Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1945, Cairo, Egypt August 1945 stars and f go out there and spin pm on their heels by Larry Leonard acid May we do they expect a fellow to verite a sports column this week what with the momentous events of historic importance occurring frequency Over the past week who has cared whether the tigers the Phillies or whether Joe Whipper Snapple won the Chocktaw open this like Many has taken the Potsdam declaration and its subsequent developments to mean a More rapid return less worry about the Point system and More worry about whether were going1 to put foot ashore first in new Naiwi Orleans or maybe some West coast and wherever it till be All of it May be a pipe dream to figure that one can expect Tobe out of the army by or at Home but one cant one this wayward correspondent has gone so far As to envision the Day when he May awake one morning and decide upon the suit he is to Wear with the wardrobe consisting of something More than Khaki and of being a natural have even been thoughts of re turning to private employment and to once again pack a portable into some pretty Good football spacious baseball and to ithe nag tracks and Why i can Eveh smell that tall Pine that make the air so Sweet in the South Atlantic Region hold the enthusiasm gives Ever since we aside those tweeds to accept the late there have frequently been thoughts of the past and Tiev has persisted that someday the old life would come from then on there would be no no mess no orientation and none of the other things most of us came to know shortly after our neighbors decided we were theroes who were Good enough to represent them in the when Hubbell snuffed out the nats decade As sports writer prior to coming in the army had enabled us to witness the passing Parade to am to move along with stamped indelibly on our mind were Many of the episodes of that for we boarded a merry ground Early and never wanted to get and while sporting history was made we were privileged to watch much of there was that classic 1933 world series our first leaving school when Bill terrys great new York giants beat the Washington senators four games to one and Carl the greatest giant of them pitched superbly in the final game to make Cliff the Young Nat hit into a double play in the critical last then there was that 1934 season when the Dean Brothers gave the coolie cardinals their greatest and the Joy of 35 when Gabby Hartnett led his cubs so Well Only to lose to Iron Mike Coch raises Detroit tigers in the world one of the biggest thrills of All came in 3c when in an Effort to Handicap our first Kentucky Derby we picked War Poppoon and reaping Reward to finish in that order and As beginners Luck would have it they came in that Iway and we made a successful return to the Mutual came that fall and Dukes great Ace gave Many of us a series of the greatest being his 105yard sprint against North his play started a feud the texans As to his Worth with Sammy a ugly and it continued their professional football expert Einice until the old Ace entered the Navy and left the football dodgers a Gap Treyve never never will any of those on hand that sultry saturday afternoon in the summer of 1036 at Baltusrol country club in new Jersey Ever forget the heart Little Tony Manero displayed i when he fired a sizzling 4 66 on the last round to wrest the United open title from the grasp of Light horse Harry Cooper and make himself a National hero and a wealthy and one of the touching1 remarks i Ever heard was Agnes stood twisting a handkerchief and hardly breathing while her husband dogged it out against one of golfs greatest now we can have our own Home and they got their Home and two just 12 months later Ralph who had seen Johnny Good Man snatch Victory from him in Chicago in played like a Man with ice water in his veins to set a new open beat the then Sam and won himself the first of his two open crowns with a score of 281 at Birmingham country club near he Hail capped his comeback from the for Only a few months previously big Ralph had hockey his clubs so that Lavenie Guldahl and Ralph or might have sufficient forty seconds wrecked a season i it was a big football year in coached by Carl had himself quite a team up on Cay Gas the big red rivalled Carnegie with its Muha and Condi Pitts dream Back Field was running rampant with its Biggie Southern Cali fornia set everything aside on the West coast and offered a great lineman in Black Jack Harry Smith and a Fleet of backs paced by Granny Tennessee and Duke paced in Dixie and that was the year Johnny Butler gave his famous gone with the wind run for 58 Yards to sink Alabama Crimson Pitts dreamers met Duke in the season finale on a snowy november saturday and Eric tiptoe gave Forth with footballs greatest punting was the Day Grantland Rice five seen the greatest kicking exhibition today that football has then the Dukes moved Westward to meet the sons of Troy in the Rose bowl and so Long As i live the picture that took place As the Sun set january will Ever be Tony Ruffas seconds period Field goal had put Duke 3 to and when 40 seconds were left in the game the Dukes Clung tenaciously to that 3 to 0 then Howard coach of the turned Loose Doyle labelled a third string and Nave gave with four successive passes to Al on the left and the fourth was completed just Over Eric tiptoes head As the gun sounded and the shadows had lengthened and Duke was 7 to that was and was made All the More so because the next morning rays revealed Tipton had fractured a Bone in his left Heel a year later Wiwie saw Tennessee great which 12 months earlier had skilled Oklahoma 17 to in miamis Orange vie with Boston College and Bob Neyland Noble Crew had done their gifted Bobby George Cafego and Buist Warner had led Boston College when a nimble irishman named Charley Orourke scored a late touchdown that Sank the it was wonderful watching those and Many other events that helped make sports history before Tojo and the boys decided they wanted to be the big and now that Allied teamwork and the fighting hearts of the fighting men and the Gutling Genius of the military leaders have succeeded successfully in sinking the land of the rising All of us look Forward to taking up where we left the Only thing wrong about Goyiw Back to the better to the world we love is that Many of the Fellows who made it such wont be there to enjoy Tiwi f the Louis this and began though they we their tonal league penitani Sinee Jolly Tofe cub manager Charlie Grimm left puts a Friendly Wing around Hank Borowy gives him some the of Pepper talk As he leaves the dugout to make his first Mound appearance for the it the former Yankee Pitcher edging the Cincinnati reds Louis Browns get new owner manager Luke Sewell will stay St Donald who gave Louis fans their Only Pennant has soul his baseball the club having been purchased this week by Richard local sportsman and business for an immediately after the transaction was said he has no immediate plans for major changes in the Brawns personnel either in the business office or on the manager Luke be toward Mckeever last no Purchase Price was but it is understood the Syndicate paid Lor the ebbets inter James daughter of the late Stephen Mckeever Bro ther of still owns 25 per cent of the she has previously said she will not sell her Well will be offered a contract for 19i6 by the new Muckermann individual interest in the Browns includes 56 per cent control of the Barnes had held approximately the equivalent of about the Deal was arranged at a meet Fng of the clubs Board of negotiations leading up to the Sale had been in Progress for several now that the Browns have won their first american league Barnes said in announcing the and with the com Pany in a favourable financial condition i feel that the purpose for which i entered baseball is a com it is a pleasure to know that such a real sportsman As mucker Nan is succeeding Barnes paid Barnes headed a group that Pur chased the Browns from the estate of the late Phil Ball in the fall of the Deal running around for the american league franchise and the san an Tonio team of the Texas general manager Bill Dewitt engineered the Browns Sale at that Dewitt was then member of the Cardinal or but managed to make the Sale through Friendship with one his wife of barnes1 cardinals and Retta fast pushing Tommy and Goody Rosen for the league batting a butt see How they can All season Long the live been getting the it has come mainly from the Bate of How clipping away at just six percentage Points behind the Ana Stanley the old Sacramento Bank clerk whose current average of him sixth in the Lea moreover the Bruins have gotten their As Well aha Claude passe aus won against four defeats the circuits Hur Ling Frank Wyse shares the leagues pitching Lead 18 their tour into the East last week to meet the braves and the Phillies was a profitable one for the who won five and drop Ped but they had Cavarretta suffer an injury against the phils and even to laugh Heinz Becker filled in at first base they ged to overcome the dodgers began to gain a attle ground what with five Vic tories and one loss for v but the braves s make a Dent the leaders and the 4tfen it they had a Hope for hit a tailspin and in a went Back into its old habit and with Rudy York in the increased its Lead in the american two full games Over the who broke even in the Wittl having National league includes games of 12 cd Chicago 68 36 Louis 63 44 6a Brooklyn 61 44 7j new York 57 50 put Deburgh 55 53 15 Boston 49 59 21 Cincinnati 43 60 Philadelphia 28 78 41 american league Detroit new York Chicago Cleveland Louis Philadelphia 59 43 57 45 52 47 53 50 51 51 51 53 49 51 8 9 9 34 66 24 he was a protege of Branch Rickey himself became some what More interested in baseball this now president of the Brooklyn announced that he and two Walter Omalley and John organized a Syndicate and have completed negotiations for the Purchase of of per cent of the dodgers Stock held by the heirs of the late Charles they purchased 25 per cent of the Stock held by the heirs of the late cd softball standings the Cairo military District Ball league is on its final although the season officially ends All cancelled games will be played off during next statistics show there Are six of these and in some ii stances they do affect the final rankings in the heres How the teams stood As of the loth 0 signals 8 10 6 officers 0 1 1 8 ext Adey 8 11 8 finance 5 14 maps Oss Navy 18 14 12 10 Craf 9 8 500ltcar 10 10 1 1 Ltd my 2 14 internal four against two and the White Boston bed sox merely managed to hold their own while keeping up its in and out won five against three the Erven with new begin to a fancy bit of whitewashing by Mickey who hurled a four kept Detroit from pulling further out front Al Ben ton was chased for the first time this season when the botox scored seven runs in the including Leon Culbertson three run Dave the pitching find of the won his 19th game for Boston when he Defeated Cleve in an Effort to withstand the Challenge of the persistent Sena Detroit made deals this week which brought in two new Mounds men although both Are they brought George Caster in from the Browns and the old timer immediately won himself a Ball they got Jim the Veteran Milkman with the softball and the big stick and old fresh from the held the Yankees scoreless for the inn Ings in sundays Linning 96 new York then the Pitcher blasted a Homer with two aboard to Clinch the Hal new Hauser won his 18th in the after allowing six Roy Cullenbine aided the attack with Homer while George Stirnweiss and Russ Derry hit for the circuit for new Washington bid to Challenge Detroit now rests with buddy the former army and their pitching dutch Leonaid and Roger Lewis has set his 369th Mission As his with the army he had now if can steer the nats to the he will have it been a dozen years in ton won the
