The White Falcon - 20.01.1945, Blaðsíða 7

Nelson Picked As
"Man 01 The Year"
Byron Nelson, who aver-
aged less than 70 strokes for
78 rounds of big time tour-
nament golf last year, was
voted 194-4’s Athlete of the
Year this week.
' Seventy-nine sportswrit-
ers throughout the country,
who scattered their affec-
tions on 40 different athlet-
es, thought enough of Nel-
son’s effort, however, to
name him as the successor to
Guilder Haegg, Sweden’s
miler and last year’s award
winner.
Nelson’s performance on
Hie golf courses brought hint
more than $45,000 in war
bond«prizes as well as 16 first
place votes in the present ta-
bulations. Each such ballot
was worth three points, two
points for each second place
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PARKER, STRONG
GET GOLD KEYS
Members of the Connecti-
cut Sports Writers’ Alliance
have voted gold keys to Dan
Parker, New York Daily
Mirror Sporting Editor and
magazine writer; Ken Strong
former All-America star at
NYU and: currently with the
New York Giants eleven;
and Pete Foley, dean of the
Connecticut State scholastic
coaches.
The basis of tile award is
outstanding contribution to
sports in Connecticut. The
gold keys will be present-
ed at a formal banquet in
New Haven on January 29.
and one f,or a third place
mention.
The leaders: Martin Mari-
on, Les Horvath, Hal New-
houser, Claude Young and
Felix Blanchard.
Allied boxers and wrest-
lers will be featured at the
Andrews Fieldhouse next
Saturday night, 27 Jan.
Initial bout at 2000 hours.
Bring a guest, come early
and get yourselves good
seats. No tickets required.
SWIMMER ANN CURTIS
‘AMATEUR OF YEAR’
Ann Curtis of San Fran-
cisco this week became the
first woman ever to receive
the coveted James E. Sulli-
van Memorial Trophy as the
Oustanding Amateur Ath-
lete of the Year. Miss Curtis
is the Womens’ National
Swimming Champion.
H MAKE EVERY
PAY DAY
Bor^o day-
join THE PAY-ROLL
* SAVINGS PLAN *
Seven Teams Eyeing
“Rolloffs” AsIBC Pin
Tourney Nears Finals
With eight weeks of the present IBC Bowling rounds
already behind them, the Reykjavik keglers are being
led at present by the EIGHT BALLS, ALERTMENT,
YANKS AND NAVY (in A, B, C and D Leagues, re-
spectively) while, as Sector bowling enters its third week
of the present round, the KEESTERS have a six point
lead in League A and the ROCKBUSTERS AND LEFT-
OVERS are tied in B with seven points each.
In Reykjavik bowling, Lea-
gue A teams have taken a
“break” this week—leaving
the.Club 44 alleys open for
the other league teams and
impromptu bowling games.
Keeping their healthy lead
in B League is qui te eqsy for
the ALERfMENTS when
they roll scores like their 573
for a single game and 1,598
for a three-game set-to. Lea-
iPies. Gives Baseball "Go Ahead” —UIs In ISC Favor!
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President Roosevelt this
week gave baseball a “go
ahead”for the 1945 season
but with a big “if” attach-
ed; the “if” being that
baseball can operate with-
out interfering with the
war effort. The President
told his news conference
he favored continuation
of the game so long as it
didn’t hurt war product-
ion or use perfectly healt-
hy young men. Roosevelt’s
statement was construed
by baseball men to mean
they may operate with
4Fs, over and underage
players and discharged
veterans’.
In this connection, a
“miniature” White Falcon
poll was taken this week
to sound out how GIs in
Iceland feel about prof-
essional sports in war-
time. Of ten men quest-
ioned, eight came out de-
j; finitely against the pro-
« posed ban, while the oth-
o er two who favored a ban
5; qualified their statements
to the extent that it should
be put into effect only as
a last resort.
Tec 5 William Lemmert
from Frostburg, Md.,
thinks that sports should
be continued war or no
war as they “are the great-
est morale builder in the
history of the world.” Bill
pointed out that when he

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gets
home on furlough
s; that he would like to see
wr
i; professional games.
J} T/Sgt. Carroll Martin,
« with the Provost Marshal’s
« Office here, agrees with
« Bill, pointing out that, in
his opinion, the Army has or working in a war plant. ©
just . about reached its
peak and that the players
could lie kept in their
jobs, helping not only ci-
vilian hut military mor-
ale, as well. “In fact,” Bill
slates, “it’s another case
where so much is owed to
so few.”
Along this same vein of
thought, Tec 4 Val J.
Baumgarten (Pittsburgh,
Pa.) feels that in the case
of pro football, baseball
and hockey the fans
could use public trans-
portation. Therefore, they
would not he using gasol-
ine and tires.
Pfc. George Mayer, QM
man from Indianapolis,
Ind., points out that in
addition to helping the
morale of civilians, pro-
fessional sports always
pitch in and help the war
bond drives and other
patriotic causes. Besides,
Mayer feels that they are
“doing their bit” by offer-
ing free admission tickets
for the men in uniform.
Others queried who feel
that professional sports
should not be banned —
that they have a definite
scheme in the war effort
— are Tec 5 Raymond
Martin, Tec 5 Tony Woo-
dy, Sgt Dale Schoonover
and, Pfc. Bill Y’eager.
On the other side of the
fence, M/Sgi. Donald
Weeks of Baltimore, Md.,
feels that sports should he
banned if they interfere
with the war effort. Sgt.
Weeks thiiiks that the
men should he in uniform
“If they can work in a war «
plant and play pro sports J*
on the side, all well and j?
good,” Weeks remarked, j?
While not entirely op- j?
posed to a complete ban «
on pro sports, Jec 5 Garl- 5
en G. Moore questions the it
fact that many players g
are able to play strenous g
games such as basketball, 5;
O 7 hr
football or hockey. To
Moore’s way of thinking, «
most i sports are more v
strenous than many of the
tasks that GIs are called
upon to perform, — these
men could serve just as
well in the armed forces.
All ten men interviewed
on the subject of a sports
ban frown upon the med- g
ical discharge of men who tl
go hack into professional «
sports where their pliysi- £;
cal disabilities don’t seem
to hinder their actions.
The men cited Bronco Na-
gue leader for the high-indi-
vidual-game score is Sgt.
Paul C. Schmitt, Washing-
ton, D.C., who has a 404 to
His credit for the HOT
SHOTS. Sgt. Schmitt is tied
with Cpl. Elmer D. Pacella
(ALERTMENTS—New Cast-
le, Pa.) for the individual-
one-game score of 157.
From down Hartville, S.
C., way, S/Sgt. Paul R. Ask-
ins really poured on some of
that canned sunshine, to take
all individual honors in C
League. Rolling for the
FOUR ./STRIKES AND A
SPARE, Askins garnered a
19G and 429 — both highs of
the week for Reykjavik’s
bowling leagues.
The Navy, the Marines and
the MPs all had a hand in
taking away the week’s hon-
ors from the other teams and
players in League D. NAVY’
lifted anchor and set the
howling balls sailing down
for one-game-team-high and
a neat 1,878 for the tliree-
game-lcam-high. Pfc. War-
ren G. Williams of Hope-
dale, Mass, (a U.S. Marine
howling for NAVY' in the Ar-
my league) took the league
one-man-three-game classi-
fication, with a 429. For one-
man-game honors in D, Tec
5 Louis J. Green (Louisvil-
le, Ivy.), MP MUSTANG, gets
the nod with his 16(5.
In League A of Sector
howling, the BUTTON
PUSHERS won in the three-
game and one-game team-
total category witli their 609
and 1,760. Pvt. James Porter
from BelIaire,Ohio, has done
a “repeat” for the PIN UP,
five by walking away from
Club 23 with another 200
pins toppled for the high
individual1 score of the week
— (tops of the week in the
whole IBC.
Tec 5 Alfred Frang of the
BUTTON PUSHERS, heads
the one-man three-game
group. The Needham, Mass.,
bowler rolled 466.
As for B League in Sector,
the ROCKBUSTERS are
kings of the team-honor di-
visions with their 584 and
1,647. Pfc. D. J. Barber from
Baltimore, Md., pride and
joy of the PIN-SPUTTERS,
was in there splitting the
the lanes to capture a 682' pins with his 176 and 446.
gursky, Raj' Robinson and J*
Sammy Baugh as some of ~
the athletes who have re-
turned to their sports up-
on receipt of a medical sjj
discharge. Several ex- 5?
pressed disfavor, also, ;;
with the
made hv
‘sporting tours” J;
Joe Louis and 5?
other well-known athlet- it
kr
es. These men feel that
individual theaters and il
camps can promote their s;
own activities without ;j
having to rely upon tal- b
ent imported for exhibit- o
ions. The IBC boxing pro- Q
gram was held up as an
example of what an indi-
vidual theater can do on
its own.
RANGERS SMOTHER TROJAN QUINTET
IN 45-34 UPSET AT
Scoring the upset of the
week in local basketball
circles, the Engineer RANG-
ERS defeated the TROJANS
45 to 34 to win their first
game in the IBC league at
the Andrews Fieldhouse.
Paced by the hard-fight-
ing and hard-driving efforts
of S/Sgt, Jim McKinney, Cpl.
Steve Andrasko, Tec 5 Nor-
man Niedringhaus and Pfc.
Paul Moore, the RANGERS
fought a nip and tuck battle
all the way.
The teams are maintain-
ing their status quo in league
standings with the BEARS
still op top, closely followed
by the second-place NAYrY
quint.
Panthers ...... 59
Commandoes . 46
Bears ......... 69
Troj ans ...... 20
Growlers ...... 36
Trojans ....... 28
Fliers ........ 80
Rangers ....... 39
Bears ......... 59
Fess .......... 29
Other scores:

Navy
Fliers
60
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Bresnahan, Inventor Of
Catcher s Shin Guards, Dies
One of baseball’s great
catchers, Roger Bresnahan,
died at his home at Toledo,
Ohio, last month of heart
disease. Roger, who caught
for the New Y’ork Giants
from 1902 to 1908, was in-
ventor of catcher’s shin
guards and was the first
man to wear them.