Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                By Larry Leonard Hank Wyse Hast won a great Deal of Fame pitching for the earlier this summer it is True he had a one hit came close to entering the Hall of the games but he now Hank Wyse has come into Brief Fame by was his Low breaking curves that ended terrible Tommy Holmes re hot hitting Streak at 37 consecutive a new National league it happened july when the bos ton Hatter went witless in four at tempts against the who hurled a 641 butt until the Brooklyn born ran into Wyse he was having himself quite a he is Well on the Way to his most successful season in the National has broken one Rogers Hornsby greatest and is being touted in some quarters of Boston As another Hugh at last reports Holmes was smashing the Agate at a clip in the neighbourhood of he was far out front in the batting Para was in a division All by him in addition to hav ing the fattest batting average in the he is first in runs first in total hits and be in runs batted in and was holding his own in Home such an achievement has the supporters in the the bean and cod remembering the grand Days of Hugh Duffy and his Glo rious batting average of when batting rules were More re the boy with the Chunky wrists who in his earlier Brook Lyn Days wanted to be a Boxer was a Long time coining into his now Hes far ahead of his average of a year is Point ing to his finest year in and it could be he will be the National leaguer to hit Over since Bill Terry did it the giants and the first major leaguer to do it since Sailor Ted Wili Suma performed the feat for the red let Tommy keep up his current dip and thumping Ted will have a time to regain some of the Wil Liams who no doubt have shifted their bandwagon actually Bob Colemun braves May get nowhere in the present National league but chiefly because of terrible Tommy and his May have a de finite hand in determining just who will get there and seeing us How Holmes came into has Bali with the then fabulous played about with their Binghamton and Newark teams before being shunted off to the because the Yankees were overloaded we wonder How Marse Joe Mccarthy feels nowadays As the Yankees flounder with a Bunch of Guys named who Sis in their Outfield while a Guy named Holmes makes himself a Home with the july i945 stars and the great american pastime in hitlers pasture r armoured Centerfield Barrier As Ever graced a baseball git of the 21 it tank 10th stage a game at highest Mountain in towers in the corps photo cubs stretch Lead As bums tigers rapped for four St Loose Enis Herman Hick who folded army great Ririe last gives football rivals of the cadets an Early he says the mule will be geared to kick been a Long time since 1034 when dizzy Dean was the last lug leaguer to win 30 in a but  it be Nice if boo already Well on the would turn the trick Corne october following his Dean usual conductor of this took off for thus leaving1 his readers with an other week of by Ron Nelson rallied to overcome Mike 1 to reach the quarterfinals in the recent pea Golf he ousted one of the games toughest match Well does this reporter re member that afternoon in 1941 when Mike made things so difficult for Sammy Snead when the Slammer copped the pea title just before he entered the just As though they were at tempting to cling to a greased pole the Brooklyn dodgers and the de troit tigers continued their slide Down the baseball ladder last week arid although the tigers remain in first place in the american league it int exactly their As Luck would have it while de troit was losing four games in As Many starts against the Boston red sox and the new York Yan the Washington their nearest were Able to play Only two games won both and the yanks ran into Cleve lands indians before playing Host to the in View of their twin Victory against no Washington is now Only games off the league Pace and this weekend was set for a fou game series against Detroit in Griffith a what Hope the Yankees possessed of catching the tigers was fairly shattered when they dropped a Brace in three attempts to Cleveland and moreover Felt the sting of the indians applying what once was an old Yankee the tribe took a Home run Melee a 16 to with Rookie Pat Seery hitting for the circuit on three occasions to bring Back me Mories of babe Pat also had his Lou Gehrig with for Jeff one of the tribes Best paced him with a pair of four base in four Seery hit for 15 bases attempts National includes games of july l go 29 34 4 35 37 7 new 40 8 39 9 38 63 30 american 32 32 new 35 2j 35 38 5 38 7 39 50 18 Ferris chalks up 15th once Cleveland had quit Yankee the yanks did Well against the running Hank Green bergs return to his Home but they  make up enough ground on the and meanwhile the red thanks to boo Ferriss 15th Mound a 5 to 1 win Over Detroit they moved into a third place Only 2 games behind the while Brooklyn continued to slip at the hands of the Cincinnati reds and Pittsburgh pirates the Chicago with Veteran rav Prim adding to their pitching with millions on trails wildlife by 30 lengths new w new York in one of turf Doms greatest upsets Roebli linkers won the Dwyer stakes at but the big news is a recent Winner of the historic Belmont who finished 30 count pm lengths behind while persons saw wild carrying 116 win by a head Over from w l Branns Maryland and an other half length ahead of William Zie Gjers esteem in a photo finish they Avert just As bewildered with pivots a great portion of the had been wagered on Pavot and his supporters were Dis wildlife returned and Gal Lorette returned and while esteem paid 40 to in Chicago pot o1 route running son of Chance finally came into his own and won the Arlington Park classic with a great burst of Speed Down the last As the Field went past the stands the first time and 15 lengths off the Pace in the Back pot 0 Luck shortened the distance going into the then he soared Home to win by a length and a Quarter Over air Sailor and two lengths further Back came fighting King after setting the Early faded badly in the pot 0 Ridden by Douglas returned and air Sailor paid and and fighting step paid sink to third Raight losses won five out of six games and stretched their league Lead to four the cubs Are now at Home against the giants and dodgers and Jolly a Holly grimms team believes it can lengthen its the cardinals took a pair from the 14 to 3 and 4 to 1 and for a while they gain on the they ran into Boston and against who had been cousins to the the cubs took three out of four from the braves and had their Hank Wyse end Tommy Holmes sensational hit Ting Streak at 37 consecutive a 19 off Joe Dimaggio All time hit Parade record in a 61 win but Tommy got Back on another Streak in the the braves 3 to and after they bowed Fri Day and the braves trimmed the cardinals twice Sun 31 and John Hutchings mastered the cards with 6hit Job in first and won with Joe med Wicks batting Tommy Holmes two runs in gave the braves the pirates on upsurge with Bucky Walters now in winning was one of the highlight teams of the winning four against one loss the finding some Good pitch ing from Nick also won four and lost new York and were just the opposite and salvaged nothings in the american league the de fending Champion Browns yielded three games to the lowly athletics of incidentally Bobo of the ended his re verse win Streak after 12 losses by blanking the Browns in one of their two shutouts thursday 40 and j with the american leagues Eastern teams still at Home this Washington was hopeful that its series with the tigers might tend to further tighten the Yeav York and Boston also were hopeful that their Western rivals might help them turn the Pennant scramble into a fou team orioles Pitcher arrested Relief Pitcher Walter Neal Janison of the Baltimore orioles was arrested As he warmed up to oppose the Newark he was charged with desertion and Nical Matt Fig Hod to come 1 the National tournament this week when the Blue chips were Dow Toledo Man made count he was tied with Sammy onetime major league outfit at the end of 27 holes of scheduled 36hole final when got into the stretch pc on one of acis typical finishes and in the end he whelmed Byrd by a 4 and 3 mar not Only did Nelson win what is now biggest but in so doing he is tablished5 As one of time greats and warble pea record books the most incident it has Ever known has won the last eight pita sponsored tourneys in which he has played and lord Byron achieved this Victory even though Byrd consistently out drove him by 50 Sammy even matched the ohioan i steady Iron but he fell Down on the greens and it was on the velvet where Nelson won the Piga title for the second wind whips course a Tricky wind 30 Miles per hour Tore the course during the match and a crowd of some Rabid Byrd fans made narrow fairways More difficult to but Nelson mane Vered them to win his filth Golf tournament of something almost undreamed of in prior to teeing off in the final round both Nelson and Byrd had shaved 31 strokes off Par during the week of tournament who quit professional baseball in gained with an overwhelming 7 and 6 Victory Over Clarence of Hartsdale the while Nelson was ousting Claude of Grosse Point Wonov 5 and this Victory marked the fifth time in the last six years that Byron had gained the finals in the pea he won in defeating Henry Picard in the he had been Runn Emp to Picard in and to vie i in i and Bob Hamilton last one of the contestants whom Byrd ousted on the Way to was Only recently discharged from the he whipped the 7 and in the when Nelson Eli Inin ated a former two time Denny in his tightest 3 and 2 staunchly supporting Byrd in the finals was one of baseballs immortals Tris speaker who followed the final Max Baer out on san Texas sgt Max onetime worlds head weight boxing had been Given an army medical fighting Irish kick off South notre Dames football team has started summer practice under its new head Hugh put 5i3 f Joe Louis Kayos discharge rumours Detroit if an army Dis charge is in the imminent offing for Joe Louis its All news to the worlds heavyweight Box ing while spiking rumours of a pos sible Louis on 00 Day furlough gave Forth with his future saying As soon As he gets out of the army he will return to the prize i could get ready for any fight in three he adding that Hes now 12 pounds