Show Stadium No 1 Victim Of Touring Army Show 6 By y HUGH FULLERTON Wide W World orld Sports Columnist NEW V YORK July 2 UP After IP-After After the army's annys big war show featuring tanks jeeps peeps etc has finished a w weeks week's eks ek's stand at Philadelphia's Fr Franklin field H. H Jamison Swarts Penn graduate graduate grad grad- graduate manager of athletics surveyed the battlefield and found the turf on the gridiron was practically ruined the surface of the running track was gone and an area of about 75 square feet where here flame throwers had been in action had to be dug out six inches and refilled with fresh oil After battling Ken Overlin to toa a draw in Norfolk last week ex- ex Champ Fred Apostoli Apostoll told the thebo'S boys boS You know I was supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be all washed up two years ago What a a. bad piece of supposing that was Item on the wires ires the other night reported Larry Jansen San Francisco had influenza and a e. temperature of 1103 Ken Hunter of the Spokane Spokane Spokane kane Spokesman-Review Spokesman suggests the Seals could use a pitcher as ashot ashot hot as that Jimmy Conzelman Conzelman Conzel- Conzel man coach and best all around performer of the Chicago Cardinals Cardinals Cardinals Cardi Cardi- nals has has- landed in the Congressional Congressional Congressional Record Representative John J. J Cochran liked Jimmys Jimmy's commencement address at Dayton U. U so much that he read it on the floor of the house Manager Freddie Sommers reports everything everything every every- thing is settled for his boy Cleo Shans to fight Pittsburgh Jackie Wilson for the N B A featherweight featherweight featherweight feather feather- weight title at Wilkes Barre Pa August 10 Today's Guest Star Wilton Garrison Charlotte Observer Gb- Gb server If New York fight fans will sit in the dark they wont won't be deprived of their outdoor shows this summer Being in the dark about what goes on in the ring is nothing new to them after some of the screwy decisions of the last few big fights Service Dept When Corporal Otto Meyers of Camp Roberts Cal swatted a e. terrific terrific ter ter- homer on a makeshift ball ballfield field Lieutenant Colonel R. R E. E Smith the camps camp's special service officer and a red hot baseball fan quickly heard about it So Corporal Corporal Corporal Cor Cor- Meyers was given the task of converting a chunk of wilderness wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness into a a. first class baseball park Recognizing the value of the corporals corporal's accomplishment the colonel named it Meyer field Pitcher John McGill of the Chanute Chanute Chanute Cha- Cha nute field Illinois Green Hornets softball team had a no-l no hit no-hit t run no-run game against the Decatur until two were out in the ninth inning and there were two strikes on the last batter Then he folded and lost the game 7 2 That's once when a hornet was stung Major Conny Smythes Smythe's Canadian antiaircraft battery which is due to go overseas before long is made up mostly of sportsmen hockey players and newspaper men Should be plenty of sharpshooters sharpshooters sharp sharp- shooters there |