Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1945, Cairo, Egypt June 1945 be it from us Dean Broome a Boston sports writer took his son to a Ball game this week to meet Dave the red sox wonder who has won seven i want you to meet the great Lave said the i know grumbled the Hes the Guy who fanned the other Day with two men on Pete Gray of the Browns int the first on armed major Back in Hugh a one armed Pitcher of the Chicago struck oust 19 Boston play ers in regulations game allowing Only one Amateur Tennis will need several years after the War to recover its former big Bill Tilden there Are no Young eur Tennis players available be cause they Are in the armed for Tilden so it will take a few years to develop new Young sters to succeed such worthy play ers As Ellsworth vines arid Don but still from Eddie Brietz three cheers for Beret Joe keying is the Only father still playing major league he recently signed with the being released by the indians after prolonged Atlee of Barksdale hooked his drive on the eighth after considerable the Ball was found nestling among a flock of eggs in a Birds nest in a Odds and endings although his native state of Kentucky gave the world the mint Bourbon whisky and Kentucky Broadleaf to Happy Chandler does t smoke or drink Kame Walter Camps Choice As airtime Al America fullback when he was at Lias been appointed athletic officer at the san Diego Marine corps base the web has lifted the ban on manufacture of Golf clubs but warns that therell be no imme Diate increase in the Supply for civilians the Brooklyn Dod an informal has just come off the Putnam sons red Embree and de Garnett have been lost to indians via the draft Larry me Phail married his Secretary miss Jean Bennett on May a week after divorcing his first wife the army air Force wrest Ling championships will he held in Paris june 9 and car still hold softball Lead Cairns hard hitting my softball team is still n this week and leads the Leanne with wins Whilo h 5th car presses close behind Wilh four Vic their Only defer ii ninth 1liis week at the hands of the third Navy i car had previously cd talked up a total of runs in four games air inst their opponents with the signal lit Tsune in which the maps and would have met Tor the time this season was postponed this week bin has been tentatively set for june torn Oconnor of special service standings of the teams As of 1 1 n e f 5 0 Wrath my i 3 4 1 moderne 2 3 4 finance 2 3 42 with my 2 i 3 2 ext Adey j 5 i maps 500th car Navy c Raj of officers 3 3 signal softball in full swing at Huckstep stars and stripes amet softball tourney in an intr theater softball tournament is being planned for amet to take place in Cairo in the Early part of service announced this with teams from the Middle North Afri Liberia and possibly others on the tentative schedule to Ansara said the starting and Type of tournament would be announced when information is available As to the number of teams from each area which will take for purposes of the at units will be considered As belonging to the service command in which Thev Are win Nelson and Jug Mcspadon Defeated Sam my Snead and Sammy Byrd two Andone in an Irole exhibition Gold match before fans who purchased Worth of War Bonds to see the Nelson and Mcspaden also teamed up win the Best Ball match from Carroll Macmaster and Glenn two Baltimore in a pea they scored an easy six and five Buccos press giants after thorny Western tour wags Waal soft Allers wat1 detachment softball team of Cain will play the waifs of South Africa at 2 Oclock sunday afternoon june 10 at May try again when this picture was made heavy weight Champion Joe Louis and his the former Marva were agreeing to disagree and Call their marriage now Marva says they May try again to make a go of weve discussed she told reporters in it would be All right with me but that in the the War will have to get a tech is now stationed in Alaska by Larry Leonard there must have been some so lace in the return to the Polo grounds for the new York Thev certainly had no fun in the where they dropped eight of 14 and their National Lea gue margin has been Cut to three and half games with Louis Champion cardinals and the ram Pant Pittsburgh pirates closing in on the pirates ran their winning Streak to nine games before it was snapped on memorial Dav by and even though i by bowed to the dodgers again on in 13 the Buccos were Able to get Back in their winning habit when the Phillies moved to Forbes at weeks end they had trimmed Philadelphia a Row and were firmly within challenging distance of the who were glad when the Western tour coming along were the and new York had some Hope that the fou game series this weekend Between the cardinals and pirates might help the limits stretch their Pittsburgh had its work Cut out for this the Buccos launched a three game series with the re hot Cincinnati reds on tues Day and then mtg be to Louis for four games at sportsmen the giants engage the dodgers at then shuffle up to Boston to meet the yanks break even it want so bad in the american where the Yankees held their own with four victories As Many the in Terest in the younger circuit want so much on who was leading the league As it was on who would Stop Dave the Boston okie checked Cleveland thurs Day on five winning for his seventh straight Ferriss want alone in the ame rican league he shared honors with Huss Chris of the cellar dwelling ath Huss became the first ame rican leaguer to win eight games when he stopped the Louis the first batsman to face Don Gutte belted a Home but thereafter Christopher stifled the after losing six in a the while sox snapped their Streak and whipped then they proceeded to break even the remainder of the week and remained in third another record for Ott new Yorks National leaders got no Solace out of their Western journey unless it came wednesday when Thev broke even the thai Day Mel their sparkling added to National league includes games of june new 14 16 18 19 18 18 21 31 american new 15 15 17 18 20 19 21 23 list of baseball Ottie got a double and single in the giants 86 win in the opener to set a league record of 4980 total but Ernie Lombardi 12th Homer clinched the then the giants had their spirits jolted in the the cubs bouncing on Bill Voiselle for his second straight two Days later the coolie cardinals thrashed him this time it was even More for the leagues leading Mound Ace was within one out of Victory Only to the winning of have now proved they were no one Man the loss of Mort Coo per has spurred them on rather than hindered Charley red who joined them in the Cooper won his second red Bird Victory during the week and Marty marions return to the fold provided the batting and Fielding spark so sorely f ormer the 71st Kentucky Derby be run at Churchill saturday with much of the Lustre and crowds absent because of exigencies of the Field narrowed to a dozen this week As one of the top free for a died a ten Don during a workout and was definitely among Likely 5 by who won the stakes at Churchill week hoop to of the Wood me Norial at and who won the other div pot 0 burning dream and buy me a Bond lost a lot of sup port on their showing in the Blue grass another de with pre Derby try outs at working the full distance of a mile and a Quarter in fully May run Arthur Secretary of Michigan racing said he will Start his filly Mcsweet in the Derby and if she goes she will be the first filly to answer the Bugle since Gold seeker in Only filly Ever to of was regret in for the first time in the Kentucky Derby and the Epsom Derby in England will be run on the same Lafter two years of Wil Liam woodwards Apache turned the tables on Greentree stables Devil diver winning the Toboggan Handicap rain and mud at the Belmont Park Apache ran second to Devil diver in the Toboggan last year and the year pro football wont pay says red resigning league Job Chicago red Gal loping ghost of disclosed that he has resigned As president of the proposed United states foot Ball league and declared that Post War professional football would throw promoters for a financial circuit was organized last fall with plans for teams in a Philadel new York and with the eighth franchise whether Granges action would leave the postwar Field open to the National pro league and the embryonic All America conference is it was reported that the United states league refunded franchise deposits but some representatives indicated Thev had not thrown in the Grange resigned because the of fice requires a big promotional Job and my insurance business pre vents me from giving it the Neces sary he added that i would not advise anybody to Start in pro football now as1 players Are holding out for and f600 game when they used to get it was announced in new York that Chick president of the tra Samerica has withdrawn his Loop from blaming it failure to acquire the Yankee stadium for his new York Tunne Sheds Navy blues Gene head of Navy physical fitness was placed on the after completing a Pacific tour which Drew a
