Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 5, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur By Courtesy of me naught Syndicate a Wax Good but m Stu expect to Retan the title to. After he mar. I m Ben inducted next Olad toy glad to >o0, 1 know you Maru we Jav Gleason league Lead to four games. The bums were returning to National league Pittsburgh to Philadelph 2 might thursday july 5, 1945the stars and stripes reds shaky dodgers 5-1 the last word we had from Baity Salter Czar of the lbs baseball leagues and the no in charge of getting the sections baseball team lined up was that his office is sending individual notification to each Man who applied by letter for a tryout. Perhaps some of the applicants have already received their notice to report for a tryout to those of you who Haven tas yet been notified As to where and when to report be patient the letters Are on their Way and should reach you within a week. A meanwhile Well 141 Hie list of candidates who willingness to play Ball ror us. These include Dpi John d. Brown Catcher Florida 8tars Chi. Eugene m. Goforth tar Heel league Northern league Pitcher Chi. John Purcell Canadian american league t-6gt. A. B. James outfielder Boston Royal giants 8gt Herman Che Kef sky Utility staging area bears marshal Brignac outfielder new Orleans 8gt William d. Stewart shortstop Louisville Black colonels pfc. Antony j. Kiino Brooklyn Hedger tryout Chi. Walter a. Love to Fekter and Pitcher College and Semi prof pvt. J j. Hennessey suburban twi league of greater Boston Pitcher pvt. Harold l. Rodarte class b Ball Patchor pfc. Robert Devoe Pitcher Texas league my Vernon Scarlet pvt James e. Jones Outfield first base Baltimore elite giants f942-43 Chi. Otto Booster Camp Grant team he. Co. Algiers Pitcher pvt. John h. Greene second base Kansas City giants Junior a earths of Missouri Valley Cap Victor Voimore Montgomery Bloomington Williamsport Milwaukee Brewers of american association Camp Wallace southwestern champions Pitcher and manager Chi. Sewell j. Briggs Washington state pfc Herbert Siemers Pitcher Chicago and property of St Louis Browns and sol Jamos p. Of Brien Pittsburgh in Penn state league. All of which rounds out this columns endeavours to help col Charles c Quot Casey Quot Finnegan lbs special service chief off a bet he made with coi prank Mccormick Etc sports head that there weren to 30 Good baseball players in Southern France. We be forwarded More than 00 letters to the colonel out of which More than 3g Are lads who formerly played with the majors or minors from Here on in the destiny of the lbs baseball team is in the capable hands of lbs special service. And we Hope col. Mccormick is Well satisfied with his new hat and Quot Casey Quot Finnegan with his new team Odt surveys railway haul of bang tails Washington july 4 ans a despite official government approval of sports As a wartime morale Factor on the Home front the meddling cot is a putting its spikes into the picture again yesterday the Odt announced it was Quot studying Quot the race horse transportation problem freed from capital restriction after be Day. The Agency is asking railroads the amount of transportation involved in shipments of race horses to and from tracks according to director j Monroe Johnson the Odt Quot is concerned Over the tight transportation situation and heavy requirements due to the redeployment after the late president Franklin d. Roosevelt had Given baseball a Quot Green Light Quot for the 1945 season Johnson declared he would cancel the world series unless teams of the same City won the pennants due to the transportation problem. His edict influenced the majors in cancelling the annual Benefit All Star game and last week the pirates and tigers announced that the Odt requested them to cancel an exhibition game. The game was to have been a Charity affair for the Bat and Ball fund of overseas service and involved 69 Miles of travel. Holmes equals wheat a .402 Boston july 4 an8 a it was just a month ago that Tommy Holmes went witless but the Sharp eyed braves outfielder Hasni to been stopped since and now is in the midst of the most terrific hitting Streak of his career. The National league batting Leader who has hit safely in 29 straight games is determined to break Rogers Hornsby a Modem National league record of 33 in a Row made Back in 1933. Yesterday Quot thumping Tommy Quot equalled Zack wheat Sloop Mark for port Side swingers when he connected safely against the cubs and lifted his average to .402. Herman Back with dodgers Kems defeat 113th aaa 5-3 Marseille july 4�?russ sea Boldts two Bagger that ran in two scores in the fourth inning carried the 115th chemical Kerns from a 3-3 tie to a 5-3 win Over the 113th aaa in the Bush league at the dust bowl Here. Brooklyn july 4 ans a Floyd Quot babes Herman whose Outfield Capers and powerful Bat made him one of the most eligible and beloved members of the Daffy dodgers of 1926 through 1931, will return to Brooklyn As a Pinch hitter president Branch Rickey announced tonight. Majors Over Hump Chicago july 4�?the major leagues who sweated out an abundance of manpower demands during the Winter appeared to be safely Over the Hump today the american league which had 266 favorite sons in service two weeks ago when the Absentee Peak was reached now is missing 263. What do you know Joe tags. J tries to of Everss language As seem to to til but they a ins photo american Cleveland 5. New i Boston 4. Detroit 0 Washington 12. Chicago 2 night St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 1 night american association Columbus 2, Toledo 1 Louis tue s. Indianapolis 2 Milwaukee to. Kansas City s others postponed rain. W l pc w l pet. My Wash. Is 77 .501 Indiana. 41 30 .577 louts. 41 31 .560 St. Paul 33 33 .560 min Neap. 32 3� .471 col urn b. 31 41 .431 Toledo 35 55 500 Kansas 24 43 .358 Southern association Atlanta 13. Birmingham 5 Chattanooga 11. Nashville s new Orleans 4, Little Rock 1. Mobile 7. Memphis 6 w l pet. W l pet. Atlanta 44 93 so Memphis 26 36 .438 Vattano. 41 26 .612 a Littler. 27 37 422 new of. 41 26 .612 blaming. 26 41 .388 Mobile 38 30 .559lnashvil. 20 46 .303 Bug fielder gets �?�defer1 Pittsburgh july 4 cans a outfielder a1 Gionfriddo yesterday wired pirates president William Benswanger that his Cresson pa., draft Board had granted him a 30-Day deferment and that he will rejoin the club Philadelphia today. Rookie Wilson spins 5-0 lick for botox r new York july 4 cans a a bumpy air plane ride in a Severo storm left the dodgers shaky last night and the bums staggered through a 5-1 defeat at the hands of the reds reducing their National Brooklyn from an exhibition game Cherry Point <n.c. Marine base when a Bolt of lightning knocked the ship off its radio beam. For several hours the plane soared aimlessly through the storm and darkness out of Contact with land base. Singles by gain Clay and Eric Tipton plus two dodger errors opened the door for four runs in the second inning and gifted prank Dasso with the Victory Over Clyde King Relief Pitcher who was drawing his first starting assignment. Giants subdued the Genii 3-2, to climb Over the champions into second place. Harry Feldman spun a three hitter and was aided by Hom Enins by Phil Weintraub and c in d e Klutts Burkhart Augie Bergamot a Homer with Marty Marion aboard in the fourth inning accounted for the St. Louis scoring.4 the cubs buried the braves under a 24-2 Avalanche falling four runs Short of the modern major league record Charlie grimms athletes battered five Boston pitchers for 28 hits batting around in the fourth and seventh innings and sending 11 men to Bat in the ninth. Prank Colman drove in five runs and scored four others As he carried the pirates to a 10-3 Romp Over the Phillies. Nick Strincevich was an easy Winner. Dick Barrett was the loser Hubson Blank tigers h Rookie Jim Wilson fashioned a five hit shutout for the. Red sox Over the tigers in a Twilight affair yesterday de eating the american league leaders and ending Hal Newhou Eert a seven game winning skein. The tigers Clung to their three and a half game margin How Ever when the m my. Yankees drop Jim whim i bed a nocturnal verdict to the Newhouser with Boston Box picking the ninth off waiter Wilson. Hank Greenberg went witless in three official times at Bat but salvaged two walks. Yanks beat by triple a triple in the seventh Jpn Long with the bases full by Cleveland a Felix Mackiewicz former Purdue football end broke a 2-2 4dk>eir and downed the Yankees 6-2. The senators took a two percent age Point hold on fourth place Over the White sex by routing the chicagoan 12-2, behind Roger Wolffs effective seven hit pitching and a 14-hit assault against Bari Caldwell Johnny Johnson and prank Palsh. Connie Macks inept Athl Etlee absorbed their 14th straight defeat falling before the Brawns 2-l Weldon West started for so Louis but departed in favor of a Pinch Hitler in the eighth inning and Bob Muncrief who toiled the ninth was credited with the nod. W l pet go w l pet. Go Detroit 38 25 .609 a Brooklyn 41 96 .612 new York 36 28 31 new York 38 31 �51 4 Boston 34 36 .531 5 Chicago 34 28 .548 41 Washington 38 36 .524 51 St. Louis 36 30 .545 41 Chicago 35 32 .592 51 Pittsburgh 35 31 .536 51 St. Louis 36 32 .404 8 Boston 32 32 .500 71 Cleveland 28 34 .452 16 Cincinnati 98 33 .468 91 Philadelphia 26 43 317 181 Philadelphia 19 53 .264 241 Washington at Chicago 2 St. Louis at new York 9 Philadelphia at St. Louis 2 Chicago at Boston 2 new York at Cleveland 2 Cincinnati at Brooklyn 2 Boston at Detroit t Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. T new York 3. St. Louis 2 night Cincinnati 5. Brooklyn l night International i ague Jersey City 9, Syracuse 4 Baltimore 7, Newark 5 Buffalo 40. Toronto 20 Only games scheduled. W l pet. Montreal 5# 23 a so Jersey c. 30 3s .566 Rockies. 28 46 .412 Newark 36 As Baltimore 38 34 .545, Toronto w l pet 34 36 .493 Buffalo a v7 46 ,463 4 .356 Eastern a Boob Aubray 5. Elmira s biogas ton so. Wilkes Barre 5 to Utica 5-1 Scranton 1-6 Williamsport 4-4. Hartford 3-2 w l pet. W l pet. 36 25 .s00 Utica 28 26 .600 36 25 .545 Scranton 27 28 in �37 Elmira 25 36 .45� .527lbingh. 18 35 .340 Albany Wilkes a Hartford 29 15 Willi 29 26 braves buy Hendrickson Boston july 4 ans a Don Hendrickson Milwaukee right hander who won seven games while losing two for the Brewers this year was purchased by the braves yesterday by hang Fisher fight results Milwaukee. July 4 ans �?a1 Gomez Chicago lightweight out pointed Pedro Firpo of Camden n.j., in the ten round feature hero last night. Gomez scaled 132 and Firpo 134. Other results new Orleans a Bert Lytell 156. Oakland decision Ned sol air teeny Jones 160, Champlain iut 10. Chicago George a sugar Quot Cost Ner. 150, Cincinnati stopped Mike Sopko -156, East Chicago 4>
