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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, February 23, 1945

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                February 1945 it stats by 0eait Broome Charley Porter of Logan school in West Virginia has what May be a National inter Scholastic scoring Charley in go Points in a game with big greek High last week and his team won his seasons re Cord is 426 Points an average of More than 25 per 4fc to 7f to War is hell a basketball game Between the University of Maryland and Marshall College of had to toe cancelled last Friday most of the Marshall team had been drafted during the owner George Preston Marshall of the Washington who int notorious for Loving sports has nevertheless put pre Judice aside and offered to take care of scribes if they should be left jobless by the proposed National work a Large laundry oper Ator the nations offers to move to Washington and give him a Job in his the laundry Industry is considered you and it might Well be considered by sports writers if their jobs he Manuel worlds Bantam weight is taking Basic train ing in at Camp pfc some baseball magnates Are browned off because of a delay by the fou main group assigned to sift through candidates for the Job of baseball How Don president of the Louis and his commit insist they wont he stain eded into Horace new York giants owner and one of the dissenters t didst know they intended to make it their lifes car Wood speedboat a predicts thai after the War that will soar to new Heights and 200 Miles per hour will be an accepted sir Malcolm Campbells record of i Miles per hour will surely says As a result of the tremendous development of air plane motors Dur inor the real he Points will he constrict Iorii of we will have the motors but the big question is Whall we hold them together he Woods knowledge of Hoats is put to Good use now As is now Pirt of4 training staff at the amphibious training Center at Camp Gordon he is enthusiastic new lightweight metals and plywood developed in the past couple of Tim column of Frothy facts has been a read Able feature of the world Telegram sports has taken a Job As sports editor of he succeeds Frank Graham who is to write several books on Frothy facts is now whipped no by Eddie fall kills Tiajuana jockey Jimmy har Roll was thrown from his mount and killed during the second race at hippodrome up on Rich was leading the Paik when he was thrown at the Quarter several of the horses ran Over him and lie was pronounced dead upon arrival at mercy Hospital in san basketball league games this week my a Sladey Phi Francis leaps up in an Effort to dislodge the bail held by Sam Kalish of Brooklyn College who is attempting a the action was seen on Madison Square Garden court when the teams met two at one blow a n disc Ergo Suso sports special to Wjt of Al Van j1 Mhilli a Una vu1 and sent to All ships stations reserved to itself this oni discharges of apparently atom embodied of the Navy James Forrestar attributed the which resembles closely a previous War to Adverse Public reaction and tic ism following discharges i nationally prominent persons from the the order refers not Only to athletes but to other naval personnel who have been prominent in the entertainment it says in part the discharge of certain naturally prominent persons from the military services has caused Adverse Public reaction and to the discharge of a Well known professional foot Ball player for physical disability followed immediately by Success Ful participation in professional games is obviously subjected to widespread Public disapproval the discharge of patently Able bodied prominent figures to enable them to take in activities unessential to the National safety and interest cannot be justified to the Genera among notable cases of athletes discharged from the Navy Only to resume their athletic activities where they left off before arc those of Dick Detroit slugger Willie Vav Oral Feather weight Champion Sammy golfer and Frankie Detroit football Dichar cd a Theu the Navy curtailed Pilot is Hack in Pep has been drafted by the Snead has a no Idica discharge from the Navy for a had Back and Sinkwich was discharged from the Marintes for a variety of ailments including Flat had heart and High blood Hes now awaiting re sults of an army final judgment on discharges for prominent persons will be passed by vice Harold chief of naval personnel Marine corps commandant or vice coast guard Marva wife of Joe heavyweight helps her Little daughter Jacqueline celebrate her second birthday in their Home in the Champion want Able t0 be Hes in the Tunney reveals vast i sports plan Guam the armed faced with the problem of keeping fighting men Happy Between the time the War ends and their Dis charge from Are planning comprehensive athletic facilities for overseas Gene special advisor to the chief of the Navy Bureau i per the former heavyweight boxing in Guam on a world wide tour 10 inspect Navy Al fitness said the ser vices planned to cons run base a 1 rings and other sports facilities in Forward areas to keep men occupied while they Are waiting to re turn Haik it la it year to get soldiers Home from France and guardhouse we rent big enough to hold All the men who were he this time we Hope to have equipment ready so they can return to Civ Ilian life in the Best possible Phy Sical it construction of Forward area sports he is being hampered by transportation difficulties not Lack of Tunney he will recommend establishment of a Broad physical fitness program for Man overseas before the shooting inspect facilities in India and possibly Lina a tour of Pacific h i Bartfield nips mexican patriarch Danny East Side Light came out of a mix up with his left Eye and right Cheek Cut but went on to score a clean Cut Victory Over in Unberto Zavala of Mexico in a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden in new a crowd of that Contri Bute 1 a Gate of cheered wildly at the hartfields Eye was Cut in the fourth round but efficient work by his second closed the wound though referee Frank full Emins petted it after every Zavala was willing to mix it at All times and made a hit with the though Only tie mexican has six having been married since he was Willie Pep of Hartford staged a successful defense of his Feather weight championship by soundly trouncing Phil Terranova of the Bronx in 15 rounds at Madison Square making his last title defense before entering the came away with a Clear Cut hammering Hank loses Chaster Slider out pointed Hank Armstrong in Tak ing a ten round welterweight de Hob Light weight made his first appearance since entering the army six months winning a unanimous ten round decision Over Cecil Hudson in los Angeles Hudson was floored three Mickey Walker a welter and middleweight Champ a Champion six Day Bike a Golf Ball a bag puncher and pingpong notables comprise Mickey walkers sports special Uso show which has arrived in Accra and will tour its Way through the ultimate destination the famed Mickey Heads and emcees the which is More or less a sports Mickey was once welterweight Champion of the world Middle weight he retired from the ring in having lost his title in other members of the team in clude Jack who is billed As the Houdini of the modern Golf and allegedly can make a Golf Ball do anything but for Mer Model Mary Riley and Louis Pagliaro Are the pingpong i then theres Joe pasto whose rhythmical bag punching got him into show High powered cycling will be exhibited by Jimmy Walthour who has won Bike titles throughout the and and Frank who was recently discharged from the red Smith to cubs Milwaukee red manager Distant for the to As the eight year resigned coach of Chicago nips cant resist lure of horse hide he list some where in the anese soldiers Are playing base Ball in spite of former Premier Tojos edict the Day after Pearl Tojo banned baseball which had become japans most popular sport because it was too deca Dently definite evidence of Jap sol Diers playing the National Pas time was discovered when the 41st division destroyed the islet fortress of they found three several infielders gloves and catchers mitts which apparently had seen plenty of the mitts were in Well oiled the equipment is now being used by the 41st Cham pions of the Southwest Snead wins Gulfport playoff Sammy Snead Defeated Byron Nelson on the 1jth Hole in a playoff match for first Money in the grand Gulf port Golf they poured the extra 18 holes All even at a playoff was made necessary when the two stylists wound no the regulation four rounds tied at 275 new stadium for middies the Navy athletic reported it plans to construct a huge stadium to seat persons at  
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