Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                March 1945 stars and Middle East r Page from us lady hoops fers of us anime in action by Dean Broome Gil who is on a preach ing tour of the says the four minute mile is beyond human Ive tried it said1 the emiler who recently Hung up his running shoes to preach the Ive tried a fast first fast third Quarter and everything i could Muster in the finishing kick but Ive never even come says Dodds whose Best Effort is the flying Parson said there is nobody in the capable of beating Gunder up to now theres nobody in the states even capable of finding let alone founder Lias been expected any Day and is Long Over due but no word has been heard from to up lexicon of a fight As compiled by philologist Dan Parker you Cut your hand you wrap it up in a bad say the Weathers very humiliating when it makes us f fighter that sure of himself has who gets there ahead of everyone recognize the you collect when you own some precious Metal that looks like White to do a sleeping color resembling Olden or Days of Maxie to finbloom likes Bis sirloin insurance Iii the face and As in Hes always chasten after my detritus what you get from living in Good pipe stems Are made which you get from your made by a vicious every one votes the same the sanitation department men As in he scurried out of the Way of a he trundled the bum out of the Odds and endings Argentine thoroughbred owned by bin dropped dead at Cros Bys he bad been in stud several seasons Al world so output Champion and former tackle with the is missing in action in France Tommy one of Dixie leading heavyweights before going has been seriously wounded on the 1st army front in his relatives in Tampa were informed major league clubs raised More than for War Relief during the last three seasons Ler redwings and Columbus he Louis cardinals farm will do Spring training on the Campus of Miami University in Oxford Ohio Arthur k Patter baseball succeeds Rill Brandt As director of the National league ser vice Brandt resigned affective april 1 and announced h will retire to write a history of slow Ball originator Dies san Francisco Herman who played with Philadelphia in the National Lea gue in the Early died he is credited with the slow Ball when with the Phillips in he was a standout Pitcher in the Pacific coast Odt cuts baseball travel 1 r ail Star game is Washington baseball officials received a request from the office of defense transportation to curtail team travel by per cent this year and As a result the 1945 Allstar baseball game scheduled for july in Boston bos been Odt announced it was formulating a policy which would result a similar putdown in All Athle tic both Amateur and pro but decisions announced this week dealt primarily with baseball and were received toy will Harridge and Ford presi dents of the two major who have been discussing baseballs problems with Fate of the world series was not immediately announced but Odt officials made it Clear that three members of the us anime was basketball team go after a tossup luring one of their practice sessions at the Myca court on Ibrahim Pasha Treyve been working out regularly and Are ready to Challenge any other women team in this left to Loretta Detmer of Pough Mildred Feyk of and arid Keir of coach of the team is 2nd Catherine shown in background at signal corps photo by big three of named  Brooklyn Lewis Valen police commissioner of new York testified at open court hearings on basketball gambling and named a big three1 who he said controlled gambling in new York Frank one of the coun try biggest Frank Slot machine and Joe Brooklyn were named by Valentine who said nothing could be done about their activities unless the Small Fry through whom they operate Are put out of Valentine revealed that nod basketball promoter and acting president of Madison Square had submitted to him the names of 50 gamblers who frequented basketball hoc key games 4vnd Charles Cohen read off the names before judge Sain Leihowicz and Valentine commented on some of them from the witness one of those named was Marty former lieutenant of dutch Beer Baron who was shot to death in a Newark Saloon several years Krompier was shot in a Baber shop the night Schultz was killed in new Valentine and its too had that hum want others on the list of 50 were Sam now out on certificate of reasonable doubt after conviction of accepting and Joe Bakers Valentine told i dont have to worry about him Valentine said removal of Basket Ball games to College gyms would end fixing of players but would have Little or no effect on Gambl Sammy bags Pensacola meet Sammy Snead carded a sensational 15 in final round to Annex the Pensacola Golf open with a 72hole total of Byron Nelson was be strokes behind Mcspaden and Maude Harmon tied for third with 275 each Craig Henry Picard and dutch Harrison tied for fourth with army wins last round As memory fails Willie Camp Charles whistle if Willie Roa featherweight is located Here result of a difference of opinion with Uncle Sams both Willie and the army agree that Willie was inducted quite some time ago but Thev Dif Fer strongly on the reason Willie has been wandering around in civilian clothes for about a Willie claims he had a medi Cal discharge but the army Char gis Willie with being awol 13 Willie still claims he t discharge cannot produce nor fan he recall off hand from which Hospital or he was plastic Protection havanas riot Over ring i Dies havan1a Cuba a 17year old student was killed and 14 persons mostly As result of an unpopular boxing Carlos Perez of the dominican Republic had been declared the Victor Over kid tuner of Cuba in a Caribbean middleweight title the Crown of whistled and booed for ten min then hurling chairs and benches toward the panic ensued and shots were fired As police sought to restore fetching Verna Thompson is shown wearing a new football helmet made of acrylic plastics which is stronger than the Ordinary ones now in use on the it was one of Many recently div hoped plastic products exhibited the plastics Industry exhibition in los ins photo sugar Ray gets nod Over Jake Lamotta welterweight sugar Ray Robin son scored a unanimous ten round decision Over middleweight Jake Lamotta in Madison Square Gar Den before fans for his third win in four meetings with Jake had handed him his Only de feat in 55 fights two years Fritzie Zivic stopped the mexican welter kid in the second round at Camp new Tri state league the Tri state baseball league was organized Here with Green Ville and and receiving fran two other cities in this area Are expected to join Ray Ryan of was named president of the league which will open a 120game season on May 1 with games every week Day night and sunday admission of Knoxville was Poss Ible since the smokes of the South Ern moved to Mobile in mid season last basketball league games this week i i signal moderne Mij i unless the situation changes tidally before May be baseball men received four separate from Mon Roe Odt director games will replayed Only at the Home Field of one of the com Peting teams except at army or Navy posts in which Case the military will provide preseason training will continue in or near the teams Home Ball clubs will Cut their Ros ters As far As possible while on the the world series games will be held Only if and War conditions All clubs will reexamine their schedules and effect any possible savings in Frick and Harridge Saidi they were very Well pleased with the whole thing at the conclusion of their today visit which started last tuesday in the office of War mobilization director James Byrnes and concluded with a con Ference at baseball is travel deterrent Frick estimated that junking the Allstar game would result in saving at least passenger counting writers and officials about 500 working persons Are involved in the Allstar games to say nothing of travel to the contest by Johnson commended baseballs cooperation which he termed exemplary and said baseball was an excellent travel Twenty thousand fans in the grandstand seats probably Means several thousand fewer travellers in Railroad and bus John son in that Way a comparatively reasonable amount of travel by baseball groups is a Good investment in the general travel conservation the transportation situation this year is to critical that i am asking baseball to effect such further economies As will permit continuance of the National As baseball prepared to effect travel officials of other sports were wondering whats in store for other sports May be curtailed basketball teams and hockey teams still travel in groups and other sports which involve Indi such As Golf and Are undoubtedly in for some Odt a formal announce ment of policy which will be Forth coming shortly will clarify Points such will intercollegiate basketball tournaments such As the Mcaa in Kansas City and new York and the National invitation in new York be affected what will happen to huge inter collegiate track meets like the Pennsylvania and Drake relays when will if on sports other than baseball be applied although no indication was Given As when the Odt would Lay Down the Law to other sports it was announced that Spe Cial attention would be Given the foregoing questions and a Start ing time for restrictive policies he announced go hell Driver seen As War product greatest 1am the collection of daredevil racing Drivers in history is being developed in the service but it was a Good loud no because it Rami from Jack de Nipsey of the coast the former heavyweight Cham Pion said there Are no real Good Lio Xing men that Ive observed in this in takes or four years to develop Topnotch people say that tin Las War product great hut it Jene Tunis by its hut it want until seven years alter the War that i be name As i Auto raeiuu1 Jim Iii worlds Champion Din Hack Driver who has Jetur Iid from an assignment As a Ilton Lilin iian wih a said therell he a tremendous Boom in Auto the reason kids who drive those jeeps Over through across deserts and through Are the nervies lot of them said lots of them will turn to Auto racing after that when racing fans Are going to Sim some Jeal Willii irn also predicted a Post War in other branches of Joes wife to divorce him Chicago friends of Marva Trotter wife of heavyweight boxing Champion Joe said begin divorce action Wiznia a few she and now Aid army have a Twoy Eair Oll