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Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, December 24, 1542.
96th Sigs Win Volley Ball Title In Home Games What is a Comeback?
Sink Battery A
In Final Games
For Inspection — Here's The Timber Wolf Basketball Squad
With Six Tilts Astern
Cagers Rest Making
Ready for O.C.E. Go;
Willamette Loss Bitter
Signal Company in 3-1
Triumph as Melees
At Field House Climax
Divisional Round Robin
In one of the best nip-and-tuck
Volleyball tussles yet seen at Camp
Adair, the 96th Signal Company
emerged victorious in the best three
out of five series last Friday night,
at the Field House, to claim the
divisional championship.
Under the brilliant captainship
of Sergeant C. F. Ward, the signal
boys had a swell battle on their
hands and almost bit off more than
they could chew when they took on
the crack team of Battery A, 362nd
Field Artillery.
Both teams hud been proved the
ace outfits of the division in a
round-robin elimination contest
which began two weeks ago.
Get 'llie Jump
Signal company took the first
round, scoring 15 points to the ar
tillery’s 6. In the second setup, the
artillery came back with all their
big guns firing simultaneously and
their 15 points to Signal's 9 at the
whistle began to make some of the
fans feel a bit dubious about the
highly-touted pole climbers.
The third game was a bit differ
ent, however, and the Signal boys
seemed to get their second wind as
they trounced their opponents, 15-
5. The fourth, and final game, was
a little less one sided with Signal
company scoring the top 15 to the
Artillery’s 10.
Goodly Throng
A record crowd was on hand to
witness the playoff which was fol
lowed by presentation of th«
championship cup. I n an impress
ive ceremony, Colonel H. M. Mon
roe, chief of staff of the 96th Divis
ion, presented the beautiful trophy
to Team Captain Ward, who in turn
gave it over to Captain Harold A.
Mitchell, commander of the Signal
company. Also on hand to congrat
ulate the winners was Major A. D.
Stephanson, divisional signal of
ficer.
Lineups were as follows:
362nd F. A. Hstt. A.
96lh Signal
Radcliffe
F
C. F. Ward
.....,.. New
Rolit. Javore .... F
Beach
F. Barnett ... ....F ....
Sokolowski
I.
N. H Russell
C
Anderson
W. L. Wppds
R. Diamond
R
Vogel
Subs: fur 96th Signal—Turner,
Le Febvre, Kinkade, Knoll, Hart;
for 362ml F. A., Batt. A: Geese,
Shapiro, Custer, Lynch. •
One monthly Post game, at the
Field House, will be added to the
Timber Wolf basketbal schedule.
It resumes January 8 after a holi
day spell, against Oregon College
of Education, at Corvallis, Coach
Lt. Bob Duffy said yesterday.
Six games are under the belt
thus far. Five remain as the sched
ule stands, but will be augmented.
One of the prospective Field
House tilts may bring the Timber
Wolves against the flashy north
west conference champions, Ore
gon State college, on their return
from the current Beaver road tour.
OSC opens tomorrow night at Madi
son Situare Garden, against New
•
York City College.
In their Friday night set-to
against Williamette College at Sa-
lem, the division basketeers lost a
heart-breaker, 43-46. They trailed
by 16 points, 36-20 with 15 minutes
to go—then spurted to tie things
up 43-43. But the Bearcats sank a
final field goal and free throw to
leave the final box score:
Boasting a hot crew of casaba artists who, many ol them, used to perform in major college competition. is the limber Wolf
divisional basketball squad. Oil athletic vacation until they resume their winter series January 9. they include: Front row (left to
right) with former colleges in parenthesis, are I’fc. I.oren Garrett (Missouri). Sgt. < lark Brown (Iowa), Lt. Herb Brown (Indiana), Lt.
Gene Badgley (Iowa). I.t. Joe Quin (Seton Hall). Lt. Sam Koster ("ol Point). Bat k row (left to right) are l.t. Bob Duffy (California),
both coach and player. Pvt. Waxman, Sgt. Al Burnick. l.t. I.loyd Etaiison (North Dakota), l.t. McElmurry (Oklahoma), and Corp. Kuk-
lin. (Signal Corps photo).
’ company champions meet for bat-
«
tulion titles and so on.
A. <>. Give* Trophy
A handsome trophy has been p<*r-
sonally donated by Capt. Wimer for
the champion emerging from the
post tournament.
15 Top Players Will
Investigation has revealed there J Eagerly-waited athletic equip ready distributed for use accord-
are
plenty of grade-A checker ment at least for two divisions— j ing to Captain Frank C. Wimer,
Compete in Play Off
players at Camp Adair and the has arrived from the Army ware I Post Athletic Officer, includes:
For each division—100 volley-
finals are quite likely to onvelop house at Kansas City and from
The Camp Adair checker tourna the service clubs in n mental aura now on out the athletic picture at balls. 100 basketballs, 100 footballs.
C a in p Adair, becoming colorful ' Fifty sets of boxing gloves have
ment, in which top players through you could cut with a knife.
In the finals al) match winners enough already, can really blossom. been received for the 96th Div.;
out the post will meet to determine
It stands to burgeon more later, 30 sets for the Timber Wolf divis
the camp chumpion, will be con will be determined by best two
ducted at the two service clubs, be out of three games won; draws on arrival of equipment requisi ion, which has also bolstered it’s
ginning the evening of Jan. 18 and won’t count, although they will be tioned and approved for Post Com athletic wardrobe with seven bad
plement anil EM of the IXth Corps minton sets, several boxers’ head
continuing four days, Capt. Frank tabulated for the- official score.
guards and softball paraphernalia.
Players to represent in the post stationed here.
<’. Wimer, post athletic officer, has
And For Horse Shoes
Goods For Soccer
tournament are to be selected and
revealed.
Among sports which it appears i Indicating that the old barnyard
Plan of play-off is designed to turned into Field House (phone
give ratio presentation for top 2897) by noon, Tuesday, Jan. 12, may zip upward due to arrival of game may develop plenty of able
players of each post unit, Capt. and will be immediately paired for the equipment, is soccer football. 1 pitchers come th«- spring tourna
Wimer said, and will be us follows: tournament play, Capt. Wimer The 96th and Timber Wolf divis ment, each division has received
ions have each received 100 soccer 100 sets of horse-shoes.
Conducted under tournament said.
■footballs.
All of the equipment is top
system, with six top-picked players
Other equipment here and al-' grade.
each eligible from the 96th and ! SECOND GUESSING
Timber Wolf divisions; three from I
with
the post complement and the sec
from point of attendance anil re
ROLL OVER
Sgt. E. A. Brow n
ond headquarter» IXth corps.
muneration to the participants, is
Edward J. Burke has boen pro
“How the contenders to compete
Miami's Orange Bowl, which will
More sports news will be found
moted to T 4, Pvt. C. Grasso re in the all-post tournifment are
It’s about time to pay belated play host to the Boston College
on Page Not 7.
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ports for the lloiiehead Bn., T.W. picked is up to the divisions ami tribute to the south and we don’t
Eagles with thrice-defeated Ala-
artillery.
post complement," Capt. Wimer mean South Dakota.
gama.
said. Some company champions are
We mean south of the Mason
The Crimson Tide is still one of
already established A suggested and Dixon line and we mean the the top-flight elevens of the Na
means of holding preliminary tour football clubs that come from tion. despite its loss to Georgia,
naments has been to pick company down there. The Southeastern (’on- Georgia T«-ch and Georgia Pre
champions via ladder tournments ferrnce of 12 members has a repre Flight. The 'Barna boys just had
C 'OKV A
in the day r<snn«; then have the sentative in the four leading a bad time this year against their
Thurs. - Fri. - Sat.
Sat
Bowls of the United States of New neighbors from the Cracker Stat«-.
Year's Day. They are, Georgia in This is the first season is some
GREAT
the Rose Bowl, Tennessee in the thing like 15 years that Alabama
Sugar Bowl, Alabama in the has lost to both Georg«' schools,
ETHER!
Orange Bowl and Georgia Tech in ■ and the Pre-Flighters made it a
Cotton Bowl.
. clean sweep against a football-
Just for the record it might b»' ! weary 'Barna in the last gam«' of
added that each of these teams the season, which nobody seemed
has participated previously in at to take very seriously anyway.
least one post-season classic and
Tech vs, Texas
Alubainu will be going to th«- Bowl
And last comes the Cotton Bowl
wars for th«- seventh time. This is . in Dallas. Texas, whii-h will see a
just one short of th«- record of I good Georgia Tech squad test the
eight held by Stanford.
defen««- of Coach Dana X Bible’s
Those Bulldogs
Texas outfit. Tech could have b«-en
Leading th,- pack ar«- th«1 Georg in either the Sugar or Orange
rtrsi cou a «*4«
kr
ia Bulldogs, who are making their I Rowls before the Georgia game,
f<ed C4s <—»*•». I—« l.l**4 c«y. N. T,
i first trip to th«1 Rose Bowl, where whether they won or lost it. it is
taiMtarsAta
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. they will meet the team with the understood, but the Engineer«
N«-w Deal ulphalx't mime. UCLA. I played for the high stak«*s of th«-
I or. if you'«I rather the University Rose Bowl, and lost.
of Corvallis
of California in Los Angeles. Be
However, Coach Bill Alexander
CORVALLIS
sides the glory of such an encoun welcomed th«' chance of meeting
ter. Georgia is expected to bring on«- of Coach Bible's teams again,
Thurs. - Fri. - Sot
! home around 9100,000, which the and then too, his teams have
: athletic association admits they played in practically every Bowl
E : can use right handily. For that m previous years except th«- Cot
: matter, we could, too.
ton. so this will add another title
Tennessee Ch«»*en
to the Jackets' already imposing
(Not (hriotian Church)
Perhaps the next most highly string, if they win and they haven't
730 E. 5<h St.
prixed Bowl invitation is that to yet lost n Bowl affair.
T i LLIAM
ALBANY. OREGON
the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans
MOOSE H O I
In recant years this event ha» at- Bell». < iw»kie! Dip In
2nd Si., t or» alii*
tracted almost as many fans as
\t Field House Tomorrow
Bible Class . 10:00 A. M z the Pasadena Tournament of
It s first come, first served
Roses. Tennessee, once lieaten KO
and
be careful of the cnjmb».
Preaching .,11:00 A.M.
by Alabama and ti«*«i in their first
at Field House, tomorrow.
game
of
the
season
by
South
Caro
Communion . 11:45 A M.
On top of the food from the
lina. but with an otherwise fine
Preaching ... B:0O P M.
Kloaning lw>arvl at mess hall.
record, was the choice of the Sugar
P-t athletes et al who wander
Bow l |»eople after Boston Colleg«’»
tata» Field H ouse for whatever
defeat «ml Georgia'» acceptance of
reason, will lie greeted by a big
to Wonhip
the Rose Bowl The Volunteers
Isirrvl of cookies. It’s help
will meet untasatrn Tulsa, and a yself.
Soldier’s Invitation
splendid game should result. Tulsa.
The cookies were sent to Ath-
atarrinf
| by the way. is th» only on» of the
lotie Officer. Capt. Frank C.
eight Bowl teams that was unde-
Claude A. Guild, Minister
Wimer (or EM, by the Aurora
| feated in th» regular »««son
it onian’e Club.
Thud among th« Bowl», nt l»a-t
Post Checker Tourney
Set Under Way Jan. 18
BIG DRINK
TO GO BUY!
Welcome
Santa Brings Divisions
An Athletic Sleigh-ful
Willamette (46)
Saxton, f .........
Kelly, f ...........
Schmidt, c .......
White, g
Runyan, K -
Barnick, K
Douglas, f ..
Weaver, K -
Ragsdale, f ..
Deiner, c ...
Ogdahl. g .......... . 0
Perry, f ............. 0
Totals .............
19
The picking season is on—and
here is the tally sheet of champ-
I i ions in civilian sports, as picked by
87 writers of Associated Press.
Tops—is CpI Sarney Ross down
in Guadalcanal. The little round-
faced Marine from Chicago, who
once held three world champion
ships, and on Nov. 19 delivered a
, bolo punch against the Japs, was
voted the Edward J. Neill Memor
ial trophy as boxing’s outstanding
man of the year.
The Neill trophy is in memory
of Eddie Neill, popular AP writer,
killed in Spaiirnp 1938. Choice of
Cpl. Ross was 'unanimous. In
other picks:
St. Louis “come-back”—to over
haul the Brooklyn Dodgers, then go
on to win four straight from the
Yankees (after dropping the first
game) and take the world series,
was acclaimed by 39 of 87 sports
writers as “top surprise of the
sports year.”
No. 2 surprise was the 55-12
licking Holy Cross gave Boston
College, until that time rated as
the nation’s no. 1 team.
Henry Armstrong provided the
year’s No. 1 comeback, for winning
13 bouts since coming out of re
tirement last summer.
Penny Singleton
Jan. 29 Bout Set for
Robinson-Armstrong
At last Ray (Sugar) Robinson
and Hammering Henry Armstrong
will meet. The January 29 date at
Madison Square Garden has been
announced as “set” after the usual
on-again-off-again maneuvering.
The bout was first called off when
Robinson said he “didn't want to
hurt Henry’s eyes.”
It took 37 seconds of the second
round for Turkey Thompson, col
ored Los Angeles heavy hope, to
KO Ernie Nordman of Kansas in
Portland Friday night.
But Al* “Confoozed"
Ft pt Tp
It
looks
though, as if AP writ-
I
0 2 2 ers were “slightly confoozed” in
2
1 10 i this year’s selections—point of ar
4 5 gument living what is the difference
1
0
1
4 between “comeback” and “sur
2 4 6 prise.” In a Dec. 18 dispatch from
1
2
2 New York, AP writer Jud Bailey
0
1
4 recited Armstrong as first, the
0 0 6 Cards second in the year’s come
I)
1
4 back vote. On Dee. 20 A P writer
2 ■ 1 Orlo Robertson’s story headlined I
1
1
2
1 the Cards, for furnishing the year’s |
1
0
0 biggest surprise. It was apparently i
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ROLLER
SKATING
8:00
P. M.
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Saturday
SKATEWAY
Roller Rink
7th & Montgomery
Albany, Oregon
Mid-Willamette Valley’«
Top-Flight Roller Rink
22
Camp Adair (43) Fg Ft Pf
1
1
Waxman. f
. .4
Badgely, f .......... 0 3 4
Brown, c ............. . . 0 0 2
Duffy, g ............. 3
1 0
Quinn, g
1
1
2
sH. Brown, f.
5 4 3
Koster, g
1
2 0
Garrett, c ...........
1
1
0
— — —
Totals ............. 16 11 13
Celebrate
■ ■
NEW YEAR'S EVE
at
■e
TUMBLE INN
2 Mi. N. of Albany on Hi. 99
43
DIVISION WINS AGAIN
The Timber Wolf Division again
was the victor in the jitterbug ex
hibition dances at the Salem ar
mory Saturday evening. Pvt. Jos
eph D. Lucera carried the colors
to victory in an enlarged field of
dancers. Sgt. Duke Ortoleva, Regt.
Hdq. Co., 44th Division, with his I
partner, Miss Jean Carkin of Sa
lem carried off second honors and
Pvt. D. Hoover, Hdq. Co., 1st Bn.,
Timber Wolves, received third
place.
Meet your friends and welcome the New Year at
. Linn county’s gayest and best dancing party.
featuring
AL. BENNING'S
10-Piece Orchestra
Dorothy Evans
Hats — Balloons — Fun — Noisemakers — Novelties
And All the Thrimmings!
DON’T MISS THIS PARTY!
May Your
Christmas Season
Be Extremely Happy in The
Thought of the High Service in
Which You Are Angaged.
We Salute You All
at Camp Adair
Churchof Christ
BLONDIE
GOES TO
COLLEGE
decided the Redbirds hadn’t made
a comeback at all.
It is all very surprising and
hardly worth coming back- to.
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