Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur                                June 1945 the stains and stripes Many expos seek berths with stagers Paul waiter returns to sandlot May her Bert staging area special service officer thinks he has a Ball club that will prove to be stiff opposition for teams in this Falk pointed out that a Majo Rity of his prospective players have seen at least a year of service in organized baseball before donning glancing Over the roster of he mentioned Hank Fried team Hank formerly played first base for the Columbus a Cardinal farm in the american and May see action with the former bears twirler another expo is player manager Charlie Bubber Hagg who used to Lead the twirlers in the Eastern league while flipping for the big May 31 Paul powerful song pm earned him the nickname of big Poison when he basked in the major league spotlight for 20 returned to the Sand lots this week the same Type sandlot from whence he sprang to the big and i a big out of playing the Outfield for the Dor Mont club of greater Pitts Burgh the 42yearold walloped a couple of one of which scored two runs As Dormont triumphed Over his Fielding was an easy Fly dropping out of his Glove on one but the Roderick wins 2nd Mitt title Dick Tracy Ham ton Bubber scaled was doing Okay with the Newark bears of the International league when Uncle Sam called on him for a bit of pitching in the big at time Bubber had a Credi table Brace of shutouts under his an interesting sidelight is Haags old Bill is now handling the backstopping assignment for the new York and Haag is of the opinion he would be working for Larry were he not in the Garivey played in North Africa also included among the probable starters for the staging areas nine is Lou who used to play shortstop in the Texas league and last year was a member of Zeke Bouras squad which Cavor Ted on Oran diamonds in North Johnny Jenkins is making a Strong bid for a berth on the having gained his baseball savvy in tie new England Harry Miyasato seems to have a Garden spot he formerly played with the hawaiian Semi rounding out the list of Candi dates is infielder Sid who was subject of much scouting playing on his High school la palk revealed that Many of his recruits have been reclassified irom combat outfits and that a number have been awarded the purple pitching Paradox the National leagues losing est Pitcher in 1944 was Ken Affens Mercer of the yet he got credit for the Allstar game Victory and had a seasons earned run average of May 31 Ernie British welterweight won the middleweight title from Vince Hawkins night in their 15round Roderick came in at 148 while Hawkins scale in ulary the for was Paul the Man who hits and was Batt no King of the National league Jot i Virper Srap rvs playing their one about 50 ki3s mobbed him with such enthusiasm that he ripped Tho of his Waters Power a drawing card was proven by the attendance of Over Dormont crowd in 15 and exceeded the who attended the braves pirates game Forbes Field in the afternoon while admitting he missed the thrill of the Paul in Happy to be playing regularly again and get a terrific kick play ing with these sandlot after that where baseball Paul big Poison Waner has gone into the burial vault business at the place where he first began his base Ball press fight results Nav pension he Frankio r Vinco 1 Vernon new Flonny sin won n from fro pro a Marty m Llano los sport plan set for act troops May 31 ans an extensive sports program la of the reconditioning Ira this country for army ground Force troops in route from Europe to outlining the the army said every Soldier will be required to participate in swimming my boxing and one team sport Pere of the regular military training there will be an instructor for each sport in unite of company besides swimming mid training will be Given in and inter Cap Competition will be arranged in various the army and some leagues May be setup subject to 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