Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1943, Oran, Oran Pm i re cow. A we a the stars and stripes log 3 my a so by 5�t. Ulm Harrigan sport a editor grand old Man Irving Sterago and Richard Mohr. T-3 and Cpl respectively fought ii out wednesday night at the Empire club with the former demonstrating his Power with the Ping Pong paddle by taking three straight games by scores of 21-6, 22-20 and 21-16. Wow All of which prompts our Bretler columnist to decide the Ping Oong championship of Oran is settled. Well it Isnit wow r this column will Back a five Man Ping Pong team composed of members of the Genera Hospital at. Aug Al Turck against Sheraga and any four other players drawn from our armed forces in this area. The games to be played on a Home and Home Basas not Only to make it More even for both sides but to give ool. John Sturgeon s swell Bunch out at the Hospital or Aole to get into Oran a real treat.4 a a a y a w w a allow the column to introduce the general Hospital team 6-sgt Topi Settlemyer Hospital Champion Johnny Montgomery runner up Quot lefty. Bill Moerman Cpl Murray Meisner and pvt Jack. Shapiro. How about it Sterago and Quot yank about town a wow try a certain ordnance depot is Well on its Way to the basketball season with Competition furnished by various companies within the depot and a nearby port company. Also represented in this league is k unit from a certain my outfit led by coach Steve a Winowicz. It. Marcus Popovich a lads to Date Are out in front in this league play and expect to win the championship. A wow Ensign Joe Stydahar former All fro league tackle of the Chicago bears recently completed training at gunnery school now he a Alining the sights at Brooklyn a Navy Yard armed guard Center. Wow Billy Hillenbrand the Hoosier All american is Back at the scene of his Gridiron. Glories the University of Indiana As in trainee. He a not permitted to play football however. I wow it. Col. Wallace Wade who gained Fame As the coach of Duke University a Blue devils is in the Hospital with a broken leg injured when a jeep in which he was Riding overturned. The colonel commands a Field artillery battalion at Camp Butner n. C. Wow shed tears before game . . A m we m m m ,vw.%>v.v/ a we a a the wv>ia4vavav� we of fear olo Goach Pirf-fi4ecoi.lc�,c of Roe Pacific Ort file map. Sfa66 is Start it mis Visar of Coa mgr coiig6g i Samf sea Hawks second. New York notre Dame kept a firm hold on first a Dace among the nations top football teams hot moving up into second place according to this weeks associated press poll is the Irish opponent for this saturday Iowa pre flight. Notre Dame received 67, first place votes and three second place ballots out of a possible 90. Duke received one of the remain a ing three top spot votes while Colorado College an unbeaten eleven that has not been among the. First 20 teams received the other two. A a. Navy despite the 6l-0 Shell acc a ing ii handed Columbia slipped from third to fifth in the standings and Texas moved info Vlic big ten for the first time this season following its 46-7 drubbing of thu. Purdue is in third place Michigan fourth and after Navy in the order named come Duke. Army March Field Northwestern and Texas. Athletics Blank braves coaches rely on. A key men to win game of year coach Frank Leahy of the fighting Irish is pushing the sea Hawks Don Faurot right out of the picture As the Quot Pessimist of the Quot Faurot still has Dick Todd and Art Guseppe even if Maznicki is on the ailing list Quot laments Leahy. Quot and what about poor notre Dame if something should happen to Lujack a ,.itthe Irish Mentor is refer eng to tomorrow s game Between the nations top collegiate eleven and the worlds Best a Serviceman steam and he is batting 1000, when he wonders what will happen if Lujack should be missing. Since losing Bertelli he has no one around except Lujack to turn on the ignition and get his Model to formation started. Leahy however is Ohe of the Best coaches in the game. He appreciates the value of Speed. He knows that a year ago if Dippy Evans had been in there to play notre Dame would have known an unbeaten season., so this season he has at least two fast breakaway backs to support Lujack. Jim Mello is one. Then there is a fellow by the name of Creighton Miller who can really travel in a hurry. Against Michigan this season Miller ram by Bud Bressman As go a acc. Rcauylb06rt 1u1s year jumbo Ria of a fair victims Saab of 1m& vies Coas re 8i& sortors coach Amos Alonzo Stagg now in his 54th year As a foot Ball coach is the Mentor of the College of the Pacific eleven which has keen the Surprise team of the West coast. The Stag men knocked off Del Monte pre flight and Yuma air base among other top teams of the West but lost a disputed 6-6 game to Jeff Cravath a Southern California trojans who received the bid to the Rose bowl this year while Stagg got Quot the Oran football into gear sunday Chicago know it alls have been touting Bronko Nagurski to come out of the line and move Back to his old fullback spot now that the bears regular fullback Bill Osmanski has gone to the Navy. The bronc said he was too old. A Bill Callihan scored his first touchdown in four years As a lion regular on a pass from flatfoot Frankie Sinkwich. Football comes into its own sunday for servicemen of Oran and its area when 32 teams take the fled to inaugurate play in the special service touch football league from there on games in the league will. Be played on wednesdays at 5 pm and sundays at 3 pm. Teams have been furnished rules of play by the athletic department of special service and qualified officials will handle All contests. Protests resulting from disputed plays or decisions by umpires will be set tied by Cpl. Zeke Boru a after a full report has been submitted to his off ice. Following Are the games scheduled for games on wednesday nov. 24. Sox is. Termites rambling wrecks is. Sea bees sea gulls is. Repairs. League two Flat tires is. Mule battalion yanks is. Panthers indians is. Broncos league three badgers is. Rangers wolverines is. Vikings graders is. Petrol. League four Tiges is. Chicks paratroops is. Reds boosters is. Giants. Harbor league wild cats is. Brawn bombers Golden bears is. Trojans Bronze phantoms is. Sterilizers. The balance of the schedule Calls for games on wednesday nov. 24 sunday nov. 28, and wednesday dec. 1, with league championship playoffs scheduled. A be the spotlight by Grantland rce Tennis football Stan our apologies to the memory of Bob Wrenn and one or two others in stating that Joe Hunt of Navy was the Only Root Hall player to win a. Tennis championship. Robert d. Wrenn a former Tennis Champion was also one of the Best football players Harvard Ever sent into action. Wrenn could play any game Well and Hirwas a Brilliant at fore than a few. He has been ranked by Many old timers As one of the greatest All around athletes this country Ever produced. Cardinal Star Quot in suggesting the. Cardinals have suffered the heavier losses through Terry Moore Johnny Beasley and Quot country Slaughter Quot writes a St Louis supporter Quot done to forget Liat Stan Musial has moved far up from his Rookie Quot Musial Quot today is the Star outfielder of baseball when you com Biliie Bis hitting and Fielding. He is the games Best Batter and will remain at the top when the season is Over. If you Are looking this far ahead for the standout Star of the next series pick Stan Mustaph Quot Musial so far has done a pretty Job in picking himself. He is the Only Hayter close to the old ted Williams Joe Dimaggio trails above .350, including those working in Over a 100 games. Bill Dickey with fewer games has been Duke alongside also an improved entry Over his 1042 form. Hainan and hone ruggedness looking Over the list of retired or injured horses a somewhat baffled non combatant wants to know Why a human athlete carries so much More ruggedness and durability than a horse. The answer is fairly simple. I recall no human being who was Ever called upon to carry from 1.-000. To 1,100 pounds upon a such slender under pinning. Babe Ruth was a Marvel in supporting from j225 to 250 pounds upon thin Ankles for Twenty years. When a 1,050 Pound horse Steps into a Hole or a rut something is bound to Bend if not to break. That Means Over half a ton thrown upon i fees hot much larger than a Man s wrist. You done to see Many exterminators hanging around the barns. Settle pier wins general Hospital Ping Pong Crown Ain Al Turck a staff sergeant Lorn Settlemyer is the Ping Pong Champion of the general Hosp Ai Here by virtue of his copping the finals from Johnny Montgomery in games of 21-4, 21-14 and 21-4. Settlemyer and Montgomery blazed their Way through the entire tournament each winning the Semi finals with the Champ eliminating Storrs 21-9, 21-15, �7-21 and 21-19, while the Ruhner up ousted Kerr 21-9, 18-21, 22-20 and 21-18. Both finalists used the penholder grip with Settlemir res overhand sweep time and again blazing the bal to the. Corners for Points while Montgomery got More than his share of the bad Breaks of net bails and near Points missing by fractions. The two finalists were awarded handsome engraved artillery shells As Tib pies by col. John Sturgeon commanding officer of the. Hospital assisted by it. Col. Enzo p. Cost Aid o. The tournament was under the sponsorship of the american red Cross with it. Norris e. Binding Cpl. Murray Meisner and pvt. Jaek Shapiro directing. Austin Thomas of Kansas presided at the Coffee and cake big buds Brussman pitched the athletics to a 3-0 Victory Ard evened the series with the la Serna braves one All. Brossman not Only allowed but three hits and struck out seven men he pitched his Ball game wit i his head and not his Arm like most pitchers do. In the meantime Joe Cornelia was in so pitching a Good game for Bis team. The athletics took the Lead in the second inning when tyra singled stole second and third and when Catcher. Aufdenkampe threw the Ball wild to third tyra scored the first run of the game. Then the game went into a. Pitchers Battle Between Quot Bud Quot Stossman and j. Cornelia. The score rocked along 1 to 0 in the athletics a Vor going into the first half of the seventh inning when the athletics broke Loose and scored f of a runs to put the game in the bag. Bario hit a slashing double 10 left Field Telesmanich came up and hit one far Over left fielder head for a double to score Bario. Tyra flied out but Kennedy came up and hit a clean single to Center Field to score Telesmanich with the third run of the game. The infield work of Rose Bario. Telesmanich and tyra Vas great As time and time again these Fellows would come up with some Good plays. Bator in the Outfield made three Nice running catches. For the la Senia braves the playing of Panelle. Wassen. And Champ w is Best. These two teams play the thud and deciding game today at Cenate at 2 36 pm. If it Rains,.4 will be postponed until sunday at 2 20 pm at Canas tel. The Winner of this series Bijj play the Champion Medico Chicks for the Winter championship of Oran to end the baseball reason. Bled Clown the Field on two Long touchdown jaunts and had a 58-yarder called Back. But Lujack is still the vital cog so far As the to formation is concerned. A Fine passer and a deft handler of the Ball Are needed badly in the proper operation of this attack and there Are not Many if any extra. Lujack a around to fill the Gap. But by far the biggest loss suffered by either coach is Faurote a losing of the injured Maznicki. But fortunately for the sea Hawk coach he is not dependent entirely upon the sex Chicago Bear. While he is important he is not a vital necessity. Not with Guys like Todd around. The sea Hawks have been going just Good enough this season to win All of their games. It would not be Al All surprising if Quot cry baby Quot Faurot were behind this. He has been loaded Down with some of the Best Talent that has roamed the College Gridiron in the past few years plus a half dozen of the sex collegians who have made their Mark in the pro game yet the pre fighters Haven t been too impressive in their wins this season True they Haven to been extended in their 60-Mlnute workouts on these fall afternoons. They have rolled up a three or four touchdown margin and then have just coasted in. They just get there Quot fastest with the most St Quot to borrow a civil War phrase that can be applied to the of the 1943 Sailor Gold stars 1 however despite the availing of the two rival coaches saturdays game should really be a Lulu. If the naval officials will just leave the balance of the two teams intact until about 6 of clock on that evening and not go pulling another Quot commando Quot Quot raid like the one on monday that took seven of Faurote a stalwarts off to parts Isle the Irish May take their first walloping of the season. Playbacks Diamond dust a old Kiki Cuyler 17 years a big time Oali player has signed As manager cd the Atlanta crackers of the Southern association. Kiki had been a cub coach. Ossie Bluege who just recently signed a two year contract with the Washington senators became the first Nat manager to get a contract Lor More than one year since 1989. T red Schoedl Enst Rochester a International league hitting title Holder is 4-f and will a probably wind up with a Cardinal infield Job next year. The Sally league voted this week to continue inactive through the 1944 baseball season a Pacific coast league club has the permission of the giants to Deal with doll Camilli slugging first Sacker. Camilli quit baseball after the dodgers traded him to the giants. Pacific club name withheld but Oakland gets the nod. They fired manager Johnny verges this Basoa. The Blue line Sammy Lopresti the former Blackhawk goal tender who spent 40 Days on a use raft after being torpedoed last Spring will mind the nets for. The Brooklyn naval hockey so Iliad in the big City a metropolitan hockey league this year. Johnny Haw face Gotti Jig who managed the Kansas City blues in the american hockey association before it folded for the duration is a on the a amp rent Blackhawk team. One of his boys Flo to upper plays with the varsity. Today s guest speaker when track coach Johnnie Jacobs of the University of Oklahoma Learned that Jim Thorpe wanted a Job in the Oklahoma athletic department he said Quot hell lets make him president of the school. That a what we need
