The White Falcon - 01.04.1944, Síða 7

Eagles Lose Close Ones
In Concluding ETO Tour
The Air Corps Eagles, first half
champs of the IBC basketball
[ace* concluded their tour of Eng-
aad this week with a record of
wins and four losses, two
0 the latter coming by the two-
P°int margin in old-fashioned
heart-breakers.
In their last start the Eagles
ost a 36-34 thriller to an all
S ^ Skyscraper quintet
when Pvt. A1 Pajonas of Platts-
heg, N.Y., former hoopster for
ertheastern U., of Boston, drop-
ped in a goal from under the bask-
et 'with only ten seconds left of
Play.
Their previous loss was even
cugher to take. In a nip and tuck
? lair in which the lead changed
ands 11 times during the last
hit, the Eagles lost, 42-40, to the
c ampions of a Yank Paratroop
°htfit at a Ninth Air Force base
ter a three-minute overtime
Session.
The Paratroopers held a 19-16
advantage at half time, but paced
hy little “Dynamite” Cwiczynsld,
he Eagles came back to
he the
later
came
score three
and from then
minutes
on the
game turned into a nightmare.
Wiczynski, the little Eagle for-
ward, had the GI audience roll-
'hg in thp aisles as he scurried
°ut like a homesick sailor on
eave in th old home town. Of
e twelve points he scored, ten
came in the hectic last half.
When the gun barked, the
eams were in a 40-40 deadlock.
20 seconds of the overtime,
Wards of the Paratroopers
°Ped one in from the corner
22^1he and his mates held the
^Urnor Moving
Novikoff To Reds
,Hay Starr, pitcher for the Cin-
C|Puati Reds, may be headed for
a Perth with the Chicago Cubs,
Recording to strong rumors in
e baseball underground in the
ed s training camp at Bloom-
‘Pgton, Ind.
, ^Wr may be traded for Lou
ad Russian” Novikoff, screw-
^iioutfielder.
advantage until the end. It was
by far the wildest game the Eagl-
es have played to date, either
in Iceland or England.
Tippy Larkin
TKO Winner
Over Stolz
Tippy Larkin, 137-pound Gar-
field, N.J., hard-hitting light-
weight, registered a three round
TKO over Allie Stolz in a sched-
uled ten round bout at Madison
Square Garden this week.
Stolz, after giving Larkin a box-
ing lesson in the first two rounds,
tried to exchange blows with the
heavy puncher from Jersey. He
hit the deck three times. A light-
ning right cross put Stolz down
for the first count; he went down
the seeond time for a seven count
as a result of another of Larkin’s
Sunday rights. Larkin put him
down again, but the bell sound-
ed at the count of two.
Referee Arthur Donovan exa-
mined Stolz during the rest peri-
od and declared Larkin the win-
ner on a TKO.
IBC Boxer Meets
Old Boss In Icelend
S/Sgt. Frankie Albano, IBC
heavyweight champ now in Eng-
land with the boxing team from
here, had a special rooter in the
stands when he fought at Rain-
bow Corner in London the other
night. The one man cheering sec-
tion was Pvt. Joseph Regis, 34,
of New York, Albano’s brother-
in-law now serving as a para-
trooper in England. It was their
first meeting in six years.
Regis, who Was a contender
for the bantamweight title in
1935, is the lad who trained
Frankie and in his ring days
fought under the name of “Brown
Boy” Regis. He mixed it with
such men as Johnny Fitzpatrick
and Mike Belloise.
P.S. For his old boss, our Fran-
kie went out there and boxed
his opponent’s' ears off!
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B.C., Syracuse Back
In Gridiron Picture
Officials at Boston College and
Syracuse have announced that
those schools will be back in the
big-time collegiate football wars
this fall. Syracuse, hasn’t fielded
a team since ’41 and B.C. played
only an informal schedule last
year.
Spring practice for B.C. starts
today. In announcing this, the
school’s athletic manager said
that the game is being revived “to
prepare students physically for
the armed services.
“Whether Syracuse will go
through with its schedule de-
pends entirely on the result of
spring drills,” Coach Ossie Solem
declared.
IBC Postal Clerk Dreams
Of Horses, Horses, Horses
ed ^Jlen a feller needs a friend!” .... That seems to fit in with the picture above, left. Back-
UP against the ropes and absorbing a face full of leather is Able Seaman Johnny Biggs of
Qfe Royal Navy, while the pitcher is Leading Cook Thomas Bostock. Right, Sgt. Jimmy South
the Engineers hag just missed with a right, in his horrid scrap with Leading Air-
raftsman Les JJvans of Scotland. South was the winner.
Churchill Downs, Pimlico, and
the New Orleans Fairgrounds are
names that bring back exciting
memories to Cpl. Walter P. Neeb,
24-year-old mail clerk at the
Base Post Office here. Neeb used
to be a jockey, and before the
Army got him seven years ago
he led many of the nation’s fi-
nest horses over the finish line
at those places.
Still within riding weight at
108 pounds, Neeb is one of the
most diminutive soldiers on the
island.
He has ridden ponies and hor-
ses in his native Kentucky since
he was “big enough to walk.”
He has owned them, bred them
and raced them—yet he states
that he never had any desire to
join the Cavalry. For reasons
perhaps better known to himself,
he declines to enlarge upon this.
Originally a “30-year man”—
by intent—Neeb has since chang-
Anyway, He Got A Pass
Having been informed that his
wife had just given birth to quad-
ruplets, Sgt. Gordon H. Blue, sta-
tioned at Camp Edwards, Mass.,
was handed a twenty-five dollar
congratulatory gift and a three
day pass to visit the scene of the
event at his home in Interlaken,
N.Y. However, when Blue arriv-
ed he found his wife not only
without offspring — but not even
expecting any. Although he re-
turned the money, it is not re-
ported what he did witji the three
day* pass.
ed his mind and now hopes to
return to the racetrack as soon
as the war has finished. His
home town is Louisville.
Coming Up —- One
Dish Of Woodpulp
Food rationing was shown to
be of rather a trivial importance
recently when an “all-syntlictic”
dinner was served in Switzer-
land. The menu consisted of ap-
petizers made of chemically
treated cellulose flavored with
coal-tar by-products — along
with a “meat course” made of
woodpulp and garnished with
synthetic gravy. Those who par-
took of the meal are not repo, t-
ed to have been wild with ent-
husiasm.
Judge Would Give
Prisoners Chance
To Join Army
If a proposal made recently by
Superior Court Judge Clay Allen
of Seattle, Wash., is adopted, men
with criminal pasts will be given
a chance to don “OD’s.” Judge
Allen urges the formation of an
American fighting unit patterned
after the French Foreign Legion.
“My idea,” he stated, “would
be to segregate these men into
special training units and let
them serve in Alaska or on for-
eign fronts. Most of them would
ingke good soldiers,”
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