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Samborski said that the hitting at a practice game yesterday afternoon had been encouraging. Chuck Scheer, slated to bat in the clean-up slot today, blasted out a good triple. George Donovan, Nett Bortz, and George Anderson also seemed to be connecting...
...Seattle, Promoter Larry Scheer pointed a finger mysteriously at unnamed wartime generals and admirals. "Somebody big didn't like boxing, so they didn't build it up. There should have been a mob of good fighters come out of the Army and Navy, but they didn't. It was all basketball, this last...
...Scheer. The R.A.F. kept up its incessant bombing of Berlin-which reconnaissance pilots called "a dead city" -and smashed Potsdam, cradle of the German army. The British also attacked German ports and shipping off the north coast. After a raid on Kiel, where the flyers saw a tremendous explosion, reconnaissance photographs showed the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, capsized and sunk in the inner basin...
...Very Nice Bang." I went back to my old submarine, the Ursula, in 1942 but this time as captain. Our first patrol was to cover one of the convoys to Russia. It was badly beaten up. The submarines were along to cover in case the Tirpitz and the Scheer came out. They did. A friend of mine in another submarine made a radio signal to say they were out, but those two great disappearers went right back in and we didn't see them again...
...other major German warships, the 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz (sister of the lost Bismarck) is still out of action from torpedo hits by British midget subs. The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper-all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value. The pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from...