Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Joe meets the top Nan september 1944 stars and Middle East by Dean Broome Uncle Sams keen interest in keeping the torsos of his army flock Tough wiry May Well open a Field of sports Corr petition after this at during it seems that heroes of the Brawny arts at Many army Camps Back Home today Are not baseball players or beak there i setup for the information of the in a setup Champion is a Guy with a steel an Iron will and a willingness to torture himself hours on Eil just for the hell of so far As is the worlds Champion setup artist today is a i named de residence at Keesler who recently did consecutive Spratt is 28 and nearly which makes his feat All the More the runner up Sii upper is even his name is also eded he is with the aah training com Najid school at Beranek held the championship until the younger Spratt came along and outclassed his Mere if Doest know How these setup contests Are conducted he should be sent Back for 10 months Basic possibly to the hut the general idea is this the competitor lies on his his feet Are held Down by one of his handlers or tucked under a gymnasium Wall exercise bar so that puppies and legs stay Down when his Thorax comes he must keep his hands behind his head and touch an Elliot to the oppo site knee each time he pulls to the setup land lies ready to Start on a grind of six or seven according to setup champions Are not he admits he could do Only 00 the first rime he just go along adding i few every strengthening the Back and stomach learning How to relax in Between he in time your stomach becomes much the As a blacksmiths Armline an Iron who in Beranek set his the last 100 setups were he my Back gave out when 1 got to 1 in int think 1 could go any then i thought of adding for of very year of my and that struck us so funny i made Beranek has loud Praise for the trainers who saw him through his big first they greased his heels where they came in Contact with tlu1 later they greased his Back and stomach Fach Timo he came to a sitting he finished his Back was hut skin was still army sit uppers Are not a screwy Breed like flagpole Sitters or Mara Thon the Simp is one of three Basic tests of physical fitness in the in Case you Haven the others Are Chi ups and the army needs Strong stomachs my will probably go on develop ing Mak incr the setup com petition Keener and records May but it is doubtful that sit uppers will Ever have crowd a peal or be a drawing card in Madison Square it pay off in anything but a Wash Board the setup champs will just go on knocking themselves out for arts flyers drop Grid Start Rule Fluke go stars lose Benjamin highest ranking negro officer in the chats with Joe worlds heavyweight boxing while tour of american troops in own on a Nelson adds 8 for new prize Mark Chicago Byron Nelson won the Tarn o Shanter Dolf open with a final round in 69 strokes for a total of edging out de Dudley who also fired a closing coming from far to take second five strokes Buck White was a stroke Back of while Mcspaden shot 76 and fell to Nelson won to set a sea Sonal Mark of Lover break ing Sammy is cads 1938 Mark of Heistand wins Crapshoot Joe heis tand won the grand american breaking 200 straight targets to become the first Marks Man Ever to win four grand Segura bounces Back new York Fancho Segura won the Southampton Tennis Crown with f4 and defeating Don net Ace in Cairo Grid giants practice new York the new York football giants opened training 31 at Bear Mountain with 57 payers coach Sieve Owen Michigan ghost and film actress wed Ann Alai Tom former Al american halfback for the University of Michigan was married to film actress Elyse Knox miss Knox wore a gown of White silk made from the Parachute har Mon used when his plane cracked up in China last the wedding party included naval Forrest Evashevski who was har Mons blocking mate for three sons on the Wolverine Hal rated As americas seventh ranking Tennis is shown returning a fast one to Aly the Exira in an exhibition Missouri Champion in won easily 64 and he is stationed in India and played under auspices of special service while passing through Pacific coast league cd los Angeles 82 60 577 Hollywood 73 69 9 Portland 71 69 10 san Francisco 71 70 10 Seattle 69 73 13 Oakland 69 73 13 Sacramento 67 74 14 san Diego 64 78 18 the 1944 football season opened with two professional teams scor ing victories Over a pair of army More than fans in los an Geles saw the March Field flyers Bow to the Washington redskins the touted As one of the Best service teams in the a lived up to their but on a mix up in first half of the Ball game was played under collegiate Mips and the second half under the professional and a lapse of me Mory was the turning in the last with Only a left to Indian fired a pass for the was intercepted by of then Micka scooped up the raced 35 Yards through few minutes Jack Jacobs flyers that Mike and Navy nine Dazzles giants new York the great lakes Blue jackets Defeated the giants Fol their 4ith Victory in 46 games and their sixth Triumph Over a major league team in seven Virgil trucks held the giants to three hits to gain his ninth negro net titlist new York Lloyd Scott of Prairie and miss Roumania Peters of Tuskegee Institute won singles titles in the annual negro National Tennis championship play at the Cosmo Politan in there pitching Ohio Grover Cle Veland one of baseballs greatest Al time is a guard in a War Plant the gaping soldiers for the on touchdown of the Gamp As the flyers forgot that under pro rules fumbles May be aviators win statistics the out gained and out played the redskins from the open ing but twice failed to score in the second period with the Ball within the Redskin ten Yard Ernie former Southern California booted a Field goal from the six Yard line on one occasion for the 30 Soldier Lead that stood up for most of the also in the second period came another play that Cost the soldiers the Bill former Virginia All american and Star for the Pitts Burgh fired a 20 Yard jump pass to Bob former Washington and skipped 35 Yards for a the league leaders National league pm 354 Wein homers 28 runs batted in 94 pitching 131 american league batting homers Ste runs batted in 88 pitching 185 play was called Back under the collegiate ruling that a passer must be five Yards Back of the proceeds of the Flye Redskin game wont to army i stars dubbed Down in the Brooklyn tigers heat an Allstar army team with both teams unleashing a hot Aerial the tigers scored twice on passes were matched by the Tarmy Bob Masterson then booted a Field goal and skirted the end for ten and guard John Dixon intercepted a pass and ran 50 Yards for the scores that beat the Hank nods Joyce to Square series hammering Hank Armstrong took id round decision Over Wil lie Joyce in san Francisco to even the count Between the two a jobs in four fighting with a bad right in a bout Sev eral weeks ago with slugger used his left and his skill in close up fighting to overcome an Early Lead built up by both fought As Harold of scored a technical knockout Over Al of in the fourth round of the main event at Macarthur stadium in Brook Green dropped his opponent in the second and fourth rounds and had him in trouble before re Feree Harry ebbets Dies after ring bout Thomas negro heavyweight died in the Hospital follow ing his collapse in a three round training doctors said his death was due to acute resulting in disorganisation of the brain by Jiminy bags another Chicago by Al Par kers bradley4red copped the american Derby beat ing old Kentucky and Nelson Dun Derby and Preakness was a badly beaten Fordham tackle killed san till former right tackle with the Fordham has been killed in action at red tigers Challenge Browns in Din Dong Battle or Junior Loop Lead the have harassed Louis Browns a three front War on their bands in the american with the red Yankees and tigers All hot on the Trail for first and All dangerous coned sox captured second defeating the Yankees 7i them third the r place at York and dropping Back to tie with Detroit for the sox Are Only behind the embattled while the deadlocked tigers and yanks Are Only four games to the rear of the the world series will Start on it was decided at a meeting in the office of com missioner land is in brownies blanked three in Row the Browns ran into ill weather Dur Nothe past week and failed to score in three successive Bein shut out by the senators in the final game of a fou game be then dropping the first two of a series with the tigers toy shut they bounced Back with a 17hit attack against the and won the next tilt Browns won Only two out of their six games this an attempt was made to bolster the Browns pitching staff when National league i includes games of 27 cd Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati new York Chicago Philadelphia Boston Brooklyn 89 70 67 56 51 48 49 46 30 47 49 66 64 70 73 77 18 36 40j 4l 45 american league Louis Boston new York Detroit Cleveland Philadelphia Chicago Washington 70 67 65 65 60 60 57 52 54 58 57 57 66 67 66 71 4 4 11 17j Willis Hudlin was purchased from Little Rock of the Southern Asso part owner and Pitcher for the once was a Cleveland he has won 11 and lost four for Little bed sox bought Clem drive league leading Lethander with Sacramento in the Pacific coast and Rex Cecil from san Diego on the the athletics won five out of seven games this Cand the indians did even better with five out of the sox had on a 15 while the last place senators got two victories and four redbirds Roll on in the staid National the cards still hold an 18game and the pirates and reds Are fight ing it out for second the pirates now in the the cards Are now trying to eclipse the record of the 1906 cubs who won 116 games to cop the pen Nant As Early As they also May beat the pirates 1902 Mark in leading the second place club by the giants and the cubs Are in a scramble for fourth the new York club slightly ahead after winning five out of six for the while Chicago All five Jimmy one time american league batting has quit his cub coach ing Job to manage the Portsmouth club in the Piedmont re placing Catcher Bill Steinecke who was sold 10 the
