Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Saturday september 4, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Pace 7 i ii by by Roundup Bill Terry former n. Y. Giants first baseman and successor to John j. Mcgraw As manager has volunteered his services As manager of one of the major league teams for a proposed overseas trip. Terry said that he wired Ford Frick National league president and judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis requesting the assignment if Ttye project goes through. To anxious to do this and i certainly Hope the tour goes through As i believe it will be a great thing for the boys a Bill said. Terry resigned his front office Job with the giants at the end of last year and has spent this summer on his 320 acre farm near Mem up r i. Bill Crowell Veteran Grid official Over a Span of 35 years and a member of the intercollegiate football rules committee died at the age of 59. Crowell handled Many army and Navy games. He officiated at 627 contests from 1907 to 1942. Crowell was formerly head coach at Swarthmore Lafayette and George Washington in addition to coaching High school football. Henry. I.,Wong, former triple Crown titleholder reached the end of the Fristic Trail this week. Hammering Henry lost a Dull ten round decision to Cpl. Ray Robinson. A in a through a said Henry in his dressing room after the fight. A to smart enough to know when in a getting old and in be already made enough Money to pay my 9 Gunder Hagg the Quot flying fireman received a trophy from capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in new York. Gunder the wonder earned it As a result of copping eight successive races in America for the Benefit of the army air forces Aid society. Hagg plans to Fly Back to Sweden soon and train for the fall track meets there. Hagg said that if conditions permit he will return to the United states for the Winter indoor Competition. 9 9 news from the turf was highlighted by ask Enow a winning the american Derby at Washington Park. Ask Enow earned 56,340 dollars for owner Hal Price Headley. At Belmont Park Prince Quillo also did some record breaking. The Boone Hall stables three year old Brown Colt finished a head in front of Bolingbroke in 2 56.6, shedding four fifths of a second from the old record for the mile and three quarters. And also took Down the Saratoga Gold cup and 25,000 dollars to Boot. Dick Wakefield Star Rookie out fielder of the Detroit tigers has joined the Navy. The second ranking batsman in the american league has already passed his physical examination for aviation Cadet in the Navy. Wakefield probably will be allowed to finish out the season with the Detroit club however. 9 9 the new York giants and the St. Louis Browns both made late season efforts to pull themselves out of the cellar and second division respectively. New York purchased Charlie Meade a hard hitting outfielder from the Jersey City club of the International league. St. Louis bought Southpaw Pitcher Al Milnar from the Cleveland indians for the waiver Price of 7,500 dollars. Milnar former port Side Ace of the tribe Mound staff is having a sad year. One Victory and three defeats. The brownies think a change of scenery might turn him into a Winner again. 9 9 with the baseball season drawing to a close the clubs Are starting to build for the future. Pittsburgh recalled four members of their Toronto farm club. Outfielder Frank Colman shortstop Harry Zak and pitchers Harry Shuman and Alf Jarlett. All report at the end of the International league season. The St. Louis Browns got a new first base candidate when they acquired Johnny Frye from Montgomery of the Southern association. Washington had first option on Frye As Montgomery is a senator farm but he was released As part of the Deal that brought Bobo Newsom Back to the senator fold for the third time. A Cpl Bill Gilham Pennant bound yanks cards maintain major league leads swordplay for fun Ohio Kalis a up Fri a in footballs athletic managers May have to look for work by Stanley Woodward n. Y. Herald Tribune sports writer new York a when the dead Issue of army enlistees playing intercollegiate athletics i. E. Football was revived recently a responsible officer distracted himself from the important business at hand and said merely that the answer is still no. Since then More than 300 Fumble foundries have closed Down on football for Hie duration. One graduate manager who is accustomed annually to raking in several nun tired grand in football admissions said Quot for years we have been handling an Roto unit units not detailed to such Maneu vers should not be fiddling with Forward passes and off tack in plays for the glory and exchequer of notre Dame or Dartmouth. One of the strictly army colleges is Fordham and they really work up there. Your correspondent got the following observations from some of tile boys up there Quot we Are Here to study German italian european history military tactics Etc., Etc. Quot our Tough program of physical education is secondary. Wed be sore As hell if anybody were let reunion in Algiers pvt. Steve Schmergel left and pvt. Gab Kerekes meet for the first time in 18 Yean in Friendly swordplay. Their last meeting was in their old Home town Budapest Hungary where both were friends and frequented the same fencing salons Steve was olympic Sabre Champion in 1928 at Amsterdam. Photo by sgt. Cyril Hopper sex Sabre Champ is now yank Soldier and when the Navy came and of ror amp junket. We re it 1�?o we Saint a. Trains to be part of the we would stick with the army. Quot then what does the army do to us it tells us that the boys cannot play on our athletic football tean a. Whit do you think of that after we be had an Roth a to Over puerto rican Joe since tile last i Torres in one minute and 38 seconds of the third round in a scheduled eight round bout at shans by to new York Cleo shans. Los Angeles negro lightweight scored the righteous indication of the graduate manager is heartrending. He can to use the civilian tatters left on the Camps and the army won t let him use the soldiers. In Short he is extremely Likely to find himself in the near future undertaking an essential occupation. It seems that intercollegiate participation los into the Navy a program and not into the army s. The army boys work from six am to to pm and Are off from 3 pm saturday until 7 20 pm sunday. The boys Box and play baseball football and basketball and the hours of exercise Are carefully fitted into the program. The army thinks apparently that while certain of its units Are inching through the Jungles surrounding Salamata and practising invasion tactics that other Macarthur stadium. Shans at 135 lbs., spotted his rival six pounds. Leading hitters National league a. H. Pct. Musial St. L. 514 180 .350 Herman. Bzdyn 474 158 .334 Elliott Pitt. 497 150 .314 Vaughan by Klyn 490 154 .314 Witek n. Y. 478 150 .314 american league a. H. Pct. Appling Chi. 469 \53 .337 Wakefield det. 511 166 .325 curtright Chi. 366 109 .298 Johnson n. Y. 468 138 .295 Hockett. Clev. 471 137 .291 pvt. Steve Schmergel a yank who has crossed Blades with the finest swordsmen of Europe is a master of Sabre play and has beaten the Best in the world in 15 years of tournament and championship Competition. Now a regular i in Uncle same a fighting forces stationed in North Africa Steve As a representative of his native Hungary won the Sabre Crown in the 1928 olympics at Amsterdam. But you can to beat the Axis single handed with a Sabre and five years ago Stephan Schmergel found it expedient to come to America where he settled Down in new York. Steve is As proficient with the foil and the epee As with the Sabre but the foil he disdains As effeminate and More suited to the ladies of Vassar. He has a Little More tolerance and liking for the epee because the play More closely resembles that of the Sabre. The fiery temperament of the hungarian takes to the Sabre like the overseas i takes to a sirloin. Whereas the play of the foil and tile epee is predicated upon the mincing thrust the technique of the Sabre evolves itself into a series of slashes and thrusts from head to foot in a never ceasing whirlwind attack that often leaves two Well matched opponents Limp and spent at the termination of a bout. Steve is trying to do everything possible to help soldiers in this Virea who Are interested in fencing. He has already Given exhibitions All Over North Africa. Not Long ago he Defeated two French officers graduates of the famed military Academy of Joienville an institution noted for the excellence of its fencers. He May be seen shortly in local exhibition matches. Regarding his ambit in of cutting Hitler Down to the right size with a Sabre As being a Little farfetched Steve who owns up to 34 says Quot my ambition if i am still Young enough is to represent the United states in the next Good fencers experts say go on forever and in the next olympics Steve Schmergel. Formerly of Budapest May be wearing the colors of Uncle Sam. A Cpl. Bob Saxon Segura Parker Cooke Pace Field in Tennis classic Forest Hills n. Y. A form held True As the National Amateur Tennis championships opened at Forest Hills with top seeded Frankie Parker and defending Champion Pauline Betz leading the Way into the second round. Parker a los Angeles a my Corporal topped John Cushing Ham of Pensacola 6-2, 6-3. Miss Betz of los Angeles beat mrs. Cushingham 6-3, 6-4. In other matches favored Francisco Segura of Ecuador Defeated pfc. Bitsy Grant on furlough from Jefferson Barracks mo., 6-3, 6-1. Jack Kramer of los Angeles won Over Bill Gifford of Hartford conn., 6-1, 6-1. Billy Talbert of Indianapolis downed Cpl. Charles Hare of fort Meade md., 6-0, 6-0 Seymour Greenberg of Chicago beat Tom Falkenburg of Hollywood 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 and Sidney b. To find a single entry who does t servicemen of sports program by Grantland Rice a year ago As september 1942, rolled in the sports future was about As Blue As indigo doubled and redoubled. College and pro football had Only a Brief season left where waning Talent would play before smaller crowds. There was Little Chance that any bowl games would be carried through. Baseball Golf boxing Etc., seemed doomed because the big timers were in uniform. It was pretty gloomy but while we were sending 10,000,000 men into the air below and along the seas and Earth sports enjoyed one of its greatest years. Now another september oils around. What will happen before september �?T44? for one thing baseball will have one of the most interesting world series it has Ever known. Those for and against tile sports Boom Are divided into two Odd Camps. Most of those who feel that a sports should be eliminated or at least Cut Down Are out of tax service. Most of those who favor As Good a program As possible Are in the service. I have talked to a Good Manv j men in the services and have yet skidding pirates drop into fourth place during week by sgt. Al Kohn stars and stripes staff writer the major leagues went into the Home stretch this week and the tradition that championships Are won or lost in september wont hold Good this season unless 18 cardinals and Yankees break an equal number of legs. Even if that baseball catastrophe should happen managers Billy Southworth and Joe Mccarthy could probably sign up a couple of grammar school teams and coast into the world series. The past week marked the event that everyone predicted would happen no later than june 15�? the annual National league Toboggan ride staged by the Pittsburgh pirates. Frankie Frisch a outfit who had cleaned up on the Eastern clubs found the Western half of the league plenty rough and dropped seven out of ten Ball games slipping Back into fourth behind the unpredictable Brooklyn dodgers. Cards in front St. Louis sent in the order for the cardinals second straight n. L. Pennant this week by taking five and losing four to stay 12 1-2 games in front of the so so Cincinnati reds. As the end of the season nears a glance at the statistics shows that if the cards win Only 13 of their remaining 29 tilts the Redlegs can close the Gap Only by putting away is of their 30 games an almost impossible �66 Pace. Rebounding from disastrous series with the cards pirates and reds Lippy Leo Durocher a Brooklyn bums came through with the Only perfect record of the week with four straight from the Quakertown Phillies. Maybe the go Wanus goofs will be inspired by the divorce action brought against their manager but they la have to play near perfect Ball to even come close. Seven clubs in the american league Are going to invoke the Federal anti monopoly Law if the Yankees dont Stop their monotonous Pennant marches in a year or two. In a Light week marked by two off Days the leaders showed no signs of taking a september relapse. Detroit fourth Chicago and Detroit continued to Bounce around in fourth and fifth places but they have nothing to play for but the tiny series Cut that goes to the Bottom team in the first division. Boston and Are playing out Che 154 game schedule Only because its a Quot must a but Philadelphia can now be counted out mathematically. The athletics Are 36 games behind new York with 31 games left to play. have another Chance in 1944. The ill fated giants also took the count last week and Are definitely out of the race even if Mel Ott Sparks them to 32 straight wins. Freddie Fitzsimmons apparently backed the wrong horse when he took Over the reins in Philadelphia. The cards need win Only three or the Phillies lose three to put them out of the running. If your Arab newsboy offers you a cheap ticket to the Yankee stadium or sportsman spark grab it. And done to sell the yanks Short in this years world series. Major leagues Wood or. Defaulted to Jack Tuero of new Orleans because of illness. Joe Hunt former Davis cup Star and now a lieutenant at Annapolis whipped it. John Ager of Birmingham 6-4, 6-4. It. Elwood Cooke Defeated de Ray of Taft. Texas. 6-0. 6-1. Want sport to keep going lamely for his own interest in baseball boxing football Etc. It is the attitude of some 10.000,000 servicemen that has kept sport rolling along. If these men did no to believe in it and did no to want it you can Gamble All you have left that there be any sport today. National league St. Louis Cincinnati Brooklyn Pittsburgh Chicago Boston Philadelphia new York american new York Washington Cleveland Detroit Chicago Boston St. Louis Philadelphia w. L. Pct. 82 43 .656 69 54 .561 65 68 .528 67 63 .515 60 64 .484 54 65 .454 54 70 .435 44 78 .361 league w. L. Pct. 77 46 .626 69 58 .543 65 57 .533 63 58 .521 64 60 .516 59 67 .468 56 66 .459 41 82 .333
