The White Falcon - 12.08.1944, Side 6

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KeflavikClubsDominateOpening
Tilts In IBC Softball Elimination
Keflavik entries took a commanding lead in their quest for the Iceland Base Command
softball championship when they decisively eliminated three of Reykjavik’s hopefuls in the op-
ening round of play early this week on the Monmouth diamond.
Wednesday brought the tour-
ney’s first surprise when the usu-
ally strong MP Plymouths fell an
easy victim to the crack Triple-
A Red Sox, 8-2. While Pvt. Julian
Tubb was limiting the losers to
six hits, his mates landed on Jim-
my Irick at opportune times and
were never in danger.
Flawless twirling by Sgt. Car-
son Dykes featured the Triple-A
Rosebuds’ 3-0 triumph over the
Signal Doolittles in the inaugural
game Monday. Dykes allowed the
Signal batters but two hits and
struck out eight while applying
the whitewash. Ernie Carrabal’s
two-bagger in the second sent in
enough runs to clinch the strug-
gle.
The Signal Dodgers waited un-
til the tourney to suffer their
first defeat of the season and then
took a pasting from the Engineer
FBIs, 11-2, to bow out of com-
petition.
Cpl. Tony Koziara gave the
Dodgers but two hits, was never
in trouble, and poled a homer to
help his own cause. The FBIs
wasted no time in icing the fray,
denting the plate five times in
the opening inning to drive Whit-
man of the Dodgers off the hill.
First round games are expect-
ed to be completed by tomorrow
afternoon, which will enable the
survivors to begin second round
games Monday afternoon.
Results to date:
Rosebuds .
Doolittles
Dodgers ..
FBIs .....
Red Sox .
Plymouths
02 00 001 — 3
00 000 00 — 0
00 00002 — 2
S00402x-ll
1 20 1022 — 8
0 000 1 1 0 — 2
Baksi Whips
Savold For
Duration Title
Joe Baksi, Kulpmont, Pa., took
a 10-round decision from the vet-
eran Lee Savold, Patterson, N.J.,
in Chicago on Monday night and
was recognized as the “duration
heavyweight champ” by the Illi-
nois State Boxing Commission.
The “duration” title has no ef-
fect on Sgt. Joe Louis’ world
crown which the NBA froze
when he entered the Army.
Pay Tribute To Mack
Honors and tributes were hea-
ped upon Connie Mack, boss of
the Philadelphia Athletics, last
Friday night as he celebrated
his 50th year as a baseball man-
ager.

Displaying the form which enabled him to roll one of the
highest individual bowling scores in current IBC competition
is Tec 5 Richardson Hewitt, San Diego, Calif. A member of the
Pencillin five, Hewitt gained attention recently with a mark
of 175.
Air Force Photo.
Crossing home plate with the
first run in the IBC softball play-
offs is S/Sgt. Art Shades, Read-
ing, Pa., shortfielder for the
Rosebuds who eliminated the
Doolittles, 3-0, in the first round.
Waiting for the ball is Catcher
Dowd of the losers.
Major League
Standings
(Including games Aug. 9)
Gunder Haegg
Sets Mark In
Two-Mile Run
For the second time this sum-
mer Gunder Haegg, Sweden’s
great running star, set a new
world’s record for the two-mile
run when he travelled the dist-
ance in 8:42.8 last week in Stock-
holm.
In setting the mark, Haegg clip-
ped three and six-tenths of a sec-
ond from his 8:46.4 time which
he posted early this season.
Haegg’s new world’s record
gives him and his companion,
Arne Andersson, a monopoly on
the one and two-mile crowns.
Two weeks ago Andersson sped
the mile in 4:01.6, closest man
has come to the oft-dreamed ‘per-
fect mile.’
Andersson set a world’s record
for the three-quarter mile run
early this season.

Shown above is Gunder Haegg.
Sweden’s crack runner, who set a
new world’s record of 8:42.8 f°r
the two-miile run last week.
Yanks Split Honors With
RAF In Tennis Matches
/
Yanks and the RAF split honors in their international tennis
matches last Saturday night in the Andrews Fieldhouse, with the
RAF dominating the tennis picture and the Yanks evening matters
with a decision in the ping-pong matches. _
LAC Eric Cross sent the Brit-
ish out in front at the very out
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 63 42 .600
Boston 56 48 .538
New York 53 49 .519
Detroit 53 50 .514
Cleveland 52 54 .492
Chicago , 49 54 .475
Philadelphia ... 47 60 .439
Washington .... 44 60 .422
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 73 27 .730
Cincinnati 55 44 .555
Pittsburgh 54 44 .551
Chicago 46 50 .479
New York 49 54 .475
Boston 42 59 .415
Philadelphia ... 39 58 .402
Brooklyn 41 61 .401
LEADING HITTERS.
American League.
Seibert, Philadelphia .328
Doerr, Boston .. .327
Fox, Boston .... .320
National League.
Walker, Brooklyn .358
Musial, St. Louis .357
Hopp, St. Louis .352
set in his tennis match with Cpl.
Dick Suman of Moline, Ind., win-
ning in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1.
Cpl. Pete Curcio of Buffalo, N.
Y., gave the Yanks an even break
by licking LAC Reggie Cox in
table tennis, 21-19, 22-20. As the
scores indicate both sets wrere
close, with Curcio overcoming
a seven point deficit in the opener
to win. The second set went to
extra points before Curcio tri-
umphed.
The final ping-pong match of
the evening gave S/Sgt. Jack
French, Evansville, Ind., opport-
unity to prove his claim as Ice-
land’s table-tennis champ when
he came fron behind to whip
Cpl. Howie Post, Reykjavik area
titleholder from Chicago, 14-21,
24-22, 21-15.
After dropping the opening set,
French settled down to take the
next two sets and the match.
After the .regular matches Post
and French teamed to defeat Su-
man and Cross, 21-13, 21-18, in an
exhibition table tennis doubles.
ByrdTriumphsWith 208
Sammy Byrd, former New
York Yankee outfielder, posted
a card of 208 for 54 holes to take
top laurels in the Michigan Open.
Byrd, one of the season’s leading
money winners, was six strokes
ahead of Claude Harmon, Det-
roit pro.
Stella Walsh Posts
New Track Record
Stella Walsh, despite her 33
years, still retains the touch
which carried her to Olympic
track fame.
Recently in Harrisburg, Pa.,
Miss Walsh sped over the cind-
ers to set a new AAU 200-meter
record of :24.6. It was half a sec-
ond short of the American rec-
ord which she established at
Cleveland 12 years ago.
Air Force Photo.
LAC Reggie Cox, RAF, (left) and Cpl. Pete Curcio, Buffalo,
N.Y., were caught volleying during their ping-pong match at the
Fieldhouse last Saturday night. Curcio won, 21-19, 22-20, to give
Yanks an even split with the RAF. Seated at table is Referee
Danny Durack, RAF.