Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Stars and Middle East by Gene Lynch As you read this column a group of Battle weary yanks May be taking a seven thinning stretch on poppy covered rest area in Normandly while they listen to a radio broadcast of a game from Yankee stadium or Eto bets in line with making the invasion armies the Best equipped and Best armies the in Vasion forces carried with them radio equipment to set up stations3 after beachhead were secured and keep the fighting troops abreast of the news including sports in the Diamond department the army inaugurated a new series of baseball broadcasts the later part of broadcasts of big league games arc now being beamed to England and Italy by co Lambias new shortwave station a can and then Rexroad cafe Over the army network of tiny Sta Back of the new Deal for the troops is Eisenhower probably baseballs biggest Booster in the last fall Eisenhower was irked Over the manner in which his men were told of the first game of the world1 his men got Only a 15minute resume of what had happened Between the cards and the Ike sent a Cable to Washington and to the broadcasting but these cond Day of the series saw a repetition of the so far As the report to the troops was concerned the general got sore this and demanded a full play play account of the remaining games of the world was a hectic scramble to string army wires and set up mikes in the Yankee stadium and sport Matt s Park in but the army came and Ike got what he wanted for his now those wires Are filtering i7i a bit of entertainment for those champs who Are tagging out a lot of on Thor Home Hilly Conn is the latest to try to open up the refrigerator door and drag out Louis Frozen heavyweight Crown Billy suggests that he and Joe engage in a i fight for the championship of the with Only i Joes looking and no pay for either Contes the idea has caught on with the sportswriters Back Home and one of them has Root up with the suggestion that the bout be held in the olympic stadium in Berlin another remarks that there Are a couple of Large baseball Parks in War is hell in Phila women golfers competing in a on Day tournament were asked to bring their own while sharpshooters who will engage in the grand american Handicap at in August Are being told to bring their own babe repeats in Western Chicago babe Didriksen Zaharias captured the women Wes Tern open Golf defeating 80yearold Dorothy Ger main to win her second Western open championship in four babe made several amazing Reco very shots from traps and rough and scored 14 on putt buy More War Bonds Call for softball any organizations in the Cairo military District which wish to enter a softball team in the gezira softball league Are invited to Send representatives to a meeting at 1000 july in Usa time special service Luther Harrison athletic whipped their weight in everything but wildcats world champs Bounce Back to cop six out of seven this picture was to have been in the nature of a victorious Swan song for the West african who had played 23 games without a loss when it was in the last game of their tour of the Middle the Bush owners stumbled Over the Huckstep maybe the photo was a maybe it was Hieye still per cent left to front Marion William Harold George Vincent Guerra and Charles Karch Back Frank Morrow Leroy Chetter Leonard s Morgan Glass Walter Bednar and George not shown Are Gerald Alkon and 1st James who h in charge of the signal corps i flying buskers suffer first loss in 24 times out the West african with no losses in 23 games for the suffered a fall tuesday in the last game of their tour of the Middle bowing to the Huck step the Bush owners were West african champions and their Only previous defeat was in a preseason practice the wildcats hold fourth place in the sandstorm with three wins and five the Bushtown team started its barnstorming tour of the Middle East with a lfi0 Over the Huckstep yanks and a i i7 Victory Over the let or they journeyed to where the Alex Al stars met them in a soft Ball and were trounced Payne Field hitherto had been the Only team to Challenge the going to a 11 tie in 11 the flyers lost 115 in a the Brown bombers and the lain commandos were the next victims of the fast playing West african being Defeated 135 and score on the final game of the tour r h k wildcats i 7 Bush owners 3 8 3 and Abernathy Proszek and the cardinals hacked away to six wins and no losses for the stretching their Lead to nine and a half games in the while in the american Loop there was the usual but Browns Are still out front by four the dodgers won six games and lost Only two for the week to forgo ahead of the Cincinnati reds in the Only National league Brooklyn won All four games from Philly including a spectacular two hitter tossed by de Philly a g Downs canucks the a Section of us anime captured the championship in the Alezira Allied softball beating the Hoyal Canadian air Force team 98 and 03 to win the Best two out of three the first game was a Seesaw affair until the seventh inning when a scored four runs to Clinch the in the second contest a scored four runs in the first two innings and were never really challenged by the Richard Leblanc hurled both games for while Samuel Phillips first game1 r a Section 9 Craf 8 second game avg Section 6 Craf 3 h 11 8 e 3 flying swoosh at it again Stockholm Gundar the swedish has established a new worlds Mark for the two mile covering the distance in 8 this beat his previous Best time by on tenth of a National league includes games of june 25 cd 41 16 Louis Pittsburgh new York Brooklyn Cincinnati Boston Philadelphia Chicago 31 25 9 32 29 11 33 30 11 31 30 12 27 36 17 23 34 18 19 35 american league Louis Chicago new York Boston Washington Detroit Philadelphia Cleveland 38 27 29 27 4 31 29 33 31 u 30 33 7 30 34 29 34 8 29 34 8 won Only once in six tries and still held next to last the cubs hugged the cellar after win Ning two and losing the pirates had a but held second place in spite of four losses in six games for the they played 14 innings to a 55 tie with and the game was finally called after both sides had used five the giants were still a third though losing four Jjames in seven Cincinnati did even losing five in eight while Boston won therein Philadelphia and Boston played one game to 15 without a until Ron Northey let Ero a Homer to tip the scale to Philly Tigera tailspin in the american Chi Cago White sox won four out of seven games to cop while the Yankees bagged six in seven tries to take third Alley a slump of three the red sox dropped second to fourth place in the league after losing six of eight games Washington senators moved up to though winning Only three out of seven Detroit nosedive to sixth place after losing six of seven the tigers beat Cleveland 4tf in one although Ken Keltner had homered for the indians with two men Philadelphia broke even with four wins and four losses to tie with Cleveland for seventh the indians had three victories and three Falls for the including a four hitter by Al Smith in a 51 win Over straightening pm out sports editor i wish you would straighten us out on a couple of softball 1 if a Man is on first base and the next Batter hits to the the Pitcher throws to retiring the the Man on first starts Down to then his mind and goes Lack to i believe the runner is automatically would Siroti please enlighten two of my buddies in this 2 another play for debate is this a Batter comes to Bat left handed and the Pitcher throws a strike the Batter then wants to Bat Here is the i think the Batter has to walk around the that in Back of Rny pals seen to think this is done by most players just for i Hoie you will enlighten these i thank Apo Msj Ita ifs f or i in the main Ike handed Gleo first knockout of Ping the olos Angeles boy in i 10 at Madison Square some people were in the Garden As Ike hammered away at the rugged shans almost at exhaustion rather than Williams punching Power finally floored who had been walking right into ikes flailing attack All the Trenton lost Only to Bob Montgomery in his 40odd was a Iri the other major ring Battle of the Hank Armstrong out pointed Nick Latsios in ten founds at taking Auna Nimbus 01 bout nets millions comparatively entered the ring with a healthy respect for hammering Hanks battering and backpedal a the entire never letting Arm Strong set for a rear in final Hank caught the fleeting greek boy in a Corner and dropped him to the ropes three times just before the final Bell in Huston citizens of the Lone Star bought More than Worth of War Bonds to see Al for Mer world middleweight score a1 third round knockout Over Glenn Lee for the Light heavy weight championship of Hostak had Lee on the deck for nine counts twice in the first round and once for five counts in the second before Landing the answers 1 youre according to the official rules of Rule when the Batter becomes a the baserunner occupying first base would cease to to hold and May be put out in running to the next base in the same Man Ner As running to first that As soon As the batsman hits a fair Ball the Force play is on and the Man on first must reach second before the or he is 2 youre wrong and your pals Are right this it is Permis sible for a batsman to change from one Side of the plate the other Duricr the same time at Bat As Many times As he proved re he does riot make the change while the Pitcher has the Ball and is in pitching he can even crawl to other Side of the and by any route he mathematic Whiz boxes up score of screwball game fifth War loan Campaign inspired some thing strange and new in Ball games monday night when the giants and dodgers All played in a single nine inning game from which the dodgers emerged the the three teams alternated sit Ting out an inning while the remaining two took the fifty thousand fans thus saw three major league teams competing on the same Field for the first the three cornered gome was conceived by Stanley of the War finance but it was necessary to Call in Paul Columbia Mathe Matics to contrive a method of scoring the Dod Gers tallied five the yanks and the giants fans gained admittance by buying War Bonds and the game contributed of which came from the Treasury of new York wags make Diamond debut on the 4th Huckstep was and base Hospital nurses will play opener in what is expected to be a series of women soft Hall games at 3 july 4 on the Huckstep the who have a Cord of nine wine in Are also g with other women teams in this the nurses has just been
