Boxing Clubs In New Guinea Want Pictures
Boxing clubs in New Guinea request photographs to hang on their tent-wall clubroom. Harry Mark son notes many similar letters from APO San Francisco describe bouts against Australian soldiers and a frequent shortage of available pictures for fighters.
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New Guinea
Hugh Fullerton, JR
New York
Harry Markson
Shakespeare
Swat
APO
Care
San Francisco
Harry
Greene Doubtful on Galento Boxing Exhibitions as Entertainment
Abe Greene, the NBA president, questions Tony Galento's future boxing displays, insisting they be billed as entertainment only. The remark prompts debate over how such exhibitions should be labeled and presented.
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Abe Greene
NBA
Tony Galento
Abe
Boxer recalls Louis sparring days at Salt Lake base
Pvt. Clinton Bridges, once a sparring partner of Joe Louis, reflects on lessons from boxing and how he stayed clear of Louis during their training at the Salt Lake Army Air Base.
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Clinton Bridges
Joe Louis
Salt Lake Air Base
Louis
Lions target tackle candidate for football and study balance
Fred Mandel and Gus Dorais pursue a tackle candidate for the Detroit Lions who will sign only if he can stay in Detroit to continue his operatic studies. The piece jokes about making him assistant coach. Bill Hulse, a N Y A alumnus who set a two thirds of a mile world record, is a chemist in a war plant whose work may keep him from military service.
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Fred Mandel
Gus Dorais
Detroit Lions
Detroit
Dorais
Bill Hulse
N.Y.A
Lady baseball fans cited as busy on patriotic day
Boston Herald writer Bob Dunbar notes low attendance at ladies day games, suggesting the patriotic duty of many women fans leaving from the event to work. The remark frames the attendance dip as a practical consequence of national labor effort.
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Bob Dunbar
Boston Herald
Boxing and wrestling partners tied to Navy preflight sports
Eddie Hickey and Walter Mc Laughlin, now in boxing and hand to hand fighting at the North Carolina Navy pre flight school, plan to resume Garden court games after mess. Pvt. Porky Oliver, a barrage balloon golfer, plays first base on a camp softball team and follows major league baseball in Boston. Lieut Rudy Rhordanz at Georgia pre flight is credited by Bobby Cifers with shaping his rocking chair running motion that made him a star halfback.
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Eddie Hickey
Creighton
Walter McLaughlin
St. John’s of
Brooklyn
North Carolina Navy
Eddie
Rudy Rhordanz
Georgia
Tennessee
Bobby Cifers
Bobby
Notable Sports Snippets and Historical Highlights
A compact digest recalling a year-ago Cardinals loss to Braves widening the gap behind the Dodgers, three years ago Don McNeill’s National clay court title over Bobby Riggs, and five years ago the Giants’ $25,000 purchase of Bob Leeds. Also a note on reused envelopes in England with a Waltzing Matilda stamp.
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Associated Press Today
Cardinals
Braves
Dodgers
Don McNeill
Bobby Riggs
New York Giants
Bob Leeds
Newark
Zamperini Dreamed Of Miles After Missing Air Crew
Pacific base memory corner flags Lieut Lou Zamperini and crew missing nearly a month. Charles P Arnot recalls Zamperini the champion miler who endured a crash landing and bullet holes, yet spoke of running in future all American meets after the war.
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New York
U.P
Pacific Air Base
Lou Zamperini
Miles
Zamperini
Charles P. Arnot
United Press
Pacific
Arnot
Lou
Nauru Island
C. H. Capernell
Long Beach
Calif
R. A. Phillips
Terre
Ind
Zamp
Baseball Leaders and Batting Averages Mixed with Poultry News
League leaders listed by team and stat for American and National leagues. Highlights include Stephens Keller Herman Vaughan and Musial among hitters and pitchers Candini Sewell. An unrelated note reports Lancashire hen houses being repurposed as mushroom beds due to feed shortages.
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Associated Press
Stephens
St. Louis
Hockett
Cleveland
White
Philadelphia
Keller
New York
Vernon
Washington
Siebert
Johnson
Wakefield
Detroit
Hackett
Kellner
Laabs
Lindell
Case
Moses
Chicago
Candini
Grove
Dahlgren
Herman
Brooklyn
Vaughan
Camilli
DiMaggio
Pittsburgh
McCormick
Cincinnati
Musial
Russell
Ott
Nicholson
Gustine
Sewell
Newsom
Lancashire
England
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Sports Mirror
Chingford
Pete Watkins
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Jack Cuddy
Torrance
Gene Aker
Bert
Hell
Joe Palooka
Lil Aknei
Hyar AH
AGIN
Ham Fisher
Guy
AJ Capp
Onsyo
Donald Duck
Walt Disney
BlonDie
Chic Young
Tarzans
Hitler
Dick Tracy
Nellie
MR .Smithy
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chester Gould
MR. Smith
With You
Little
Orphan Annie
Harold Gray
Schufts
Annie
Schuft
Anne
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