Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Sunday May 20, 1945the stars and stripes Arkansas boasts Throe cab winners new York May 19 ans a Arkansas University is the greatest War heroes in collegiate circles. Three former razorback athletes have been awarded the congressional medal of Honor capt. Maurice Quot Footsie Britt it Nate Gordon and posthumously lit. Buck Lloyd. A recent athletic dinner for coaches a i naval athletes at the Jackson Ville fla., training station featured a banquet a n d speeches. The meat. Of each speech was As follows Lac. Don Fau rot former mls Souri coach. Quot after the War come to it. Jim to turn Quot after the 0t War come to North lit. Comdr. Lawrence Haskell Quot after the War come to then it. Col. Grec Weissenberge of the marines broke up the banquet when he said Quot after the War join the major league scouts Are standing in line around the House of Alex roman Chuk St. Paul a Mechanic arts school hurler. Romanchuk fanned 42 while winning is first four starts. Out on limb sgt. A1 Lacombe new Orleans promoter now managing the service boxing program in the persian Gulf command recently brought a Defeated american team Back to Khorram Shar Persia and made the following observations a italians in Bari Are the Best service fighters. Americans wont train. The British cant fight. The new sealanders can fight but have no one to teach them. Russians Are Clumsy and easy to hit though Tough and the French Box like amateurs. Perhaps attributing that to sgt. Lacombe was in error. He May be pvt. Lacombe by now. Tall Timber trying to figure the probable Oklahoma Point total in the sooner so coming track meet with Oklahoma a amp a coach Jack Jacobs and the squad ruled out Oklahoma a chances in the shot put saying Quot Bob Kurland can stand Flat footed in the Circle reach out. That Long Arm and drop the shot 35 feet from where he was standing. Kurland was the towering spearhead of the aggie hoop team. Capt. Johnny Kimbrough the Texas aggie so All America fullback of a few years Back has Only one postwar plan. That a to get Back to his a Asci tex., ranch and never leave it. Jarring John recently said a no pro football no wrestling no nothing but ranching for the line Buster bought a 1,300 acre layout in Husfel with his Post school earnings. Gopher scat Back in a letter written shortly before his recent liberation from a nazi prison Camp opt. Hal Van every former Minnesota u. And Green Bay Packer Grid Ace wrote a just Learned that Green Bay won the Western division title. I am a scat Back Gopher friends took that to mean that Van every lost a lot of weight during his confinement. Eddie Goosetree cubs Ivory Hunter says his first postwar project is signing Alvin dark former u5u Grid and Diamond Star. Dark is now in the marines and according to Goosetree was ready for the majors while still in school while de Mckeever sex notre Dame Mentor was conducting Spring training at his new Cornell Job recently Frank Szymanski former Irish Center turned up in the registrars office asking about admission. Mckeever spotted him and advised Frank to catch the first train Back for South Bend. Szymanski went. De Wright hurl8 no hit shutout Kansas City May 19�?eddie Wright Rookie Indianapolis right hander a smoked a no hit no run game to beat the Kansas City blues 241, in an ame rican association game yesterday. Wright issued three walks and faced Only 30 batters. It was the first association no hitter since Jack Kramer now with the St. Louis Browns pitched one for Toledo Over Louisville in 1943. Walker a finds new title Hope new York May 19 ans a Mickey Walker former middleweight Champion returned yesterday from a 46.000 mile overseas junket for servicemen and the discovery of a Quot top flight contender far Joe Louis the former Quot toy bulldog Quot from Rumson n. J., says his Man is Seaman first class Bill Thompson of Raleigh n. C. Walker met Thompson in Brazil Getchell diet Minneapolis. May 19 ans a John get hex 44, Middle West football and basketball official died yesterday. Getchell gained National prominence in 1936 in the famous a with Down Quot incident of the notre Dame Carnegie tech game. 150,000 saw aggie Stoj water okla., May 19 a p a the Oklahoma aggie mythical National basketball champions Drew 149,816 fans during the past season. Coach Henry Ibars team averaged Over 54 Points a game and its average margin of Victory Over the opposition was 20 Points. Runs of week american league la it we to of Prstt Boston a i i t Chicago �1 1 10 a Coveland i 1 1 1 Detroit 1 1 i 1 1 1 now York i 1 i 11 1 11 Philadelphia i 1 i Iii so Louis. A ii i �1 1 14 Washington 11 i 1 1 1 National league Boston i Ami a i i i 1� Brooklyn 41 01 a 315 1 Chicago Cincinnati 1 is 41 of a Jim he 1 61 71 it 41 1 a now Yoek Philadelphia 51 6 8 i 36 i 4 31 a i 9 is i 13 Pittsburgh ii 3 1s6 St. Louis Law quickest cd Kayo Topeka Kas May 19 a it a pvt Jimmy gee Pueblo colo., former four time Milwaukee Champion won the 165-Pound second air Force boxing Crown after scoring the quickest knockout of the tournament in a Semi final. He stopped pvt Charles Wilhite Sioux City Iowa in 49 second horsemen t seek match race Mexico City May 19 ans a a 15,000 dollars purse was offered today by officials of the hip promos race course Here for a match race Between Gay Dalton mexican Champion and h. Forrest s Cher pc Terhall Gay Dalton beat the american thoroughbred by a length Laas saturday in the presidential Handicap overcoming a five length Lead. However if the horses should meet in a match race it would be a weight for age affair giving checker Hall a 15-Pound pull in the weights depending on the distance chosen. Basketball now big by Austin tex., May 19 apr Schoolboy basketball has grown into big business in Texas. It does t produce the Revenue of football but it does pretty Well commercially this year 951 teams with 13,364 boys competed in the basketball Campaign while not As Many a participate in Normal times when there Are around 1,500 schools tide still is quite a Field. 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