Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                March stars and Middle East by Dean Broome consensus is that the new mid night curfew on after dark amuse ment will give sports a those denied their tipping in the wee Small hours May turn with added interest toward for extracurricular thrills and As a Means of disposing of surplus bet is will also pro Bably be on the Harry owner of the Prin Cipal Block of Stock in the Sacra mento club on the Pacific coast has been asked by Clarence Row league to sell his holdings at the earliest possible moment and get out of indications that everything was not Kosher in Sacramento As re Gards Ludwig came at a recent league meeting from which the directors barred Ludwig at the re quest of Leslie member of the Threeman committee run nine baseball since the death of commissioner reference was made to ludwigs outside interests and the suspicion that recently deposed As club president league i was connected with Gamb Ling was confirmed by Earl left handed Pitcher Tho red and a former athlete at marys College received a Battlefield promotion to second lieutenant and has been awarded the Bronze John of fought As a Rifle platoon sergeant through five major conflicts engaged in by the 30th division since Normandy bits and pieces Tony Laz once a Yankee oper ates a High class tavern called me Lody Lane in san Francisco midget Well known Boxer in the is now an army private a fire fighter detachment of the 15th aah in Italy will be the site of the first Abc pin tournament after the War Willis Veteran indians succeeds Bob seeds As it umber of the Little Rock travellers in the Southern Lou Chicago cubs has been purchased by the los Angeles club of the Pacific coast he hit lust Quinn celebrated his 75th birthday by announcing he would retire As manager of the Boston after handing Over therein to his hell re main Active As a club director Snead wins in a Sonville Sam Snead won the Jacksonville shunting a final round for a 7miole total of heat ing Hob Hamilton by four by Sammy Byrd and Bruce tied for third at 7i and Mcspaden and Bvron Nelson tied for fourth with this Young lady is the who was recently receive the annual James University of California titles 1944the can and Hopes some Day to o chosen by a Poh of the nations sports writers to Sullivan memorial a freshman at the at holds four aau freestyle swimming 800 and Shes be a fashion Acme sea legs Haegg runs last a of t x j i the team title new of a three week boat ride were too much and Gunder swedish distance finished last behind Jimmy Lafferty of Nyack and three others in the special Louis Zamperini invitation mile at the 4a track meet at Madison Square who arrived Here but two Days led for the first eight of 11 laps but faded quickly and finished 80 Yards behind Rafferty who just nosed Forest Effaw in the unimpressive time of disappointment at Haggs per was Over shadowed by the Brilliant performance of the army track team which busted All previous 4a Flag snatching by Miler is debunked York announcement that a special on Emile race in a meet at Madison Square Garden last saturday would be named for aah flyer missing in prompted Lew journal sports to the Oft repeated tale than Zain Perini swiped a nazi Flag in Berlin during the 1936 none of us who were including reporters and knew of the Flag snatching Burton its been attributed to Zain Perini by a sports Raster who makes a habit of fabrication on a National the press has been making a mistake in signifying this raw fiction by repeating who could Burton Poss Ible mean by that records in grabbing with 734 Haegg was conceded too much class for his rivals despite his sea legs and it looked As though he would win easily until the Field was Well past the Halfway he hit first Quarter at 63 and the half at his third was All the Ameri cans needed they sailed right on past and All Haegg could offer in the Way of opposition was a look of Surprise As they passed Don Cornell medical and Rudy Pioneer finished behind Baffert and Efaw but ahead of army placed in each of 13 events during the tournament and won including three first places in the shot put with Doc Blan Ralph Davis and Jim a Milton finishing in Blan Chard winning with 48 Iowa taking the final re lava defended the big six track beating Nebraska 4033 wit i Missouri third with no rough stuff this int a wrestling Dave West right of Payne Field and British Lac Alfred Stead just tripped As they went into a Clinch during a boxing bout last sunday at though West seems to have the upper nand he was later out pointed by the britishers s photo by Joyce grabs upset Over Ike Williams Willie a 13to15 under upset lightweight Ike Wil Liams before fans in Madi son Square taking a unanimous 12round Arturo Godoy won his first heavyweight Start since returning to the with a unanimous 10 round verdict Over Bou Chard of Montreal in Norfolk Jimmy duration heavy weight scored a unanimous 10round decision Over John no Flynn of Rochester in a Cleve land Erson Ca r Start Spring in modern Histo a major league baseball clubs will week with the smallest player squads Dimi manpower All teams will operate on Day Baste until they learn just what will be done in Washington on work or else Washington senators started the Ball rolling wednesday at College and the cubs opened the following Day at frs id other teams will main Idle re when until next week they All with manpower questions still the usual springtime Ballyhoo Over contract signings is missing this clubs Are Mak ing few announcements on agree ments Andi some of them wont Sav a new York for have announced Treyve signed 16 players and lost one to the armed names were Many players have complicated the situation by refusing to divulge their intentions until legis lation one Way or the other is passed in a rundown on 16 major league clubs and their training bases re Veals All clubs suffering manpower difficulties Browns less affected the Browns in the american at Cape apparently less affected than will Start practically the same lineup that won their first Pennant last suffered a severe loss in the re Induc Tion of Dick but Trout and Newhouser Are red1 entire catching staff plus Tex Hughson and Bobby Doerr Are prospects no Good face loss of first baseman Bill Mcghee and rely on discharges for pitch College same old trying to play Ameri can baseball with prospects White Terre Relief Pitcher Gordon Maltzberger lost to the have 39 hopefuls on the Lou Boudreau is reported considering War work for the a Hor Rible thought to Cleveland Atlantic ing on Borowy and in the National the car at Are pretty local boxers headed for pc tournament seven Payne Field boxers and 15 from the egyptian army will go to Iran next week to participate in an inter Allied fight tournament held at including also British and iranian Bernard special services the american boxers Are morn Ian Philip hol John Dave Frank Arthur Curnie and Thev will he accompanied by Eddie Reilly and Joseph badly broken up by Musial is Walker Cooper and Max Lanier slated to go and mar tin Marion probably will then  be Only slightly better than the rest of the if they can take up where Thev left off last year  take ithe Cardi very few changes in the theft lost Catcher Ray Mueller and will depend on Strong pitching this French still hop ing Bill Nicholson is Delle Sandro and Les Fleming Are plenty of Young no important player Bill Jurges is Mif fed at his threatens to the giant office says go Bear Likely to lose Mickey Owen to the draft and Are still raiding the kindergartens for Phillies lost their Ibert Ron nor to the draft and signed Gus a poor Haven suffered Many player losses but still need basketball foreseen As worldwide sport basketball will become worldwide sport when the War is Over and the rules have already been translated into several to James director of physical education at Southern methodist University and president of the National basketball rules Clair reported a growing in Terest in Tho american Cage sport in such places As France and throughout South from the other Side of the world reports have trickled Back to the of basketball tournaments played under almost impossible conditions on South Pacific is one Marine combat correspondent told How natives watched enraptured As two Marine teams battled for the title of a certain Rock Down there when it was borrowed the Ball and started shooting baskets Jimmy Foxx in comeback Philadelphia Jimmy one of the leading righthand hit ters of All signed a oneyear contract with the Philadelphia Philadelphia thirty even Yearou Foxx goes Back to the City in which he first played major league Ball hut in a different Lea he joined the athletics As Catcher in writer scorches sports As Racket in wartime army news service new York Stanley Wood sports editor of the Jalc irascible critic of sports promoters during wartime and a staunch supporter of the policies held by War mobilize James took his final blast at War sports the morning before returning to duty As a War correspondent with the Navy in the Pacific after having served in he voiced pleasure at leaving Whu push their Little the Middle of a War thus warmed to his let go with gusto in the second Nara graph thusly Hope that Justice James Byrnes will stand firm against the insidious racing lobby and keep this overblown Racket quiescent until the War is we further Trist that nobody Liv Noje pends on sports has the Gall to use the word we Trust that the baseball people who appear to have assured themselves of wartime tolerance will talking about their damned old Batand Ball fund and cease Point Iuta out How much Money the War Effort is losing because of the abolition of the Allstar further Down in his Farewell Woodward accuses racing people i if exploiting Mau lovable and makes an admirable Shock whims according to Wood is that Hes seen the Ken Tucky Derby every year since it started an cant Bear the thought of no Derby in he gave out a Mory to the a and up which almost made this department Wood Ward he May yet make Justice Byrnes burst into letting Hack on baseball peo Woodward said they Are con Thiim Liy giving interviews telling How dependent overseas service men Are on with the Aid of the so and the army they dispatched five troupes of their own performers to the War on return to this country spokesmen for each troupe described the tremendous Success registered by the perform ers and How the boys love the a actually gent stories of this Type by Bov Stockton Louis sports jail Over the Woodward also charged base Ball with the Brush for enough Section children and old men to carry its lot game