The White Falcon - 01.05.1943, Page 12

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Male Call
by Milton Caniff, Creator of "Tesry and the Pirates'
Wipe That Opinion Off Your Face
Kentucky Derby
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for either over The Count this
afternoon will be classified as
a major surprise.
Ultie Swords culminated its
training for the Derby by navig-
ating the distance in 2:08 this
week, while Ocean Wave show-
ed his heels to Slide Rule and
No Wrinkles in a Derby Trial
Stakes at Churchill. Slide Rule
is the hope of the Mt. Desert
Stable; No Wrinkles will tote the
colors of Mrs. Emil Denemark's
Milky Way Stables.
None of the other horses slat-
ed to reach the starting barrier
is conceded worthy of considera-
tion against the above quintet.
Longshot shoppers are looking
toward No Wrinkles as their
choice to upset The Count & Co.,
remembering that it was a Dene-
mark entry, Gallahadion, which
slipped ahead of Bimelech to
capture the lucrative purse in
1940. However, the wise money
insists only a miracle or “bum
ride” can keep Count Fleet from
reaching the wire first.
Teams Point
Toward Local
Softball Meet
With virtually every unit in
the Command indicating it will
have a team ready for the local
softball tourney, the Base Special
Service Office is formulating a
round-robin schedule for preli-
minary competition.
Teams will be bracketed ac-
cording to geographic locations.
Several units have been working
to prepare their home fields for
the tourney which probably will
get underway about May 20.
Bracket survivors will parti-
cipate in an elimination round
to dispose of the litle and gain
possession of THE WHITE FAL-
CON trophy, being offered for
the second year.
—Ace Cage
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licit to .'{4-8!). Then Center Jack
Metirer stole a pass from the
Dodgers and drove in for a two-
pointer, being fouled while shoot-
ing. Anti-Tank refused the free
throw, taking the ball out-of-
bounds, and Meurer’s spectacul-
ai pitch from beyond the mid-
court stripe knotted the count
just before the clock ran out.
In the overtime, Meurcr count-
ed fom the field and Fritz added
a free throw before Herb Size-
more of the Dodgers scored a
basket. But desperate Dodger at-
tempts to grab the ball proved
futile as Fritz & Co. protected
their slim margin as the game
ended.
Athletic officers and enlisted
men chose an All-Star team after
the tourney. The roster follows:
FIRST TEAM
Harold Fritz (Cods) and Ellis
Adams (Dodgers), forwards; Jack
Meurcr (Cods), center; Lawrence
Mills (Dodgers) and John Kreso-
waty (Eagles), guards.
SECOND TEAM
Vic Brown (Wrens) and Herb
Sizemore (Dodgers), forwards;
John White (Pigeons), center;
Gil Governor (Pigeons) and Nick
ltocknick (Cods), guards.
HONORABLE MENTION
Ward (Yanks), Mumia (Creep-
ers), Greeley (Pigeons), Saddler
(Moccasins), Nardi (Constric-
tors), forwards; Gosnell (Blue-
gills), Tougaw (Garters), Mahon-
ey (Robins). Flynn (Salmons),
centers; Frazec (Cods), Stumbo
(Yanks), Karr (Cods), Sherbs
(Penguins), Haggerty (Salmons),
guards.
Baseball
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gue lead on percentage. However,
the Indians hold a half-game
edge.
Cleveland is shadowing the
New Yorkers, having scored six
victories in eight tries. The In-
dians opened with three tri-
umphs in four games against De-
troit.'including a six-hit 3-2 con-
quest by Vcrn Kennedy, former
Tiger pitcher; the clubs split a
twin-bill Sunday by identical
scores, 4-1, and the Indians slop-
ped the Chicago White Sox la-
ter in the week by scores of
4-2 and 2-0.
The best pitching performance:
of the week was registered by ]
Spud Chandler, Yankee veteran,
when he held Washington to one
hit in winning, 1-0. Ed Smith,
Chicago’s tough luck southpaw
who lost 21 games last year,
most of them by one run, got
off to a good start when he turn-
ed back the Browns on six hits
to win, 3-1.
A homer by Danny Litwhiler,
Phillies outfielder, gave his team
a 3-
over the Brooklyn
Dodgers, the only setback the
Dodgers have suffered since the
season began. However, the Daf-
fy Lads recovered to victimize
the Phils three times in the se-
ries, 11-4, 4-2 and 4-3.
St. Louis, which dropped its
first two games to Cincinnati by
1-0 scores, bounced back to win
three straight before Claude Pas-
seau and the Chicago Cubs
blanked the champs, 4-0, Wed-
nesday. The Cards whipped Cin-
cinnati, 2-1 and 1-0, then white-
washed the Cubs, 7-0,
A U.S. gunner was manning a .50-cal. machine gun from the
tail position in a plane over Tunisia when an enemy ,30-cal. bul-
let, headed directly at him, struck a cartridge in his machine
gun belt as it was entering the chamber. The U.S. bullet ex-
ploded (above) but it stopped the enemy missile and the gunner
was unhurt except for a scratch on his leg from a flying rivet.
The American Scene
Troupers in a traveling USO
show spent a night in the “clink”
because of a mistake in hotel
reservations. Police tried to help
by sending out a request to pa-
trol cars to check all available
accomodations, but none wrere
found. So the actors went to jail
—to sleep.
Archie Bixby, of Sail Lake
City, Utah, told local police that
his traveling bag had been sto-
len. He spoke too soon. Two days
later he found a pawn ticket in
his room. It produced the stolen
bag.
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The west is becoming wild
again. Beef “black markets” pay
such high prices that old fashi-
oned cattle rustlin’ is said to be
troubling ranchers in Colorado.
•
James M. McClanahan, a jewe-
ler living in Akron, Ohio, has
an insurance policy on “Adolf
Hitler.” If anything happens to
Adolf, McClanahan will collect
$100. “Adolf Hitler” is McCla-
nahan’s mule.
•
Somewhere in Cambridge,
Mass., Monty is wandering a-
round the countryside. He is lost
and to make matters worse, he
is drunk. Monty is a five-year-old
pet gander known throughout
East Cambridge for his fondness
for beer. He was last seen stag-
gering out of a tavern.
•
The Mismated Shoe Club has
been organized in Dallas, Texas.
Granville W. Moore, county ra-
tioning board member, started
the club to help men and women
in the United States who wear
a different size shoe on each
foot. The members contact each
other through letters. In this
way, they can arrango trades for
shoes that don’t (it for shoe.<i
that do.