Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1943, Oran, Oran To monday. Am9��> 26. 1943 the stars and stripes �9 3 a i by it in it we it it Viri it if Rwjr a sports Lars by car Jim Sipo. A Izilor 1 a i inf it night Nril a a a. Re a St sports con in by i d Rennie after a Little jockeying around Nev York Yankees t it a Over a lace on May 30 an they be iwo Ever since. It looks like Thev u win the it ennant 110 hate a Notheis crack at to Mac tast step Sisr St. Louis red Bird Yankees Arent surprised at Uthit out in front. e Are just Ray Mph veterans left to make the Rurik i amp and newcomer Spruce v up 2nd act he Champion. Being with the Yankees is being with a crack outfit that s gone places and done things. You hold your head a Utu bit higher and. Vou Don t take noticing from nobody. That s tilt Way it is with the Yan does Surprise them though so far in front acid a j5 us to eight. Before the season started Yankees were picked almost tin animus a a to. Win the Pennant. Thev were flattered and no kidding de Barrow. A Yankee president took it As a great compliment to the organization. And it was because the Yankees had lost Joe Pima to. Buddy Hassett Tommy Hench. Phil Rizzuto Charlie ruffing Ait George Selkirk All regulars on the 1542 Tea in. Charlie Keller was the Only Yankee Veteran left in the Outfield Ano Joe Gordon was the Only one left m the infield. The others were All in the Arrne Navy or coast guard. Yanks get rookies like everybody else in. Baseball in these War Days the Yankees had to do the Best they could a with the draft boards did t want. They started off with a couple of rookies from Newark at the left Side of the infield. Bill Johnson a quiet Businesslike Little Geezer was at third base and George Stirn Weiss. A Chunky Young Cigar smoker. Was a Short. They got Nick Etten 1 rom the Phillies to play first base and Roy Weatherly from the Cleveland indians to play Cen Turfield and they made an outfielder out of Johnny Linde 11�? Little Abner the boys Call him who was a Pitcher. And that s the Way they started off with a Bunch of Guys who would Haie had to pay their Way into the stadium in the old Days. But out of this squad two Fellows and you be seen it happen where you Are two Fellows you never thought would win any medals stepped out and led the attack. The quiet Guy Bill Johnson was one of them. Nick Etten never con a id Rcd a Good first baseman when he was with the Phillies was the other. Nick at this writing is leading the league in runs driven in and a a Little William a the quiet Guy in his first hitch with the Yankees is right behind him. Stirnweiss the fellow that Joe Mccarthy the manager liked above everyone else in Spring training is on the Bench. Frank Crosetti a Wise Veteran is in there playing shortstop and what with the team winning Mccarthy can to put stir it Weiss Back these three Guys especially Etten and Johnson held the team together and made the pitching stand of. Because Gordon and Keller Haven t been Able to get going the Way they should All year. They Are Fielding Well but their hitting is away off. Now they Are. Playing Bud me Theny in Brightfield. J. Lindell in Center and Keller in left because Weatherly woke up one morning and could t raise his right Arm. It took time to get the team piped up the Way it is and Click the just like it takes time to get a gun Crew so they can do it in me dark. All the teams were weakened through the loss of players to the armed forces. The Yankees Are the stand out team not because Joey have a great Ball club but because there is nothing better in the league. No team has been it be .t0 Bui a up a big winning Streak. The teams Knock one an Cier off in surprising Fash ten. 0 one not even the Yankees is Ever sure of going into a town and sweeping a series. But the Yankees hang in there and make Nat run when it counts and they Nave profited by the fact that Mere is no outstanding second Callb that s keeping Pace. I them. All the Way Down the use the. Seven teams behind the Quot beat one a. Not hers brains Rio i by playing at a rate of a better than .600 Cali Che Haiir 5 in fronts Quot race was. As close As the. Of a Gas mask in tin boosters tie Navy stars 5-5 Neff Lippner stage Duel St. Remys the St Remy ordnance boosters and the Navy arks All stars battled to a 5 to 5 to baseball game player this week at the local Diamond with the game being called at the erd of the eighth inning because of darkness. Pfc. R. Neff and a. Lippner rival pitchers hooked up in a pitching Duel for the eight innings with each hurler allowing eight hits. The boosters scored three runs in the third inning to break a 2-2 deadlock with Cpl. C. Conklin petting a walk and successive hits by cps. Ohota. And Molla and pfc. A Kalnas. An error by All Star Kil Derant contributed to the runs. The Navy lads scored three runs sixth Frame with Hildyr a Ign a. Rasely tale be. Hodge sate card Clouter by Jack so res Quot Mirey t4�0wski Cap do Ial to trip Sas Emam Ole of the lop mrs fees a -7j4 Alalu Olau i uba<i>0e> of a fielder on a error on amp monks right Field and Doyle a Sharp b to Comer Field. A two a Park 1 ing double Pla a arc turned ii by the boosters wine Kaunas Hrdlicka and Molla starred v defensively. Booster cite her Tafolla was steady Beland the plate while Doyle. All Star right fielder turned in the games Gem with a neat one handed nil ining catch of Javies Zico a Short drive to right Field Kalnas getting two for four paced ill. Booster offensive with Hodge and o session leading the All stars at the plate with two hits apiece. A return game Between these 011 units is scheduled for this week at St. Remy. And both trains desire games with other outfits. Contact it. Luers or manager Lester own at Marksman 13 for arrangements. To fast slipping a s drop double to Chison a s within game of loss record v i 1 / a Quot say first base m am w to a \ nyx tvs a it e afro or till it a to Ohio 5s ies whisky fat am k legs Wii a aomt.? n-7h& us <5am& amp Iofi a Jas j of i Civ c1 a Fae aft a is close or a psf of a a Kic in a most Ganem ties Arrew tie largest crowd Ever to Jam the sea Bee baseball Park Here saw the Arrew All stars held to a 2 to 2 tie by the most Ganem All Star team tuesday evening in a game highlighted by Ai Schacht performing his baseball Clown antics. The game was thrill parked including one triple killing that had the fans cheering All Over the place. Pitchers Karas and Zap Latynski both showed Good form As each allowed but six hits in the two extra inning game. Arrew made the triple play when in the seventh Frame Zan Latynski singled to Center Field Ferrari was Safe on a out mis Cut by shortstop Luna and thy with the hit and run sign popped to Karas who fired the Ball to Haese at first doubling Ferrari with Haese s throw to second baseman Sullivan completing the play to retire the Side. Johnny Pollock former Buffalo Bison Catcher along with Haese and Mauer led the Arrew offensive of six hits with two apiece. Pollock got a Home run and did a Workmanlike Job behind the plate. These two teams play a two game series saturday and sunday at the Ball Park Here. Managers Jack Rotman and c. B. Hanlon plan to use pitchers Karas and Leonhard against it. J. Harrington a selections of Bitterman and Zaplatynski. Navy9� Ungro timed featherweight King a few Days ago we barged into the office of the stars and stripes did a right turn coming within the whizzing sounds of a Jerry 88 Shell of Tai spinning sgt. Phil Stern Ace by Harry Dwyer chief signalman a s. Navy special to the stars and of rips Ian life. At first he took on the Little Lellow s. But gradually worked his Way to the top of the Heap. His Many set tos with the leading lights in his division brought him Philadelphia the Philadelphia athletics extended their losing Streak to 19 straight As they dropped a doubleheader to the Chicago White sox 7 6 and 7-0. The a a kept the string alive the hard Way in the first came. Bobby Estal Cila put Philadelphia ahead 6-4 in the top half of the ninth by hitting a Homer with one on but Guy Curt right tied the score the last half with a two run circus clout. Russ Christopher them loaded the bases and walked malt7-berg�r to Force in the Winner run. In the second game. Orval Grove broken four came losing St or holding the Mack men to six Hiu Rookie Don Black allowed the c sox eight pc lows and was chaw Ith. The loss. Philadelphia r a Jore defeat to tie the re 111 Itic l y the red sox t. Lied by the attic pcs 1916 my y011 in r ter Day a double beating Ata. Fea ted the tigers 4 i. Tin ? idea in the sixth 11 _ Ardon Homer when one Man i it a. Bill zither held hit s and received credit sixth Victory. Boston so or i 1 g All their Nils 1. The Veteran a Smih Bent cd a a Tai id 9-7. Aher or part. 1. The eighth Marvin cent a r no Joe or veg liable 1 hit less b a. Peckis George Woods a cred Ltd with fourth Mound tri a Niph although he ached help i of Tex Hugli i. I be eighth. Jct Heath hit i Quot fifth Home run in. 1 he Las six d is and his 14th of a m As. N in the fourth Frame we none on or Cleveland. Senators split Rickey rebuilds Brooklyn in an Effort to rebuild the Brooklyn team into a winning outfit Branch Rickey dodger president completed a Deal with the St. Paul saints of the american association trading Pitcher Rube Melton and infielder. Joe Orange plus an estimated 40,000 dollars for first baseman Howard Schultz. Schultz has been currently hitting .294. He is 21, and towers six feet six. He was so tall he was classified four f. He will be injected into the dodger lineup right away Leo Durocher said. Ruffin beats simians new York Bobby Ruffin. 133, c new York took a close decks oho or Alco shans. 134. Of los anew Les. In a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden. Horses photographer and came to Anchor Ream after Ream of Good publicity from the sports writers and soon the fans began clamouring for a title match when Johnny Dundee vacated the featherweight throne the late Tex Rickard decided to stage a featherweight tournament with the Winner to be crowned the Man to sit in the Driver s seat. Ail the top not lers in the weight were Given an invite with the exception of the former scrapping Sailor. He was left out colder than a Jerry machine gun squad at Stalingrad. He was too Tough Finnegan a record instead of being a help was a detriment to him. Not that he did not rate with the Best but just because he had convincingly beaten All those who had been invited. Such men As Jose Lombardo. Danny Kramer babe Herman. Bobby Garcia and Many others whose names meant a it in the roped Circle All had 4elt the sting of Wallops from the cattery of the Long Rangy Southpaw from Boston town. Among the old timers along cauliflower Alley the name Finnegan brings Back tender memories of the Young fellow who demonstrated to Jose Lombardo at Panama that he would be no obstacle along Finnegan a Trail to championship honors. That Battle was a Toughie As leather pushing oat Les go. And As hone boy told me a few years ago while discussing his career a that scrap meant a of to me. I wanted to prove co my shipmates that i was on the Well the Best we can say is that he kept Nis Promise to All the Navy. He got what he went alter. Within a few feet of the z desk and said Well sir this fellow a a Honey boy Finnegan was the answer to a fight managers dream and the classiest piece of human machinery that Ever laced a Glove on his mitts. He had everything it ook to climb the Fristic ladder. Only one thing was missing. A a hone boy lived on the wrong Side of the tracks As far As the title bout Quot was he was christened Richard Finnegan by his proud parents but it was not Long before he being called a a Dick for Short. He possessed the endurance of a Marathon runner and a fighting Irish heart like that fellow a a lion hearted Richard wre read about Back in our school Days. Not much was known about a a Dick Finnegan he enlisted in the Navy but it did not take the Fleet fans ion in Washington broke even with St. Louis the senators grabbed the opener 10 5 and St. Louis took the second game 2-1. Stan Spence was the big gun in the first game hitting two homers one in the first inning with none on and another in the eighth with one aboard. In the second game sex Brownie Johnny Nigg Elii it a was the victim of his own wildness. Niggeling gave two singles and two walks to Force in a run in the second ironing after two were out. The brownies scored the winning rim in the sixth when Chet Laabs singled stole second took third on n gel Inge a wild pitch and scored o Milt Byrness single. He cardinals plastered the braves 14 5, and extended Boston. Losing Streak to 13 games in which they have bowed to the red Birds in the Only National Lea us game scheduled. Every card hit at least once Deb Garms leading the Parade with our safeties. To ast t to realize thay a sock artist had in their i who knew How to sock. An All Navy Champion hone boy began to attract attention in the Fleet during the Days of the first world War and knocked Over the opposition As fast As it was paraded in front of him in the first All Navy bouts. Lion hearted Dick took the hearts out of the enemy by blasting his Way to the featherweight championship for the Honor and glory of the old battleship North Dakota. From tha time on his services were in demand at ships a smokers and Happy hours and before Many suns had set Over the Distant horizon. His name was a byword in the Fleet and the boys with the Green Gilt were prone to Lay it on the line tor their hone boy. Upon being honorable discharged from the Navy. Finnegan cast his lot with resin Sellers in civil eurasian cops travers new York a eurasian owned by the Mill River stables sprinted from obscurity to win the "4th run ring of the travers Sta amp is americans oldest racing feature at Belmont Park. In Iron a �?T1 the Way eurasian paid 15.2j, 6 �?�0 and 08o to bring Home 19,850 dollars Lor ids owners. It was the first major Vir Orv for eurasian. Fairy Man Hurst Onrod of the Fox Alche Means ran second a neck ahead of the Green tree stables famous arc tory. Former travers winners in cd Ude Man of War. Eight thirty. Whirl away and shut out. Woman Umpire Wichita a woman will act As Umpire at the 1943 Semi pro baseball tournament in Wichita Kansas Ray Dumont director announced. Striko will be called by miss Lorraine Heinsch. Rhode Island drops the Rhode Island state rams decided to drop football for the season an 1 probably for the Dura lion. It was the same old Story no players. Major league standings my. Eari iof the season. Even now at a writing its a he d of a race or second place with Only �0111 and a if games separating the e senators. Hart to dodgers new York a the Ere Orlyu dodgers have purchased bin Kurt. A Quot old baseman from then it or a cans of the s v b r it association. Kart 28. Leads the 1 a in homers and runs batted is kitting .320. A. A a a National i a ague Ami Khan i ague team Vav. A pet. I earn. A pet. St hours cd 29 a Chi new York 11 �?T44 017 cd. I Lia i 04 2 .552 via Ujj ii a 64 56 533 Birzh �,3 a 55 534 cd to a re 53 521 Nyji to 17 r a. J cd of. I Oid. A 59 4 cd a a a j 458 v in 01 a o 31 r eau 54 4>4 ii 50 a it fris Ieie a a a -51 02 a r 451 a 1/ a ii 52 02 a of it new York 42 74 a �20 2 Phihal 5pbu�?~ 4�o 7-, 42 Browns make Trade St. Louis a the Browns have traded third baseman Harland Clift and Pitcher Johnny Niggeling to the senators for third baseman Ellis Clary Pitcher John Miller and an undisclosed amount of Cash. Leading pitchers s i c Mac ,1 a 1 f Grove National league 18 4 St. L 16 a americ an i f Agi i r. N. Y 15 i Ltd hear of 10 a 4 .818&Quot 727
