S « p l* m b « r 21, 1945
PORTLAND INQUIRER
Samarra-Mills
Battle to Draw
3?;
Seelie S am arra, the popular
N orthw est H eavyw eight W rest
ling C ham pion and the titled
English W restler, Lord A lbert
Mills literally fought to a draw
in th e m ain event at the A udito
rium on W ednesday night. A fter
w restling for 35 m inutes of a
scheduled one hour bout, S a m a r
ra gained the first fall w ith n
flying toe hold. The titled E ng
lishm an was unything but a
gentlem an during the e n tire bout
and won the second fall to even
th e score in 7 Ms m inutes.
T he n ex t few m inutes of the
bout it was hard to tell w h eth er
it was a w restling or a boxing
m atch as th e tw o w restlers w ent
at each other w ith lefts and
rights. This m elee was started by
Mills, but the referee stopped the
bout calling it a draw .
N ext w eek’s bout w ill find See
lie facing the w inner of last W ed
nesday’s sem i-final m atch, P erri
D cG lane in a one hour, 2 o u t of 3
falls m atch, D cG lanc having p u b
licly challenged the w inner of the
S am arra vs. Mills m atch. On the
sam e card, Lord Alb. Mills will
m eet the w ily and tough R ube
W right in th e second half of the
double m ain event, and Lew N eu
m ann will m eet F ritz Schnoble in
a one fall th irty m inute special
event.
Doors are open at 8:20 and serv- i
ice men and wom en are alw ays i
adm itted free.
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W ashington, D. C.—Red Cross
s already preparing little gifts
for those G I’s w ho m ay not be in
th e ir ow n hom es by C hristm as.
A m illion and a q u a rte r individ
ual gifts, not to m ention club-
size kits of decorations, etc., are
already being p repared for the
troops of occupation.
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At Frankfurt, Germany
FRANKFURT, G erm any— (De
layed)— The hottest pair of legs to
race around a Gorm an track since
Jesse Owens gave the lie to th a t
super-race theory at the B erlin 1
Olympics in '36, failed to have the I
M editerranean T heater of O pera- I
tions track and field spad from a
69-54 defeat by the Eurean T h ea
te r cham pions, before 30,000 at
Victory stadium Monday, A ugust
27.
Bill C arnegie, Tuskegee In sti
tute student, w ho fights "Big"
Bill B ettis in one of the six
rounders on Joe W aterm an's
"T alent" boing cards at th e A ud
itorium F riday night. C arnegie
weighs around the 200 pound
m ark and will be out to w in th a t
$100 cash prize to be aw arded the
best fighter of the night.
New Post Commander
For Fort Huachuca
SEELIE SAMARRA
Park Bureau
To Begin Fall
Programming
ATC Sky Train Speeds
GIs Home From India Leo 'T h e Lion" Turner
MIAMI, F lo rid a — M onths, in
one case nearly th ree y ears in far
off India, today w ere clim axed
w ith a speedy air trip home for
The recreatio n al facilities u n d er tw o Negro fighting men. Flown
to A ir T ransport C om m and’s Mi-
direction of th e B ureau of P ark s
mi A rm y A ir Field in g ian t ATC
and Public R ecreation in th e out- sky trainSi they had cleared this
door areas w ill continue as long C aribbean Division base in a m at-
as w eath er p erm its u n d er p art- ter of hours and headed for th eir
tim e supervision bu t following the homes.
opening of the schools for th e new
O ldest of th e duo in point of
term fall program m ing w ill b e overseas service was Technician
gin in th e indoor com m unity rec Fifth G rade C harlie F. Preston,
reation centers. O rganization for 2, M ilner, Georgia, who served 31
team play in football, softball, m onths in the C hina-B urm a thea-
volleyball, badm inton and other te r w ith the Q u arterm aster Corps,
games w ill tak e place in S eptem and w ho w ears tw o b attle stars on
ber. Scheduled gam es and class his cam paign ribbon.
instruction are due to begin early
N early tw ice P resto n ’s age,
in October.
Technical S ergeant W illiam L.
| Johnson, 43, 162 B roadw ay, Santa
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Cruz, C alifo rn ia“ served ju st short
of one year in the sam e th eater
Stenographer-T ypist W anted.
w ith a unit o f the M edical Corps.
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FORT HUACHUCA, A rizona—
Col. Edw in N. H ardy, C avalry,
who has been in command at Fort
H uachuca since A pril 17, 1942, is
aw aiting retirem en t for physical
disability as a resu lt of th e rec
om m endations of R etiring Board
at W illiam B eaum ont G eneral
H ospital at El Paso, Texas. The
new Com m anding O fficer at F ort
H uachuca is Colonel C harles R.
Sm ith, In fan try , recently re tu rn
ed from overseas d u ty in China.
A pam phlet filled w ith boxing
thrills, giving all of Leo 'The Lion'
T u rn er fans the K eepsake in fo r
m ation th ey have alw ays w anted
about his fight career w ill be re
leased in the near future.
The story of the N orthw est
M iddlew eigt Cham pion fight is
being
composed by his sister,
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