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   Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1948, Tokyo, Japan                              Dons lat Power whipsn.y.,20-10 by sgt. 1/c Dick barn sports editor Well Hal Newhouser returned to the charmed Circle of Twenty game winners this year after a one year lapse when his record read 17-17.j feel sorry for poor Fred Sanford of the St. Louis Browns. He lost his twentieth of the season last week. With a better club Back of him he would undoubtedly not have lost that " Many games. Got a letter from one of the fans who asked had we seen the contest in the last month s Issue of sports Magazine. We immediately rushed to the pm and believe it or not were Able to buy one of these issues. The contest was concerning which each fan thought was the better of the two players. Joe Dimaggio or Ted Williams and the fan writing the letter we would Ive his name but be signed it a baseball fan Wert on to say and where v do you put Stan Musial Dimaggio has been in the majors longer than Ted Williams dimag played four years of minor league Ball All with the Pacific coast league. Ted played three years two with the Pacific coast league and one with the american association. / but taking both players from 1939 through 1947both spent 1943-44-45 in military service. Let s compare their records when both played in the same league facing to " the same pitchers season in and season out. And Here is what we find g r h 2b Dimaggio 818 624 1048 183 j Williams 992 808 1106 231 Musial 760 552 995 215 Dobbs Sparks 4th period drive los Angeles oct. 1 a Glenn Dobbs and the los Angeles dons caught fire in the last five minutes of play wednesday night scoring three touchdowns and whip Ping the favored new York Yankees in a bruising All teams arrive for far East baseball meet 3b 57 50 77 or 157 197 71 rib 690 752 452 a .332 .352 .342 a .984 .967 .989 we added Musial s record for your information. He started his major league career in 1941, but had about one Jar of military service 1945. Thus this is a comparison of ithe six years each have played with Williams and Dimaggio exactly the same years and Musial 4 out of six of the same years. You draw your own conclusions from these figures. America conference football game by a score of 20-10. Trailing 1q-0 going into the final five minutes Dobbs electrified the gathering with a Brilliant running and passing  his own one Yard line Dobbs passed seven times for 91 Yards the final strike 31 Yards to end Joe Aguirre. Still trailing by three Points and Tim running Low Dobbs again took to the air and the dons sailed 71 Yards. Big Ben Ford. Caught one for 30 to reach the four and the. Next shot was in the end zone for the winning touchdown. The Yankees in the final minute got nowhere and from the new York 33, Dobbs faked a pass and then hit for the Marbo oct. 1officials for the far East command All Pacific baseball tournament have been announced  Lelic officials of Marianas to Nins command special services Section. The tournament is scheduled to Start on world sugar Ray blocks cuban s left by boso win to retain slim Hope tigers trim Browns cubs cards score National league victories by Carl Lundquist new York oct. 1 up the new York Yankees and the Boston red sox staved off impending doom for at least 24 hours thursday by scoring victories that kept them mathematically still in the american league Pennant race. The Yankees a Defeated the Philadelphia athletics 9-7,vac me photo sugar Hay Robinson welterweight titleholder blocks a looping left thrown by kid Gavilan Classy cuban challenger in the first round of their non title bout at Yankee stadium last week. Robinson won by unanimous decision. Series Day october six. The general tournament biggest letdown of my life says Heath new York oct. 1 up Jeff Heath a Broad shouldered Mountain of a Man Lay disconsolately on a Hospital bed today committee will consist of maj. Benjamin  Marbo special services officer 1st it. John t. Mcatee Marbo athletic officer and Mike Karvasales nursing a broken ankle and a broken heart. Marbo athletic director. The 32-year old slugging outfielder who suffered a broken umpires chosen for the meet left ankle Bone sliding Home against the Brooklyn dodgers were capt. Fred Schmidt 1st sidelines Down. For the third touch Angels leave for far East tournament. By pfc de Mack sports writer the hard hitting Lith airborne division Angels representatives of Japan in the far East command baseball Cerdan looks to Graziano tournament left Tokyo yesterday aboard a c-46. Enro Ute to Guam where they will hold Short preliminary workouts prior to their Entrance to the tournament which will begin there on october 6.with team manager it. Ralph Keesee at the Helm the Angels fought their Way through the All Japan baseball tournament. Sparked by. The terrific clutch pitching of pistol Pete Faverio the  to Complete the entire tournament without a  of the team participated with different local teams of the airborne league throughout the year and then when the league finally came to a close the leaders in their different Fields were picked to play on the representative team in  tournament. In addition to his regular team manager Keesee was Able old pick up crack left hander Bill Baumiller. Bau Miller was selected As the number one Pitcher of Najdan and with his. Addition to their already Strong Mound corps the Lith is assured of Fine hurl Injo throughout the coming tourney. Baumiller hurled for the 4th replacement depot during the regular season and at one time pitched two consecutive no hit no run Ball games. The team was expected to arrive on Guam late last night Dies As result of head injury kid Din Amita 22-year opens season Tjie Yokohama american Hirn school football team will open its 1948 schedule tonight against the 2d medium port b squad under the lights at Lou Gehrig stadium. Admission is 25 cents. Kickoff time is slated for 8 15 . Chicago oct. 1 by Lawton Carver new York oct. 1 ins now that Marcel Cerdan has the world middleweight championship the obvious question seems to be what is he going to do with it this much we know the tournament of champions peo ple arranged to hold up the purse he earned in knocking out Tony Zale to assure his making his first defense in this  reputedly is wealthy both in Money and in property around his native Casablanca old but he probably in t Rich royals capture playoff finals Syracuse n.y., oct. 1 up Bob Morgan s three run Homer was the margin of Victory last night As the Mon Treal royals captured the International league playoffs and a berth in the Little world been working out secretly at j series with a 7-3 Triumph Over  Mcclellan Cpl. Morris Steen and Ralph Mil Ler. Alternate umpires Are Cpl. James Cook and sgt. James Turner. All come from army air Force and Navy units on Guam. Charles Stegura twentieth air Force has been designated official scorer and tournament publicity director. Only twp teams Are on hand As of september 30th, for the tournament. The hard playing Korea team has arrived and is going through daily workouts. The other team the Marianas Poniris command team has Parade grounds Field and schedules will be arranged As soon6 As All teams arrive for the meet. Prizefighter from the Domini can Republic died at Cook county Hospital Early today As result of a head injury suf tiered in a bout last night with Bobby Mcquillar of port Huron Mich. It was the second death As result of prize fighting in Chi Cago this year. The bout was fought on Dir Narmita s 22nd birthday. He never had been knocked out i 81 fights except for a to aug. 18, when Freddy Daw son knocked him Down everal times in a fight at Comiskey Field  Amita died of a cerebral Haemorrhage at 402 . Cost about five hours after Mcquil Lar hit him with a hard right Pear the end of the eighth round of their scheduled 10 round match at Chicago stadium. Enough to forfeit the biggest payday of his career to keep the Crown in Europe. Putting things together his next opponent probably will be Rocky Graziano who will begin a. Comeback in october in a bout with the Veteran Fred Apostoli in California. Graziano can be built up into a half million Dollar Gate with Cerdan for next june give or take a few dimes and lie undoubtedly already is being duly considered for a match with the Frenchman. The North Guam air base Field. Force Syracuse. The Victory gave the pen All tournament games will j Riant winning royals a be played on the Marbo Edge in the series finals. They artillery officers defeat a Battery. Tokyo oct. 1the 1st cavalry division artillery softball league tie was broken yesterday when division Artil Lery officers Defeated a Bat Tery 271st Field artillery bn., 10-1 and Headquarters Battery 99th Field artillery beat head quarters Battery div arty by the narrow margin of 3-2. This puts the div arty offi cers in the Lead of the race. Present standings read As Fol lows will meet american the Winner association of the series Between Columbus and St. Paul in the Shaughnessy play offs the minor league s Little world series. Montreal. 110 300 002 1 8 Syracuse 000 002 001 39 Podbeilan Zachary 6 and Dapper Howell and Bosiak. Southern association playoff Birmingham 330 031 001 11 14 Nashville 000001010 2 6modica and Walters Mallory Holloman 8 and Burgess wednesday looked Emp tily a the White ceiling and muttered half audibly i waited 12 years to play in a world series and now something like this has to Hap pen. When i realized i d by out of the series it just broke my heart. This is the biggest disappointment of my  health s Accident occurred in the sixth inning. He a belted a tremendous 380-Foo double to deep Center and the streaked for Home when Bil Salkeld singled to right. Johnny Cooney Bosto coach waved me around from third said Heath grinning wryly at the recollection. I could see Campanell Brooklyn Catcher setting himself for the throw. I began to slide about five feet from the plate. Funny thing i generally get my spikes up off the ground but this time i did t. Next thing i knew i was in agony on the ground. I looked at my foot which was twisted All the Way around and honestly i thought it would come right  won lost parachutist injured fort Erie Ontario oct. 1 up Fred James 22, Para Chute jumper who was scheduled to try to set a Canadian Parachute jump record within 10 Days fell downstairs and landed in a Hospital Here with a possibly broken neck. He. Btry. Maintains soccer league Lead Camp Younghans oct. 1 after battling to a 1-1 tie for three grueling periods the he. Btry. Broke Loose in the fourth Quarter sending the cadre Down to a 5-1 defeat in a Well played soccer game. This win keeps the record of the he. Btry. Team spotless and has them leading the div arty soccer league of the Lith air borne division. Div arty officers. 8 he. Battery div arty. 8 so. Battery 271st Fai a Battery 271st . He. Battery 99th, . A Battery 271st . A Battery. 271st-s.a. He. Battery 271st . 1 2 4 4 5 5 2 10 Cleveland. Jew York lost Philadelphia. Race at a glance by United press Cleveland Detroit october 1, 2, 3. Boston new York october 2, 3. New York at Boston october 2, 3. Predictions of Grid contests of. �. By set. 1/c Dick Harn. Sports editor Well after getting ten for ten Correct in our first week s prognostications we took a spill last week missing 12 out of 39. However we still have Ari .803 percentage. We finished last season in you remember with .786. So Here goes to either raise or lower. The standouts this week from this Corner Are Michigan Oregon Purdue army Lafayette Northwestern Kentucky Mississippi Duke Tennessee. It s army after a struggle All the Way Over Lafa Yette Michigan Over Oregon Pur  Edge the wildcats kentucky1 to tin Erge As one of the Powers by Downing Mississippi and Duke to Start rolling by taking Tennessee. Little Oregon state will Surprise with a Victory Wren Washington Ohio state after a Pattle Over us Boston College to trample Georger town Princeton to ease by Brown Columbia to continue winning by taking Harvard Cornell Over Navy Illinois to Down Wisconsin Illinois Over Wisconsin strictly sticking our neck out we take Alabama Over Vanderbilt a. Carolina and Justice to continue rolling along at Avalanche Speed by walloping Georgia Geo. Tech to Surprise and Down Tulane untried Rice to Edge leu Baylor to again Surprise for the second week in a Row by slip Ping by Mississippi state Wake Forest Over William & Mary and your guess is probably better than ours on this pne but thu Over Arkansas. Elsewhere notre Dame to take Pittsburgh in a breather holy Cross Over Syracuse Penn to Down the indians of Dartmouth Yale Over Connecticut Minnesota to show Power by walloping Nebraska Kan Sas Over Colorado Florida Over Tulsa even though they Are trying to oust the floridian coach a Burn to take Louisiana tech Texas to rebound from its trouncing at the hands of the tar heels last week and run up an overwhelming score on new. Mexico albeit new Mexico tallied 61 Points last week California with no trouble Over St. Mary a and Urcla Over Idaho. Still elsewhere Oklahoma Over Texas am West Virginia to take tej Nile Villanova to finally win one by edging Duquesne Fordham Over King s Point Penn state to Wallop Bucknell Indiana to take Iowa Indiana showed something last week Missouri Over the Billi Kins of St. Louis Michigan state Over Hawaii the Only game we feel sure about Washington u. After a struggle Over Carnegie tech s. Carolina Over up and coming Furman and look out for this one Stanford to finally whip washing ton state Santa Clara Over Fresno state Oklahoma am to take Denver watch this one n. Carolina state to slip by Clemson Maryland Over Delaware and on a toss up it s Iowa state Over Kansas. State. 138th aaa beats Keg nine 13-3 Yokohama oct. 1the first smooth clicking baseball team of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 138th aaa group met and Defeated the first challenger to its Dia mond supremacy yesterday when. It trounced the Kana Gawa military government nine to the tune of 15-3. The game was played on. The 229th ordnance Field in Yokohama. The Headquarters Battery team scored most of their run in the third inning. Batter for the 138th was divin Start ing Pitcher and Williams we relieved him in the sixth am Dudas  Fine in spree for picking Winner Waterbury conn., oct 1 up attorney a. Henrj Weisman defending a Clien on a drunkenness charge explained in City court yester Day that the accused a celebrating the Victory of the Cleveland indians. Judge Charles r. Suma re plied m a Yankee fan. Ten Dollar  Michigan state an opponent again this year was the Las team to defeat Penn state on its Home Gridiron. By United press american league w 95 94 94 84 Detroit 76 St. Louis 58 Washington. 54 Chicago 49 l 56 58 58 67 75 91 95, 100 pet .629 .618 .618 .556 .503 .389 .360 -.329 go 11 19 3640 y. 45 thursday s results Washington r h e 000 002 100 3 8 3 Cleveland Sells entire Reserve ticket Supply Cleveland sept. 30 up buried under Over a million requests tickets for the Cleveland indians on tuesday closed Down Sale of reserved seats for the world series 10 hours after the first applications were accepted. President Bill Veeck considered putting lowly bleacher seats of the Cleveland stadium up for Advance Sale to help meet the demand which Ould set a new attendance record if the Weatherman co operates. Veeck estimated that pos Sibly 80,000 persons would be Able to see a Chi game played Here. The record thus far is 74, 065 fans who jammed into the Yankee 1947. Veeck stadium in october said letters which came in 40 bulging mail sacks requested an aggregate of 1,020,000 seats. Approximately 198,000 re served tickets have been sold for the three world series games if held in Cleveland. Cleveland oct. 1 up Lucky fans May be Able to buy world series tickets for pos sible games Here starting thursday president Bill Veeck of the indians said As spec Ted a backlog of mail order pleas. Veeck estimated that he in 150,000 at in a harrowing game at Phila Delphia. The losers threatened persistently in the late innings and had the winning run on base in the ninth. At Boston the red sox came Forth with a bristling 15-hit attack that included a Home run by Stan Spence and it gave them a 7-3 Triumph Over the Washington senators. The victories enabled each club to Advance half a game because the first place Cleve land indians were Idle. They now Trail by a game and halibut with Only two More games to play. And those two Are against one another at bos ton on saturday and sunday. The indians play the Detroit tigers Friday and can Clinch at least a tie for the Pennant by winning. They play the tigers again on saturday and sunday. Pressure on both the Yan Kees and red sox was terrific. But feeble opposition by the seventh place senators helped to take it off Boston.  with the Yankees. They committed three errors and seemed particularly jittery All the Way even. Though they got of to an Early 6-0 Lead and should have teen Able to  usual. Yankee pitching was unsatisfactory. Lefty de Lopat. Who had been beaten twice by tha athletics this season was unable to protect his big Lead and was finally removed when the athletic put on their ninth inning threat. Frank Shea was no improvement. Of with the bases loaded one run across and one out manager Bucky Harris called on his Ace right hander Vic has Chi who threw the third strike past Sam Chapman and then ended the game by inducing the dangerous buddy Rosar to lift a harmless Fly to Larry Berra in right  was easy All the Way for Boston with lefty Mel Parnell who scored his 15th Victory and his fifth Over the senators. Tjom Dimaggio and Johnny Pesky made three hits apiece and Boston 020 050 Fox 1 15,0winnerparnell. Loser Wynn. Homers Spence Stewart. New York. 240 210 000 9 12" 3 Philadelphia 002 100 031 7 11 1 Wisner Lopat. Loser Coleman. Homer Suder. St. Louis 100010 000 2 7 0 Detroit 002 003 20x 7 12 3 Winner Drews ski. Loser Strow National. League must have approval to import outfielder new York oct. 1 up manager Billy Southworth of the Boston braves said thurs Day that before the club could bring up an outfielder to re place Jeff Heath for the world series permission would have to be granted by the Ameri can league opponent. We could t do anything until we got a Green Light from whatever club we will be playing. Southworth said. Then we would also have to get a special ruling from base Ball commissioner a. B. Chand  the two players mentioned As most Likely to replace Heath were Jim Gleeson and Marv Rickert both from the Milwaukee farm club of the american association. W l pet Boston. 88 61 .591 Brooklyn. 83 68 -55q St. Louis. 82 68 .547 Pittsburgh. 82 69 .543 new York. 77 74 .510 Philadelphia .,65 87 .428 Cincinnati. 63 8s .417 Chicago -. 63 88 .417 go 7 12 24k-26 26 least 80,000, possibly 85,000 could see each game Here. Pennant fever has gripped the entire City. Mayor Thomas Burke revealed that he was considering proclaiming Victory Day for Spence. Washington Castotti. Got a single besides his Homer to Pace the attack. Friday will be an of Day for both the Yankees and the red sox but it will not be one for relaxation. Not when the indians can Clinch a Pennant tie with a Victory Over , out in Detroit the tigers spotted the St. Louis Brown the indians. He proposed that one run then rushed on easily to All. Factory whistles blow and score a 7-2 Triumph Church indians Bells ring Clinch the league title. Wildcats strengthen passing offensive i in Chicago. Cliff Chambers who when the has won Only once before this american season scattered five hits to the Cincinnati reds to score a thrilling \ to Victory Over the reds and Defeated Ken Raffensberge. In the Day s Only other game the St. Louis cardinals regained third place in the National league blast ing the Pittsburgh pirates. 6-1, in the first half of a Day night double header. Link tourney to Start at Nagoya Villanova pa., oct. 1 greater Emphurs on passing is in store for the Villanova College football team this fall coach Jordan Oliver has indicated. Olivar hinted yesterday that the wildcats will Likely do More passing than Ever before. They relied on their ground game much of last season but took to the air in the final stages and gained results. In a cablegram to Mills Jordan shifted his offensive Manageri Ted Bro Adria Taylor program during Spring practice name i Harold Johnson 21-nd Villanova met with sue year Oid Light heavy negro As Ess in scrimmages with other a challenger. Johnson who Mills offered bout in january Philadelphia oct. 1 up promoter Herman Tay Lor thursday offered Light heavyweight Champion Freddy Mills of England a $25,000 guarantee for a championship bout Here next january. Cincinnati Nagoya oct. 1 leading golfers at Nagoya air Force base will vie for the Nagoya j country club championship i non Handicap tournament thursday s results r h 000 000 000 0 5 too 100 of a beginning sat., oct. 2. Qualify ollege  improved performance of the passing attack encouraged Oliver to place greater stress on it this Rensberger. Day game Pittsburgh St. Louis too too 001 400 000 02x i 8 6 12 Winner Munger. Loser Chesnes. Homers Musial Northey. Boston at Brooklyn postponed by rain will be played Friday. Wednesday night game Pittsburgh. 100 000 010 2 7 0 a Lpuis Coo 000 010 171 Winner Lombard. Loser Dick Sou. Dick Tracy just As a mat Ter or record let us  n again on diet Smith and was head silent St. Blu want television to w1uu be burglar Alaf?m.� As Bic As Moo can see Thelwe 2-wav criminal me does Florida s mentors Gainesville . The Florida coaching staff is a cosmopolitan lot head coach Ray Wolf played at thu line coach Ted Twomey at notre Dame end coach Paul Severin at North Carolina Backfield coach Sterling Dupree at Auburn freshman coach Sam Mcalister at St. Victors freshman Backfield coach Dave Fuller at Wake Forest and freshman line coach Mush Battista at Florida. Ing rounds on saturday and sunday with 36 holes of play will narrow the. Field to 16 competitors who will begin match play oct. 9.silver trophies will go to the club Champion runner up and  As leading contenders Are capt. J. E. Hopkins pfc. Bob Stewart it. James Rigley sgt. William Buckley sgt Arrow Lipschultz major a Mcdonald a sgt Erbie Drause and or. Frank Gullo. 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