Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                September 1945 stars and Larry Leonard it int a matter of going completely off the team for one to say that athletics especially profession Al will be Back to Normal next the fact is Well known what with the Armand Navy in Many making tremendous efforts to return All per sons possible to civilian with the exodus of hundreds of thousands from military the standouts in sport will Many have already gone Back to their old As witness Hank Greenberr Bob Sam Snead among but one of the questions which remains uppermost in the mind of this reporter is How Long will some of the wartime athletes remain against Topflight Competition this question comes to mind especially in the cose of Charlie red bar who was the first National leaguer to win 20 games this and i am also thinking of Pete the on armed outfielder with the Barrett never too Good the question comes up because in the prewar Days Barrett was no great shakes of a Ball and a on armed player in the majors was unheard there Are Are Many others around nowadays who  have carried a Glove for Joe or who  have dreamed of filling Ted Wil Lajos naturally when the War Call the professional and the Amat Elir As was sum there developed an acute shortage and those who looked anywhere near being Good were the Caliper of the contestants decreased in just before we left the states i Well remember hearing Mel of i to think of what we might have to work with in the next couple of Oltie and the Rost managed some the Hall players and the ambitious ones with less natural equipment managed to make the turnstiles the leagues and rut now the former stars coming Back we wonder How Long some of the wartime regulars will Pic for some of the pitchers of the last two seasons facing the giants with Johnny Ruster Willard Marshall and Johnny is due out of the Xavy and and imagine if you will the fear that might come Over a fill in twirler who goes up against the Yankees once Joe Joe Tommy bp1 Dickey and Scooter Rizzuto have Back to turn a Amblie batting order into one that will Roar with fill the gusto of the old murders Row end of Nelsons reign the same is going to hold True in other Byron Nelson has had a virtual monopoly on professional Sam Snead broke into it when he was discharged from the won his of tournaments and somewhat stopped the Nelson Monotony until Snead himself broke his right forearm playing then Hen Hosaku got out of the army and broke deeper into the Nelson it should not be too Long before Horton Lloyd Eddie Jimmy Paul and Many other linesmen will be out of the they will Challenge the Nelson was Only years ago that anyone of ten Ralph Lawson Oliver or Craig Wood might have won a and there were others on hand who slipped in now and Johnny Bulla to mention a in other the Competition was and till be Back Ere Long in All spheres of Ami Navy Middle East version heres part of the crowd of nearly that saw amet softball 1st Bill Staron of the Huckstep Al stars makes third on a bunt by an other member of his the a stars won from the 90 bm2e Bill Navy third looks a bit agitated at this signal corps photos by Huckstep sinks bags amet softball Crown Huckstep s invincible Al stars battered Gran Navy hotshots with a 12hit broadside resulting in a 90 score and walked away with top honors in the amet softball tournament sunday be fore some spectators at okie who is Good anyway but was aided by a 2day held the hotshots to four hits for hucksters fourth straight Victory in the tournament during which they amassed 30 runs to three for the the Navy had a Handicap in that chief Kolly their had to pitch on Throe consecutive Don another Speedball being hospitalized with a hug bite and Swearman tried hard to Stein the Huckstep attack but seemed tired from the three Day and his teammates just  connect with Ratliff Jet propulsion the Luck steppers got started in the fourth Frame when t i sad Crane hit a with Joey Raimondo then came in himself on an infield a six hits trim rally in fifth clinched the game and the Champion both Grams played Jam up fall and there were several Fie Auti Ful Outfield Hunting seemed the order of the Day and got a number of men on Joe Peroli of the Huck Stop special services office coached and managed the victorious All the score by innings r h k Huckstep 0 0 0 2 6 1 x 9 11j 1 Oran Navy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0010 saturday Navy Payne Field 5 the Navy hotshots advanced to the amt tournament finals with a 115 defeat of Payne Fields flyers chief Swearman holding the airmen to five hits while the Xavy picked up six and made the most of six Payne Field Field gut off to a i1 Lead in the third inning aided and abet Ted by had Andersons Xavy Payne triple with the bases John who is editor of Payne Fields Sld Malstr when not playing second base for the Aso rang in a 3bagger in the hut the hotshots rescued the game in the fourth by bringing seven runs across the four of them came when Payne hurler Walt Anyzewski purposely walked filling the and to m2e Nick Vukcevic stepped up and knocked a Home score b innings h h e my 1 7 2 1 x 116 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 5 5 c Friday Navy Cairo maps 0 five hit pitching by chief Kelly Swearman gave Oran Xavy hot shots their third Victory of the tournament to they shaded Cairo maps the hotshots got Only five but they were off to a Lead in the second inning on an my error and a couple of walks by i Ujdur the Cairo Huff was relieved by Don Bryant who Weatherl the Xavy attack but the maps just  seem to get the game was marked by plenty of razing on both just As All the tournament games have plus several controversial decisions by harassed the loss knocked the maps out of the tournament r h in Xavy 0 i 0 1 0 0 0 3 f 1 my 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 National of 16 go 52 56 4 62 10 new 67 124 82 25 83 Philadelphia 100 46 60 64 2a 68 84 new 67 9 70 124 74 144 75 15 92 33 Western added to Sneads list Sammy Snead wound up nine strokes ahead of his nearest Ben Hogan or and Vic Ghezzi of As he won the first annual southwestern invitational Golf tournament with a 2hole score of Snead was the Only contestant to wreak Par on the South Ern Hills strokes under the regulation Fig his closing rounds were 69 and he Jed All the hop ran toured the final round in firing five to overtake and share runner up Money of Snead won and Byron Nelson won fourth place Cash of finishing with Law Jimmy Hines and by Laffoon of Chicago were next with Talbert enter 2nd round in los angles Frankie National mens singles advanced to the second round of the 19th annual Pacific Southwest Tennis defeat ing George Johnston of leading Francisco Segura of Ecuador and William Talbert of also won first round ices in i1 the Pennant races were a mathematically decided Detroit determined creased their Lead to 24 the american Ning seven out of la second place Jet tors managed to wins and five losses Detroit has nine and would tie for the taking five of them senators Avon All of their Reta Alfi ing Fink Chicago and Louis  National league status of fun As the out of eight and the out of seven the sevenvda1 have 12 games left Tuv cubs must win Only eight a tie even if Louis wins the cards have to face the cubs themselves this week in a five game Detroit trounced the senators three times in their fou game series this the tigers Cleveland for two games and St Louis for one during the coining the indians rein a loosing having six outs of seven games played this week a record matched Only by sox who lost seven out of Roo won his 21st game monday As the red sox achieved their single Victory Over Wainwright on hand Jonathan Wainwright his first Ball Gameon five arc Light Triumph of the senators Over the indians Roger Wolff chalking was in the stands thursday As the Cincinnati reds edged the new York another record was set sunday when the cubs swept 2 games from the 32 arid Hank wee getting his 20th win in the second As the cubs set a new major league record for winning it was their the Only shift in major league standings this week came As the Pittsburgh pirates captured out of their eight games and de into the first division at fourth Sid Luckman discharged Chicago Sid Veteran Kingpin of the Chicago bears was honorable Date charged from the maritime this week and will report immediately to the bears training Camp at a pair of winners a big hunk of credit for the tigers Success this year is due to buyers who form the Star Battery for the american league Paul and Hal ranging who won 22 games and lost Boh Muncrief of in on top with 12 wins and three tosses International Newt