Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-02
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Belle Isle Tigers
Believe While
There's Life
By BOB MURPHY
(SPORTS EDITOR)

There's new life in the Belle
Isle Tigers these days.
They have been reading all
the stories about the crisis
ahead for baseball and figuring
there might still be a chance
for them with the HaApewer
shortage hitting the national
sport.
In case you do not know. the
Belle Isle Tigers are made up
Of a group of nice guys who 60
over 10 the island each Sunday
morning and 90 through the
various motions involved in
playing baseball
All are old enough 10 vote.
in fact the youngest Of them
voted for Roosevelt Teddy.
You can even hear Stories that
Connie Lane SAW Abner Double
day play but wasn't on the
team. Connie is 70 and he still
gets around. Gets around. did
we say This includes shagginG
flies IN the outheld. taking his
turn mt bat and doing gay
ninetieS version of coaching
from third
You won't Eet A great lnt ~
information out of the Belle Isle
Tigers. You might Try 10 find
out when they started Charley
Burton, tfr abstract one. dldn 7
Know much about II
They were playing when I
came over here i'm 1900. O'Hara
isisi about Shanghated me to
on In and I've been coming over
here since. II gets my eyes open
on Sunday mornings" ne eX-
planned
Track is Charley's other
hobby and hc-haS Matched
l. < athletes for years IL
may nc Al the Millrose games
bat Charley doesn't travel
much since the war started
Charley Is a strong I. NJ. man
and walked right off Of the
field 20 talk about Ken Doh
eFty tEEe-H4iie- rctdy n ann
ArbOr
Watch Rob Tfer (UfCr the
Hooferl and the Hume twins,
Ross and Bob. and Johnny Rox-
borough in the Millrose games
In New York Saturday, They
are going 10 break the two-mile
record. " not this week. then
later They've got IL.
lie broke off his spiel TO take
a hIRFpe@ from a fArauutSl
Diitrich, who plays permanent
third base and was having one
Of his iiveler days
Bob Rowland vas standing
by and explained
Peanuts il showing of to-
day batting the hall around.
But II some one suggests game
which would mean that he'd
have 10 use his legs, he'd 60
right back 90 third base"
Row land seemed to know AL
about the Belle Isle Tigers.
Maybe ne was a scout for
one Of the biz league teams
Bert Pankrantz came IN on
this one
He's no scout. That's how a
Belle Isle Tiger looks when he
gets fat
There were now 10 men On
the field How about q scrub
game This brought blank
look from Ben Van Brodel.
Julie AlbuS. Harry Rec" Git
Schlag. Bill MallaSt and I'd
Gonncfiv-
A. r lleavonrich FASTENED M
70 explain why there wouldn't
be game
The regular playing season
ends Dec. % and We don't play
any regular games until March
~. Too many of the Belle Isle
Tigers were knocking them
selves out during the cold DAYS.
Resides the boys got 80 tired
they couldn't chang their
clothes afterwards and this was
causing trouble ut home"
There was q lot Of this kibbo.
You watched Burton knock out
a long fly and you saw Bill NAL
last get il and YOU heard him
boiler his delight They make =
lot Of noise in their Sunday
morning frolicking over there
on Belle Isle but these lads.
none Of them under 80. impress
one all over again that baseball
n still oar national naStinp