Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1944, Cairo, Egypt By Gene Lynch re fits Stanley former sports editor and now a Marine corps fired a Nice Volley in the direction of the sports scribes who gone overboard with the idea that every single ser Viceman in uniform Tiant to sleep at flight worrying about How his beloved dodgers shape up for the coming whether their favorite 4f lightweight will get Over Joe from the red beaches of Namura and Roi other atolls i the Woodward said they dont think about All those kids talk and think about and dream about is the and when till be Over arid when get Home and whether they 11 get a i was on a car maybe if they get holed up on some Lovely Island with a Ball Field and a basketball court and to they do talk and think about but not the Guys i knew and they were strictly for the Bier and when get along the same line of an Appl head who writes the Chicago Tribune sports pages comes up with the earthshaking revelation that americans Are interested in sports than in the by citing that a Many More phone Calls come in the Tri Bune office involving sports questions than concerning the to one of the More thought Ful Box office historians Point out the fact that Are about american men overseas who Are slightly More interested1 in the War than in sports at the but Are unable to Call the Chi trib because they find Ita bit inconvenient to get to a transoceanic tips from an old timer stars that the president has asked for a review of draft deferments we wonder if the punctured ear drum delegation in the sports Busi Ness will be getting the in the some of Thi bespectacled fathers now being pressed into service will continue to wonder Why the government prefers them to some of the athletes who have been turned Down of some flabby knowing that it will take them months and months to learn How to or carry a Are More bewildered than Many Are sports of and for years they have rooted for and been awed by the fearful muscular prowess of this or that Only to find him excused from the simpler or Deal of the in reduces this queer confusion to terms of physical he realizes just How few seconds hed last in any physical co Inlet any member of the new York or one of the leather pushers who will be on the next Madison Square Garden card d City club getting he first Chance to crash the big canadians win cup Chicago the High flying Montreal cd Idiens rapped the Chicago Blackhawk 54 for four Viii in a Row to sweep the Stanley cup ice hockey Hector Loe canadians Veteran scored in a sudden death overtime period after the regulation game had ended in a 4r4 it was the first Stanley cup for the canadians since 1031 new headman for buckeyes Carrol wid does was appointed head football coach at Ohio replacing Brown reports to the Navy As a we does has been Browns assistant since Brounko pro footballs most famous lines Asher has been signed As Backfield g a Lett a cops Pinehurst Mai Gal Alban won the North South Amateur tournament by defeating George Cal Spartanburg 86 in 36 holes Midwest punchers take aau meet Boston the Midwest dominated the National aau Champion boxing Burney Here by taking five out of eight results o the final round were flyweight Cecil new York knocked out Jack Kan Sas City Nick decision Ned rank Ohio major Kansas Kafoed Horace Ana Joey a nodded Frank Cleveland welterweight Joe decision eded Cleveland Frank washing nodded Pancho Phila Delphia Light Ray chilled Ernest Ohio Eddie Cle Kafoed Raymond work Al knockouts were in the first Cairo Sott callers get into action ithe Cairo area softball season gets underway at gezira with a total of 15 teams divided up into two sche Dule for the first week of play Fol lows american league Craf Jocame wolves Protea regulars Jocame Protea Craf Wol ves All games Start at 2 National finance International maps medics International maps finance medics International All games Start at except sunday gauges which will be played at t Down the Long Peimann Trail this week with the blessings of president Roosevelt riddled by the the 16 clubs opened the season with Uncertain costers while Ford Frick and Wil Bur presidents of the two predicted a full season of play despite the mounting Man Power problem is of the third War time Pennant the presidents Steve said that the nations chief was pleased to see base Ball continue and it affirmed Roo Severts earlier stand that the sport ought to go but that players fit to fight should go into the ser baseball has gone ahead on that tubs reds 0 Cincinnati topped the opening Day crowds with who watched the Chicago cubs beat the reds 30 on a five hitter by Hank Bucky Walters allowed the cubs Only three hits but they All figured in the scoring As Don Rookie cub singled Cavarretta walked and Bill Nicholson slapped a Long single to left scoring both in the Cavarretta tripled and came Home on Nicholson cards pirates 0 Max Star lefty of the Champion Louis shutout Pittsburgh 20 with Days pitching limiting the bucs to two hits before 25 000 preacher pirate Rookie bought from gave Only seven hits but Hopps double and musicals single scored Emil Verban m the in the Walker Cooper scored on singles by Musial and Durowski after getting of by an giants braves 1 the new York giants beat bos ton 21 before in the Polo Bill Voiselle limited the braves to six hits and fanned nine to become the first Rookie opening Day Winner since Hub Perdue tossed a Winner for the braves in Boston grabbed the Lead in the fourth on a triple to Center by frenchy Gladu who scored on an infield the giants won the game in the after two were Bardi Hugh smashed Ai Javery went Thi j route for the ail Wirig eight phils 1 before the biggest in Chilly nearly the Phife a ribbed Brooklyn 4d face hand the six hit Twining of c0wpier Tofek Barrett the less Weber and Tow bar Ren for nine b is Buster Northey a triple b Catcher Andy a tokens it Mank Borowy tossed the Yanuss to a five hit 30 shutout Over Boston in the american league 4 before nearly Johnny Dell wearing Bill Dickey wit of 8 belted out a Bonier first time up to give the Yaritz Tolfe Lead in the champs added two More Oft de levys Siti a double by Oscar Grimes arid a single by make the yanks opened with hew faces at Loftfield and behind the plate with Don Levy and brownies tigers 1 Jack pitched the Louis Browns to a Over Detroit before Kramer had two strikes on Pinky Higgins of Ith two away Vin the ninth when the Tiger third baseman hit a Home run for the Only Bengal Vern Stephens homered for the in the first half of the the Browns got their winning run on singles by Don Gutteridge and Harold Epps and a Kra Mer and dizzy Trout each allowed six athletics nats 2 Philadelphia Defeated washing ton 32 in 12 innings before including Vic president Wallace who threw the opening Jonas Berry who relieved jumbo Harr tsar ttnfteifth1 was the winning Milo Candini who relieved Long John Niffa Elim to the twelfth was the the Chicago and Cleveland game was postponed because of cold Salerno vet lands hard Barney gets discharge new Yorac Marine bar Nev Guadalcanal received a medical discharge from the service at the Brooklyn Ross contracted malignant malaria while in the South Pacific and has been in Albana Hospi Tal since returning to the John former manager of tto City works out a hit new Job As coach of the new York j its a cinch that no Yankee it going to go to sleep at second judg ing from the time of that dodgers get break the dodgers Pennant Hopes brightened when three More Vete rans reported to the they Are Pitcher de outfielder Lloyd Waner and infielder Pat an the latter up from new each had remained at Home awaiting a draft Call but the new stopping the draft of men Over made the Trio Avail the Boston red sox benefited by the new draft Tex Star and John reported after Eret Tiute the Green signal from their draft Harry new York giant Veteran left the club and has gone to his Home in fort out of the game most of last season with a lung gave illness in his family As his reason for quitting the an ear Worth Stanley Castle claims his which Pauline Saylor bit off during cafe is Worth and lies suing the lady for that lady who bites off ears is being held for grand jury action on charges of Max right of the Veteran lands a stiff left to the head of of
