Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                By Gene Lynch James sleepy Jim of Fordham returned to Shangrila the other Day after 16 months in the South As an officer in charge of Navy he saw one baseball Field after another hacked out of Jungle territory which a few Days before had been held by the As soon As any sizeable area is said the Fordham the Seabee build them just soon As their bulldozers have finished making Crowley described the Fleet recreation Center at Espiritu san where As Many As sailors on Shore Liberty arrive every have seven softball two baseball two three Tennis a five Hole Golf a soda Fountain and a Beer he the Beer can teen was established he added that the soda Fountain sold 160 Gallons of ice Cream and the canteen 4joo cases of indicating an even split Between soft drinks and were Only supposed to play touch because we Haven the equipment for a tackling he but after a couple of Beers the Fellows often Start playing the real although he is enthusiastic about the navys sports programs he did not attempt to oversell the value of athletics As a builder of mail comes and then the and sports Are probably he were Able now to show movies right in the Battle in under ground Heaters accommodating about 150 men at a he said he thought the average overseas service Man was some what less interested in big league baseball than he was in civilian probably because Many of the players whose names were familiar to him Are no longer he however that the men would Welcome Chance to see in person such outstanding Athle Tes As Lithe Ruth and Jack comp sey if overseas Tours could hear the commander will report for special duty at the naval training station at where one of this duties will be to coach the football at his new Crowley will pick his varsity material from an enrolment of Jim will have emas Cleu As the Pacific for every Mickey former welter and middleweight has brushed himself right up to the top of the Canna Vandoil after leaving the Tough world of the professional ring in the mauler developed a mean swipe with the Brush which apparently is As neat As the famous right Cross he threw in the resin hit the big time in his new profession this week when one of his Christmas depicting a Young Ster dressed us Santa Claus had tie top Price of 1500 Bucks an exhibition of 02 Topflight artists fight game goes free Wheeling j stars and Middle East at boots pm in new York jockey Teddy Atkinson Rode five of his Tif even mounts in one Day at the Aqueduct he booted Home turn plate at in the first Magellan at in the Borgel Arab at in Bir Cabrae at in the seventh and coat farm4 paying in the 50 straight for Flash new York Young Charley Texas Schoolboy Sensa raced to his 50th straight dash Victory in the Junior 100meter race at Randalls Parker covered the distance in 11 and a full of a second better than the 4f this newfangled boxing Arena goes there be no More getting your opponent cornered in the the circular Model was introduced by Charley Fred Apostoli left and Vic Grupico Christen it in an exhibition bout for Benefit of shipyard Acme photo Henry Armstrong hangs 2nd round Sleeper on a Davis Nova wins Hank Armstrong knocked out Al Dummy Davis in the 59th second of the second round in Madison Square mauling the Brownsville belter so badly he had to be carried from the in the first few seconds of the Hank caught Davis with a sledgehammer sending him Down for nine in the Clos ing moment of the first round the same thing happened with Davis falling through the the second round saw rum my Down for the third on five As he beaten and Armstrong cocked his right and looked at referee Frank Ful the referee made no move to Stop the so Hank connected again and Davis hit the floor so hard the referee didst bother to count him Nova wins slug est in the Only other big time fight of the Lou Nova punched out a 10round decision Over Chi Cago Bill Peterson in Jackson the roughest and Best fight Lou has had since his come Back Nova built up a Lead in the open ing rounds of the billed As duration but Peterson put gashes Over both of Lous eyes in the sixth and the two sluggers stood toe to toe in the Center of the ring splattering blood to the third and fourth rows of the ringside As they Ham mered each even Affer the final Bell had Nova won by unanimous i Jack tells Hes abducted new York Grantland Rico describes How Chick manager of the former lightweight Beau Learned the fighter was going into army wergelos1 phone rang in new York and the operator said she had a Long distance Call from a Wergeles answered and the voice at the other end said this is 1 got that what thing Wergeles shouted into the my abduction explained dont Call your army Call that Wergeles and let me know where they Send you and ill Tret in touch with replied the Dusky i sure am glad there abduction gear Grinders want games port command softball the gear Are challenging any softball unit in Usi Fimie to a series of two out of three teams wishing to test their Mettle against the champions should Contact Luther special services its anime Pancho plops Talbert Detroit Paneho o copped the National Clay court Tennis defeating Bill of Indiana 75 and b towns be l v i opsy1 curvy american a the unpredictable american league race grew More unpredictable this with every club in the Loop Ging positions except the to banking Browns Ami the Secord place bed the sox breathed hot on the necks of the trailing by Only half a after winning seven out of eight tilts for the Louia cop National league includes Garnet of june 18 cd 36 16 28 21 7 29 25 8 28 25 27 28 10j 24 34 15 21 30 17 30 164 Louis Pittsburgh York boston1 Philadelphia Chicago american league Louis Chicago i Detroit new York Philadelphia 32 25 32 24 25 24 29 28 25 28 26 30 26 31 25 30 3 3 5 54 6 6 leading hitters National league 416 Home 16 10 runs batted 44 42 Gal american league 327 Home runs 8 7j and runs batted in 33 Ste and Bush owners Scalp air depot outfit the unbeaten West Africa Bush towners grabbed their Vic tory of the season from the air depot Proszek hurling a two hitter for the West african with 15 the air with five wins arid one Iosa on their faced the visitors with a Strong Outfield and held the Bush owners score less until the sixth when ail five came the scone Bush owners 5 h 0 air depot 0 2 1 batteries Proszek and Swindall Bailey and three reasons Why the cards Lead fired stable hand sets fatal Blaze discharged stable head set fire to two stable build Ings at Detroit destroying 32 horses and suffocating another stable hand who was asleep in Oiw of the worst loser in the lire was Davis Ferguson whose entire five horse string and Lead Pony were the ponies included Bell who carried Ferguson co lors in the recent Kentucky buy More War Bonds Ped Only five in seven the Las place Philadelphia Athle tics were Only club in the league never to have won will have a Tough time holding to the top ring of the tigers won four games and lost four and were thus shoved of third place by the who had three wins out five through not much Effort of their the Yankees moved Back to fifth losing six and winning three to Stop a seven game Streak of nats drub yanks Washington had fou Rall on wins and after flooring the yanks three times in four and stopping Bostons nine game win Ning Cleveland was badly mauled in two games with one in which Rufe Gentry hurled a six hit and the other being a 16hit attack by the tigers with 113 As final the in1 Diane lost five games in al4 win Ning Only the athletics won three games in the victories All being Over the slumping the National Loop was fairly with the cardinals main Taining their seven game Lead and the cubs still hugging the 164 games in Only changes in the lineup came when Cincinnati nosed Brooklyn out of fourth though both teams ended the week win four wins and three losses behind Ott gets seventeenth Louis got a 16hit Over Chicago when Danny slammed out three doubles and a and won three other to one loss for the Pitts Burgh got three wins out of six the highlight of the pirate week being a 10 Victory Over the reds when Rob Elliotts 9th inning1 single scored Lee Tony Dela of lost a four the giants won five out of seven Mel Ott slamming away his 17th Homer of the season to score three runs in a 92 game with Boston won two games and lost while the Phillies did slightly better with three wins in seven Chicago edged out Cincinnati 21 in 10 the Only Triumph of the As compared with five Here Are the Louis Cardinal infield responsible for most of the double plays by Hie National league champs this Marty Marion and Ray Are shown coaching Emil Rookie second International four Hurt when wind rips Brewers stands Milwaukee four persons were critically injured and 2t others received minor injuries when a violent windstorm blew Down part of the grandstand roof at the Milwaukee Brewers baseball lights went out As the storm the stadium and pillars supporting the roof along first base line col throwing broken timbers on a Section containing about several Hundred of the Lana watching the american association game fled onto the Field in a heavy downpour of Milwaukee and Columbus had played to a 55 tie in the and the game was listed As rained Uncle passes up botox Boston the army turned thumbs Down temporarily three Boston red sox baseman Bobby 6utfsej4er Leon Culberson and Catcher at Boston induction Center were but told they be recalled for another tron no reason was give for their