staal did a Good Job on flit Mound for the mounties holding the com Manders to six hits. A Bert Moskowitz t unit correspondent / neat sum for army empty enemy tanks fool recon patrol by a sgt Ralph Martin stars Ana. Stripes staff write american forces in j go Down that aug. La delayed with Sicily aug. La delayed a As you round the curve in the Road four Miles outside of Randazzo you can see a few of the sideshows of War. There Are the minesweepers on one Side of the Road digging out the a a bouncing Beebie Quot Iii Bunches and placing them gently on nearby rocks still fused the engineers Busy at work scratching out a bypass around a blown Bridge with the Jerry Long Range artillery occasionally dropping a few shells several Hundred Yards away the group of soldiers around a bomb Crater the bomb had opened up an underground Stream and the boys were tapping it for future Supply. And in the Middle of everything several jeeps wait impatiently. They re the Advance recon ready to push ahead to try to Hunt up Jerry wherever he is. Quot if those engineers can to fix up that Road right away we re going to bypass the whole business and invader Pilot has bad hour Allied Force Headquarters. Aug. 15�?stubborn unwillingness of an american Pilot to abandon his a 36 invader after it had developed propeller trouble led him to make a precarious Hight along Miles of the North sicilian coast Bel Ore he reached his Home Field it was revealed today. He is 2nd it. Roy a. Jensen a of Jamestown n. D., whose valuable machine began lasing Altitude after a Mission Over the italian Mainland. Quot a lot of the time i was dodging Mountain peaks Quot it. Jensen  and i did t have my Dinghy with me so i was afraid to get very far off Shore. I Tell you i was plenty worried. But that old ship was still crawling along so i decided to make a try for  cutting Inland from Palermo the plucky yank brought his plane in to a perfect Landing at his Home base almost a full hour after the rest of his flight. X Little path Down there Quot said it. John Ryan Gloversville n y. The lieu tent screw nodded in agreement. The Crew in the first jeep consisted of pfc. Henry Dietrich Prospect Park ., pfc. Earl Eddy Powell a. Pfc. M. J. Archer Chicago and pfc. R. G. Batten Caldwell  Quot we had quite a queer experience a Little while ago Quot said the lieutenant. Quot we were Corning i around the Bend when we found i ourselves looking into the gun barrels of three tanks. Quot they weren t supposed to be  he continued. Quot Jerry was supposed to have pulled out not in. But we turned around and went Back a Little Way  they did t go More than a few Hundred Yards though and soon an italian civilian came up and passed on the information that the tanks on the Road had been deserted by the germans a few hours ago because of Lack of Gas and ammunition. To prove his Point the Eyrie walked right up to one of the tanks. He also walked right on top of an a mine. The whole Road is Lousy with mines the one thing that has slowed Down our take Over of ran Dazzo. But our min sweeping Quot sappers Quot and Road building Quot bulldozers Quot work fast and the town is empty and waiting for us. Jerry now prefers beaches to towns. Lumberjacks 7 braves 3 after a Eluee week Lay olt the Lumberjacks came Back to whip the braves 7 3. Battling Quot pfc. Battle a pitched five hit Ball while striking out ten batters in a six inning game which was called because of darkness. Sgt. Langstaff caught his usual bang up game. A Cpl. Armbruster t unit correspondent i braves 20 bbl a 4 playing before Al Schacht the braves swamped the by s. 20-4. In j a Shew my urn contest. The braves slammed All offerings to the far Corners and fielded flawlessly Cpl. Paddy Driscoll braves third Sacker. Helped himself to a double and Home run. Cpl. Dick Ellington hurled for the braves. A sgt. Norm Ostro unit correspondent it Guilder Lagg s american eight race tour netted the army air forces Aid society i �0,g,0 dollars it was announced by Dan Ferris National aau Secretary. Hag after a sightseeing tour will return to Sweden by plane the latter part of August. Suffolk Downs Racetrack gave a Cheek for 6 Hmok dollars to the National War fund representing the proceeds of a special 18-Day Charity meet. The amount was the largest Ever donated by a Racetrack. Volo song Trot Winner Volo song. I ast or id my Brown Coll owned by we Ham la silting. Of Brooklyn won the 18th Ham Bie ionian trotting classic by Laking Hie second and third la Alsol Hie three a at Competition be lore 12.400 fans at the Empire City Racetrack. The Victory in Trot Tings Kentucky Derby brought 23,263 Dot Lins to the owner of Volo song it also gave  and 70-year-old Driver Namer Ben White the distinction of capturing Hie coveted hambletonian classic twice consecutively. Last yet a they won it with the ambassador at gosh in new Yolk before the classic was transplanted to Empire City because of wartime transportation difficulties. I he Victory also lifted White to a Logier Pedestal in the harness worlds Hall of lame. This was the Veteran Whites fourth win of the classic. Worthy boy Brown Colt owned by m s. James b. Johnson jr., of Rochester mich., took second Money after finishing first and third and being dropped to seventh in the third heat for Quot breaking. Third Money went to phonograph owned by Joseph f. Burke Plain Field. N. J. In see saw scramble american league has torrid scrap for second place Veteran coach Dies Leo Barry president of the american association of coaches died at Camp Wallula Iii new London n. H., where he was want front instructor. The 53-year-old swim instructor was swimming coach at Biown University. A brings Priddy photo of family Washington a Gerry Priddy the senators infielder was worried about his wife and new born baby in los Angeles so he asked the a for a picture of the family. The los Angeles a took the picture and put it on the wires thereby making Priddy very Happy to see a photo of his wife and baby 3,000 Miles away. Leading hitters National league a.  Pct Musial St. Louis 415 145 .349 Herman b Klyn 397 127 .320 w. Cooper St. L. 295 92 .312 Vaughan b Klyn 417 128 307 Tipton Cinn. 373 115 .307 american w lab it a.  Pct a opling. Chicago 390 131 .336 Wakefield Oft. 431 139 .323 cur fright Chi. 286 90 .315 Stephens. St. L. 314 96 .306 Hoskett Cleve. 374 109 .291 the eyes of the baseball world Are now focused on the torrid fight for second place in the american league race where there is a difference of Only ten percentage Points Between the second place Cleveland indians and the fourth place duo. Chicago and de i Trott. Yesterday. Washington Jum ted Back into third plan it e after be ing second for a few dins and she lacked the tigers ii a to dump Detroit Back into a tie for fourth with the White sox the senators used la hits and ten walks for three runs in the first inning five in the second and three in the sixth off four Bengal hurlers. Milo candirus allowed the Griffs six hits to hang up his ninth Triumph of the season. Stubby Overmire. Detroit Star Rookie pitched to five men in the first inning could t get anyone out and was charged with his fifth defeat of the year the Yankees whitewashed the Browns. 4-0, behind the nine hit hurling of Spud Chandler who notched hts 15th win and fourth shutout of the season. New York scored the first run the hard Way. Frank Crosetti singled reached second on an infield out took third on a wild pitch and scored on Billy Johnsons drive to left Field. C hic ago nips Boston Chicago tripped the red sox 3-2, at Cumiskey Park. Tom Turner decided the Ball game in the second inning when he blasted one of Tex Hughson a fast balls into the left Field stands with a Man on base. 34-year-Oid Luke Appling made his 2000th major league base Knock in the first inning a single into right Field. Two three run innings the fourth and the seventh gave Cleveland a 6-4 Victory Over the Philadelphia athletics. Don Black was nicked for ten hits by the tribe and lost his eighth game. In the National league s Only Daylight encounter the Boston braves came from behind to take the cubs 5-4, As belted his third tenth inning with Claude Passeau Tance for Chicago eighth loss for Boston Butch Nieman Nomer in the a Man aboard went the distr sustain his Nate Andrews started and made Way for a Pinch hitter in the seventh Danny Macfayden taking Over and getting credit for his first Victory. Bloody Battles feature air Force boxing shows decrease in army rations proposed Chicago. Aug. 15�?a proposed decrease of 12 percent in rations i cd and had the Driver Jack Clarkson a British army midle Dweight hammered out a Victory Over Abd Rahaman. 154. Of Manson Carree in the wind up of an eight bout boxing card presented by the special service Section of the 12th air Force service command at the Majestic theater. Jack started to use his Best weapon a jolting left Jab. In the Sec issued to Large bodies of troops has been announced by the army quartermaster corps. Virtual y All army units will be put on Field rations and reduced Field rations at that Quot declared col. R. F. Carter executive officer of the subsistence Branch. Many units that now receive Cash allowances for rations under the Garrison system will be included under the new food distribution system. All buying will be done through Central Trade channels to eliminate purchases in local markets Carter Sai amp lanky Arab on i queer Street late in the round from a succession of rights and lefts to i the head. Clarkson Cut Abdera Man s lower lip in the third and i had the Arab hanging on at the Bell to score a unanimous decision. Al Mansour a rough resident of Algiers and the Best middleweight in this Section pounded it.  Whitburn 160. Of the Royal Navy to a bloody defeat in a rip Roarig Semi Windup. Mansour had the courageous officer on the floor at the close of the second round and dropped him for a three count again in the this Cpl. Norman Sanderson 134. Of the american army urged on by his wac girl Friend who occupied a ring Side Pew managed to hold Orioli an Arab lightweight to a Oraw. Norms Gal Friend fought a Tough fight and at the finish it was difficult to decide which was the More tired Sanderson or the wac. Kaldori 144. Of Algiers decision Ned sapper Jimmy Jewis a British army welterweight in a Boul which saw Lewis visit the Canvas five times in three rounds. Driver Dick Franklin 130, of the British army piled up an Early margin to take the nod Over Hussen an Arab lightweight. Sapper Stan Whitney a British army welterweight scored a tic in 2 45 of the third round Over Tenai a fierce looking Arab when referee sgt. Al Weisberger called a halt to the proceedings in order to save Tenai from serious injury due to badly Cut left optic. Indians get Grant in Deal with Chison the Cleveland indians bought third baseman Jimmy Grant from the Chicago White sox for the waiver Price of 7,500 dollars. Roger Peckinpaugh indians vice president said the dear was necessitated by the loss of Ken Kenner Cleveland third Sacker who was spiked in a game with the Browns when Mike Chartak Slid into third base. Kenner is exacted to be lost at least a month. Grant batted .260 Iii 57 games for the White sox this season. Major leagues american league w. L. Pct new York 63 39 .618 Cleveland 53 48 .525 Washington 56 51 .523 Chicago 53 50 .515 Detroit 52 49 .515 Boston 50 54 .481 St. Louis 45 56 .446 Philadelphia 40 65 .381 National league w. L. Pct. St. Louis 67 33 .670 Pittsburgh 54 49 .524 Cincinnati 54 49 .524 Brooklyn 54 50 .519 Philadelphia 50 56 .472 Boston 46 53 .465 Chicago 47 56 .456 new York 38 64 .372