Big G.I. Show

The Army last December chopped up the Pacific into four competitive zones, then plunged into a wholesale, 15-sport Olympics. For the Army Air Forces, which did a heroic shuttle job (example: G.I. horseshoe pitchers were flown from Honolulu to Korea for interzone eliminations), it was a big job. Last week, with full colonels competing with and against buck privates, the program reached its final fury. Major-sport results:

Tokyo's 41st Division basketball team upset the dope by whipping Okinawa's Flyers (Long Island University's 1942 wizard team almost intact), then flattened Hawaii for the championship.

The Marianas swimmers--forced to make a two-mile swim ashore after a plane crash in which six of them were killed--came in a bad last behind the crack Philippines squad (60 points), Hawaii (54) and the Japanese Area (41).

In baseball, no one could touch the Manila Dodgers--thanks mainly to the strong right arm of Pfc. Kirby Higbe. After the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher shut out the Marianas All-Stars, 11-0, his team took the title with a ragged 12-7 win.

In the football windup--the 11th Airborne Angels v. the Honolulu All-Stars--a dead-eye quarterback named Mel Malloy (from Chicago's Austin High) stole the show. In a drizzling rain he pitched two touchdown passes for the triumph (18-0) over the Jock Sutherland-coached Honolulu eleven.

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