Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Wednesday june 20, 1945 the stars and stripes Ai a Quot i Quot of Wpm i f a is. The army poet office lads Are still forwarding mail to this column from Fellows seeking a tryout with the up coming Delta base beat pm baseball earn pvt George j. Clear of he. Btry 718 a bn., writes that he packs 175 pounds bats and throws right handed and plays the Outfield. He played pro Ball for six years with such clubs As Nashville Tenn. Elmira . Allentown a Anniston Ala. Clinton la. Dayton o. Leaks a be . And also had trails with the Brooklyn dodgers playing in 24 games with them at the end of the 1937 season. He also starred with the replacement training Center league soldiers last year at it Sill. A pvt Max ism Manning a a his bid for a do baseball team berth saying a play so five years in Tbs negro National league with Tho Newark eagles two years with the Ponce foam Tot Tho Puorto rican league one year with Tho a Mandare team in Tho cuban Winter league. Manning it a member of the 3746 pm. Try. Co. A next big fight card coming up is listed for the sixth port coliseum thursday night at 8 pm. Pelham Fritz and Henry Prince Middle weights will clash in a grudge Battle in the headline bout. The sunday night u8rra-dbs boxing Cam which received hundreds of temp laments from appreciative gis was made possible through the cooperation of cel. Charles c Quot Casey bet a hat Finnegan. Lbs special service Quot chieftain who tent 18 fighters plus trainers handlers and 8-sgt Bill Baranoff Ace matchmaker to Nice to put on the Shew. And la Dutton Brookfield and to sol Vernon Tazier off Surra special service helped assure the a loess of the enter prise. The restes thank All you gentlemen. Roundup Teddy Hayes Trainer for Jack Dempsey and Mickey Walker when they held the heavyweight and middleweight championships respectively has withdrawn his support of the Baltimore team in the proposed All America pro football conference. Rumblings of a return Joe Louis Billy Conn match Are being heard but can t be much to it since both Are still in Khaki. = Arcaro pilots two More Home new York june 19 ans a Thomas motto a floating Isle won the corinthian steeplechase Handicap at Belmont yesterday taking the jumping event by three lengths from Mercator. Armiak one of the favourites fell at the ninth jump. Eddie Arcaro booted two winners Home scoring with Over in the third and forget me not in the fourth j. San ter took the Riding honors of Suffolk a featureless Day by recording a double with Gray Victory in the first and Wise father in the second. Detroit s second Day of racing saw several Long shots come Home at the fair ground. Always flying t romped Fth at 22.40 dollars. Gray Dottie returned 16.30 dollars and de m paid 14.60 dollars. Stella Walsh bags 260 for new record Cleveland june 19 cans a Stella Walsh famed woman track Star broke the 13-year-old triathlon and american 100-meter dash record Here today. Miss Walsh won All three divisions of the triathlon competitions High jump 100-meter sprint and javelin throw As she amassed 209 Points to surpass the world Mark set by Fraulein Braumuller at mag Wesburg Germany in 1932. Miss Walsh stepped off the 100 meters in 11.5, to erase the old Standard of 11.8, held jointly by herself and Helen Stephens. Sex i attack Case set Back Brooklyn june 19 cans a Leo Durocher fiery manager of the Pace setting National league dodgers and Joe Moore ebbets Field special policeman were continued in $1,000 bail yesterday pending further hearing july 9 on felonious assault charges of 21-year-old John Christian. Christian medically discharged Serviceman appeared in Brooklyn felony court yesterday to testify against the pair but was unable to talk because of a. Fractured jaw which he contends he suffered at the hands of Durocher and Moore. Assistant District attorney Cla Reece Wilson asked for an adjournment for that reason. Christian charged he was beat up under the grandstand at ebbets Field for heckling Durocher and dodger players during a recent night game against the Phillies. Christian wound up in Kings county Hospital with a broken jaw and a bruised head and Eye. He said he was knocked unconscious after being struck with a Quot Blunt heart attack kills scribe new York june 19 Ansi naval la Jack Miley 48-year-old former sports writer and Veteran of two world wars died last night of a heart attack. Miley was injured when his jeep overturned in new Guinea and was Home on medical leave. He would have received his Navy discharge aug 8th. Miley fought four major engagements with the marines in the last War and after the armistice embarked on a newspaper career in Milwaukee a. Crack reporter in new York he was made sports columnist for the daily news several years ago and quickly became one of the most widely read columnists. He subsequently wrote a sports column for the new York Post 341 St engr. Win 10th tilt Marseille june 19�?the 341st engineers won their 10th straight softball game and. Their 10th in 11 starts when they Defeated the 235th Gen. Hospital team 8-2 behind the three hit tossing of Deacon Bauer. The engineers registered three in the first two in the third one in the fifth one in the sixth and one in the seventh while the 235th Combine had one in the first and one in the third. Quot husky Lawson of Dayton Ohio homered with one on in the third for the victors. Over giants i verdict in 13 Inni w1�o a a pm favourites meet Bert Shepard left coach of the Washington nationals who has an artificial right leg As a result Elan amputation in army aviation Servos and pet Gray one armed Rookie Outfield find of the 8l Louis Browns talk things Ever at the Fly gout in Griffith stadium Washington. Map photo Chison hand 3rd straight with 1-0 Job new tors june 19 <an8>�? there were Only two Ball the major league boards yesterday but each involved the league Lead a 5 return of Bank Greenberg ups Detroit a Flap dopes Detroit june 19 ans a Pennant fever has hit Detroit and despite three straight defeats at the hands of the Chicago White sox it seems to be rising at an alarming rate. But the Tiger clubhouse remains Calm. Quot we just done to talk Pennant Quot said manager Steve o Neill. 1110 boys just try to win one game after another and we Hope to win enough of them. However we be Only played 50 games and a lot can happen before we finish out our though the season is Only a third Over and the tigers Are a game in front of the Yankees baseball men and the fans Are ready to concede the Flag to the bengals. The main reason is the impending return of Hank Greenberg the big slugger whose stick work earned him a $55,000 contract before he entered the army just after Pearl Harbor big Hank will join old mates and Many new ones Here very shortly. Greenberg is in Good shape Oahu game called off Honolulu june 19 cans a the Serviceman a Quot dream All Star Between american and National league players now in the armed forces scheduled for Oahu Island june 24. Has been cancelled it was announced today by it. Col. Edgar Stansbury. No reason was Given for the cancellation. The game would have brought together players of both league stationed in the hawaiian area. Birdie tebbets former Detroit Catcher has been named manager of the american leagues while Billy Herman Veteran cubs and dodger infielder was picked to Lead the National league nine. According to o Neill but Hank Hasni to been playing baseball and it will take him about three weeks to get his Eye on the Ball and be Able to gauge those towering flies in Briggs stadiums left Field area. All of Neill and the tigers Hope is that Greenberg can clout the Ball like he did before the War. Hanks batting prowess earned him the american leagues most valuable player award twice and be led the Loop in homers twice with 58 in 1938 and 41 in 1940. Greenberg used Jimmy Fox for league honors in 1935 when each belted 38 Greenberg Isnit the Only service discharge of Neill will Welcome with open arms. A1 Benton former Sailor who won five games before he suffered a broken Bone in Bis left leg a few weeks ago is said to be ready to take his regular turn and ease the Burden on dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser. With those three to work regularly and stubby Overmire Forrest Orrell and Les Mueller for spot pitching or Relief o Neill can enjoy his sleep these warm nights. Ers and wound up in Strle incr finishes As the dodgers nipped the c giants 2-1, in 18 innings and the tigers dropped their third straight to the White sox 14 in the ninth. A monday crowd of 29,968 fans braved a steady drizzle to Root the Brooks Home at ebbets Field As they strengthened their hold on the National league to a game and a half Over the pirates while the giants tumbled into fourth place. It Wasny to Danny Gardella fault that the giants did no twin. Harry Feldman and Roy Pfund were locked in a scoreless Duel for seven innings Gardella cutting off a dodger threat in the seventh when he doubled de Stanky trying to Pecoro after a catch. In the next Frame \ Gardella pushed what looked like the Winner across with a single and then tempers flared As Danny was tagged out by Stanky trying to stretch the hit Walker hits Apple Quot the dodgers came up with a tie in their last regulation trek when Dixie Walker singled Home Goody Rosen who had singled and taken second on Johnny Ruckers Fumble. Ace Adams took Over and went along until the 13th when he walked Stanky. Rosen sacrificed and Stanky took third while Galan grounded out the giants decided to pass Lou Olmo for Howie Schultz who. Broke up the game with a Dean blow. Clyde King picking up Pfund in the 11th, was the Winner. Dizzy Trout went Down to a Tough defeat at the hands of the Box and bespectacled Bill Dietrich a the tigers Lead Over the Yankees was pared to game. Jimmy Dykes favorite pipe. A squeeze bunt chalked up the Victory in Tho 1 final inning As Mike Tresh Laida dribbler Down. Cuccinella a d opened the inning with a single gone to seb my Trout end on Skeeter 1 Webb Boot and third on Bill Nagel sacrifice. Cass mocha pm was purposely passed. Joe Orengo went in to run for Cuc Eineo and then Temh Laid Down a perfect Bun for the Ball sober named Icaza prexy Eastern 8h0re plans new York june 19 ans a Pinky sober of. City College was elected president of the intercollegiate Amateur athletic association last night. J. Fred Martin of Wesleyan was named vice president and a Bushnell reelected Secretary. Joe Paloska by Courtesy of Mcnaught Syndicate inc. By Ham Fisher seems a Quot Sec just Dost sp6>m in gust i guess. An a tip stringers Federalsburg md., june 19 ans a reactivation of the class d Eastern Shore league next season appeared Likely today after representatives of half a dozen cities major league officials and other baseball interests convened Here. An eight club circuit was proposed with franchises going to Milford Del Federalsburg Cambridge Centerville Easton and grief Tell my. No action was taken for the Dover and Seaford Del clubs and Salisbury md., which did not Hava representatives at the meeting. Runs of the week. American league Imit Wizir Sis it Boston ill 111 11 of f Cago Cleveland Detroit new York i him to Ltd l l l or err Philadelphia St Louis Rerp Washington him i 1 j it i a i a 1 Boston Brooklyn Chicago Cincinnati new York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis National league Imit with i visit Fri i Iii Quot i 91 i i i i i i a a i t it it i i i ii i i to l i la i la Lilly i i l i i la n i i ii i
