Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1945, Cairo, Egypt By Dearv Broome Treyve pinned the Cognomen the Peltin puerto rican on Luis the Brooklyn wonder currently one of the National leagues standout Olmo is perhaps the main reason Why dem bums Are in the National leagues first and therein lies a Story for Olmo was almost he played minor league Ball in Vam for Eddie the old Yankee Mooers usually has a working agreement with new in the summer of 412 when Olmo was knocking fences Down in the Piedmont and was losing his hat every time he rounded second and began dogging for Mooers invited Bill then the giants general to Nave peek at Terry had seen Olmo he knew he had a Fine Arm and could but he haunt he came to Rich mond watched Olmo in three left with a knowledge the boy was socking at a the boys yours if you want Mooers told but Bill didst hed just gotten a Good Young and Mooers told him if had Olmo along with this Young Pitcher hed have two big league but Memphis Bill was shy on the puerto he figured Olmo was plate and watched Brooklyn buy Mel Ott could use Olmo it so happens the Young Pitcher Terry had just bought Back in the summer of 42 was Bill he and Olmo Are the two finest Young players in the National league the Story goes that when Joe Louis and Billy Conn met in eur Conn said All i is to have the title for six Louis told him you had it for 12 rounds and didst know what to do with interest in International racing has been aroused by a special invitational race planned by Brino president of the Mexico City hippodrome and the fact that the Aero Vias aztecs air freight service has planes equipped to carry six the race is planned for after the War with the expectation that horses from every nation will be Jim Mcculley digs up this Story about babe the Brooklyn from the hectic Herman Days in Flat Bush one Day babe complained that he was tired of All the foolish things some of the sports writers were saying about him in print i wish youd say something serious about me re marked said one of the what do you think of the i Poleon Era a Blank look came Over the babes then he replied with out a smile it definitely should have been scored As a s cold Cash for ice Pool guess Alaska two Seward Tom Ringen and Rita were about Richer this week for guessing within four minutes when the ice would break up in Tanana River at they won the yearly ice Pool which contained this contributed by thou Sands of alaskans eager to Gam ble on the time the ice would taxes will Lake about the winners guessed the ice would go out at on the morning of May 24 and it swept Down at the Pool was the biggest in history and the ice broke the latest Date on june u 1945 Saks and springtime in Bow myst Mickey Brooklyn tagged out sliding arms Home plate at a attempted to score on Hal hit to Center in the sixth inning of a game Fiejo Verafe Catcher Bui Safe pm has the cutout after taking the throw from Al Gionfrido Umpire Butch Hebte leaps out of the Way of Owens spikes he Calb the dodgers won their 11 i beating the pirates press yanks Bounce to top in american Loop by Larry Leonard there is an old familiar face atop the american league stand ing Marse Joe Mccarthy has his Yankees poking their Heads out from the for the Riding a stupendous Victory hammered the Chicago White sox into defeat in four straight games last knocked the sox far out of the and then followed up by smashing the Champion Louis Browns with a colossal twin killing sunday 109 in 14 innings and Only a week the Browns had pelleted the Mccarthy men in a twin killing to spark a sunday but this time the new playing Host to the invading Western were to stretch their margin Over the de troit tigers to one and a half unlike the old when Yankee Power it is the College try which is keeping the new yorkers out front Treyve been getting their clutch hitting from Youthful George the second baseman from the University of North Ca and their top pitching from Hank late of the Fordham while the Yankees stretched their Streak to seven Pitts Burgh started cutting a Swath in the National league and thrice set Back Mel Otts Pace setting the pirates have done their utmost to convince the new yorkers that when Horace Greely go West Young he didst mean it for the the after Bow ing to the pirates monday went into Cincinnati and won four straight from the hapless but they came Back to Pitts Burgh and Felt the sting of Frankie Frisch patched work 164 and these games coupled with three other wins give the Buccos a six game win Ning Streak and it has brought the Frisch men from out of the muck of the league into third Brooklyn in reverse the pirates Are Nearine second spot held by Leo Durochers doddering for the after taking 11 suddenly went into just As Sharp a and bit the dust six times before they had a Little fun on saturday night As Rookie Leroy Pfund the losing Streak and turned Back Luis a Brno set the Batt ing Pace against Ted Wilks and b3ix Donnelly with a grand slam Homer in the even though the new York giants were having their worst week of the season four wins against three losses they Man includes new York Brooklyn Pittsburgh Chicago Louis Boston conc Imus 1 Philadelphia new York Detroit Louis Chicago Cleveland Boston Washington Phoan Eftehia aged to increase their leadership Over Brooklyn to six full this was made possible by Mel Otts timely hitting and Ernie Lorn Bardis Home run big Lorn has stretched his homers to 10 and Otts batting average is leading the but All int easy for the Treyve still got Louis and Chi Cago to play on their Western Claude Passeau and Hank Wyse Are giving the cubs Necess Ary victories and Bill Nicholson and Phil produced helpful Marty Marion re turned to the Louig lineup in time to spark them to four in a Row Over Brooklyn Only to lose twice to the faltering White Sun 20 and with the now settled to a stay in the winning games first by hitting and then the westerners dont know what to Chicago Bottom fell out against the yank Atley Walt Dubiel and Borowy came through with timey pitching and Stern Weiss and Bud Metheny gave wit the badly needed base Dave ferr Toa hot after they gotten through with new the White sox moved Over to Boston and there Thev ran into the hottest Pitcher in the for Dave Ferriss Sank them Ferriss thus notched his sixth win fourth shut out of the Young Ferriss had beaten the Browns and was a Little let Down when he didst achieve a but he got another in his tussle with the White in his six victories Only three runs have been earned against thus giving the 23yearold army discharge a earned run aver and in the summer of 42 he was hurling for the Boston farm team at Greensboro in the pied Mont league actually Farriss pitching i one of the High spots of the Voung army route front outlining the pro army officials said diet will be in swimming arid military training there will be aft each of the sports of company besi Ming train Given in Foott and inter amp Competition arranged in various the army and some leagues May be set up subject to transportation limitations and military training 1 the directed by Chi Kenneth wad planned by the following sports Matt Mann and de swimming coaches at and Columbia Hank 1 Oklahoma m team the National basketball Titie Tat the Garden last season Duke baseball coach Tad former Princeton Grid and Asa Coninis Gate athletic instructors will attend special classes in coaching and athletic administration at Washington Atid f san Francisco pm Avinoff in what is the tightest trn Doub longest baseball game on record service 41st Seabee nine nosed out the naval somewhere in the Marlanna to 21 Johnny former White sox now a Navy chief Spe was the loser although lie strode out 22 walked Only two and gave up nine his Seabee Stan jus otherwise struck out walked four and was nicked for ten it was Bis uth win against two defeats in the islands Nelson split Byron Nelson beat Sammy Snead four and three in the 36hole match play event Over the Essex country club in new evening the series with Snead after Sara took the medal play half of the 72nole grudge match 143 to sister swing 128 m a u practically Fet Sofce it fee Huckstep my by Ami o for Capo up 10 for Mot i tic cud with from pockets styx if by Arnow
