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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                December stars and Middle East Tjce it from by Dean Broome when the lads come Home from tainting wild life in the Pacific islands and the  get a Chanco to do some real Hunting and fishing the recreational kind Buck in the a a congressional committee on wild life conservation has just Complete a two year study and they think these outdoor sports will toe just what the doctor or dered or will order for frayed Norves of returning chairman Robertson of Virginia said the will introduce legislation next month to help assure plenty of game for Hunting and fishing with the immediate objective of helping to ease the nerve Strain of about fighting men who must he rehabilitated inside As Well As the committee found that in Terest in Hunting and fishing in creased about per cent after world War i and it expects a jump As High As 50 per cent after the present us Fimie with its highly anticipated Kigali bowl or what have you football game Between the Hurricane and rebels 31 will have a rival in Italy the next Day in a Between Trio fifth army doughboy and 12th air Force the Spaghetti bowl game location of the italian classic is a military secret but both sides have an imposing array of sex College stars find it is said that the stadium where  play comfortably seats from to Tennessee volunteers in Pasadena working out twice daily for their Rose Rowl while coach Jeff Cravath of Southern Cal is experimenting with his moving tackles to guard spots and vice versa to off the hard charging Tennesse Ravuth warned his team that the vols would have the strongest col lege line they faced his Angelo one of the great est College basketball players in history while at Stanford seven years has shot his last now a Xavy was Sticken recently with spinal meningitis and the medication necessary for his recovery so affect him that physicians have or dered him to leave athletics Luisetti told Hill Diehl of the Star Ledger that sulfa drugs which i took while recovering had taxed his heart and doctors advised him to take life East trojans 18point favorite gamblers have installed Southern California a 19point favorite to defeat Tennessee in the bowl new years is with flick of the wrist bid Levine 16 of Cony flips one in High in an Effort to thwart the Square Garden when the two quintets As Arkansas Chi Wheeler 71 jumps this action took place in Madison met Arkansas won Quenzler Sparks wolves to 127 Winover bombers the pm bombers of Huckstep got off to a first Quarter Lead but  hold it and bowed to the air depot wolves 127 in a nip and tuck game Christmas the bombers took the offensive Early in a drive from their own 45 powered by the passing and run Onnig of Crawford 201pound Robert Williams pushed it Over from the two Yard line and made the extra Point on a line it looked at first like the bomb ers but in the second sundays game at Alamein sundays football tween the Golden Hurricane and the rebels will be at the Alamein club instead of gezira As the time is the Quarter the wolves bounced Back arid Oconnell tallied after a 55yard drive led by him self and Norman Anderson Aliso making a Handy the wolves1 second and win niner score came late in the third Oconnell sparking a 74 Yard surge and going Over for the touchdown the air depot teams chalked up of first Downs while the bombers made on the nations courts Bates Sanford Colgate Hobart Colorado Missouri Corpus Depaul Navy radio Depauw Purdue Drake Carleton Illinois Lewis Oregon lakes Illinois lakes Purdue Johns Hopkins Concordia Iowa Denver Kansas Kansas state Kansas Rockhurst Marshall Brooklyn College Minnesota Nebraska Missouri Westminster Muhlenberg Columbia Murcell Christ Ion Morris Field notre Dame Lecras 44 Nyu Brooklyn College Oklahoma Phillips Ohio state Utah Penn state Bucknell Rice Pentathlon Johns West Point a methodist Dallas Syracuse Lawrence Temple Princeton Tufts Virginia Richmond airbase Virginia and Mary Westminster Arkansas wisc fusion Iowa sea Hawks Yale Marshall Blu Egray came to be aired the annual Allstar football game will broadcast via shortwave beginning at 9 Cairo time on Doc station in can be heard flyers shut out tie for runner up spot Payne Field flyers out gained the rambling wrecks of Huckstep to the tune of 17 first Downs to to and emerged the winners of sundays Pyramid league game Claud Hoeper pushed Over from the on Yard line for the first tally in the second Quad and the flyers again tallied in the Kenneth Boyce making the Jack Windle eluded the Huckstep tacklers for considerable yardage and 1st Theodore my As Well As Hoeper and also kept them Busy Dur ing the Victory the wrecks tried a passing at tack but it failed to work and their Only sizeable drive was for if Yards in the fourth Quarter on a pass allowed because of interference and a 15yard Green repeats against Graziano Harold Brooklyn welter repeat2d his recent ten in Ned decision Over Rocky Grazia no of East Side in a return bout at Madison Square Garden before fans including Himmer fio rello the bout was even than their finst engagement which saw Green saved by the Bell in the tenth alter piling up commanding Lead on boxing Graziano floored Green for a four count with right chop in the round and Hock re a prorated with a wild right in the eighth which sent Green Down for the count 01 sugar Kay Stu Phi George new in Glam welterweight in the seventh round in Robinson weighed 148 Ami Martin Archie right made Lehuta with a Levi Rufind decision Over Nate Bolden of Chicago in every round hut Phil Lur Ruer Iea ibor weight floored Leo fran Eis of Panama in round other sports i i i move to bolster War Washington War mobilization ditto Tor w Byrnes this cracked Down on wartime sports by All horse and dog tracks in the nation to close by 3 and at the same time asking selective service to review the draft qualifications of All men known to be professional Byrnes order on race tracks was in the form of a request approved by the president calling on track operators to conclude that their meetings by 3 so manpower services and transportation used in those sports coi ild be diverted to channels Moro use Ful in the War his request was in fact on ultimatum to close or face action by the War manpower commis office of defense transportation and War production these agencies could1 deny race tracks the use of manpower for operation of motor and rail facilities for transportation of horses and attendants and critical materials needed for construction and maintenance of Byrnes also announced lie had asked selective service director Lewis Hershey to review the draft qualifications of All deferred professional the daily news quoted Byrnes As saying that neither he nor the Public could understand How men 18 to 26 who Are adjudged physically unfit for Mili tary services could continue Lito compete with the greatest athletes of the nation in games demanding physical they prove to thousands by their Cereal feats on the football or baseball Field that they Are physically fit and Able to perform military services As Are men in race track owners in Miami were said have been stunned by Byrnes and haunt decided on their plans except that they will go at Iead with their meetings until they said they did so in order to Aid horse men As much As the Florida state racing commission approved the addition of a ninth race on daily programs at tropical Park for the Benefit of uie horsemen benevolent tropical Park directors issued a agreeing that nothing counts when winning the War is in question but said they  Why a Rule Primar ily directed against circumstances existing elsewhere should be Mado to apply to Florida and other Atlantic Seaboard states which ure under no Florida has no Groat War in the state int in an urea off elfed by War labor con there is no shortage of War workers nor is there dislocation rail travel since none of the tracks around army bases is in a Gas rationing is rigidly the existing else where is taken to mean the race track which is near several air plane fac tories and other essential War in some War Indus tries ii Cupy around owned by the Hollywood while promoters of racing and other looked into the future with baseball club owners and officials showed concern about major league base Ball on in baseball is certain to to hit harder than Liiv other professional in in Iii of hut the con be Notus opinion is that the National game will continue for the Clark owner of the Washington senators and one of the oldest and shrewdest baseball officials in the showed no a signs of worry and said he was 1o having his layers drafted ii Wield Ford National league 1 definitely think we will in Able three Vears Ugi we said we would play to intr As we could Srot nine men on the Field foul that we Urall ouf to Cali to Armsto Nied Laguardia puts heat on bookies new York new York City police who have been assigned to rounding up handbook operators find their duties will not be curtailed because of the governments ban on horse mayor Laguardia announced he has ordered cops to concen trate on policy he believes the track ban will Force bookies into the numbers i had a pretty Good idea something along that line would the mayor beamed Over the Good news of the red Light on the scrap drive win because we estimate that 120 tons of paper each week Are used for scratch sheets and racing tip publications sold in mis Laguardia also the decision to review the draft Sta Tus of medically deficient Athle Tes adding Sporte can continue with Young or older men and fit i be of War and in a boxing expects to be hit but promoters and state missioners voiced no the War comes said Nat matchmaker for a unison Square Garden in we must abide by the rulings of the War manpower commission and other government if boxers remain after that then we wiil army news service pointed out that Byrnes order did not mean that standards for military ser vice have been citing the fact that Many people misconstrued it that selective service also reminded that Many deferred How May be borderline cases and that local boards will Check their records to Stop such re examination of some May reveal that their physical condition has it was also pointed out Many see Hershey order to draft boards As certain to Force minor baseball leagues into inactivity along with the horse Rig league clubs have de Pended largely on deferred Athle Tes for the past three years and when they enter the services any minor league Ball players who know their Way from the dugout to right Field will be major Lear the majors even survive next As racing entered its last the second largest crowd in the history of the tropical Park track at Miami poured the record sum of through the Mutual machines on Christmas the fans displayed plenty of optimism As rumours filtered through i he grandstand that the government might Herbert Bayard chair Man of tropical and Henry president of the Pim Rico were reported planning to go to Washington this week in an Effort to have the ban modified to permit racing two Days each Pyramid conference rebels 3 0 51 u Hurricane 2 1 46 13 2 1 1919 Blue devils 2 2 58 34 wolves 2 2 38 58 wrecks 1 3 19 38 bombers 0 3 7 64 games this Mon Fryer Tripoli to furs is  
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