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Show j THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH neatly lined-u- -- p Jap planes, and then Buzz stiU watching-R- uss puUed up at the end of the field in a slow half-rol- l and went in. Buzz says it's just possible Russ was able to bail out he couldn't wait to be sure, for now he was getting ready for his sec-ond run, all alone. He came In on this second pass through the Jap ack-ac- k with his six pounding away at those parked planes some were already burning from the bombs he and Russ had dropped crossed the field once, and had banked to come in for a third pass when Jap tracers began whizz-ing past his cockpit from behind. He looked over his shoulder to see that the last two of those four Zeros were diving on him. Of course there was nothing he could do but push his throttle up to the fire wall jamming on all the gas his engine would take and try to get away. (Air force slang meaning his plane uent into the ground.) "Inch by inch he pulled away from those Zeros he looked back at the field once and saw about six good fires going and Buzz said it was damned lucky he got back to the field, because he could tell the boys that a 0 could outrun a Zero at sea level. Remember, though, he said outrun, not outma-neuve- r. "In those days everybody was learning stuff that wasn't In the book, and passing it on. Everybody had to learn, which is why we don't get bitter at being mishandled at first. "But Buzz always hated to talk phony alerts were a constant strain even though each one was called off fifteen minutes later. I've since wondered if maybe weren't turning in most of them. "That morning our fighters (yes-terday's raid had left maybe fifteen out of the two dozen which had been on Iba Field) were doing a magnificent job. And learning, too this was their first day of real fighting, and there is just a hell of a lot about war that you can't find in any book and that they can't teach you in maneuvers. Buzz Wag-ner, the best fighter of them all, would have told you that. "Buzz, with a single had done a job that ordinarily would be assigned to an entire squadron. (A fighter squadron is 2j planes.) Buzz had been sent out in the early morn-ing full of ammunition for his six guns and with frag-mentation bombs under his wings, so he was ready to tackle almost anything he saw. "He was out over the sea north of Luzon, sitting on the overcast, when suddenly a terrific ack-ac- k bar-rage came snorting up at him through the cloud layer. There was so much of it Buzz figured it must have been at least a Jap battleship shoveling it up at him, so he was pulling off to the south still stay-in- g above the cloud layer when he spotted four Jap fighters high above him. He was tempted to dump his bombs which would give him more speed and maneuverability and go up there to tangle with them, but those bombs, according to his brief-- jL THIS FAB: Lieut. Col. .1 the Flying Fortress 1L( gwoose." which escaped trill of that fatal day "!V, .t uck in the Philippines. 'i Fortress, 1. struck down "f oft the ground, killing l!fcttw Kurti and Ms men "f ,, for a reconnaissance 'ICmbV They ran for the IE and .tayed " them P formation flew away, it, what antiaircraft Is avail- - L The Arid llttered wiUl J Ikeletoni of Flying For-- 'judui old 99. They plan to U4 wrecks. IfHAPTKR IV , damned fools were wav- - his around unnecessarily, ;ht 'Suppose a Jap Recco .,:;es'a glint of this.' Pretty a rd a plane and raised up lit when it came in plain--lize- d the deep four-moto- r : X. of our own Fortresses-oubte- dly one of the dozen been left down on Del F; li now coming in from j pfrom Mindanao to spend ( the night on Clark and ning pound some of those 2, ap transports which were swarming off Luzon. I )0ped to God that single j runway strip had been a they could get down, and j n't have to circle and go ort(. Just then a nervous ra battery opened up on the t and then they all did. at about Margo, halfway 4 world? Had she heard ?And how long would it be suld tell her that Eddie I were all that were left he had waved goodby to rque ix weeks ago? Or er tell her? omised the boys this was ning game and that there more Saturdays coming, d it matter if this first a ed to the Japs? In the w uld win. Only now I be-- 'i ring about that sprawling h iere it pointed to. Maybe d off into nothing, and at wi uld be only chaos and de-- ; dn't know, and when I It nould do no good to guess ion I went to sleep. i the field, six of the Min- -' j had come up from Del .a rang in two and three at about himself. 'Did you hear about the Rat?' he asked me, very excited. The Rat of course was our old friend Lieutenant Sam Marrett, who had picked up this nickname at Ran-dolph Field because of his pointed nose and small face. 'The Rat took four winglings out on patrol, and they were laying back above a hillside on Lingayen when they spot-ted a Jap landing party, so they climbed to get altitude and then peeled off out of the sun onto it the Rat leading, of course in one long string, each picking his barge. What happened no one knew for sure. But one of the Rat's bullets must-- have touched off the magazine racks in the Jap barge he picked, anyway the barge blew right up in his face, and the Rat's plane disintegrated. But the other four kids continued on their runs, first dropping their frag bombs, and then strafing back and ISP landing on the of runway which was nained of Clark Field. iad been pulled off into ireas while they were jnd loaded with bombs, of this half-doze- n wefe Ibled while the Colonel Iheir targets, and tower-grou- p was Colin Kelly his cirly black head, his ack as usual. I knew mid be headed out into iuble, and I couldn't help )fr to listen while the Colo-- 4 Colin. I felt a little jjbout him because he'd f f my back on Now he was headed battle mission, photographing every mind. He looked tired 11. night, had had little ordinarily neat with grease as been working on his self and we had time ixfhange waves as he head-i- j plane to load his bombs tied up into the tower. , practically a sieve which had ripped corrugated iron during strafing. A couple of been up there for without food or relief must have but they'd done a swell its at all those jagged walls, I didn't come out alive, but told me if I got lie down along one behind a pile of lead used to run the field forth they had Japs diving off those barges in every direction.' "That day," said Frank, "my job was the tower, not going on mis-sions myself or even listening to gossip. A little after noon I hap-pened to be looking up at the over-cast toward the roar made by one of our planes which I thought maybe would be trying to come in when suddenly I saw a parachute blos-som just under the overcast and another and another. I counted eight, so it must be a Fortress but no ninth. Instead, at the very end of these eight I saw a dark object go hurtling into the ground. One of our Forts, but whose? I didn't find out until evening that it was Colin Kelly. He'd been out there follow-ing his briefing that I'd heard that morning, which was to attack Jap transports and their naval escorts. He'd lrrid a direct hit square on the very biggest target any pilot could hope for and had been on his way home had been about to let down through that overcast onto Clark Field when two Jap fighters, who had been hanging on ever since he left the convoy, hit him. They put a lucky incendiary into his oxygen system, and of course it started to burn like cotton soaked in gasoline. But Colin wasn't rattled. He gave the regular orders over the inter-phone system for the other eight boys of his crew to climb into their chutes and abandon ship. "Now a part of this procedure in a Fortress is that the pilot must be the last to leave. It's the same in the Navy, except that it's sometimes just a gallant gesture, particularly when the captain can't help much by staying, and if the ship does go down under him he can float away The air raid bell sounded and those guys dived out of the truck. ing, were destined for some ptones the Japs had just put ashore on a field near Lingayen, so he kept on his course. "But all of a sudden about three bushels of red-ho- t Jap tracers came whizzing by his cockpit. He pushed the stick forward to nose her down, and then in a climbing turn to the right pulled her back up into the sun and then he looked back to see that two of the four Jap fighters had detached to work him over. "They were coming so he pulled a cute maneuver-thrott- led back suddenly to let them go roaring on by him, and then opened up on their vanishing tails. His first burst put them both on fire. Those good old the P-4- 0 had six of them and when they speak, they do all the talking. "Remember all this time Buzz hadn't dumped his bombs. They might easily have cost him his life, hut his iob was to get to Lingayen 'fghts-gi- ve the boys the f they could come in to r field-- but the Colonel fig any chances losing n the ground. He said J "tresses came back, to J m the air, circling the ie changed the order. T thfe comes scooting tlhMe ,ow P"36'3 that T Filipino Air Force job with non-- I landing gear which ig a museum piece. I give fen light, because I can flreidy so full of bullet 'see how he can stay in V ut jumps this little f1" pilot. All he wants I and more bullets for his L un, and he's back F lor more of jt Those lucent iob for their I decrepit junk. 1 ni?,sjumPy-- we didn't the Japs would ndPrWatChed one tr"ck I fill "8 around the field "P bomb "aters. I "dived bell sounded. lon out of the truck to run for fox-- ilerin.' .driverIe" truck l7Sf',ghtn over onto j crater. Those Field, where he had a rendezvous with Lieutenant Russell Church. "As he approached Lingayen, first he saw Russ, who fell in on his wing, and then he saw his target all those Jap planes on the ground lined up just like it was for an ordinary peacetime Saturday-mornin- g inspection. I want you to get this-- to see it isn't only the Ameri-can Air Force which gets caught with its pants down and its suspen-ders trailing. "They started the long glide down, circling the field, and then Buzz peeled off and started in on them. Russ was to follow, but at a good distance, so he wouldn't pick up m his propellers the fragments of Jap planes tossed up by Buzz's frag bombs. "So down they went Buzz first, then Russ, just skimming the field As the first target came into sight Buzz let go first one and then the other of his fragmentation bombs, and looking back over his shoulder, he saw old Russ was jus coming in behind him. Buzz went on across the field and then pulled watch Russ' bombs go up sharply to right down the line. Russ' tail was on fire from Jap ack-ac- and he knew it, but he stayed dead on his run. making direct hits on those from the bridge in his life jacket, and pretty soon someone's giving him a slug of rye and a brisk rub-dow- n in the wardroom of another ship. "But in the Air Force it's the real McCoy. Because if a Fortress is on fire, somebody has to stay on the stick to keep her level and right side up while the other eight make their jumps. That somebody is the pilot, and that's one of the things you must be ready to do in order to wear those pretty silver wings on your chest that the better-upholstere- d girls stare at in the bars. d "Well, Colin stayed on the stick as his plane dropped with its oxygen system flaming, and all eight got out, and I suppose carefully counted one thousand two thousand three thousand like it says in the book, before they pulled their cords and their chutes blossomed. "But by the time the last one was out and Colin got his own chute on and opened his top escape-hatc-h win-dow above that fume-fille- d cockpit and crawled up through it-- well, he cleared the plane all right, but he was so close to the ground that he never had a chance to crack his chute. TO BE CONTINUED) IN AN argument that begins with Buck Ewing, over 50 years ago, leading up to Bill Dickey through the 1943 campaign, there is sure to be a wide difference of opinion when it comes to naming the greatest catcher baseball ever knew. At the Baseball Writers' annual pageant where Bill Dickey was hon-ored, this debate broke out in many spots. It became a I - mom. m- manU. uuikI. Bill Dickey Ewlng Bill Bergen Roger Bresnahan Johnny Kling Ray Schalk Billy Sullivan Gabby Hartnett Mickey Cochrane and then "Bill Dickey. These, at least, were among the best. In the forgotten days that have slipped over the hill I once played many rounds of golf with John Mont-gomery Ward who pitched to Buck Ewing. "There will never be another Buck Ewing," Ward once told me. "He is the top. I still remember the day when Buck split the first two fingers on his bare hand. There was so much blood on the ball that I couldn't throw it. I insisted that he retire. Buck almost tore my head off. He finally agreed to tape or tie the two fingers together, but he refused to quit. A great hitter-brill- iant back of the plate." Johnny Kling of the Cubs was a master. He was the only catcher I ever knew who stopped Ty Cobb'i base running, who pinned Ty down. McGraw always named Roger Bresnahan at the top of the list. "Imagine a star catcher," he told me once, "fast enough to be my lead-of- f man. Bresnahan is the greatest catcher I ever saw and I know how good Johnny Kling was." The Three Best Looking back a few years ago I recall the argument a few of us had with Joe McCarthy, who knows more than one man's share of this base-ball business. At that time McCarthy was a bit uncertain as to whether Gabby Hart-nett or Bill Dickey should get the call. At that spot beneath Florida's whispering palms, the Yankee man-ager was a trifle inclined in Hart-nett- 's direction. There was noisy and rugged op-position from the supporters of Mick-ey Cochrane, a great catcher, a dangerous hitter, a fiery leader. It was finally agreed that the three greatest catchers in the memory of all present, and some of them went back 40 years, were Bill Dickey, Gabby Hartnett and Mickey Coch-rane in no particular order. But after that date Bill Dickey, in his quail-huntin- g Arkansas fashion, moved along to break many major catching records 1. To be the first catcher that ever drove across over 100 runs in four successive seasons 2. To be the first catcher that ever caught over 100 games for 13 successive years 3. To be the first catcher that ever took rookie pitchers, such as Atley Donald, and turned their efforts into long winning stretches, such as 12 in a row. 4. To be the first catcher that ever averaged well over .300 for 16 big league years. It is difficult to pick out anybody and say he was a better catcher or a more useful adjunct to a ball club than Gabby Hartnett or Mickey Cochrane. For these were two great ballplayers in every way, along ev-ery known road. They had more flame than Bill Dickey had. But against this both lacked his coolness and calmness; his unruffled poise with trouble in the offing. Dickey has always been a mas-ter at handling pitchers, especially young pitchers inclined to lose con-trol or blow up at critical moments. You might call Bill the Great Sooth- - er. He massages their shaken nerves. I also recall a few years back talking to American league pitchers who faced the Yankees. I asked a few of the best how it felt to face Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Several had this to say "In the clutch I'd rather face either than Bill Dickey. He's murder with men on bases in a tight game." Bill Dickey was that way when he came to the Yankees in 1928 and began starring in 1929. He was still that way when Mort Cooper fed him a fast one in the last world series and Bill closed out the show with his game-winnin- g home run. Slosson, Billiard Artist Charles Peterson, most famous of all the trick shot billiard players and one of the game's greatest art-ists,' casts his vote for George Slos-son as the top of the veterans, whatever the sport. "Just consider," C. Peterson said. "George Slosson ence gave exhibi-tions for Gen. U. S. Grant and Ade-lin- a Patti, and that wasn't yester-day. He was a great billiard player over 70 years ago and he is a great hilliard player today at 91. Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'TpHE naming of Bob Coleman to manage the Boston Braves for the 1944 season came as an upset to a good many baseball followers. Coleman was named to the post after Casey Stengel resigned follow-ing a change In ownership of the Na-tional league club. The Braves were thought to be In the market for a "big name" pilot. Such a move was predicted when Stengel resigned "to avoid embarrassment on the part of the new owners." But Coleman got the Job together with the good wishes of a lot of New Englandrrs. A native of Hunting-bur- g, Ind., he has been connected with the Braves' organization since 1937, when he became manager of the Scranton farm club. The mentor has nad more than 20 years managerial ex-perience in the minor leagues, where he figured in the development of I ' j k' : r r 'ii'iiijifriTn-- ' J'V'.l1ft"' TU BOB COLEMAN such stars as Al Javcry, Hank Greenberg, Tommy Bridges, Eldon Auker, Roy Cullenbine, Dizzy Trout and Whitlow Wyatt. Coleman began his career as a catcher in 1910 with Davenport, Iowa, in the Three-Ey- e league, play-ing his first major league baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates three years later. In 1916 he was sold to the Indians where he played until he entered a war plant during the First World war. He won his first pennant in 1922 as manager of Terre Haute in the Three-Ey- e league and later served as coach of the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers. Good Beginning He served as a coach under Casey Stengel and when Stengel was out last season with a broken leg, Cole-man directed the club with a large measure of success, establishing himself as an able manager with Boston fans. He was given consid-erable credit for his exceptionally clever handling of Braves' pitchers. In one way, the new manager is fortunate. He will assume direction of a club which has lost only one player in the draft since October. Too, the club is on a sound financial basis because of the purchase of a majority of the club's stock by three Boston contractors Joseph Maney, Guido L. Rugo and Louis R. Perini. But the road ahead is rough. His contract Is for one year and last sea-son, under Stengel, the club finished in sixth place. Total attendance for 1943 was 312,923 a 35,000 drop from the previous year. Court Rule CJmnge? Quite a few coaches agreed with Nat Holman, veteran basketball mentor of City College of New York, when he advocated unlimited sub-stitutions for the boys playing on collegiate courts. Holman's teams at City College have won 276 games while losing 92 until this season his 25th. So he speaks with authority. He pointed out that the elimination of the cen-ter jump has made it "tough for the players." He further suggested that the powers that be get together be-fore the war ends and change the substitution rule to permit unlimit-ed personnel changes. "Now don't get me wrong," he said, "I don't want to change the character of the game; it has speed today and that's what the fans want. 1 would just like to see that some of the strain on the players is eased a bit . . You could see even better basketball if restrictions on sub-stitutions were lifted. Think what it would mean to rest one of your stars for a minute or two." Holman, like hundreds of other coaches, has only six or seven capa-ble men on his squad. But as the rules now stand, a player may re-enter the game only twice. Professor Holman knows the an-swers. There are few basketball courts in the country that he has missed during his career as player and coach. As a member of the old New York Whirlwinds he once dropped in 28 out of 30 fouls. Five times during his career as coach Nat has seen his teams miss a perfect season record by ont game. i ilOH! t I l3lliEl It's Sophisticated IffJlH fl f ' lTuuJ A SLIM two-piec- e afternoon or "al!ii c'ate ress nas subtly curved r 1 ii J' and fitted torso lines. 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