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held to five hits. One of them
was George Cases single for
the deciding run.
In the meantime the New
York Yankees boosted I h cir
first place margin to IN games
by betting the Cleveland Indi-
ans 8-5 while the Chicago White
Sox nosed out Boston 80. Err
ME Bonham pitched seventh
ball for the Yanks' fifth straight
triumph, but served up homers
to Les Fleming and Oris Hook
EFT. Red Rolfe hit his second
homer in four days and two
singles to lead the New York
attack and Joe DiMaggio hit in
his 18th game in row.
At Chicago the wrought up
Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn
Dodgers divided a doublehead-
er in approximately five hours
of paying strict attention to
baseball. The Cubs made II hits
and took the first contest TO
with Lon Warneke helping Lef-
ty John Schmitz in the ninth.
Then Brooklyn battled back
in the nightcap to win 81 when
Arky Vaughan pinch singled,
Pete Reiser doubled and Joe
Medwick singled to account for
two runs in the seventh after
Lou Stringer had homered for
Chicago in the fifth. John AL
len and Hugh Casey combined
to hold the Cubs to seven hits.
SHAKES UP GIANTS
Mel OFT shook up his New
York Giants at Pittsburgh, send
ing reserve first baseman Babe
Young to centerfield for the
first time in his life, and old
Carl Hubbell conjured up a
four hit pitching masterpiece
that stopped the Pirates 81. It
was Hubs third win and he
had two-hit shutout till the
ninth.
The Phils, led by Danny Lit
whiler, who batted in three
runs and scored twice, topped
the st. Louis Cardinals 4-3 in
ten innings. Cincinnati took a
TO decision from the Boston
Braves, even though Ernie Lom-
bardi hit his second homer in
two days and made three other
safeties against his old team
mates.
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Barney's Take,
Reins 10 First

Cinching the game with
three-run effort in the fifth in
ming, which broke q 6-6 tie with
Richards Barney's Tailors took
over sole title to first place in
the tumble Softball League last
night.
Tied with the Optimists be-
fore last nights clash on the
Eagles Diamond, Barney's took
20 lead in the first frame,
aided by Reh's triple and built
it up to a 81 margin at the end
of the third.
Richards however, rallied in
the fourth as Raoul Kuse start
ed things off with a double,
which was followed by three
singles and a triple by Verlow
Spicer, five runs being scored.
In the fifth, however, Barney's
took command again and two
triples by Klein and Thinner
man, an error and q double by
Rivard gave three runs and a
9-6 lead. Both teams counted
once in the closing innings.
Rivard, Thinner m an and
Klein all boosted two for three
marks for Barney's while Morris
Pegelo topped the losers with
the same figure.
Richards .001 500 IL 3 5
Barney's ..203 131 x-10 3 S
Batteries: Barney's -Pegelo
and Klein. Rickard's+Gon and
KuSc
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runs to beat the Athletics again,
hitting two homers, each with a
mate aboard, to help AL Hol-
lingsworth win 81. Labs i'm
petus has boosted the Browns
to an even 500 percentage and
a tie with the Detroit Tigers for
fourth place.
TIGERS BOOT GAME
Detroit stumbled to its fifth
straight defeat and eighth in
nine games last night at Wash
ington. The Tigers made six err
rors and lost 6-5 in ten innings
even though the Senators were
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Nation's Links
Stars TangIe
Tomorrow
Hosen's Shrewdnsss
Lifts ChoIIensers
into Strong Position
BY WATSON SPOELSTRA

DETROIT, July II - (R -
The revised American Ryder
Cup golf squad, drawing four
players from Bobby Jones' Sue.
cessful challengers of 1941
ranked today as a surprisingly
short favorite to whip Walter
Hagen's challenge squad in the
two-day Red Cross match start.
ing tomorrow over the difficult
Oakland Hills course. scene OF
two National Opens.
Headed by Captain Craie
Wood and reinforced by Ben
Hogan, Jimmy Demaret and
Gene S zen, the Cuppers
would seem to be long choices
in the rubber match of the war
orphaned series, but Hagen's
reputation as a shrewd lineup
manipulation probably contrib
uted largely to the popular as
sumption that the Challengers
have a bona fide chance to win.
SEALED LINEUPS
Hagen, who captained the
American forces to four vic
tories in six matches against
Great Britain, will come to grips
late today with Wood as sealed
lineup selections are exchanged
for tomorrow's five four ball
foursome matches. Tomorrow
night they will disclose their
lineups for ten singles matches
Sunday.
Wood presumably will stick
to the only holdover pair from
the 1941 Cup squad - Byron
Nelson and jug McSpaden-and
probably will keep the torrid
Texans, Hogan and Demaret,
intact from the last two chal-
lenge squads. Other cuppers are
Corp. Vic Ghezzi, Lloyd Man
grum, Horton Smith, Sarazen
and Ed Dudley.
Hagen has indicated he will
pair Henry Picard and Sam
Byrd, Harry Cooper and Law
son Little, Clayton Heather and
Ralph Guldahl, and Jimmy
Thomson and Sergt. Jim Tur-
mesa. Others available are Dick
(Chick) Harbert, and Hagen
himself who may share a g.
hole assignment tomorrow with
Watrous.
GULDAHL AT HOME
Singles pairings are still a
greater puzzle, but Hogan, Metz
and Guldahl all are unbeaten
in a pair of previous matches in
the domestic series. Guldahls
game is considered particular
ly adaptable to Oakland Hills,
where he won the 1887 National
Open title.
Sarazen, whose challengers
lost to the cuppers in 1910, has
been shut out both years after
compiling a brilliant interna-
tional record.
Oakland Hills, just short of
1000 yards, proved difficult to
solve in yesterdays practise
rounds. Wood was one over par
for the best score.
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Labs Batting Spree Puts Browns in Tie for 18th

bleheader he batted in five runs,
three of them on q homer In the
ninth. Monday was an open date
and Tuesday the Red Sox side
tracked trouble by walking him
twice.
Wednesday night again he
drove in five runs at Philadel-
phia. He homered with the bases
loaded in the first inning and
tripled with one on in the Sec
ond, barely being thrown out
at the plate trying for an in
side the park home run.
Yesterday he drove in four
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SohbaII
Schedule

FRIDAY
Blu. - Bar 50 VS.. Merchants
at st. Mary's.
Red - Hillcrest VS.. Nesbitt's
at Griffith.
Junior - Gasow Boat VS.. l.
& G.. at Consumers.
MONDAY
Blue - Covered Wagon VS.
Peschke at St. Mary's.
Red-Leander Cafe VS.. Owls
Club at Covered Wagon.
Junior-L. & G.. VS.. Kresge's
at Consumers.
TUESDAY
Blue - Bar SO VS. Sears al
st. Mary's.
Red-Schwarzkoff VS.. Eagles
at Covered Wagon.
WEDNESDAY
Blue - Peschke VS.. Business
Men at Griffith.
Red - H. & S. VS.. Leander
Cafe at st. Mary's.
Junior - Monitor-Leader VS..
A. e. w. at Consumers.
THURSDAY
Blue - Covered Wagon VS..
Spruce Inn at Covered Wagon.
Red - Nesbitt's VS.. Schwarz-
koff at st. Mary's.
FRIDAY
Blue - Merchants VS.. Bust
ness Men at st. Mary's.
Red - Owls Club VS.. Hill
crest at Griffith.
Junior-Gasow Boat VS.. Mer-
chants at Consumers.
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in, but with his recent surge he
already has brought his mark
for this season to IS circuit
clouts and So runs driven in.
Labs started his chain of fire
crackers against the Yanks last
Saturday with q two-run hon.
er off Ernie Bonham in the
ninth. /.
PLENTY OF TROUBLE
The next day in Boston he
socked the Red Sox into SUBJ
mission. lie made q double and
. single in the first game and
In the second game of the dou-
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Player Misses Easy
Out; No Boos Follow

CAMP RUCKER, ALA, July
17-(P)-Here's a ball player
who went sprawling to miss an
easy out--and nobody booed.
He is Rex w. Beasley, mana
ger of the list Division Artillery
Officers softball team. With the
score tied, 3-3, against head
quarters officers, outfielder
Beasley reached for high one,
and went ka-whup on his face
over a pile of brush. Artillery
lost, Ali, but nobody squawked
because. Manager Beasley is
Brigadier General Rex w. Beas-
ley.
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SiQht Of Smith Should
Sadden Joe DiMaqqi 10

NEW YORK, July 17-(R-
Lefty Al Smith of the Cleveland
Indians was slated to pitch
against the New York Yankees
today and his appearance should
bring back sad memories to one
Yankee-Joe DiMaggio. It was
just a year ago tonight that
Smith stopped DiMaggio's Sc
game batting streak, with a lit
tie help from Jim Bagby in the
late innings. Today DiMaggio
will risk q new streak that has
reached Is games.
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International Team

CHATTANOOGA, T E N NJ,
July 17-(R-Joe Engel, presi-
dent of Chattanooga Baseball
Club, has added a Chinese play
er TO his colorful team, which in
cludes one Mexican and three
Cuban players.
Ho Sing Ping pronounced
George Ho" by EngeD. an out
fielder formerly with Hartford,
Conn, in the Eastern League,
was signed yesterday by Engel.
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BY JUDSON BAILEY


Asseeistsd Prsss 0Dsrts Writer
The biggest batting spree Of
the season is now being staged
by little Chef Labs Of the st.
Louis Browns and, brother,
when he hits people forget all
about the complaint that the ball
is deader this year.
In the las. six days he, has hit
four home runs and driven in
Is tallies with amazing raids ut
New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia. His total production all
last year for the Browns was
Is homers and 50 runs batted
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BY ROBERT MYERS

LOS ANGELES, July 17-(P
The ladies and gentlemen will
be pardoned if they don't climb
aboard the Whirlaway band
wagon just now. They're still
riding with Seabiscuit.
Make no mistake. No one is
taking anything away from
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Horse Who Resembles A Mint
BY DENNIS BROWN

The of the class will consider Whraway closest
facsimile mint the equine world has produced Mr..
Longta he known to the racing lodge just four
old has already S454336 AS goes that
should stop the next who says, PITY the horse
Let study the life of a horse for moment.
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ELIZABETH, N. Wallace
Cross, 200, East Orange, stopped
Danny Cox, 185, New York
az.
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You travel air conditioned the train; this
contains dinner thus saving 35 cnts time
want of coffee That in itself is hefty recommended
ton for the life of horse.
You a socially acceptable celebrity and when your
LIES retire to the pastures
Pretty girls garland your neck with flowers whenever
you win. This is not factor to be underestimate.
FeeU Quick Wheels Around Track
Once every two weeks you take quick wheel
company with several other friends this
you get Occasionally about in
workouts AS there little traffic these
occasions be compared Sunday driving of the
baneS of human existence.
Shaving problem and there hafdozen tonsorial
look after grooming You don't have
taxes listen to quzz programs on the radio.
If that's the life of horse saddle boy I'm off to
the
while stir restessly at the thought of their
heing through the hnderands and offering their
saps the Indians in order to build country where horse
half million bucks, they should remember that
horses life is not entirely one Of JOY unbridled.
As Whirlaway said somewhat longingly sighting
his in the Massachusetts, Handicap this week.
"Bu Doc, that amt hay"
Not hay Whirly but we'll take it.
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LAST NIGHTS RESULT
H. & S. 10, Schwarzkon 2.
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LAST NIGHTS RESULT
Barney's 10, Richards 7.
BROOKLYN%erry Fiorello
1<9, Brook lyn, outpointed
Fran cesco Monntanari. lao,
Brooklyn 81.
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LAST NIGHTS RESULT
A. & w. Is, Merchants 1.
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This Drawing, Made

hit other. quite important targets. This was
believed to have been the work of an over
jealous gremlin who wanted to make sure or
as much damage as possible.
Flight Sergeant w of Canadian bombing
and glnnery school is a grizzed veteran OF
Twenty-Five He flew Fairey Battles IN
France before the Fall; assisted at the Battle
OF Dunkrk destroyed mine laying plane
off the coast of Scotland, downed Junkers
during the heaviest raids on London. Since
then coast patrol ferry command across
Canada and now, instructing, have given him
a complete insight into mysteries of the air
mo. 1 haven't exactly seen one" he says
carefully AT least ! don't think saw one.
What happens is that after they've played
their tricks they fit off in a sort of bright
flash"
Over Dunkirk Sergeant w. had downcd
a Focke-Wulf and was flying back TO base
feeling pretty full of himself over The Chan
mel at 1900 feet the engines cut, both OF
them. He yelled orders to get the rubber
dinghy out and prepare for crash. But at
thirty feet above the gray, cold water the en-
gines started again. Breathing gusty signs
of relief he re-climbed. At 1900 feet the en-
gines conked again.
This happened five times before he was
able to make a landing in Essex. on arrival
at the ardrome nothing could be found that
might account for the peculiar behavior of
the engines.
"Gremlns, undoubtedly" says Sergeant w.
II guess They thought we were too uppity.
y II had one ride regularly with me over
France. Giggling little nuisance, he was, too.
Used to retract and let down my landing
gear four or five times a trip"
Sometimes they become indignant, for
they're moody creatures. There was one Wing
Commander. l won't mention his name for
he's still bit shaky. Well, he didn't believe
in gremlins.
Just an excuse for bad flying" he would
say. After all, if you cubs are too filthy
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earnestly that the
pistol was in its holster and didn't even
touch it."
He looked around the room at the silent
faces Then he drew a deep breath.
1T must have been those blasted grem-
lins!" he burst out wpng sweat from his
forehead.
There's an inquisitive gremlin who wants
to know what would happen-if. That one
hampers with instruments and screams like
a seagull when he gets the pilot mixed up
he doesn't know which side is up.
Flying Officer w. ferrying a bomber out
of Calgary last Winter found himself lost in
a snowstorm. He decided to return. But when
he arrived, by instrument flying, over Cal
gary he took an observation and found
nothing below him but forest.
Nightly puzzled for he'd made allow
ances for wind drift and so on, he flew
And ten minutes later found a big airdrome
right below him. Breathing thanks he land
ed and to his surprise found himself 200 miles
south of Calgary.
"Oh yes" a weather-beaten old ferry pilot
told him, there's a gremlin out of Calgary
with a most strange habit. He likes Cal
gary but it's too cold for him. So he perches
on the hot exhausts of ferry planes. But
soon as the plane gets a little way east he
gets frightened and wants to go back.
so ne turns the directonal gyro COM
pass five degrees every 10 minutes in an at
tempt to fly the ship in great circle end
ing at Calgary You didn't allow for the five
degrees adjustment and that's why you ar
rived here at Claresholm.
But he's a good gremlin. really Because
this is the only airport this side of the Rockies.
If he hadn't shown you this field you'd have
crashed. Better take him back to Calgary
where he belongs"
Recently Sergeant K, Australian bomber
pilot told of gremlins over the Libyan desert.
1--WE returning from stunt over
Bengazi" he said, when l saw flock of
them running about the wings with rubber
suction boots on They were tearing round
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holes in the fabric"
1T wasn't ack-ack, by any chance?" he
was asked
mo. no, no. We're never bothered with
that. 1t was gremlins. They sit out on the
wings drinking out petrol through straws.
Get tight as ticks, sometimes. Not nasty, you
know, just full of fun"
But pilots at the Boeing Aircraft Factory
at Seattle were surprised to learn that Amer
lean fliers had run into gremlins for the first
time; they've known of them for years.
Test filters in the Flight and Aerodynamics
Department who have done lot of high alti-
tude research have long known special kind
of gremln
Strato-gremlins, they are They're sell
living in such rarefied atmosphere they have
developed characteristics quite different from
the other gremlins
They nearly twice as large, due to ex-
pansion in thin air. They have noses just
like oxygen mask breather bags They are
cold blue in color and lined inside and out
with blue fur. This blue fur renders them
almost invisible They have ears like hand
muffs and pilot tubes in their heads TO show
them how fast they travel
Like other gremlins they are not really
mean, just mischevous and very inquisitive.
They butt pilots in the stomach at high alti-
tudes, making them think they have bends"
And sometimes they follow dives making
popping sounds in the flers ears.
They poke about the feed lines drinking
oil from the tanks to make pressure drop.
They slide up and down radio antennae to
tumble messages. They even move the prop
governors to annoy the pilots. Sometimes
they have whole picnics on the broad wings
of Fortresses.
The young strato-gremlins like to breathe
on the oil lines TO freeze them. Or they blow
through straws into the feed lines and that is
why oil sometimes foams at 1000 to 10000
feet.
When strato- gremlins get old they lose al
titude. Then they like to get into the Boeing
strato-chambers cold rooms where high
altitude experiments are carried out. The
technicians don't mind them a bit. They
set out all sorts of equipment for them
to play with and by watching their reac-
tons the research men know just what to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-01
BY BRIAN O'BRIEN

.w~HE IA F. man who started
this poem never finished it,
Perhaps the gremlins, in
dgnant at the impudent expo
sure OF their secrets, found
means of cancelling that poets
license.
But, you see, there are such
things!.!
The Irish have their little peo-
pie: the Scots their pixies; the
Scandinavians their trolls. The sea
has its nereids.
And now the air has its grem-
Inns.
The new folklore OF the air has
many explanations of the gremlins'
origin. Some say they first were
manifested TO a French weather OBJ
server at lie Bourget. Others say the
first gremlin was the one who looked N
over YOUR shoulder. Not a mischievous MIA
one like his descendants, just lonely WN
little fellow who peered quietly until you INV
said Good morning. Fred" Then he
went away.
Incidentally this was the only gremln
who admitted having a name. Now they
are nameless and are called just They or
Them"
But perhaps the most generally accepted
theory of their origin is that the first one was
of patrol plane in 1928.
Occasionally pilot reported being who
sat behind him and made noise like the
engine conking. Or one heard of an automa-
tic horizon that rocked like a seesaw.
This is usually apprentice gremhn
first trick If the A. II. is weighing there Is
usually an older gremlin instructing the young
one And that means the pilot had better
look out for more shocks.
But IL was not until World War III that
"They" became widely known. Not that many
pilots have actually seen them although most
fers know someone who has They are
described as follows:
Height; inches to one foot.
Weight Negligible.
Eyes; Green.
Hair; Negligible
Nose: Long and inquisitive.
Mouth Wide and impudent
Pecularitics: Wings shaped like helicop-
ter vanes that sprout from each
shoulder
They wear little red jackets with ruff COL
lars and long, tight sleeves. Their hats are
conical and decorated with oow-oow feathers
(from the famous bird that flies backwards
so il can see where ii has been). Green tights
cover their long, skinny legs, and long, point
cd soft shoes with prehensile toes finish the
costume.
They are not eHdCtly lildhCiouS' 'ae 10
they never cause death or serious accident,
But they have means of terrifying the pilot
who takes his power for granted. They are
definitely on the side Of the United Nations
the Axis couldn't possibly understand them.
l Quite recently Boeing Flying Fortress in
daylight raid over Germany dropped bombs
that had never been released by the switches
supplied Since these did not hit the target
specified there was some inquiry. But in
vestigation showed that the bombs actually
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about twenty feet
from the ground,
just leveling off TO
land.
And that pistol
went off!
Filled tn @
W h ole airdrome
with red fire and
set alig h t the
bomber.
The Win &
Commander man
aged TO land and
get his crew out.
OF course there
was an inquiry.
"And how did
the pistol come to
be fired un d e r
such circum =
stances ," asked
the Group Com
mander.
81 Sw ear TO
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lazy to what's wrong when anything
strange occurs you blame something you call
a gremlin."
Well. there was deadly silence in the mess
that night. Everyone knew that the Wing
Commander would get his come-uppance. He
was as good a flier as there is, too.
Next day il came.
His group were returning from a night
raid over Germany. Now every pilot carries
in n leather holster fastened TO the fuseage
beside his seat Verey pistol for firing sig
nails. The red is only used TO advise a forced
landing.
The formation were coming in perfectly.
The Wing Commander in front lie was
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expect IN actual
flight.
But It makes
them mad. So to
placate them Boe-
ing has painted on
several of its ex-
perimental Flying
Fortresses por-
traits of strato-
gremlins, and the
ere VS. carefully
salute the little
people when they
go aloft.
Thus fiiers all
over the world
have adjuste d
themselves TO the
new little people
of the air.
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Pesky little Air People" Who Clog Oil Lines. *
Windows. Temper With Controls. Drink GosoIin
and Make Life Miserable for Over
Confident Pilots
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~
" the Heavens,
w That's a hell of lionel
And it's fifty degrees below zero
Which isn't exactly hot.
When you're frozen blue like you
fire
And you're scared mosquito pink
When you're a thousand miles FRI
where
And there's nothing below but the
It's then that you'll see the gree
Green and gamboge and gold,
Male and female and neuter
Gremlins both young and old.
It's no good trying TO dodge
them.
The lessons you've learned in
the Link
Won't help you evade the
gremlins
Though you boost and you dive
and you jink.
White ones will wiggle your
wingtips,
Male ones will muddle your
maps,
Green ones will guzzle your
glycol,
Females will fiutter your flaps.
Pink ones will perch on your
Perspex,
And dance pirouettes on your
prop;
There's a spherical. middle aged
gremlin
Who'll spin on your stick like
top.
They'll freeze up your camera
shutters,
They'll bite through
your aileron wires,
They'll bend and they'll
break and they'll batter, 81
They'll insert toasting
forks in your eyes
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Heaven" said the
Win e Commander
earnestly, that the
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A Gremlin Field Day Aboard a Bomber.
The Little Folk" Drink Gas from the
Suction Boots that Leave Holes, Fog the
Pilot Windows, and Defect the AiIerons.