Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1943, Oran, Oran Thu tto May it 12, 1943 the stars and stripes p�9e 3 sport stars by sgt. Jim Harrigan 8 pent Edi tor the dive bombing plunge of the Brooklyn dodgers has earned them the sobriquet a the Quot slipping sad sacks Quot among major league fans hereabouts. Interesting is the expression of unanimous opinion in Brooklyn that the blame for the bums plight rests with Branch Rickey. The dodgers president who never attends sunday games was not at ebbets Field sunday to see fans display a Banner Reading Quot Rickey ruined the dodgers we want of Mcphail Quot or to hear the ridicule voiced relative to his recent deals which disposed of such stars As Dolph Camilla. Joe med Wick and Bobo Newsom. Monday Rickey said he accepted full responsibility for the slump of the team and explained that this was an unfortunate by product of Bis efforts to rebuild the club. A �1 Schacht the Hombre who says he was not bom into baseball but that baseball was Horn into Hin. Hits Oran monday August 16, for a ten Day clowning Antic spree for local servicemen. The Crown King Clown of american baseball first saw the Light of Day on the approximate rite of the present Yankee stadium. In 1906 he pitched new Yorkus Public school 42 to the City school championship. He sold papers near the Polo grounds and worked his Way into the morning practices there carrying water hats and sandwiches to such As Christy Mathewson and other greats of the Day. Later 8chacht hurled for the renowned High school of Commerce team said to he the greatest High school team Ever assembled. Quitting school. A went to Cincinnati where he worked out with the team then Dittoe with the new York giants and the Cleveland indians actually playing with the tribe. A1 next showed up with the Newark team where he accidentally fell into clowning on the Field As the result of a gag. He teamed at first with Nick Altrock but Tan rented with a rect of his own gagging an Over the Diamond and working out rehearsed acts that soon made him famous in his own right. Boon came offers from All Over the country Lor appearances and a has been at it Ever since. 8chachts Oran booking Nas been arranged by Cpl Zeke Bonura of special service and the famous celebrity will do his stuff next week on various diamonds hereabouts with several appearances scheduled for the Benefit of Hospital patients. The Bush Ackers split a twin Bill this weekend with the Navy red sox dropping the first game by a 5 to 4 score and winning the second tilt 5 to 1. Ryle pitched Good Ball for the Bushers striking out nine batters and allowed but six hits. His teammates score until the seventh inning when they got four runs featured by the round trip per poled by panic which sent the Bushers into a 4 to 2 Lead. However. The reds came Back to take the decision by scoring three runs in their half of the seventh. The second game saw Tysko Star on the Mound for the Rishack ers allowing but three hits and whiffing 12 batters. The Blue jackets Lone tally came in the sixth when a runner scored from second on a single by Wuhu Germuth. The win marked tysko1� second win in Oran. Each time he has allowed but one run and five hits. In ail he has fanned 22 batters. The Bush Ackers Challenge any outfit and May be contacted through Cpl Zeke bonura6 office. Another non league game saw the braves of the National league give a local ordnance battalion a i to 2 setback in a week sniffy Ettfer 87 Jad a ords the stars and stripes Wakefield Bose Boll contest monday August 23, the sports Page will up Bush the Oran base Ball league Afi-8tar team select re by Cpl Zeke Bowra of special fir Fec. To the Soldier Sailor or Marine who sends in a team that matches completely or the closest with the team picked by Zeke wifi go a valuable award donated by this paper. Entries must contain the name and Perfilev of 20 players and the reason Why you think they should he on the team. The All Star team wifi have a roster of 20 players a five pitchers three catchers. Six infielders and six outfielders. The contest closes wednesday August 16, at 5 fid ties receive equal awards. Get your entry in nows batting Mark winning hit after $ controversy a Story Book finish proved the superiority of a battalion ordnance team Over the Pacific coasters with the winners getting the Long end of a 3 to 2 score and All of a 200,000 francs Wager. Pvt. Ralph Nathanson pitched the winners out of Many tight spots and kept clean his record of never lefty Leonhard hurls shutout Ball to give anew 1-0 Victory Sloy Smon loses a heart broker Arrew a before an overflow week Day crowd at the sea baseball Park Here the and stars handed the Alvinus Gregat Iod a 1 to 6 Whitewash avenge a former defeat and game at the hands of the losing team. The contest developed into a pitchers Battle behind Quot lefty Quot Leonhard of lie All stars and t-5 Dan Slaysman who allowed four hits and one hit respectively. The Victory and shutout become Leonhards sixth straight and second consecutive shutout bringing his string of continuous score less innings to it in the third winning the sole Marker of the tight game came As the result of twp errors a walk and a Long Fly with hurler Leonhard having the Ticnor of scoring the games Only rim. T-5 Dan Slaysman pitched a near perfect game and starred at the plate As Well for his team by getting Twe hits half lift team s total for the affair. The defensive play of Pollock Catcher for the victors was one of the game s highlights and repeatedly earned the plaudits of the fans. The winners next meet the Oran in a week end double header at the Arrew Home grounds the probable pitchers being Leonhard for the local team and Bill Moerman for the visitors. Having the Pacific men beat him. He allowed Only three hits. Derbyshire s play at second was of big league calibre and his cutting off of a run at Home was one of the games outstanding features. The first battalion scored two runs in the fourth inning and the coasters tied it up in the fifth Frame remaining that Way until the eighth when a sgt. Larry Lawrence broke up the game in the Earp inning when he smashed a hit Between right and Center with the bases loaded after having thought he had already won the Ball game. The game was held up an hour because of the argument on a Ball hit by him Down the first base line. The Ball was first called foul by the Home plate Umpire while the base Umpire who was a few feet from first base called it fair. This caused a near riot and after Long argument the first battalion outfit agreed to abide by the Home plate Umpire s decision. Lawrence up again and with the count one and one poled his game winning hit to the Field cleaning the bases. The series Between these two battling outfits now stands at two to two. Tiger Rookie set for Leogue Honor a a a a a a Quot a Quot by Shirley Zovich Washington Post special to the stars and stripes there was some Surprise Las Winter when Steve of Neill never a pop off Guy suffered a sudden Rush of words to the face and flatly predicted that his Detroit Rookie Dick Wakefield would be one of the american leagues five leading hitters. You should see of Neill grinding these Days. Young Wakefield with the season at More than the hallway Point Isnit doing badly at in fact his .321 average is second in the league. Furthermore the lad is beginning to cause talk otherwise. He can throw like blazes and the Only outfielder in the league that can outrun him is George Case of the senators. The other Day in Detroit the tigers Ard the red sox held a Field meet Between games of a doubleheader. Wakefield entered Only three events the 60-Yard dash the fungo hitting contest and the race around the bases. Oran Sotteau after trailing by a 2 to 0 score in five innings of play the braves hit their stride in the last half of the sixth when with two Down they combined five hits with two infield errors to store six runs and the Ball game. Of this contest were a donuts by pvt. Leon Brasher and a steal to Cine photo by Pic. Anthony Trippe is Paul Delaura Fate. Leon Brasher David Walsh and Soldo Gofis led the braves attack with two hits apiece. To Figi season who was the losing Pitcher gave up nine hits while the winning hurler pvt David Walsh Afi owed Only five. Walsh is an sex Finger for the new York Central nine Back in the 6m-Pfee mate. Notional. Sgt. Giglio a pirates had to go into extra innings to beat the dodgers 1 to f in a games played at Fleurs. Emmering pitching for the dodgers was plenty Tough pm the Mound As he pitched two hit Ball for six innings. The dodgers succeeded in getting men on first and third in the second inning with no one out but Woodward pitching for the pirates got a great ovation from the fans when he struck out the next three dodgers. Woodward then went on to pick one hit Ball to the eighth inning. Retiring fifteen men m order. Coming into the last half of the seventh alter Williams of the pirates filed out Clewett lined a hit to left Field but was out trying to stretch it into a double. Slenie pics lashed a single thru the infield but Mcguire ended a he rally by flying out in the last Hall of the eighth the pirates finally succeeded to getting a ran when Ferney worked a Meiling for a base on balls. Vol Mert Laid Down a sacrifice and Woodward lined a single to loft sending Foeley to third. Pm me rung got Quot a very Quot and walked to Load the bases. The dependable Reed then brought by Home it. _ with a bounding Ball to too cd base extending the pirates record in the league to three straight wins no the Fielding Gem of the game came to the fourth toning when o Brien of the dodgers leaped into the Airt snare a Fine drive and Rob Clewes of a base hit. In ter notional the orioles a pm outfit came from behind to beat the chiefs formerly known As the Pacific coasters in a tightly contested game before 500 interested spectators. When the smoke and dust cleared away at the end of the eighth inning the final tally read orioles a chiefs 3. The chiefs tallied in the first inning when Knesevich was Safe on a fielders Choice and scored on an error. Two runs crossed the Platter in the fourth on a single by Knesevich. Two errors and a fielders Choice. The orioles came to life to the sixth inning when sgt Warren was Safe on an error followed by successive singles by pfc. Fulton and pvt Spoltore. With two outs in the seventh to. Ning sgt. Wagner walked. Qumi two consecutive hits by Cpl Salomons and Pooch bitter Cpl Mcmullen scored pvt. Hethel who was running far sgt Wagner to tie up the Ball game. / the winning run was scored on a walk to pvt 8poltore, a fielders Choice and 8gt Wieland a winning single. Curtis pitched steady Heady ban and was relieved by it. Cummings who was charged with the defeat sgt a1 Wieland was the winning Pitcher As Well As driving in the winning ran. March jew a Pilot Winnipeg a Phil Marchildon. Former hurler for the Philadelphia athletics has been commissioned a Pilot of fifteen to the Royal Canadian air paved. Comillis Primo Donna on Trade to giants St. Louis threatening to retire from baseball Dolf Camilla raised a rumpus Over his Trade from the dodgers to the last place giants finally agreeing in a phone conversation with giants manager Mel Ott to go to Cincinnati to discuss the matter. Quot i wont be Able to do them any Good said Cumuli concerning the giants. The first baseman who was with the dodgers since 1936. Was traded to the giants along with Pitcher Johnny Allen in an Exchange announced yesterday. He has been in a batting slump making two hits in his last 34 times at Bat. Camilla almost quit baseball last year and said this time that he definitely wont play next year. Orlando gets 4 years Detroit Jimmy Orlando Detroit redwings hockey player was sentenced to four years in prison and lined 3,000 dollars following his conviction on two counts of draft evasion. Orlando wrote his draft Board that he was an essential War worker at the Lincoln too and die co. When the fact was he had Given up his machine Job and worked Only a few hours Dally As a messenger. Leaping hitters National league must a. St l 8 128 237 Herman Bolyn. 305 190 229 Hack Chi. 357 119 214 Vaughn Bolyn. 380 191 212 Kif ski. St l. 318 90 211 american league Appling Chi. 350 114 226 Wakefield. Det. 392 126 221 curtright Chi. 254 61 219 Heck cent Dev. 341 102 299 Stephens fit l. 303 90 290 Dick won the and the fungo hitting by out batting Rudy York but he slumped in his Effort to clean up the base running con test. All he could do was tie Culberson of the red sox in 14 seconds. When o Neill went out on a limb for Wakefield he was not taking any shots in the dark. During 1942 o Neill had Wakefield at Beaumont the tigers Tex amp of league farm and he saw the big boy hit All kinds of pitching for a .345 average. Quot you had to like him off that Quot says Steve. Quot that was a pitchers league. Only sex Fellows hit Over 209 and there was Wakefield with that fat .345.&Quot Only weakness the Only thing that the Tiger management used to have against Wakefield was his weakness for Betti c Dick got an expensive education in the tigers training Camp in 1941 in Lakeland fla., just after the bengals had paid Hun 55,000 dollars for signing a Cor it tract. He fell in with such As Roy Cullenbine dizzy Trout and Buck Newsom who relieved him of some of that dough in a hurry. Wakefield overestimated himself at the Pool table and went for plenty. He used to bet too that he could hit Home Rui it a Over ukr right Fileki Fence at Lakeland where nobody Ever hit one before and that s another Wager he win. But he has reformed now and of Neill has no complaints. Girls Donalf exist for him. At the Start of the season Wakefield Cost the tigers a couple of games with his failure to Field ground balls cleanly but of Neill was tolerant a that s something he has to learn. Shucks done to forget the kid was a Catcher All his life until to went to Michigan. He a going to be one of this leagues Best outfielders by the end of the search. Wakefield s resemblance to ted Williams which was marked from the first Day that he came to the notice of the big league scouts took or an even More a maxing character in Detroit the other Day. He caught hold of a Ball and banged it for a Homer against the facing of the third deck exactly to the spot where Williams broke up the 1941 a Sta a game with his ninth inning Home run. Of Neill was a coach with the tigers when Wakefield got his tryout after leaving the University of Michigan in 41 and he says that Wakefield sold himself to the Detroit front office. Quot with everyone wondering what kind of a hitter he was the Bdl went out there and hit a half g dozen balls tote the upper right Field deck. We Ncnew wed never let him go then. He was a big Strong kid with its of Power. He did t take any Outfield practice or no himself tired. He just was up there to hit and be was plenty Clyde Milan Washington coach predicts that Wakefield is a sure shot to be perhaps the Best outfielder to the league in a couple of years. A you Don t see big Fellows As aggressive As Wakefield. Quot he s always on fire willing to run and acting like a 140-Pounder who had to make Good on spirit give me that kind of a Ball player
