Roundup of Navy Gunners Turn to White Sea Baseball
AP reports on a White Sea baseball league formed by six Navy Armed Guard gunners and merchant seamen aboard American ships bound for Murmansk. Players improvised bats from timber and rubber boot cores, mitts from gloves, and even staged night games under the midnight sun. Also notes quirky team nicknames and college and pro football and basketball mentions from the era.
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NEW Fork
James L. Bates
Wington-Salem
N. C
Murmansk
White Sea
Navy Armed Guard
Pamela C Favored In Hialeah Race
In Hialeah Park juvenile racing, Pamela C. daughter of Stimulus by Camelot, undefeated in two 3 furlong heats, faces Sablemate the black gelding and Bertie S. both with ties. The meet’s championship will be decided March 4 in the 35,000 Hialeah juvenile stakes, a winter centerpiece for two year olds.
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Miami
Aleah Park
Louisiana Farm
Pamela C
Stimulus
Camelot
Ahe Hag
Aerial Gunnery Training Gets U S War-Age Recognition
Lt George C Davos USNR heads the Naval Aviation Free Gunnery Training Unit at DAM NECK Virginia. He says shotgun training using skeet lays the foundation for serial gunnery and is endorsed by the US Army Navy Coast Guard Marine Corps and allied governments. Davos, a longtime skeet star, led teams to multiple national titles and once held All American status from 1936 to 1942.
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Dam Neck Va
George C. Davos
USNR
Officarda
Naval Aviation
United States Army
Navy
Cosstrd
Marine Corps
Great Britain
Germany
Bean
Devos
Washington
Frank Kelly
Wos
Lordship
Conn
Dayce
Cowboy Rides Rifle Range at Camp Claiborne
Kent C. James, a self described cowboy, is famed as the only rider on an Army rifle range at Camp Claiborne Louisiana. Range fencing protects cattle from stray bullets though some cows slip through. James herds them back to safety as the Army weighs costs of cow losses versus range safety. His theme song on duty is Home on the Rifle Range.
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Camp Claiborne
Kent C. James
America
James
Mechanical Cotton Pickers to Affect Souths Economy
Officials foresee profound postwar economic shifts in the South with large scale use of mechanical cotton pickers. 400,000 to 500,000 bales of cotton could shift to labor markets or new crops as the International Harvester announces a two row picker and officials predict concentration of farming in coastal plains from South Georgia to the Mississippi delta and Texas.
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South
James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
Reagan
Georgia
Alabama
Misesissippi
Oklahoma
Texas
Internaational Harvester Company
Rust Brothers
Pirate
California
Virginia
Larkin Constantine Round in Garden Fight Draws Crowds
New York AP reports a heated Garden matchup featuring Larkin and Constantine sparking strong crowd interest. Results favored neither side amid close rounds and split judging, with controversy over officiating and a prior bout history linking the fighters to famed teams from New York’s boxing scene.
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NEW York AP
Tank
Kuffin
Bates
Jayk
Maddean Square
Cneticne
MO Stanting
Ian
Sammy Angott
Chick Werglen
Feditie Jorephe
Constantino
Jack
Tan
Larkin
Ruffin
Ringsiders
Jurge
Former Ring Champ Paints and Puts on Show
Former world boxing champion Mickey Walker pivots to art, staging an exhibition on Park Avenue. He presents about a dozen paintings praised for color and bravura, recalling his hard fists as a middleweight and welterweight champ. Galento and others admire his work as Walker embraces a new creative chapter.
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York
Mickey Walker
Mickey
Melly
Waledorf-Astoria
Jeong-hwi
Park Avenue
Mickey Ten
Elizabeth
Calla Dt
Greek Youth Named Honor Man In U S Training Camp
Nikalos Pahoulla, 37, a Greek youth and former prisoner of the Japanese, has been named honor man of his company at Farragut Naval Training Station. He attended a Greek naval academy and served as com mando, escaped from Athens, hid in Yokohama, and later worked in California shipyards before joining the Navy.
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Farragut
Ida
Areek
Coast Guard Vease
Farragut Neve
Nikalos Pahoulla
Naval Academy
Greece
Athens
Yokohama
California
Navy
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