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....
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