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CAMP DAVIS WINS CAPE FEAR FLAG ^ sportsTrail _ _ -A— A A A A A A A A A a Soldier Nine Smothers — NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—<ff) Joe Beggs and Clyde Sheetmetal Outfit Alabama Juniors Ousted From Meet of time to talk. have plenty Out there in the Cin- 14-2; SQhoun Reds bull pen every afternoon or evening, day after 1 ati Hurls Police Chief Censures after week they can solve baseball’s Vaughn 2-Hit Tilt and week problems m.--—.—;_ BOSTON BLASTED as the Whc’esale Beer Dealers INELIGIBILITY f uch other minor subjects problems of the world. ® in Khaki Outfit Collected 13 rjje other day, squatting patiently their private TWICE BY CARDS Commenting on the arrest Sat- ■ Polo FORMER CHAMPION cage at the Grounds, they were Hits ,,.e] talking idly Off Three Metal- arday night of Empie Jackson FORCES OUTFIT York a team with no t the New Giants, present, but AMERICAN LEAGUE f men Moundsmen ] legro, of 1116 Love’s Grove alley, and the Giants hope, quite a future. TO HERE Cooper ‘Fires Away’ In Clubs past REFEREE :or the alleged of beer in W. L. Pet. FROM ,U what a selling NATIONALS were figuring lineup they’d have New York. 70 44 .614 "M’e just if Opener To Drive In Five i dinning-room beer parlor in his lost so many men to the armed Joe The Camp Davis Fighting AA Detroit 60 52 .536 hadn't services,” F. lome,after 11:30 p. m. when the nine came Hansen, Middleweight Of Six Tallies Washington 63 55 .534 ■J “With Marshall, Mize, Ott, Medwick, and through with another Team Put Whiteville Out Lombardi city beer ban is due to be in effect Cleveland ■ win 59 53 .527 never get any over the Sheetmetal lads yes- King, To Handle 3rd Police Chief C. H. Casteen called nitcher would Chicago 59 56 .513 of Southern Meet; Also aP bear down: AMERICAN terday 14-2 at Davis thus BOSTON, Aug. 22. —■{/?)— The for cooperation He’d have to GENERAL Camp Man Chores Sunday greater Boston 55 61 .474 Friday World St. Louis Card- from wholesale beer distributors in .v___ Downed winning the Cape Fear League Champion St. Louis 51 61 .455 Springfield I' eve v batter." TAUNTS JAP FLEET inals played that role to lalting sales of beer in quantity 1 perfection _ i true enough. Even, championship with two straight Philadelphia 40 75 .348 of Fritz Hansen, former Wilming- today as they captured a double to individuals who hold no regular ., that some the“ fact wins. beer license. CHARLOTTE, Aug. 22.—UPU. (Continued From Page One) tonian and also header from the Boston Braves by NATIONAL »!■ former middle- LEAGUE Robin S. of their last leg,. From the opening inning, when scores of 6-1 and 5-1 before a Officers N. J. Wolfe and M. M. Kirby Charlotte, State of the Club are The general said the Japanese weight wrestling champion assisted ABC officer E. W. L. Pet. they all still the Soldiers scored three the crowd of almost 20.000. Bland, by Commissioner of American Legion literally, now have one runs, St. Louis 74 great weakness. world, will answer the call Fri- Catcher Walker S. Bland, Forrest Cooke, and J. 39 .655 a bat m their game was all Cooper provided Junior baseball, said today in a with “He has over-extended their own. Bob as Cincinnati. 64 52 fellas himself. day night guest referee for the most of the fireworks in the L. Mathis, raided the Jackson .552 formal of them could open- statement that the offi- and any one He has an island empire which is Vaughn, hurling brilliant ball for in the Tha- place during ban hours to find 18 Pittsburgh- 64 54 .542 is regular grappling show er, driving in five of his teams cials of the General Gorgas post difficult to defend. the cases (65 of Brooklyn _ 59 58 .504 up a ball game. winders, was touched for only lian hall arena. six runs, his ninth-inning grand gallons) popular-brand of Birmingham, “did a break “We must not Ala., very I find delay in taking two beer. Chicago.. 55 60 .478 know the player hits, both singles. The Hansen is known to the “old slam homer over the left field wall honorable thing” in withdrawing ■•You advantage of our favorable Metal- to Chief Casteen, the Boston. 51 61 .455 ask- posi- for a of the According- their team from the na tional tour- to to?” Beggs men opened the fourth stanza accounting quarter pitch tion and the attack timers” of the for his records “dives” such as that said to be _ 54 hardest keep driving city Philadelphia 65 .454 nament because an it s funny, tallies. ineligible flay- You may think home. We have very with Burctiette and tak- in the his by Jackson charge ex- New York. 42 74 .362 definitely singling roped square. During The was set for operated er was participating. find a lot of other our stage Cooper’s v t T think vou‘d established superiority in every second on a cessive prices for beer sold in ing pass ball. Coward prime of fighting he met and out- smash in the ninth with one “But are tell you the same when, unlicensed establishments. they guilty of gross would way. then their YESTERDAY’S RESULTS JJL? walked and Poteat’s error of fought the leading grapplers in away, Pitcher Alpha Brazle beat negligence and carelessness i:i “As Kiska fell when Attu “Wholesalers should stop selling was Hobson’s grounder scored Bur- out a scratch hit to the infield and NATIONAL LEAGUE a team to enter state the Cubs, the business, and placed himself cases beer to such It permitting ■ of of Stan Hack, j reduced, so too will the enemy’s persons. St. Louis It's chette. Bare then hit into a double- Lou Klein was safe on a bunt down 6-5; Boston 1-1. and national competition so slop- You pitch base fall when at the top of the ladder. is only by stopping such distribu- He can hit anything. j other with strength and the third base line. Walker Chicago 6-4; New York 2-3. it down : play, Paxton collected the Harry that we will be able to enforce the pily supervised,” Kirby said. to him and he hits we can attack and split him fur- The main wrestling bout brings Brooklyn “tside other single of the game sent an easy double play ball down to enforce 6-8; Pittsburgh 1-6. “The injustice done to field line. You throw m-, ther.” sending tion that we will be able the L left Hobson together Jimmy Coffield, popular to Connie but the second Cincinnati 4-20; Philadelphia 3-6. it into right scampering in for the se- Ryan the law properly,” he declared. teams they competed with in de, and he smacks (The Americans completed the down the cond tally. pretzle artist and the Masked Mar- baseman bobbled it to fill the _v_ Florence, (S. C.), the state cham- He's worn a path reconquest of Attu, 195 miles west AMERICAN field The bats of bases. LEAGUE of South line at Cincinnati with heavy Camp Davis vel, very un-popular hooded “su- t pions Georgia, Carolina lelt held of Kiska. wiping out the Japanese Detroit 12-8; New York 0-3. and were the feature of the ball Cooper delivered a few minutes and North Carolina, is beyond re- ball with the turf all cut there, last May 30. They game perman.” Coffield issued a chal- Cleveland ,,pe garrison as the khaki later after Stan Musial had pop- CHICAGO SWEEPS 6-7; Boston 0-6. he's batted .500 against lads banged out four pair,” Kirby’s statement said. torn. I bet thus by-passed Japanese held Kis- lenge to the Marvel for a return Washington 5-4; St. Louis 8-2. round-trippers. Nick Bucci, Davis ped up for the second out. It was “The officials of this post are evi- us.” ka and made it untenable for the | outfielder led the winners at the engagement last Friday. Three Brazle’s fourth victory in as many Chicago 5-3; Philadelphia 2-2. dently good citizens of excellent him about Lou Novi- TT We asked enemy.) starts since the NEW YORK TWICE character and are Joe plate with two for two, both long weeks ago the masked man won major league apparently ex- the wild Russian, and “As his navy is split, so too are kefi. home runs; Stoeckel and Gertz their initial meeting by throwing Cards brought him up from the tremely embarrassed over the sit- his army and his air forces split. said seriously: also Coffield the thus minors uation and I am convinced will hitter at all. the offensive in connected for the circuit. Oth- through ropes, recently. BROOKLYN -He's not a bad j “We must keep Giant Falls Short As BLASTS take to er extra-base blow's for the Sol- disabling him too severely for the First Game Rally steps prevent a recurrence, to hit any- our hands. we He's liable anything Every day prose- but as far as 1943 is latter to return for the last fall. St. Louis _ 000 000 024—6 14 1 concerned, his mind he war Pacific will diers W'ere collected by Nessing where. He makes up cute the in the we Ottmen Lose Opener 6-2; the and Coffield now states that he has Boston_ 000 100 000—1 6 2 damage is done.” on the next and kill more Stoeckel each getting a dou- PITTSBURGH is going to swing save American blood TWICE ble and the Marvel’s style “all figured Batteries: Brazle and Cooper; Finale 4-3 Birmingham’s team defeated and he'll swing, regardless Japs.
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