Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                From us stars and Middle East Ort commandos1 find buttercups no Pushover by Dean Broome it seems almost heaping coals of fire on the head of main his Hout of peril the dodgers recently lost 26 out of 29 but we cant help passing on a Good thing to the Cash this Gem came to us through the Courtesy of pfc Richard probably the its in the form of a poem in the Brooklyn Eagle under the jihad Mother Rickey Nursery rhymes an accompanying composite shows Rickey As a Mother presiding Over her Brood of youngsters the accent in Brooklyn these Days toeing on Calvin is shown playing at a Sand table Ralph busies himself with chinese checkers de Miksis 17 sits in a Highchair and gnaws a Toone Claude clasps of milk and Char lev 17 dallies with an Allday sucker and the poem shades of mans inhumanity to Manh is As follows there was an old Eicken who lived in a he had so few pitchers he didst now what to so he robbed the Cradle of adds tucked in then said to Durocher i Well pitch Little Branch Lorn or sat in the Corner bidding the Pennant he had turned Down is thumbs on Guys he called bums and what a am Art am i hmm old Mother Branch look a Chance to fetch the poor dodgers a he signed us the kids to put Sand on the and the cards bad the flan in he versus the gentlemen of port command i a c for Bam at third base dashes for first and from cd pvt Veteran fights for life after to things we never tit us a inv and haunt lost any crooner Frankie Sinatra s lather fought in the under the name of Marty Odrien Waner was never put out 01 a game by an Umpire in l yours As a major sea Mon the two har Morea to Joe Louis in recently to replace two he of Babo the was recently 31 years and her wrest Lor baked her a Strawberry pie for the occasion a tilt intelligence tests at Columbia the use was rated a poor t honors went in the him followed in order he the 0 ran gut Eto yank optimists order series ducats Louis there Are two soldiers in England who feel Fretty confident about a couple one is that Iuis teams will in the world series in october and another is that Hitler will be thoroughly whipped by that they wrote requesting tickets for the opening game of these reps and assured Joe Gold manager of tickets sales Lor the cards and Browns that will definitely be in for the their letter somewhere in june 19ii please Reserve two grand stand seats for the first game of the world along the third base line As close As possible to Lorue heres hoping the whole series will b played in will be Myers i Len Chicago negro heavyweight went to the Hospital with a paralysed Arm arid leg and brain concussion following a knockout at the hands of Larry Veteran of Battles against some of the country Best was leading the fight All the Way until the ninth round when Lane landed a powerhouse right that put him the Chicago belter was unconscious More than an hour and was still in critical condition at Bast buddy Hea scored a 10round Deci Sion Over Gunnar new Yorks aging finnish in a fight in Scott Ham mered Barlund to the head and body through the entire match and scored several Savage but was unable to get the finn off his Garden has Stinker Turkey Tompson and Lee Murray fought one of the fights Ever witnessed in Madison Square Garden before Only with a Gate of less than Murray got a split with two judges for him and re Feree Arthur Donovan calling it a the South Battler broke his right hand in an Early yet used his sufficiently Well to take the billed As the Westca Lafornia made it look As if the Golden Gate state is Beebee sensational 18 year old welterweight handed a bad beating to Veteran Frankie of washing in Walls was on deck three times for the count of and Wright took a unanimous Marshall nods my Lloyd ranking con tender for the Light heavyweight took a unanimous decision Over Joey Maxim in Winner of nine straight was never in the though outweighing his opponent by 21 Marshall dropped the Gamp Marsden miliary poli Ceman for counts of eight and nine in the second and Phil former featherweight Champ won a 10 round decision Over Charley Noel in stabbing his opponent with Short smashing rights and featherweight out pointed Mike taking All but two rounds of a no title fight in Jug Burns up c Ourse foot Utah Jug top Winner among Golf added the Utah state open to his with a great final beating Byron the Leader most of the Mcspaden had a Brilliant final Day with a  for Par nosing out Nelson he two the Victory boosted me Spades earnings for tinware above the Joe Louis to visit Egypt s Joe worlds heavy weight boxing is in Oran to give a series of boxing exhibitions for and might Possi Bly take in i Egypt on his news reports there was no official confirmation i a Middle Golden Jubil Southern association second half of season w Nashville Atlanta Memphis Mobile Birmingham Chattanooga Little Rock new Orleans 11 i 8 5 8 6 7 8 6 8 6 8 5 8 5 10 a Aegis 2mile try fails a egg missed breaking own worlds though winning a iwo race in eight race in his record t Jun is new try worlds lightweight Cham Pion of will fight Beau Here admission will lie he War is Connie Macks 50th anniversary As a baseball the 81yearold Philadelphia athletics chief wih be honoured at several civic this photo shows baseball As he studies a picture of himself made in when he was a wide world wac soft bullers pay Well against lose 777 the was brought new Goiston to Middle East softball this week m two festive one among and another with men of the port in which the ladies a hard fought the mens team was Given a Han batting and Weldon the toned Down the pitching by ruling nut balls which were too the was put up a surprisingly Tough Wanda Reck turned in a Good Job of pitching and do Rothy Bishop at shortstop also played fast highlights of the game included a feud Between the opposing first baseman the first Hase Jinan and first base woman Over spitting in the a wac also tripped up a Navy lieutenant who the enlisted men slipped into the interwar game was Between women at huckster and those o Cairo Mikitaw the latter winning Elizabeth Faulk Ner was winning Pitcher in a game enlivened when the opposing teams Moniker red each other As country bumpkins and City league leaders National league batting a Rixis batted in g7 57 san homers Ott pitching 81 american league Hatting Cullenbine bins batted in s Homkes 13 13 pitching Kkt Ward Bond injured los angles actor Ward former football payer and Tough Guy in screen was felled by a Driver As lie Jeff a movie suffering Ediin Pound fractures of the left leg that May Necess Laie of i n held As yanks of Pennant hound cardinals took their ninth in a Row and 27 last 32 games to stretch the National league Lead to 154 games Over the second place reds cards got eight victories for it and lost one game to who managed to win two of their eight tout Sank deeper in the Loop Bob left Bander to the cubs by Brooklyn gave Stieha passed dodgers one of their lick the reds moved to second from third place after winning four but of six while the pirates slipped Back to after losing four out of the giants with 44 record for the week still hold fourth Bruins climb notch there was some shuffling in the lower bracket of the with the cubs moving from sixth to after six wins out of seven and he Boston braves taking sixth in spite of a 24 the Phil lies were in bad form and lost every one of their six dropping to in the american the loins Browns refused co Lapso National league includes came of july 30 cd Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh new York Chicago Boston Philadelphia Brooklyn american 68 25 53 41 49 40 17 45 50 24 41 24i 39 55 294 37 54 30 37 57 314 league Louis Boston new York Cleveland Chicago Detroit Philadelphia 57 42 51 45 44 50 45 5 50 48 46 47 8 48 50 84 42 46 94 42 55 14 big football turnout Chicago approximately is reported at 11 major mid Western universities for summer foothill John in conference  of predicting Ilu football year of the As had been predicted of and even stretched their league Lead to 44 the red sox moved into second place ahead of the Yankees after winning four out of six while the yanks split in a 61 Victory Over Tex of the sox became the first major league Pitcher of the year to win 16 the indians Are still at fourth place and had a 43 record of wins and Chicago grabbed the fifth place winning five out of while Detroit lost four out of seven to drop to cubans return to nats the senators got Hack their cuban Ball players but it didst seem to help As they remained at losing All seven Roberto Oil Torres and Fer min who left Washington last week when notified they would either have to Register for the draft or go returned to the and the Ortiz made an Effort to sign with the Mexico City team of the mexican league and tried to catch on with but the nats refused to release Torres returned in red irtely winding up Liis business affairs and registered for the the other two followed a few Davs the athletics lost five games out of i Trot for the week and still guardians of last 14 cramps for not the leading losing tickets now valuable Mutual tickets on losing horses used to be considered the the most useless things in the which changed Manv other the changed per drive Back Home has Given ing tickets new thesal wage division of web collected As much As four tons of waste paper Yuihai recent Belmont