Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                I  Fly probably the sorries aggregation of fighters Ever recognized by that August the National boxing were tagged the other Day As the leading first fighters now out of uniform read pm and sweep heavyweights Lee Joe Tami Lee q Thompson Eddie Bob Jacobs and Nate Bolden Jake Holman Williams Goley Jose Basora and Steve Belloise Armstrong Tommy Ralph a Marcel Jeruan and Louis kid Cocoa slugger Ike Wil Tippy Larkin and John Thomas sol bar Willie Chalky Phil Terranova and Harry Jenira most of them Are several including the battered Armstrong Are headed for the some have honorable discharges and t Here they when they Are not stretched out on the the poorest lot fighters their respective divisions eve from the nicotine less lips of Turkey dropped pearls of prophecy the other Day when he remarked that the successor Joe Louis is about 20 or 21 years j at the and is in uni Seniv double v f was spen King at a news writers luncheon arid i pm not sure Louis will Leable to defend his title after the its a purely personal but i think the War m the Pacific might last another four Joe will be pretty old by the time that and by the time the boxing game gets Back on its the kid of 20 or 31 today who Ever he will be approaching his prime by the time the a is Louis will be Well beyond id say the Best age for a heavyweight is about 27 years physically i think 1 reached my Peak the year after i maybe Gene has been Reading some of that stuff that Cal la comte has been filtering Home about his persian Gulf heavy Ralph if Ivans could Only throw punches As often As Lacombe tosses tin1 dictionary the pc who with the kick of is i a Oyce derails Armstrong Tal in Etc i o w1hs ural important i came to an Eald As Willie hippy Larkin and Freddie out a ten round win Opp Cher headlined the Madison squad the former triple t tie us attn of Tel stretched him on the Canvas in the eighth and the ref stopped the giving the nod to Tippy on weight opponent but missed too often and Joyce fought a deliver Jite defensive stabbing and hooking the flailing Armstrong the Siad def find Hook inthe flailing Armstrong the the two Jersey each because he was the scrambling for a title shot in the Joyce lost All his Sun j1ehtwelght Drew he refused to mix it fans to the i Arlen find with Armstrong if exd Kadi Oakland acorns Aro cur in try hovering around the Cellai m Durochers lucky1 that he has atoms in his right Willard and Jack Johnson Are staging i cheap burlesque of their title fight in a los Angeles Freak show for Warren Center in Alabama last Hose bowl is in a califor Hospital from wounds received in the a total of were attracted t three soccer matches in the British Isles on nut Day without the Aid of mirrors or Mii Tuel athletes who won medals for Germany in the olympic games in Berlin have been killed in action in the they were Hainan and croat heavyweight boxing was recently assassinated by partisans near Zag Gable to be discharged Culver Clark former actor who recently completed a special Over seas photographic will soon be returned to civilian Gahle produced a film on Aerial gunnery and won the air medal for sharing in a bomber Mission Over Europe As gunner and photo huh n f Uick fans to the Garden and ring fanatics say underdog Archer built up a Nice Lead in the opening five smartly outbox nor the sup Posedly fancy Dan Larkin in be Tippy tossed boxing out the window and started archers chances ebbed right there As Larkin bulled a Cher about the belting him with hard rights and lefts and an occasional uppercut when Archer tried to hold As he came out o the in u Hanks when Armstrong was being lumbering Lou Novag the cosmic punch pounded out Nimond Over re lady Scott Oklahoma cite to stretch his caught eighth came out Foght Archer with a Ter Retic right Cross that left him dazed and before he could Lar Kin blasted him with three More dead aim rights and Archer was his seconds carried him from the ring Jim to a Hospital for observation when l lie tailed to Cio us regain Cor filete Eon Mahatma Rickey gets out the ol1 Broom Brooklyn started in Brookh n manager housecleaning last week when Branch Rickey sent Bill Fritz Oster Nellei Down the River to Syracuse in Exchange for Dorcly Rosen Ostermueller with Only six to go to be a ten year Man and thus a free refused to r0 to did upshot was that Pught former Ante can Ami Lohr Nian went to said Rickey sentiment will have to go out of if if it interferes with my brinyin4 Wjung Bull dub sports Arenas silent on Day Ntow York most sports events Home were postponed tuesday As the Tutten t the Nat Ioji turned to the of Western and prayers were offered for its the Phillip and is and reds and Pmj Tes Cance Jed major Leagie games a Rcd most also called off gains and those thai played sche night games planned eruptions for silent prayer and for president practically All boxing matches were including Sammy an goofs i0round match with Ike at All race tracks except Bay Mea Dows in California and Delaware state Park in California announced Cancella Xiuji of Raets shortly alter receiving confirmation of the Bay Meadows to hold jus meet with All profits a maj Ltd for War stars and my Dolfe East Nat Ketners trim Southern Gentry Page s Between the Sta Tes resulted in another Victory for North wednesday afternoon the gentlemen from above the Mason Dixon line Defeated their Southern Brothern 97 in a softball grudge match at both the yanks and rebels got off to a two run Start in the first inning but in the second the North Erners forged ahead when Walter of new York knocked a Home run scoring two hurling for the northerners was Bill of who allowed seven Miles i f o it Tolop c Ard Sailon in the american league Louis slipped into first place Tost winning seven out of the week nine while the second place Washington senators went to the other nose diving to last the notional Loop saw no important changes except that new Uno Wea seven Miles York and Philadelphia exchanged of Winston the giants taking started tossing for the conf Deplace and the Phillies dropping to but was replaced by Mel l0tt helped the giants along wit two homers against Louis and three against Chicago in a double new York started the week in a Blaze of win Ning six consecutive but were unable to sustain their tip spurt and the last five games 9 Louis started the week with a decisive win against the Yan Irao o m Wuu was replaced in Sam my the two allowing Only four goober1 Plant scene of red hot hoop Loop by Larry Howard French West Africa lots of strange places have been used for a basketball court since the Day Long ago when a few local sports 111 stuck i a wire hoop on the Side of a barn and tossed in the first two but it took a War and plenty of i ingenuity to shift the game into of the High roofed pea nut warehouses on the West coast of twelve teams of the army Lea Guem this Section of the dark continent Are competing for High honors on one of the strangest hoop courts i have Ever one Side of an enormous onetime Peanut filled warehouse has been converted into a court that is ret Ting plenty of that did american give and take three in trots a week in which George my and one Moore got homers and the new yorkers chalked up four Louis lost to i he Soldier players built their own put up regulation Bas marked out the floor and big lights across the thick timbers there int much room for the spectators in this i one Wall is nearly flush with the Side on the other Side Are Stone pillar which Divide the Hall in plus piles of auxiliary Gas and curious natives which Hern in the players during the players roasted the Whir of a Generator sup plying the for the lights overhead int enough to drown out the shouts and whistles of the last floor and the Slone wails that used to watch the natives As they filled the room with peanuts Are now seeing something that is plenty foreign to this the is in the Many Dif Ferent coloured trunks get mixed up but the games go on and 10 men at a time Are Irving themselves fun at an old an even older no one is bothered by ment or by the natives stand ing in the doorway watching those foolish americans Chase a Hall in weather like to one is bothered by 1 had to ask which was which when some one said the officers were playing the both teams looked plenty and Tough a  had t thai Jilin wan House lha National league games of june 4th go Louie 29 14 Pittsburgh 23 16 4 Cincinnati 24 new York 20 23 9 Bottwin 21 25 91 Brooklyn 19 23 Philadelphia 17 22 10 Chicago 13 25 13i american league Loim 27 20 new York 22 16 Detroit 24 22 Chicago 20 21 21 23 Philadelphia 20 22 Cleveland 21 25 Washington Washington and split a double header with but Defeated Washington three times and trounced Philly Detroit moved into third place in the league with seven won and two new York won two but Ost while Philly won two and lost Boston won four out of Nate hit Bottom Washington shift in the league came when the senators lost 8 out of the weeks nine Clew five wins in nine while Chicago did winning 0 out of seven the White sox Rose to Fourtin i league the same Day the Browns nosed out the athletics 13 in 10 innings when Relief pit Cher singled to Send Home the winning new York scored six victories in nine games in the with arid Pittsburgh winning five out of nine Brooklyn took Only four while losing and Philly lost six of nine games the giants continued their Home run string to nine straight with Phil Jou Bagger in the ninth inning of a game against the but the pirates won anyway with a 5run rally in the the dodgers and cubs played to an tie in innings at Brook the game being because of pensive misses triple new York string ran out in trying for big triple in the Beemom Winner of the Turby and the Linnet farms Colt failed to hol4 off a drive by bounding Frum William Ziegler Sta Les and by half a length bounding a d6 to 1 iut came from behind after with Conn Mccreary had disposed of the i and who goes and nabbed the set tester at the last turn