Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                August 1945 stars and Africa Middle East or o m t us by Larry Leonard when a Xor Uncle Samuel decided to permit ibo Feller to leave the Navy Blue and Igo Back to earning a comfortable living with the Cleveland Alva Bradley and his associates were virtually assured a first division spot in american league no sooner had rapid Robert received his Navy discharge and shed his uniform of a chief specialist he was Back in the Monkey suit of the and on sunday last the Van farm boy sent his blazing fast Ball against the Detroit in event you Haven Are and have been leading the i what happens Fellers Little Man of More than six feet sub Dued the tigers on four beat ing he had 12 of the highly touted bengals go Down on this being a Well known Stock in bobs not Only did Feller beat the but in so doing he prohibited who ironically enough during the absence of risen to the Peak of american league that the old Monarch is ready to return to the throne Feller left no the blazing fast Ball that made Van and Feller famous had All the sting and Craft of old most valuable player now As the major leagues head Down the Pennant stretch starting labor Feller will be ready to go the Mound every fifth Day and chances Are he will win More than his Normal quota of the players of today cannot Cope with rapid Robin and his fast Back in 1941 when Feller left the majors for he was Good enough to win 25 which was More than anyone else could Hite pitched the most innings struck out 260 batsmen and no one else could do he had six and Back in those Days Fellows named Joe i Ted Cecil tra Joe Gordon and a few others were last year Hal Newhouser led the league with 2 he had a great has followed it up with another Blue ribbon already has notched 20 Hal even so far As to receive the distinction of being the leagues most valuable in Honor which for some reason of other always eluded Fellers Bob Feller cant Hope to make the indians a Pennant Winner this maybe not even but the heart of a team hoping to win the Flag can Well be broken by his making fast in his one out ing Hes shown his sojourn in the Navy didst hinder his fact is although Bob saw sea duty and action in the South Pacific he did quite a bit of chunking from time to and Many was uie Day he set big league batsmen Back on their for Bob the Sailor want much different from Bob the if dimag comes Back what with Charley kellers Gargantuan Power Back in the lineup of the new York Yankees the clan Mccarthy May no longer smell of the Charley left the Mari time service last joined the faltering bombers in time to help them sink Washington Hopes with four crushing now the yanks have Hopes Joe Dimaggio will be some Fellows just have a Way of getting out of the and Joe May do if the Yankee Clipper does come Mccarthy wont see his men finish in the Nick of these cond perhaps the tigers and Washington will fight it out Down the hut if Dimaggio gets Back in the race it be interesting to watch the yanks and indians Knock off the giant killers every once in a nats press league Lea f i i i 1 v 4 f the Winnas and new softball Champe ens of mesh after wiping the banquet boards clean of various and sundry foods and the Camp Huckstep soft Alfers Light hew sunday night Camcy com Panga c pop Joey Bill Bob Greg Joey Sid Crane Back Row Jerry Bill Henry okie Birdie Johnny Walt Babiak and ferry corps Sharp shooting Iowa Gal upsets i he babe Chicago Phyllis of scored the years biggest upset in women Golf saturday when she fired a Birdie three on the 36th Hole to defeat babe Didrickson of los one up in the women Western Amateur Fin a Brilliant 10foot Putton the final Hole climaxed miss ottos sensational rally which saw her come from behind to Zaharias her first defeat in More than seven years of tournament the Winner was two Down ing into the last five lord Byron Back in winning form Nel son was Back in the front again when the golfing Vanguard quit the Smokey Mountain Region this week after they held the Knoxville lord Byron finished out front by 10 wound up with a Brilliant five under his 15th in 20 starts this was Worth to the Nelson Bank ten strokes behind in second place came Sam my who rallied with a 70 on the final round to beat out Ben making his Hogan finished with one shot further the new Orleans Fred die who snapped Nelsons Streak last week in scrambled on the final round with a finished with 288 to tie with Harold Mcspaden for Huckstep trims Payne for mesh softball Crown in a whirlwind finale sunday the Camp Huckstep soft trounced Payne to take the Misisc softball this Means that the Huc steppers will play in the amet finals enthusiasm ran so High in the Huckstep crowd though tie team was behind in the fourth the hardened steppers were betting on their own team Walt Babiak started on the Mound for but okie Ratiff of the 5gth station coming in to replace win in the proved the hero of the Sid Birdie Bill Staron and Smolik figured in the hiding that brought Smolik arid vambaketes Maki had Al ready scored in the second the sunday night game was the second meeting of the two teams in two with rat Liff also Huckstep but had to play again As Payne at that stage of the double had lost no while Huckstep was one on thursday Tripoli had beaten Friday night Huckstep heat Tri Gal pros Winter in Florida Chicago the american girls professional Ball league has announced plans to operate a Winter league in Florida in january and service Grid classic gets old time frills West the annual army Navy football one of sports returns to its prewar glory this the will be played in Philadelphia spa Cious municipal stadium the game thus goes Back to the biotite status it held prior to its removal to a virtual state of oblivion three years it was played at Annapolis in at West polut in Oftis before private audiences local townspeople Only and was fairly opened up last fall it Graziano chills Cochrane again new York Rocky the East Side Caveman of walked out of his dressing room in the Garden Friday whist we did it before and we can do it and he scoring a clearcut win Over Wel Ter Champ Freddie red Coch Rane before Rocky required 21 seconds More in accomplishing his second Kayo Over Cochrane than it took him june 29th when red was counted out in 16 seconds of the 10th this time it took 37 seconds of the in Jimmy of the duration heavy weight ended Archie Moores winning Streak at 27 straight by knocking out the san Diego and new York Boxer Fri both see Graziano on Page 8 standings of clubs in majors and leading minors National league cd Chicago Louis Brooklyn new York Pittsburgh Boston Cincinnati Philadelphia 74 43 73 47 2 66 53 9 65 57 11 65 60 13 56 67 16 47 72 28 36 83 39 american league Detroit Washington Louis new York Cleveland Chicago Boston Philadelphia 68 51 67 53 63 55 60 55 61 57 60 59 57 63 36 79 522 64 8 114 30 includes games of 26 International league 6 go Montreal Toronto Newark Baltimore Jersey Buffalo Rochester Syracuse 84 49 73 60 11 72 60 114 70 61 13 65 68 19 56 78 56 78 55 77 284 american association Milwaukee Indianapolis Louisville Paul Minneapolis Toledo Kansas City Columbus 83 54 79 58 77 60 67 65 63 72 62 74 56 77 55 82 4 6 19 25 28 Southern association Atlanta Chattanooga new Orleans Mobile Memphis Birmingham Nashville Little Rock Pacific Portland Seattle Sacramento san Francisco Oakland san Diego los Angeles Hollywood 85 40 78 47 68 57 67 57 58 65 49 74 48 75 43 81 coast league 92 59 88 61 79 72 78 73 72 80 71 82 65 87 60 91 go 7 26 35 36 3 13 14 20 22 be n Newhous r win 20 victories Feller joins tribe going into the september Pennant clash baseballs Lead ing teams tigers in the american league and the Chicago cubs inthe National heard their rivals and wondered whether or not they catch Ashen the Louis moved into Wrigley Field at Chicago last Friday for a three game series with the cubs they by but a they departed sunday night the race had the cubs bad lost three in a Row and had just about lost for they dropped two Tough ones and had been in the and when Detroit picked a week wherein the tigers would lose three As Luck would have it the Washington senators also ran into rough too much new York Yankee As a con sequence the tigers held their u margin Over the Yankees four straight wins by the yanks might have knocked the sails out of the for they Felt the True sting of the old Yankees and the sudden return to their former glory lifted the new yorkers Back into the first place with 6 games off the and As the Louis Browns got hot and swept a four game series from the Chicago White sox to within five games of the american league even had slight visions of More than a one two club race Down the for the Browns this week were set to play a two game series with de traits leaders and then boosted materially of their great Bob had another Chance with starting recently discharged from the Navy and signed to a Cleve land contract at a was personally responsible for one of the three losses Detroit suffered during the on Friday he allowed them four whipped and beat Hal the Tiger in his bid for Vic tory Hal had become the first major league Pitcher to win 20 games this year when he blanked the athletics in the first game of a doubleheader won by the King Kong Keller Back in the the rebounding yanks opened won three in a Row from the White sox before they in 11 frames wed Charley one of their old hitting came Back and helped spark red ruffing to two victories during the the second coming sunday when Washington was beaten in two 32 and thus give Jug the yanks 7 wins against 1 they she lacked the nats dutch Leonard and Johnny Nigga and boo the Boston not to be outdone by Newhouser became the second 20 game win hurling a 43 win Over the lame athletics As the red sox won a two of Detroit three losses i were suffered by Paul dizzy i one to wednesday and the second on sunday when Cleveland 31 and three unearned runs in the first giving Trout his Al Benton dropped the cardinals threaten in the National league it was strictly the cub Cardinal series and it was a rugged cutting the Cuil 2j Hank Borowy dropped a heart breaker when he gave Only three hits and succumbed to an unearned run in a great Mound due with Harry who Lowed four shortstop Lennie see cards on Page f