Harry Grayson's High Flying Wings Headed for Boston Scoreboard ... THEY PLAYED THE GAME NO. 3 Big 1,400 Navy Pre-Flight Cadets Softball Mibs Detroit Seeks in Track Meet Requiring Ruth Drew SBO,OOO a Year Meeting Tourney Field Victory Only 105 Minutes Date Set is Expected Third By HARRY GRAYSON Grossly for the 1943 softball Sports di«or Underpaid Plans \| A I and Was Judging by the number of offers the season in Mount Clemens will boys playing days Wednesday NEW YORK, April 6 Lieut. Charles Werner marbles these on be discussed formally for the North Carolina Navy Pre-Flight School's track meet as something at school and at vacant play- first time when team sponsors game remains Fourth Gam# in the way of evidence that military regimentation is the way to fields, the one of and managers of junior and sen- most popular pastimes get things accomplished. the Will bt Ployed ior men’s teams get together on among youths. fewer than 1400 cadets participated yet the actual running No Friday, April 16. Consequently, a large field is Thursday Night of the three-dav program was only one hour and 45 minutes. time Ballantine, city re- expected to compete this month Fifty-five minutes were taken the first day, 20 the second and Bernard creation director, said today the in the annual city marbles tour- BOSTON, April 8 (/P> 30 the third. nament being sponsored by the Detroit’s high-flying Red Wings the were four high first softball meeting would be were run on same field. There - All events aforementioned Monitor Leader in conjunction wore soaring for Boston today, bar at successive heights. Cadets went from held on the date jump pits with the the Mount with the Department of Recre- determined to do what the Bru- Two broad jump pits, two discus in the clubrooms of one to the other until eliminated. department on ation. ins did to them two years ago, circles speeded up these events. In the Clemens fire and a half dozen shot put The meeting will The tournament is scheduled win the Stanley Cup, emble- numbers, were into formation, stood at Market street. hockey distance cadets marched at 7:30 p. m. to get underway on Wednesday, matic of the world’s to run. start very attention while waiting Although the war and accom- April 21. That date isn’t championship, in four straight guns watches were used. A car- games. Until the finals, no tape, or panying defense work have far off, and boys who want to required had guns been load of ammunition would have been heavy inroads on the soft- compete in the meet are urged Accompanying them were the day. 520 participants made used to start the cadets the first I here were ball talent here as elsewhere, to file their entry blanks at the twice-beaten Bruins, who have entered the 100- the second day, 150 in the finals. A total of 480 Ballantine said he believed a Monitor-Leader building as soon high hopes of prolonging the will be yard dash, more than 300 five of the other events. representative eight-team major as possible. No entries best-of seven title series by win- All types of weather were encountered. The sun was shining league could be organized. An accepted after 6 p. m. on Mon- ning at least one of the two second and snowed the third. day, April 19. games that will be played in the first day, it rained the eight-team junior league and published went out for track, Coach Werner, the old world An entry blank is Boston tomorrow and Thursday Since he first at least a six-team •‘fumble” elsewhere Monitor- and Penn State drill-master, dreamed of men also are in today’s nights. hurdle record-holder league for older Leader. Contestants should fill thought it impossible. possible. The Red Wings will be re- such a meet, but seen as it out and either mail or bring baseball clubs arc now trying to purchase play- No less than four teams al- enforced by Connie Brown and Professional it to the editorial office of this forwards ers thev once wouldn t have claimed on \\ai\ois for fear they ready have signified their inten- Joe Fischer, a pair of and draft John newspaper before the deadline called up from their Indianapo- might get them. The Brooklyns sign a bus boy tions of competinng in the pro- on April 19. manager, to second base. lis American League farm team, McDonald, their Montreal business play posed major league. They are The tournament is divided run in a baseball writer at third. Hubarth & Schott, Fraternal Or- junior and the return of Defenseman The Clevelands into' two sections. The Alex Mottcr, who has been out Lieut. Mickey Cochrane struggles along at the der of Eagles. Hillcrest Studio Meanwhile, section is for boys 12 years of with injuries. Naval Training Station as best lie can with a small -v;-' V % "V-7 1 I and Covered Wagon. A couple of age and under; the senior sec- Great Lakes V more games squad 80, including 21 pitchers. other players with managerial tion for boys 12 to 16 inclusive. With at least two of to go, Sid Abel, the Detroit for- of such as John Rigncv, Don Padgett, Benny McCoy, ambitions also have* intimated The champion of each division The loss may ward and captain, appears as- Frankie Pvtlak and Johnny Lucadello of the 1942 varsity doesn t they attempt to organize will be awarded an appropri- others, and expects their own teams for the major ately engraved trophy by the sured of setting anew National bother Black Mike Cochrane. He has plenty of circuit. M. L. Green and Son jewelry Hockey League playoff scoring huge Johnny Mize of the Giants any day. record. He now has total of 13 the suggestion made a Many 16-year-old boys who store, which has made similar a The more I think of it the more I like points, only one less than the ago service and war industry teams utilize the competed in the junior circuit presentations in previous tour- few weeks that last year and are subject record set by Boston's Bill Cow- vards, professional ball players be put to work. not as naments. baseball and yet to military call are expected matches of the tourna- ley two seasons ago. Carl Lis- Braddock of the Army Transportation Corps All Lieut. James J. to step into faster company will be conducted in the combe, another Detroit stand- longshoremen and stevedores on Pier Six of Bush ment running only is in charge of this year, thus cnlargening the rear of Mount Clemens High out, is two points Terminal, Brooklyn. School, starting each afternoon behind Cowley's mark. rough? field of talent. Anybody want to get In order to help relieve the at 4 p. m. Whether the meet Despite their lack of success softball manpower short age, will last two or three days will in their two starts on Detroit Mount Clemens may follow a be determined by the number of ice, the Bruins, strengthened by proposed state step by eliminat- entries received. the return of Defenseman Jack The Monitor-Leader Crawford, high hopes of ing the right shortstop, or so- have APRIL 6, 1943 PAGE 10 called "tenth man 55 The lat- squaring series before their TUESDAY The ter's inclusion the softball home town supporters. in •fo,e Hoover dejected, however, lineup was a move primarily to Bruins are provide recreation players by the casualties of Sunday Nobody quite for l’lcn*CN Males setback, dur- Bowling Scores ever hit the ball like Babe Ruth. when the manpower field was night’s bruising 4-3 ing Goalie Frankie Brim- virtually unlimite. Elimination EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 6 which F. Van 1 re 429 V. Fisher 370 (Third of a series on famous ball players ) pitching and pinch-hitting for the Red Sox. In bruised chest, — sek suffered a LADIES' LEAGUE of the rißlu shortstop would more they see of Mar Alplnr-Fayf¦ vance-MnfrrmN Bv HARRY GRAYSON the days of choke hitters, he gripped the bat Center Murph Chamberlain a 426!JAdE. Logsdon 340 57f 647 554 1751* 595 606 598 1799 have little effect, if any, the better the Detroit Ti- H Pood NEA Sports Editor 'way down at the end. He was the first batter on the him, shoulder injury and Winger E. Nirhols 448 H. Dvstart 301 game, most experts of the game gers like rookie shortstop Joe T? S iitor 270 H. 'Piom.is Monitor-Leader H. Prver 327 George Herman Ruth is down in history as to concentrate on home runs. He shot for the Yank Boyd a damaged knee. K.'nthy G Fmerick 292 \lte* Lager contend. Hoover. C, 363 D Beer 432 the Sultan of Swat, but he also was one of the works. He instituted something new and sensa- Manager Jack Adams plan- L,. Levine 351 V. R<iChow 315 M M tie . 299 Vanßeversluys 40.3 Hoover, 26-year-old Califor- I. Rr.Chtol 809 M. Logie .'V6S greatest of left-hand pitchers. Os all his records, tional when baseball was sadly in need of a ned to give the Red Wings a «09 618 640 7867 557 562 485 16<H M. K it/. L. Fppler l*o nian who was purchased from 525. Babe Ruth is proudest of having pitched 25 tonic folowing the Black Sox scandal. workout shortly after their ar- F Moss 384 L.