Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday september 18, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Page 7 weekly Roundup big leagues enter stretch drive As cards yanks Lead Tlly College at Madison Square Garden. Al football season last saturday with a 13-6 Victory Over Muhlenberg before a crowd of 12,000. The game was a thriller As the Navy loaded mules forced the Eli to go All out in order to win. The bulldogs lost the services of fullback Wayne though he haunt trained a lick for the bout the cheer jul Cneri Nik who can blow either hot or cold was sizzling on this occasion and never struck Down an enemy with More righteous Wrath. Frit Zic was so pleased with himself Johnson former Harvard Star who that after the Brawl he walked was severely injured the first time i across the ring and told the dress a a aerie the Ball. Recent reports die old Man s not through yet a say that Johnson is resting com on the strength of this knockout portably despite a broken cervical Fritzie should be Good for six Vertebra. I More Farewell appearances in the a a. ,. 9 Garden. Rochester s highly touted eleven p we although rival linesmen would Inlet Rpu l Quot a probe by an off tackle a shot. Is ,"fe.,"sss Zzz rss sir amp sri he or a St Buus Tabi k Cates the effect the War has had Tai Quot Sweet. Wages Llu tradition started with t m pjs Juk a a Quot Rifner former the Star filings ind h 11 wit in in fullback on the same team and Illinois and is All set to try the currently with the la Saaf in same thing against Michigan s North Africa i powerful wolverines today. I up i 9 9 i baseball fans in North Africa the War department has an and other Heaters of operations bounced that two All Star base Wili see world series motion pie teams chosen from the major Tures according to an announce Bagnes will go to the Pacific Thea ment by Lew Fonseca promotion top exhibition games for a1 director of the american fi8hting forces. There will be 18 league. One Hundred prints will Man on Pach team led by Ameri be sent overseas. The pictures will can an<1 National league Mana be filmed by the american league filers. One Umpire from each league and the War and Navy depart 8� along ments. P p 9 9 earlier in the baseball season it giant Pilot Mel Otto a deter appeared that manager Joe my Mina Tion to exceed the 504-Homer earthy Hadnot fared too Well in Mark resulted in a stipulation in the Deal that sent buddy Roar his new three year contract with and Roy Cullen Bine to the Clevette new York club that he con indians in Exchange for Roy Lilac As player manager until he Weatherly and Oscar Grimes. Re attains his cherished ambition a and Cullen Bine were going master Melvin now 33, started his Reat guns in Cleveland hut playing career under the Mcgraw Weatherly showed no improvement regime some 17 years ago and rec or his dismal 1942 form and Ord books now show that the Grimes was of no great help to former boy wonder has circled the the Yankees. It took Weatherly a base 462 times. Frankie Frisch also Hittle while to absorb the Yankee signed a new contract this week pwt hot of late the Stocky out Good through 1944. President Chi fewer has been hitting and Field Benswanger told Frisch he had in be a Dimaggio. Done a Fine Job keeping the fir-1 p p ates in the first division in a year i the a chivalrous Derry a High nut Unin Art a a school football team ran rough would finish downstairs. Shod Over blonde Pauline Rugh a a x i Bell township eleven to run up a Rij??i?lp2t?e4?v,c a a week re score in the initial game for. Cored the fastest Kayo of his Ca a the nation s Only woman coached reer when he knocked out Vinnie Grid team last saturday vines m 2 04 of the first round a Cpl. Bill Gilham a was a i a am6i?h adj Zouback Ano at r4e mme amp str of Minnesota before to Jgr i air file Gam amp. Geom to Nagorski former wee in by. Be Iuey Jim amp in me As a m&m0er of tug it Mica amp of sea is old timers did of in majors this season the Bronk comes Back to professional Gridiron by Oscar Fraley up sports writer in some ways you know this has been the most dramatic baseball Campaign of them ally the most dramatic that is from a human interest Point of View. It has been a Campaign in which the Bright Young stars have All gone away and left the Ball Parks to the old timers a Little dog eared and a Little frayed who have climbed Back into the spotlight again. Take Faul Waner for instance. Paul s 4� and although he was one of the greatest Ball players who Ever lived you would t have room for an Oki Gaffer like him on your Ball club if this was t a War year. But he was called Back this year by the dodgers and the other Day he collected his 3,100th hit which places him fifth among the All time greats of the game. Only Tycobb Tris speaker Eddie Collins and Nap la Joie Ever made More hits than big Poison. Waner Way ahead Waner who is a Friendly Little fellow not to be confused with his brother Little Poison tops All Active big leagues in hits by so wide a margin that the rest of the pack can t reach him with sprint shoes. There Are nine other veterans however who have passed the 2,000-hit Mark and most of them like Waner have proven very useful to baseball this season. The 2,000-hit boys Are Billy Herman and arks Vaughan of Brooklyn Mel it to Joe Medwick and Dick Sartell of the giants Joe Cronin and Al Simmons of the red sox Chuck Klein of the Phillies. And Luke Appling of the White sox. Herman and Vaughan have been the two most valuable members of the highly eccentric dodgers this season. Bill is playing second base hitting about .333 and batting in a Jot of runs. Arky is playing Short and leading the league in runs by set Frank de Blois cons sports correspondent scored and stolen bases. They hold each other up in the Field All right too. Herman is 35 and Vaughan is Only 31. Which makes him almost a baby the Way things have gone this year. Mel Ott whose giants have been a sad disappointment this season was doing All right until the Middle of August when his Ball clubs miserable behaviour on the Ball Field made him so sick he had to pack off to bed. No screaming m1mis about the Only thing that prevented master Melvin from having the screaming mimis this year was the presence of a few of his hired hands who Are As old if not older than Ott himself. One of them is Joe med Wick the big muscled Magyar who has been tearing the cover off the Ball Ever since Ott picked him up at a subway Stop in Brooklyn. Another is Rowdy Dick Barbell who has been leaping around the Short Field like a Gaz Zelle with a Wasp in his ear. And then there is a fellow named Carl Hubbell. Hub is 40, himself and Nis Arm sounds like a dumbwaiters Crank when he winds up to pitch. But a couple of months ago he won his 250th major league game which makes him the winning est Pitcher in baseball. Or. Long pants is aiming at 300, a Mark achieved in modern Leeball Only by by Young. Walter Johnson Grover Alexander de Plank and lefty Grove. Hubbell has been around so Long that Polo grounds fans think he Gocs with the Flag pole. Only a couple of Days ago a Young Busher up from Jersey City approached the old master and asked him How he used to pitch to Connie Mack. A a he was a sucker for a Collar High curve a replied Hub never cracking a smile. Bronko Nagurski the old warhorse of the Gridiron has tired of the pasture after one Short year of peaceful grazing and will be kicking up his heels again this fall to the dismay m of the National professional football league. The Bronk is that rugged Man from the rugged land of Minnesota who is regarded by Many As the greatest All time football player who Ever donned a pair of cleats. And that a taking in a lot of territory which includes such pigskin Powers As the Eckersall the Gipps. The Thorpes and others of the helmeted horde. The Bronk you remember was the Man who was selected As an All american at two positions in the same year Back in the Days when he was shredding enemy lines Aith the efficiency of a pile Driver. He lugged the leather from tile fullback spot for Minnesota on the offence and then when the other Guys packed the bal he stepped into the line at tackle and made life miserable for the opposition. So miserable in fact that new York newspapers named Only ten men on their All Star team in 1929. It was fullback Nagurski and right tackle Nagurski. Well the Bronk who can look Back at 35, is returning to the major leagues National league w. % l. Pct. St. Louis 90 44 .672 Brooklyn 75 61 .551 Cincinnati 74 61 .548 Pittsburgh 73 68 .518 Chicago 61 71 .462 Boston 58 74 .439 Philadelphia 59 76 437 new York 50 85 370 american league w. L. Pct. New York 87 49 .640 Washington 77 <2 554 Cleveland 73 63 537 Detroit 7 66 518 Chicago 67 89 .493 St. Louis 66 71 .478 Boston 62 76 .449 Philadelphia 44 90 .328 Chicago bears this fall. He retired in 1942 after two decades As Man and boy of basking in the sports Light. But it  stick. Those massive Muscles which delighted in the Sharp Contact and that mental desire for Competition  let the Bronk enjoy his quiet pasture. The Bronk May not be quite up to such a schedule now like wrestling eight times and playing five games of football in three weeks. But he a still quite a hunk of Man and ifs going to be Nice having him Back this fall. Even though the rest of the National football league wont enjoy it. Musial Appling hitting hard As riyals slump the major leagues enter their two week stretch drive with the cards on top by 16 and a half games and the yanks 12 and a half games to the Good. The Way things look last year s champions have clinched the pennants again. Tile Yankees finishing at Home Are already accepting world series ticket bids. St. Louis is in an even better spot than the Bronx players but ref uses to consider the race won. The cards recall Brooklyn s supposedly insurmountable Lead which the dodgers blew last year in the final drive. The Flatbush clan knocked themselves out of this years race in Midsummer with a ten game losing Streak that almost took them out of the first division but lately have been playing the Best Ball in the league. The big Battle now is Tor the runner up Slot with a half game separating Brooklyn and Cincinnati in the National league while the senators hold a two and a half game margin Over the indians in the Junior Loop. One of the big reasons Tor the cares Lead is Stan Musial s clouting. In a year that finds Only nine 300 hitting regulars in Bota major leagues the Cardinal slugger has a respectable .353 to top both major leagues. Billy Herman is second with .332 followed by Bob Elliott pirate third baseman with .318,4 Arkie Vaughan of Brooklyn .317, and the giants Mickey Witek who is pounding the horse hide at a .307 clip. Appling on top in the american league old Luke Appling still retains his batting Lead with a 328 average. Dick Wakefield Detroit Rookie is second with Jill and Guy curtright of Chicago comes next with .305. Doc Cia Mer Detroit Veteran is hitting .296 Rookie Bill Johnson yank third baseman is fifth with a 29b average. Leading the National league pitchers. Clyde 8boun, the Star reliever of the Cincinnati reds has a Mark of 12 victories and 5 defeats. Rip 8ewell, Ace of the pirates Mound staff is next with 20 and 9. The Yankees no. I right hander 8pud Chandler is top Man among the american league hurlers with to wins and Only 3 losses. Veteran Al Smith Cleveland Southpaw follows with 15 and 5. In the opening of the minor league play off series the Nashville volunteers pulled an upset by defeating the favored new Orleans pelicans four games to one. To take the Southern association title. The Vojs had won the first half of the split race with the pelicans taking the final phase. Toronto first place Winner in the International league has Defeated Montreal 5-2 and 7-3 in the Semi final play offs and Syracuse has downed the Newark bears 6-2 and 4-3 and is favored to meet Toronto for the championship. Buy race horses of you want to lose your shirt by Grantland Rice there Are any number of in the owner tells you to bet on possible spots in racing but i can the horse and the nag loses. So give you the top one a a done to buy or own a race  there Are two Good reasons Why you should t own a race horse. One is that the Odds Are 80 to i you la never make a Quarter from such ownership but will be More Likely to lose important Cash. The second is that you will soon be losing your friends. Only a few horses out of Many thousands Ever Bleak even. A Small group such As Al Sab sea biscuit marriage it on the cheap Side or whirl away and count Fleet bring in the Gold. But millions have been spent on horses that never paid their feed Bills. If you own a horse All your friends and acquaintances come up and ask a a How about your horse can he win today a As a Rule the owner Hast the slightest idea unless his horse happens to be count Fleet or a few others who Are Odds on. He teds you not to bet on the horse and tile horse wins. So he is promptly put Down As a Crook trying to keep the Odds up. He is dumber than an Iron of if the owner tells you to bet on a particular Hay Bainer and the horse wins does the owner get any credit not the slightest. That a the one you doped out yourself. �?�1 figured that one out a you Tell the Bunch. The owner remains the Goat. The same goes for All trainers. It they knew who was going to win they  be trainers. They Down the mint. I recall one Day i saw a Quot sunny Jim Fitzsimmons horse running in his first Start at 15 to i. I asked Fitz about Hun. A a he can to go five furlongs much less six a Jim said and meant it. He won going away. His name was Apache. That a Why five dollars is a big bet for a a sunny  i asked Ben Jones Calumet a and whirl away s famous Trainer about another horse. A a Don t bet a Nickel on him Ben said. �?�1 know i . He has a sore Hoof but i be got to give him a workout. I done to think he has a  Ben meant it. The horse won by six lengths and tied the track record