Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                April 1945 take it from All in clean fun by Dean Broome Sammy Snead and Byron Nelson will meet in their Charity Golf match either May 2627 or june 23 Whitey braves shortstop had two joints on the Little of his left hand amputated this week in his Finger was recently injured when he caught a line drive in batting practice Ray Morrison has Sig Ned up again for five years at Temple University Gene Duval is chairman of a committee which has signatures on a petition ask incr that babe Ruth be Given a position in major league Eddie Eagan of the athletic commission thinks a new Champ is due and will probably come out of the he says that acres la Guerre the boxers of the world actually will meet in eliminations and the Winner will become the first Bona fide n Hugh Fullerton dishes out this bit of living verse lets hoist one to Young Educ coach who is missing few Cornell not the same As old notre but they dont have to play those Everett the owns 14 onion farms in Southern California Glenn the up is shifting to to become Secretary of the crackers Steve fam Ous jockey who won six British died in London at the age of 60 Max former Dod Ger and braves is now at Ensign Sid Luckman is in France Nous enrolment has upped from to Gundar Haegg still wont say when Hes going to marry Dorothy Nortier of inter army which seem to be gaining a lot of headway All Are very popular out in the Burma India regions where Little olympics Are being held this week for the show started with a Golf tournament in which the former North Carolina pro and North South Amateur Champ shaded Jack Spancer of judging from in army sports Here and elsewhere among the these tournaments will no doubt be bigger and More frequent than Ever in coming those doing the Good Hunting in Europe have bagged the trite Heater titbits Matt Pavalunas and Velko Rajacich who starred for Camp Atterbury in the Huckstep Plav this week Are the same ones who gave amet football Al stars considerable trouble at Alamein Pava Lunas was a basketball Alameri can at Oregon de  was Down to cover the games for stars and Italy orchids Are due Joe Peroli and pop Melvin who worked hard on the tournament from the special ser vice gobs will see All Nat games free a fax will be admitted free to All National league games every Day including sundays and Ford National league presi Only the uniform is necessary at Home games of taif dodgers Phillies and the cardinals and cubs will provide Nee Essav tickets to their local Iso several Parks will Haw special Gates and Seckons for Ruben new 12 and Chester Chase of Huckstep tangle it with Bob Carr of the Mitchel bombers from Tousa in an Early game in the Tri theater Huckstep stars and Africa Middle East bulldozers nip Hue for Tri theater h sweeping Itie guck step Tea Ift off its feet in the third they scored 22 Points against their opponents bulldozers won the Tri theater tourney thursday night by a score of leading the Bulldozer attack was Sinfo Otto Center Stool who battled Licitra was High Man for Huckstep with the from Italy moved with a turned ankle when he fell into the finals without too much difficulty having Defeated Payne Field last Friday and Huckstep sunday to remain undefeated while the amet team thus previously had one loss of the two games necessary for the Tousa teams came Down As the most highly touted an4 they looked Good according to were Way off their usual the bombers took two successive Falls Early in the tournament at the hands of Huckstep and Payne the amet didst seem to get clicking except on saturday when Lewis Scott dunked 20 Points and Payne edged Camp the flyers ran into bad weather sunday when their defense seemed to collapse in the last few minutes of play against Atterbury and they were Huckstep played a aggressive game with Tom my erstwhile Johns George Licitra of West new and Gerald harsh of Lancaster among those doing some goo passing and toll Baer got 20 Points in game against pics Camp but he was lost tuesday night Joe Sokol of the aviation Engineer bulldozers from Italy fires a shot Over the outstretched arms of Lewis Scott of Payne Field 14 while George Corrie 10 and Paul Wenning 5 of Payne await the the bulldozers took this signal corps photos by 1945 season opened tuesday Mist and a chill wind caused postponement of the major league opener Between the Yankees and Washington senators but the season oped the Washington game was to have been dedicated to the late president Roosevelt postponement was made with considerable speaker Sarn Texas to have thrown out the first first time in history a member of Congress was Given this usual la it is reserved for the president or vice ceremonies planed for monday wiil held Friday no senators face the Yankees after t Are Gaim series he in the Yankees scored seven runs in the seventh inning to defeat the red sox 84 at new York Rush i yank Rookie Outfield hit two one with the ams drowns scored a 7i Triumph Over the tigers at Sig Jakucki holding the tigers to six hits and shading Hal be who cardinals 2 giants Draves 6 Drivers Phillies 2 rids pirates g 11 innings Chick Fewster Dies Wilson chick1 in the game against pc drank the bitterest clip of this being the first time a persian Gulf athletic team had Ever visited the Africa Middle East theater and gone away that Sterling record shattered As was eliminated on the third night of play and Atterbury tuesday night All the Atterbury games were Good per Matt Pava Lunas and Velko Rajacich being particularly generally play through out the tournament seemed bit with practically every team getting and cold a predict certainly it was rough and keeping the referees Busy with the demanding Eagle eyesight and a firm the scores the week Friday bulldozers Payne Field 36 Huckstep bombers 48 saturday Camp Atterbury bombers 33 Payne Field Camp Ahwaz 35 sunday Atterbury Payne Field 31 bulldozers Huckstep 33 tuesday Huckstep Camp Atterbury sports world honors Roosevelt who described himself As the 1 fan new York the sports world paid its respect to Franklin Delano Roosevelt by cancelling most of its activities until after his funeral Only exceptions were the Pacific coast where All night Crames were postponed thurs the women National aau swimming championships at Chi Cago and the Stanley cup playoffs prayers were said before the Start of each game in the coast league until after the the aau pondered postponing the to mens swim meet but Lyman Binghan explained it would be held As scheduled because of the in ability of contestants to change their train reservations to return the afternoon events were held in the morning to leave the funeral hours devoid of any the Larchmont yacht club of which the late president was an honorary member postponed the National Dinghy races until april 01 00 Ford National league had All exhibitions games cancelled saturday and All but two games Friday were called off by owners colleges also erased games from their Nyu and notre Dame postponed contests and abandoned Spring football practice racetracks in Havana and me Xico City closed saturday arid Havana did not open South american athletes showed respect by postponing until Sun Day scheduled South american track arid Field meet at Monte boxing areas across the Conti nent remained dark until monday former Ball player with the red indians and died at mercy he baseball committee to report april 24 Chicago first joint meeting of the major leagues to review and pm Abl act upon the report of the nominating committee to find a successor to the late judge Lan Dis As baseball commissioner will be held in Cleveland april the nominating committee consists of Don Barnes of the san Broad on of the Alva Bradley of Cleveland and Phi Fri Glov of who re cent they were ready a make Roose velt always showed a deep in sports and carried it beyond being a even his speeches were Flavoured with phrases from athletic Only last month Roosevelt described himself As the night baseball twice since the War started Roosevelt went to Bat for the National first in 1942 when there were grave doubts the season would wrote to the late judge Landis that the game should carry when manpower problems threatened the game last the late president again gave it toe to ahead signal by saying it should continue without using healthy Young men who could be of Preal or use in the War Clarke president of the Washington senators a Friend of several expressed the sentiment of sports enthusiasts in said Griffith we have lost a great personal Friend and a Champion of Farley played tapped his memory for a baseball Story about Dwight Eisenhower and Jim Eisenhower was Captain of one of West Points greatest baseball teams Back around reminisced the entire team became generals and Are making history in this the cadets were who managed a Strong semipro club in the Hudson Valley challenged the cadets to a the cadets accepted and far Ley took his team to West on the some of his players failed to catch the ferry across the Hudson River and Farley had to scout around to get a full a local fan brought to Farley a fellow with the Assurance that he will play a Good game for his name is Franklin Roosevelt went to the Outfield and played that probably was the first time Roosevelt and Farley Ever met and the world knows what a lasting Friendship Thev former and what both have done since Buck Shaw to California former football coach at Santa Clara will sign a one Vear contract to succeed stub Al Lison at the of the Pasadena Sta news