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PORTLAND INQUIRER Page 5 Conversion Dock Team Stilwell Road Boxer Wins Shipyard Is Middleweight Champ Soft Ball Pennant ALONG THE STILWELL RD. J Private George Evans, former The mixed Conversion Soft West Coast pro fighter of Oak Ball Team of the Willamette Iron land California, came down to and Steel Corporation won the Calcutta from the jungle hills of pennant and championship of the Assam and Burma to win the | league last Thursday, July 5th. middleweight championship of when they defeated the strong the India-Burma-China theaters. Dock 4 team by the score of 17 He scored a third round TKO to 3. over Private Wayman Williams, The winners have won 7 and Warren, Ohio, after knocking off only lost one game this season. top fighters of the American, The following are the team British, Australian, Indian and composing the circuit: Time- Chinese armies to reach thefi- checkers, Dock 4, Ways and nals. Slabs, Conversion Dock. Evans drives for a Negro Quar The following is the complete termaster outfit. The bout was line up for the Conversion team: ! refereed by Mammerin’ Henry Frank Ward, catcher; Clarence Armstrong, ex-lightweight and Scroggins, first base, Muskogee. welterweight champ of the world. Okla.; Louis Taylor, second base. Other men who fought with the Muskogee; Earl Engle, short crack Stilwell Road boxing team ,stop, Missouri; Travis Taylor, 3d included Private First Class Eze base, Muskogee; Donald Dur kiel Piere, light heavyweight, ham short field; Clyde Fields, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Private right field, Muskogee; Russell first Class John Campinha, wel Bye, left field, Bemidjii, Minn.; terweight, New Bedford, Massa John W. Hewitt, center field, chusetts; Private First Class Muskogee; Bob F o x , Oregon Hansel Fuller, Philadelphia, Pa. City, Ore. ASHFORDS Scaler's Bsefaall Team In Game Sunday Kansas City's bid for a world's championship. Roy Miller, listens to a few words of advice from the "Old Master." Henry 1 Arm- strong. Miller, 20 year old box- ing phenom. fights Ray Acosta. the California sharpshooter, at ihe Auditorium. Friday night, Jul* 27ih* Acosia was named ih® light-heavyweight prospect of ., , ., _ August x ihe year by the issue of the Ring Boxing Magazine of New York City. Two months ago, at the Olympic arena in Los Angeles. Acosta and Roy Miller fought a thrilling ten round draw . . . many of the box ing experts down there thought that young Miller was mighty lucky to get a draw with Acosta. Famous Athlete En Route to Germany patriate people displaced by the war. A former British subject, Mr. Edward was born in Berlin and educated in London. He has lived in the United States since 1923 and is now an American citizen. During the last war he spent three years and nine months in Germa ny in a British prisoner-of-war camp. Edward won the 10 and 220- yard dashes in the British Open Track Championship of the Ama teur Athletic Association in 1920 and again in 1921. In 1922 he made a record when he won the 100, 20 and quarter-mile on the same day. He won third place in the 10 Oand 20-meter races in the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920. In an interview at UNRRA headquarters, Mr. Edward, who captained British teams to other countries, said that he had tried to use sports to help bridge na tional and racial barriers. Before coming to UNRRA, he worked in New York City for the OPA as chief clerk of rationing; super visor of fuel oil rationing; and examiner of rent control. Mr. Edward has a wife and an eight- year-old son living in Princeon, N. J. Mrs. Edward, a former year-old son living in Princeton, board of the League of Women Voters. (Picture on page 2) A famous Negro athlete who was born in Berlin, educated in London and captured and held prisoner by the Germans in the last war was en route to Ger many this week for the third time— as an employe of the Uni ted Nations Relief and Rehabilita tion Administration. The UNRRA representative is Harry F. V. Edward, a track star of the early twenties, who now resides in Princeton, N. J. Mr. Edward, three-time winner of the 100 and 200-yard dashes in the British Open Championship, left by plane for Germany this week where he will direct an as sembly center operated by the international agency to help re MALE FAMOUS SPEAKERS Escape Destruction in the - Coming Crisis Hear Address By D. A. HUGHART July 24 — 8:00 P. M. Don’t Miss Hearing (4th and S. W . 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