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SERVICE DEPT.

The c h anute Field CID
PlaneSmen figure they can claim
some sort Of a baseball cham
pionship if they win all their
games. Their schedule includes
the Statewide Branch of the Hi
nois Penitentiary, the Joliet Big
House team and the Indiana
State Penitentiary - also the
House Of David and those noted
sponsors Of the "CG," the Cardi-
nails -. Storekeeper, third class,
Louis Jennings, who was quar-
terfinaliSt in the National ANA
teur in 1871, holds the new rec
ord Of 25-29-54 for the San
Diego Naval Training Station
golf course ... Lieut.. Edward
N. (Ody) Walters, who was kill
cd in bomber crash near Alex
andria, La, recently, was CO
captain of the Grinnell College
football team in 1910. He also
played basketball and was a pole
vaulter on the track team in his
high school days &C.. That swell
basketball team at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station is
rapidly being broken up. Bill
Menke recently passed his phys
ical examination for the Air
Corps and Jim Curric has been
granted a commission as ensign
and will be transferred.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
Blue Opener
SET for Today
Two Comes Dropped
from Weeks Card

A typical onslaught of Spring
S h ow erS combined with cool
weather forced the poStponement
yesterday of what was to have
been the seasons softball opener
and necessitated the reVamping
of the weeks schedule for the
Twilight League.
Under the revised card, yester-
days Blue Division opener be-
tween Bar 50 and Covered Wag-
on will be played tonight--the
only game of the evening-and
will be followed tomorrow by
the Mount Clemens AC.-Owls
opener in the Red Division Of the
same league. The Red opener
was originally scheduled for to-
night.
Despite the delay, Mayor Don
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
Biy Conn Punch at alnLaw May Cost Him SIPS, 900

ever since Billy first met and fell in love with
the girl who is now his wfe-Smiths daughter,
Mary Louise When they were married year
ago. Smith threatened TO punch Conns head
off" and since then the feud hasn't cooled off
bit.
The invitation to talk it over came by phone|
to Billy at.hs home from Art Rooney, Pittsburgh
pro football and fight promoter and friend OIL
both. -
II went to Smiths house as Art asked Billy
related. "Then Smith said, you and l have got
some things to talk over. Let's go in the kitchen.
when we got there, he started to holler
at me- / told him to talk quietly, that l could
hear. Then he sad Aren't you scared of me-
and l told him / wasn't scared of anybody, par
ticularly him. Then it started / hit him on
the head and that's when / broke my hand.
Il lasted a few minutes before friends separated
u.s. In the confusion, my shirt was ripped off
and l wound up with just my tie around my
neck"
During the scrap Billy also received choice
collection of scratches over the bridge of his
nose, dangerously close to his eyes. His right
arm suffered long, deep cut-"when l missed
and poked it through window he explained
X-rayS revealed fracture in his left hand, and
his physician said he would be unable to use
it at all for at least four weeks. After that, he
might take light training for while, before
starting the six weeks Of drilling necessary for
a big title match
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
by SID FEEDER

NEW YORK, May 12-lP)-The punch Billy
Conn landed on his father-in-law's head, in a
fight that started out as a kiss and makeup"
feast may cost the Pittsburgh Pretty Boy a cool
Sl25 900 or more.
That's what he could have expected his
share from his planned late June or early July
fight with Joe Louis, which veteran fight men
figured would have drawn at least threeq quar-
tiers Of million dollars. This tussle is off now,
because the punch broke Billy's hand and put
him out of action for ten weeks or more.
Of course, promoter Mike Jacobs says
Billyll get return shot at the Bomber in
September but no one knows whether it'll be as
hot an attraction then whether conditions
will be such as TO permit these two soldier boys
to hold a big outdoor fight. Meantime, the
June or July title chance will go to someone
else, probably Robert Pastor in New York,
Cleveland or Chicago
Billy was back at Fort Wadsworth today
taking up his buck-privating where he left off
before going to his Pittsburgh home for the
christening of his month-old son, David Philip.
1t was only a few hours after that ceremony Sun
day that his father-in-law, former National
League outfielder Jimmy Smith, summoned
Conn through friend to the Smith home to
straighten out their differences.
AT ODDS FOR THREE YEARS
The two have been at odds for three years,
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Local
Sports Shorts

Peschke Sausage Of the Blue
divisions of the Twilight League
will practise tonight at 6.45 on
Griffith Field.
All squad members are re-
quested to be present.
The Eagles softball team will
meet tonight at $50 in the Lodge
hall, 1914 North Gratiot, in case
of rain, it was announced this
morning
Otherwise, all members arc
requested to be present at the
practise field at the same hour
for a practise session.
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Sports Roundup

Doerr's big batting average OBJ
viously tabs him as Swinging
Doerr." -. Press agents plight:
There's a promising candidate
for the All-America Lacrosse
team up at Syracuse u, but
drumbeater Arnie Burdick feels
he has to keep quiet about it -.
the player is an inside home
named Arnold BurdiCk.
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Newsom Slips
Teller Needle

DETROIT, May II - (P) -
Louis (Buck) NeWsom, who used
to work here, is in town and los
ing no time announcing his pres
enCe.
Here with the Washington
Senators for the series opening
today, Buck called up General
Manager Jack Zeller Of the
Detroit Tigers to rib him.
Hello, Curley Locks he said
TO Zeller, who is bald, This is
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City, striving for its seventh douoieeatue III the
cellar.
sLOCAL JOTTINGS: Wagering 81 among followers OF the
Fisher Towers girls softba that the gals will outdraW the
Twilight opener when they play their first loop game
al home The girls consistently outlook officed the men
last wear a far cry the day when mems sobal here
and the girls ventured closer 10
the field than front of the bleachers.
LOOP SLUMP
Hopes for one Clemens high school athletic title
this year took slump yesterday with the baseball de-
hands Monroe a Biggest chance
seems to golf where the Bahers rated with
Royal Oaks defending champions Prior to yesterday da-
the locals given good chance OF bringing
titles this springn golf and baseball
figure would have been satisfactory for the year In
fact that titles decided in only seven sports
golf tennis swimming track basketball baseball and football
march in baseball makes likely that the
Tractors will their third major title of the year
The school captured the football championship
suffering only with Royal Oa), and walked off with
cage crown, with oSsat the hands of Wyandotte
going Yesterdays loss to Monroe by Mount
Clemens virtually them of the baseball title, though
Fordson Royal Oak and Royal Oak loss to Mount
Clemens the three tie for the top position
Hlcrest Golf cooperating in drive to collect
balls and armed service large bucket
pro shop players drop in their old balls for
shipment army camps Alex Macdonald reports that
have been donated within the past week
Players hanging to their clubs though since their
barred after May 81 have been donated
yet.
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Diamond
Schedule

TUESDAY
Blue-Bar 90 VS.. Covered
Wagon, st. Mary's.
WEDNESDAY
Red-M.C.A.C. VS.. Owls, st,
Mary'S.
THURSDAY
Blue-MerChants VS.. PcsChke
Sausage, Griffith.
Red-Eagles VS.. Hubarth &
Schott, st. Mary'S.
FRIDAY
Blue-Spruce Inn VS.. Bust
ness Men, Covered Wagon.
Red c ander Cafe VS..
Schwarzkoff, Covered Wagon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
Oats" JOINS NAVY

TULSA, OKLA, May l2-(P
Rejected by the army because
Of his size, Ralph Fats Harris,
268-pound guard on last falls
University of Oklahoma football
team, has joined the nGvy's for
eign construction brigade.
Enlisting with Harris was his
22O-pound brother, w. H., a for
mcr Tulsa high school grid star.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12

aid r. WestendOrf assured City
Recreation Department officials
this morning that he could be
counted on to toss the first ball
tonight; City Commissioners Ed
ward j. DuBay is expected to be
on the catching end for the in
augural throw. Tonight's game
will be held at the same time
and place as the clash was orig
inally slated for-at $50 on the
st. Mary's diamond.
The two games, one in each
division, originally carded for
Wednesday night, will be played
on Thursday evening, but minor
changes in the set-up arc plan
ned for Friday.
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TOURNEY BOONS

NEW YORK. May l2-lP)--
Enough entries for the Hale
America National Open Golf
tournament were received in
Mondays mail to boost the total
TO 446 and Joe Dcy, executive
secretary Of the USGA, predict
ed there would be 1000 contest
ants by the time the books close
tomorrow.
Lawson Littc's entry was
among the latest received.
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SPORTSMENTION

After looking over Ernle BOT
hams record Of three shutouts
in four games, Roy Nassau OF
the Harrisburg (PaD Telegraph
suggests calling him "The Wiz
ard of O'S." and Deak Morse
of the St. Johnsbury (VtO Gale
donian-Record adds that Bobby
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
They Laughed When
He Came to Majors

It was his third roundtripper
of the season, enhancing a 1893
batting average, and it settled as
unWieldy game as the Indians
have had all season.
Detroit scored five runs in the
first inning with two walks, a
single, a double and triple in
raid on Vernon Kennedy and
rookie Steve Gromek. After that
the Tigers made only four hits
and no runs, but they didn't
seem likely to need any as Paul
Dizzy Trout pitched five-hit
Shutout ball for seven stanzas.
Then in the eighth the Indians
went on the warpath for five
runs on five hits and an error
and in the ninth Fleming added
the clincher.
LEAGUES TRAVELLING
Most of the major league clubs
were travelling yesterday prepar-
ing to inauguarte another inter-
sectional series today and only
one other contest was scheduled.
In this the Boston Braves nos
ed out the Philadelphia Phils
80. Tom Earle hurled seven
hit ball for the Braves and big
f + n ie (Schnozzle) lombard
nailed down the triumph with
two-run homer in the sixth in
ming, breaking tie score. Albie
Glossop hit a home run in the
fourth for the Pills.
The second round of intersec-
tional strife brought the western
clubs of the National League
to the east and concentrated all
American League action in the
west today with attention for
the opening series centered on
the Yankees invasion of Cleve-
land and the Cincinnati Reds
first appearance at Brooklyn.
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TODAY'S GUEST STAR

Murray lyman, New York Her
aid Tribune: "Alsab will live
long in-America's memory as
colt Chat was robbed Of q triple
crown by the dollar sign"
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COTTON IN TIRES

The United States rubber ,in-
dustry used 10000 bales Of
cotton, or 16 per cent of domestic
consumption, for tires and 9TH
er products during 1910.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
Mountainous
at Royal Oak

Barring rain. the Noun
taineers were slated to take
the road this afternoon, meet
ing st. Mary's of Royal Oak
in a Catholic League, Second
Half Western Division game.
The local st. Mary's team
was seeking its second win;
Big John Coumans, credited
with the only victory this
season, was scheduled to start
on the mound.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
THURSDAY TILT CANCELLED

In the Red division, the game
slated for Thursday $500 Lcander
Cafe VS.. Schwarzkoff-will be
played on Friday, but the Blue
Division game, between Bar 90
and Sears is Cancelled out for
the week. This leaves Spruce
Inn and the Business Men tang
ling in the Friday Blue division
tilt. as originally planned.
The two games forced out of
the opening week schedule
Bar 50 VS.. Sears (Blue) and Owls
Club VS.. Nesbitts (Red)-will
be made up as soon as possible,
probably next week.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Games behind leader.
MONDAYS RESULTS
Boston 3, Philadelphia 2.
Only games scheduled.
TUESDAYS GAMES
Chicago at Boston.
Cincinnati at brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at New York.
st. Louis at Philadelphia.
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HUGE RESERVES

The United States has about
60 per cent Of the worlds coal
reserves and about so per cent
of the oil reserves.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12
Major League
Standings G
~ 0L-,N
AMERICAN LEAGUE .
Won Lost Pct. TC

MONDAYS RESULTS
Cleveland 8, DETROIT 5.
Only game scheduled.
TUESDAYS GAMES
Washington at DETROIT.
Boston at Chicago.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
New York at Cleveland.
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TIPS from the Pros
Stort of Down Swing is Smooth, Slow
Pull TO Left Arm with Wrists Cooked

Left side is braccd against a
straight left leg as the ball is
hit.
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PITCHING TODAY

Buck, in his first appearance
against Detroit, BANKED the Tig-
ers on one hit. 1t was Buck S
turn TO pitch again today.
He called Zeller'S attention TO
this. He paused, while Zeller APP
parently ribbed him back.
"Whaddya mean I'm one of
those pitchers who wins one
game a month"; then said Buck.
Il been winnin'. And I'm in
good shape. Come out and see
me"
NewSom declared himself well
pleased to be with Washington
and said he was still the best
paid pitcher in baseball
DO you think anybody else
is getting over 100000 he de-
manded. But he refused to dis
close his exact pay.
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Bobo Newsom. l got a present |
want TO give you. Yeah, another
shutout."
It was Zeller who told New
som last Spring that he could
go find another job if he didn't
like the big salary cut from the
Tigers. who paid him a reported
$4,000 last year. Ultimately,
Washington purchased Newsom
from Detroit.
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But Les Fleming Makes
Tigers Weep as 3-Run
Homer Decides Game
BY JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer

Ordinarily anybody who can
bat Ala in a class Al minor
league can expect to have flags
flying and bugles blowing for a
ceremonial croSs-oVer Of the
major leagues threshold.
Les Fleming hit Ala for Nash
vile in the Southern Association
last year and was cunning for
league record with an average
of .42l until he was BANKED in
a doubleheader on the final day
OF the season. He batted .678 in
the playoffs and .47O in the Dixie
series, too.
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In This Corner
CHICAGO CLUBS CHALLENGE FOR CELLAR;
BATHERS' CHANCES FOR TITLE
CUT BY LOSS
BY DENNIS BROWN

CEILAR CHALLENGE: hot rivalry is developing between
Chicago and Philadelphia each with club in both major
loops Chicago had twinblng in the dungeon at
the end though the Cubs and SoX trying
like mad this year they getting tough battle from the
Main Line City striving for its seventh doubeteaure IN the
cellar
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-12

Washington's n e d u c d
game at Briggs Stadium with
the Tigers was called off this
morning because of weather.
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RUNS CUT OFF

Coach Ernest Buckholz' team,
brought their total runs to two
in the sixth on an error and two
singles, but as in the seventh
missed a good chance of adding
another run. Sicwert took first
on an error at second and a
minute later went to second on
Beardslee's single. Johnny john
son next hit TO right field, driv-
ing Siewert in, but Beardslee,
attempting to take three bases,
was out at home. II was one
of the two Bather runs cut off
at the plate.
Next game for the Bathers is
with Crosse Pointe, there, on
Friday.
Leading hitting for Mount
Clemens yesterday was Jackie
Sierens, having his best day at
the plate this season; the third
sacker blasted out three hits
two singles and triplc--in four
official times up. Catcher
Beardslce and outfielder John
son both nailed down a pair of
singles TO bolster their averages.
SieWert was removed in the
sixth frame at his own request
as he felt he was losing control;
Bliss, who replaced h / m, al
lowed one hit, that in the same
inning.
The line score:
Mount Clemens 100 00l 0-3 8 5
Monroe ..... 002 OIL X-4 l
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GREETED WITH RIDICULE

But Fleming was greeted with
ridiCule when he undertook TO
become the regular first base
man of the Cleveland Indians
this spring. Observers said he
was too short and clumsy to field
his position and recalled occas-
ions such as a game last fall
when Fleming lost his mitt Jug
Cling a teammates throw and
barely managed TO hold the ball
in his bare hand
His atmospheric average, and
his % home runs, didn't count,
they said, because Nashville has
a VIGOROUSLY short rightfield
fence and a lot Of his hits down
there would be merely long flies
in the major leagues.
Well, the season is a month old
now and Fleming not only still
is holding forth at first base for
the Tribe, but is a vital reason
for the Indians being in second
place today, a game and half
behind the New York Yankees
BEATS TIGERS
Some of those drives the squat,
powerful Fleming tears off are
better than long flies even in
the American League and one
Of them yesterday was a home
run over the rightfield wall at
League Park in Cleveland It
came with the score tied, two
mates on base and two out m the
ninth inning and it beat the De
troit Tigers 8-5.
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0uihit
Trojans;; Loose
Play Costly
4-3 Defeat Comes
Despite Slit Mound
Performance There

having Ddllleu tnClI way INTO
a tie for the lead in the Border
Cities League baseball race with
desperately-won victories over
Royal Oak and Fordson, city
highs team booted away their
title hopes yesterday with 4-3
loss to Monroe on the latter's
field.
Although outhitting the Oft
defeated Trojans, 8-5, the locals
tossed away the clash with five
errors and a session of absent
minded base running. The loss
was the second for the Bathers
and the first for Ralph Sic
vert, pitching his second game
of the year as we'll as his second
against Monroe.
ALLOWS FOUR HITS
Sicwert allowed only four hits
during his 6 1/3 inning stint,
but his effective hurting was
stymied by loose play behind
him. The Bathers' kicked away
their final chance to win the
game in tn e seventh inning,
when. with one out, Howard
Roberts gained a walk. The next
man up, third baseman Jackie
Sicrens, dashed out a triple for
what should have been a score,
but Roberts had been thrown
out by a country mile in an at
tempted steal at second. With
Sierens on third, Lyle Bliss
walked and on a play at sec
ond, which he S ole, Sierens
went safely to the plate, making
the score 4-3 leaving the Bathers
one-short of a deadloCking run.
Siewert. the next man up, hit
to short and was the third out
on the peg to first.
The Bathers took a first inning
10 lead when Dave Inman walk
ed, was sacrificed to second and
came home on Sierens' single.
Monroe knocked in a pair of runs
in the third, however, on pair
of errors and a like number of
singles and was never headed
again, adding a run in the fifth
on a pair of singles with sac
rifice sandwiched between and
another in the sixth on hit
batter, wild pitch and single.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25
TRUCKS NEEDED
 IN METAL DRIVE
Mayor Appeals to Water burians to Assist in
 'Raid' Next Saturday

Mayor Vincent A. Scully today asked the public's cooperation in the one-day scrap metal raid" to b, held next Saturday. He made a special appeal to truck owners to offer the services of their vehicles and individuals to volunteer for work as canvassers.
 It Is planned to canvass every street. in the city during the one day drive, with householders asked to search their homes thoroughly for scrap before next Saturday.
 All city trucks will take part in the drive, and many city employees will act as volunteers.
 The "high command" for the drive held meeting with the mapor last held a meeting with the mayor last night. Another meeting has been set down for Wednesday.
 The state scrap rubber committee is instructing gasoline wholesalers to remove all rubber collected in the recent drive from gas stations to their bulk plants. From the bulk centers 1t will be shipped to recla- nation plants.
 Collection and shipment of the scrap gathered in the statewide rub Der campaign has been delayed be- cause of the huge amount collected according to the committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25
INVESTMENTS IN
 WAAC TO START
Conference in Hartford To- day Over Delay in Re-
 ceiving Applications

Applications for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps will be re- ceived in Waterbury starting Mon- day If Corp. Harry Armstrong, local recruiter, receives the necessary or- ders in Hartford today, where he has been called for 8 conference, the second since WAAC recruiting of- ficially opened Monday in other parts of the country.
 The local officer has been waiting for applications blanks and instruc- tions all week and in the meantime listening to scores of prospective women soldiers ask dozens of ques- tions about qualifications, duties, salary, living accommodations, and numerous others. He has been able to tell them merely that the pay for privates would be $21 per month and that the age requirements would in all probability be the same as for of ficer candidates, 21 to 45. Other than that he could give no further information without authorization from Army headquarters.
 No reason has been offered by Army officials for the delay caused in local recruiting through lack of orders, but 1t Is believed the diff culty was created through insuffi- cient supply of application forms and information sheets. Corp Arm strong Is confident that after today's conference he will be able to under take the enlisting work anxiously awaited here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25

necticut Council of Foremen's Clubs. Other members of the club who have participated in state and national conferences in the last year or two are: Fred R. Book, H. Wesley Leav- enworth, Melvin E. Freeman, Clar- ence A. Miller, William L. Caligan, J. A. Peterson, William 9. Carpen- ter, William B. Mckenzie, who is now serving his second term as pres ident of the Industrial Foremen's Club, Hans W. Beerbaum, Arnold Po- lancer and Raymond Hughes.
 The July issue of the Foremen's Club News, four page sheet of the local club which is out today, an- nounces that the first fall meeting will be held on September "A at the Waterbury Women's Club. It has been voted to dispense with the din- ner which usually precedes the meeting in view of the fact that it is expected that six hundred or seven hundred people will wish to hear T. F. Joyce of the Radio Cor poration of America who will pre- sent a similar program to that giv- en this spring before the Manu- lecturers Association of Connecti- cut in Hartford. The purpose of the meeting is to push production in order to beat the Axis powers more thoroughly and more quickly.