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\ Fog* • OctobM t, !943 Jim>0-IIECH S*7M0Vf Mmi— FMd. N: Ci m ^ m ai w Sports Sparks By Sarge Well, lada. we woo't be watching any no-hitters or fast double- pleys or ringing extra base hits for a while. The good old hageball season is over. We've had a belluve good time watchl^ the thrUleis of the post five months—eo have the other thousands of OXs wbo've attended at some of the battles. Next yearr and there probably will be anotner year, there wUl be another batch of participants and specta tors watching our super-soldier nines In action. Tits playoffs was the finishing touch for the year’s eompetish. It was that a pie la Mode after the main course. The htUe World Series wrapped up In that final three games carried with It a generous dosage of all the many exciting elements allied wltn the word baaebalL RBMEMBBBf . . . The way the Mom Orewp slagged hi eeven ntns U the very flrsl hmlag ef the firat gaw af She aeries.. .. Hew Ii^ a* nMt d.T 1. pifah Ua hewt o«t for tie YMtt ud Ur Ike MTlee ter theiB. ... Tie ererllewliv erewd et lie reiber (erne ee Taeedi;. . . Tie narrelliid ree did et tie for- eeUIII; e( Hrnnui Kiel, Ike ekv Be did ererjrtkliit hat lee anmd lie eeler M fee tie teem. . . . Hew ietenee lie tatereel bi lie oatcome ef the aeries wss hf OIs sod effloers, THB KING IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KINO ^ pugilism wUl now rule topmost over ale the ^la a^etlcs without any rtvah. Crown princes. CaviSmgh. Jackson. others will dominate the news for a while breering into the warmth of the hades to stay « boopsters for popularity. What a flght. foUcat Whatta Sf unnn*^.5 J?*® “*^® “we” department? Don't ask ua, we only work aroupd here. NOns OFF AN O. O. CUTT You aluMl fbel. like asking what the 'take** flgnret to be 1«- Bight. whe.^ yew walk lalo the Sports Arena office where the Fight Promoters and Matehmakere, Inc. bold court. Ihls Is* what the com- merci^t aanoBDeera would call a reasonable facaltnUe of Mike Jacobs offloeB OB Broadway In New York. With s meowing ont-ttirBsUiig of his always present elgar. Happy Porlano will grab yon by the crilar and start 1« speat abont his “new boy.** Envious at the time Nappy may be spending on his man, Siuntny Potrock, loenacloos iMtch^er or the outfit will start to feed the vietim a con Une alM»t hia ohampIoB.'* "Ya crazy, I tellya. ya crazy" will suddenly interrupt the Potrock patter and sure nuff It will be Eddie Wagner edeglng his pair of pen nies into the general confusion. Through the haze of blue ish smoke and language in a similar streak, you see Wagner's lips moving. Rav ing taken a term of extra-curriculum lip-reading back at Madame Blndleestlffs little schoolhouse, you gather that the tojrfc that Eddie Is giving hhnself contusions of the gums about Is much the same as what vou've already heard from Messrs. Potrock and Forlano. Only a different name. Nodding* and yawning fariously. you Hnally persuade them to lower the tottietrap tempo. Slowing up to three-koarter lima, they flben clurier arownd the Eating M name* fop the nex boxing oard. Pbrovk and Happy talk riowly and proudly aa they show the wisdom of this and that nmteh. By heck, the card ie Just every bit of what they clafatt for K! Baal earefnl matehlng. When you aak Wagner or ene of the othen why eeme of theoe boya that they've been raving about aren't Uated, they will aoberly tell you that "Aw. maybe bo ain’t cnlte aa good u that. We'd better wait till be leariM a UtUe BDorii 1 gneaa. I’m Joat entiiniiaatic." Thai’s the way it Is, too. Lt. Rosenblum and his boj^lng staff are working hard and oooaolentloualy on the program and sure rate a rous ing cheer for the progress made In this morale lifting section of tbs Athletic set- up on Se.vmour Johnson Field. FLASH . . . All Squadron Athletie OMeera airi A K mew had beat atari getting their teama ready far the Volley Bel teurnm meat for tide faO. — —- ' — -urnw. 12th Mess Gp Snares SJ Baseball Playoff Playoff Panorama i abuot Get. lltfa. . JR. Rrrringer!! Boyer, Hq-Hq Given Award a decisive 50-22 tally In the cham pionship round last week. Cpl. Paul voiced his apprecia tion of the titular award and said that be sure was glad that he'd played a little horseshoes In bis time and had had enough luck to get such an attractive medal. Definite Blargina A gold medal emblematic of the Boyer drew a bye in his first Horseshoe Championship of Bey- >nhtch, beat Pfc. Ivan McCann of mo^ Johiion rield w„ pr^kn^lS;? ed to corporal Paul Boyer. Of Head • jpi. j. potahlan. 7IIlh. 51-8. HU quarters and Headquarters Squad- concluaive win made K a perfect rn at the fights Wednesdsy night, streak. * Awards were also given to sec- Cpl. Sam Rocher, lOth Academ- ood and third place contestants, ic, won third place honors with a Boyhr beat out the second plac 60-21 rictory over 8-8gt. C. Wester- er Pfc. Ken Hopkins, SOth TS. by msrk, 8th Academic, 50-21. Binging down Ih* final ewtain m a soecowfiil ibog— 4f loogiM boseboUlng on lohnson field, the 12th Mess Gsei^ nine captured the Pott Plavefb esi Tuesday morning with m 3 to 2 wictory ever the riwol 794th Technical School Sqaadrea outfit before a crowd of obeeit 2SM fons. The Mettinen had wen their qoaUfying gome by hnecldng ever the pennemt poesetsing 793 tim preuieiu Thursday, while the 794th hod eosted the Msidics Itm file playefi contentton on Friday. mriMo rmALE There was a goodly crowd overflowing the stands at cdl the Olficer-Ealist* ed Man cndience enjoyed ev ery faming el fim strogglee on the new field aeor the Medics area. Ployfaig In high gear thfoo^mut the two teams ex ploited every condevahle phase of tibe Nictloiud Pentinm in skillfa! style. A fitting mid- iag to o Ihrillino and class- plus bw- Star of the three game series was Pfc. Bernaan Kiel, who batted and pitched bis team to the final victory In a regular Frank MerrV well manner. Outehlnlng a splen did effort by opposing hurler Hen ry WhlUam, Kiel struck out seveo men, allowed the same number of hits and capped this performance with e Ruthian four out of four at bat. Re spanked out two doubles and two singles, all clean, bard blows, scored two of his team s tallies and drove in the winning nm. Wblttam was touched for eleven blngles, allowed one walk and struck out four. The waU-scst- tered hits combined with smooth work afield made for a real tight Last Inning Decides The 12th jumpied off to a one nm lead in the second inning of the rubber match, added one s couple of innings Uter and then aettied dovm ^ pcQt|c^hai&n^ .. gin. The TMm^BTmeinHWI run over in the fourth and then nut Hi- exme on a g*nulne even- steven baste with a tsrlng nm la the sixth frame. Starting a last inning rally, the 12th advanced Ra* koski to third base on a mixture of playrs. Kiel was now on deck. Tbe »'»!»• was set. Wasting little time, Kiel took stock of the situa tion, dug In sad laced a ahan drive into right field for the baq- game. Enitter For Whtttam The first game of the serlee on last Saturday saw the Cooks win t to 8. Kiel also woo this game with a well thrown seven hitter. Stewart wa« the losing twlrl- er for the 784th and Backstop 0114 Hold hit hard for the 13tb. Next rn., 7o«»»T -i^ced by a beautiful pitching exhibition by Henry wfalt- iam, pounded out a decisive 7 to 1 triumiA. Whittam’s servings held the 18th to three bite. Van Boose was losing slinger. Jimmy Jackson KO’s Al Cavanaugh Edges Trent in 2 Out Miiier Amid a storm of boos and a torrent of abuse. Referee Chester fought his way to five hord victories, all of them over on unruly crowd. Wednesday night at the Sports Arena. Decisions unpopulor to a partisem mob, caused the uproar. The final blowoff was occasioned by the decision in the scrap between Jimmy Jack- son and Johnny Trent. It had been fairly even throughout most of the first round, with Jackson landing an effective flurry at the close. In the second, a right ond a left sat Trent on the floor. He arose ot two, went down again ond just foiled to make it up by the lime the count bad 'reached ten. Lt. Cbesler awarded the bout to Jockson on a knockout ir I;04 of the second heat, and the mob*went crazy. Cavaneegb Still Tspe vasaugb shaded newcomer li, dlller, of the 718th, in the seo:. :uuU bout AL from Chicago, and the T80th, seemed to have lost hU edge stnee the Jackson fight, but still had enough savvy to batter hte man with hard blows. Miller made h close by countering, hut Al Just ooured on a steady stream of pimishment and forced Miller Both boys started fast and that tempo kept all throua^i the scrap. The opening bout broui^t to- getter Max Shlunkowltz and John Mellon, both at 131 lbs. Max. from the opening canto, but wss floored himself In the second. TTie declslOD went to Mellon, tn a very dose scrap. The TSlst’s Tommy Palese won hjs second straight at the Arena, by clinch sod break ground repeaMly. outpointing Ed Nowik from fbe TVS* Nowak bounced around and tem porarily bewildered Falese, but Tommy got on the ball in the sec ond, and although bleeding from the nose, slugged hard and often enough to take the nod. BroeklynHe Wins Fast One Oscar QoldstelD, the Brookijrn Indian, took a close decision from Pennsylvania Lester Boyer tn a U^twelght aer^. IViey boxed at range most of the time, and (TOP) Freezing a thrilling bit of th inning action, the Air-O- Mech photog produced this re sult Atton, of the 784th. te seen sliding savagely Into home plate only to be tag^. out by Catcher Hold of the 12th. as Umpire Al aedotti calls It. (MIDDl^l Series star Herman Kiel, 13tb Mess, re ceived the gladhand from a valiant mound rival Hanr Whlt- tam, of the 784th just after the i2th bad captured the Rayoffs. (LOWER) Pfc. Johnny Moetiller leans into s pitch for a sharp liner over third base. MostiUer. of the 784th, scored a little while later in thte Inning, the fourth. fw the 784th’8 first run. catcher is Cpl Cliff Bold. the Inman was hurt by a flurry in the lirst round, but he came back with haid shots which rocked Lee. Ossie suffered a nose bleed in the second but stood up to Boyer, and ek^ out an unpopular win. 'nird man to be awarded .tba dtettnetiMi of Fighter Of The Night we JlBMy Jaekseo. ef the 38th AvteUen. Johnny Trent tn two Cavanaagh and Jo en prevlM earda. New Yorker Joe Tanchunte scor ed s surprising upset by outpoint ing the highly-rated Butlmlo Solano in a rou^ fourth bout. The open ing bout saw both men land respective flurries without a return, big Yanchunls forged ahead tn the second, and although clipped hard at times beat sutlmlo to the punch often enough to win. DeiAle Dehid Two newoomere set at li in the fifth bout and Johnny Buckley emerged the winner over John^ Caruso In s veery cloee bout Both hit hard and showed promise, but Caruso seemed to have a bit more to offer. He did well In the first two heats, setting hte man up often, but lost the decision when he was pelted around In the finale. BUUe Phelps took another unp(x>- ular wm from Frankie Pellegrino. Frankie floored Ptaripa for no count In the first landed well In the sec ond and took a few hard shots in the third. Phelps threw |den^ of leather, too. but aeemed to be hit ting the shoulders more often than not Both boys seemed surprised at the deeteloo. l(oet unpopular deeteloo of the evening was Xrvln White’s win over Uw Tifoae. Lou was very game and retaliated hard and often, but White was cool and landed steadier, and more effectively. Vlsone'a game stand stirred the crowd, but from where we sat It was White all the way. Both boys ate leather, but neither seemed to be In any danger at any time. White’s edumted left was the deddlog factor, as be fcMA Vteone off balsnee and set him up J >r rights to the bead, throughout— :b.k.
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