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Soys Now Is Not Time
To Eye Dollar Sign
Pfc. Bob Kuskautf, Editor
Rogers Hornsby, general manag-
er of the Fort Woith Cats and vet-
eran of many illustrious battles
along ba «■ball's rugged trail, says
it's time '• r the Texas league to
off the dollar sign
take its e
Executive i of the league,
A-l minor ii<nit. recessed their
meeting ut Shreveport over the
week end after asking Manpower
Ci.mrni- ■ ■• i r Pi d McNutt to de
fine the . tu- ■ professional base
ball player*, d< daring the I. .
could not
rate unless the man
power eonimis-ion approved
game n e sential.
Fear Charges Hurled
“They don’t want to take
chance," Hmn-by charged of
Shreveport, lb. . tn . San Antonio,
Dalia-, l i t a and Beaumont. Okla
homa City is " tm ding with Fort
Worth for operation of the league.
“Tl" y’rc afraid they'll lose some
thin!'',” said the m m who last year
was nanud to La i ball’s hull of
fame. "They : e n't willing to fight
and tak: ,u I". m an effort to keep
ti e game : ’•ir .’-, m ■.¡ve the people
the fine.t, he.ill ■ . • entertainment
in the world.
No Room for Fear
“Thi' t : i time to be afraid. All
over the world pi ule arc fighting
and ii king ever' ¡liing for what
they consider v. ,rth while. Now is
the time for ba i hall men to take
their e.Vc off ti■■•if dollar sign und
ill
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i illy bit
lleye in lhe mi lit - of the gaum."
96th Div. Hoopsters
At It Hot and Heavy
Northern Division Standings
W L. Pct. PF PA
6 3 .6(17 415 441
W. S. C.
(1 4 .609 475 417
Washington
Oregon
7 5 .693 518 469
(). S. C.
5 5 .500 450 45«
1 H .111 367 442
Idaho
Four team!
Washington State.
Oregon, Or< (’on State and Wash-
ington -■ remained in the northern
division bu-ketball contention after
Saturday night’s play.
The t oile m s of Washington
Stale, one hall : . ine ir» front, face
ii rii’emus tret ’h finish calling for
a foui gnnii roml trip to Eugene
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23 to 27, point in nine gnm< s. Lew Beck
plus h trip to M os <(» a , Idaho, to of Oregon Stati und Bill Morris of
meet the tail-eider:. Two other
games with Idaho are at Pullman.
I Oregon, in third spot, ha won
more games than the other teams
and bus three of it - remaiiiing four
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games nt Eugene.
Wn hington
49
must meet Idaho nt Mo'cow thi
40
week mid Oregon Slate at Seattle
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to wind things up.
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The northern division individual
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scoring race hn develop d , to u
dizzy race. Flipping End Quinn
of the tail-enilei■■• Idaho, ha- set
the scoring puce . ee the imon 337th Q.M.'s Break Tie in
opened and now ha. u t< • il . f Ils
Post Complement League
The two top teams in the Post
.. mi I and IX Corps basket-
tall h ague are in a race a* tight
as a fat lady's girdle. The 337th
t* M five has negotiated the entile
season thus fur without a defeat to
m .r its iiri ial. The eln sy SCU
Q.M quint is pressing close on the
leader's heels having lost only one
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game • ■ fur. With the season fast
. oniing to u dose the smart money
Im- it that the league title will end
in n lie when the two leaders meet
again.
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Monday
V edn< -day
Friday
Saturday
tiro n Speak»'
Rolling along like a runaway i
locomotive the 96th Division’s
round robin basketball tourney
gained momentum this past week
in a cries of hot and heavy tussles
Timber Wolf Basketball
at the Field House.
(■ames. Standings, Page 7
From the looks of the score liook
it is obvious that there will be
ome excellent games in the offing Service Fives Romping
luring the next few weeks. Thus Over College Teams
'ar, both the Kane and Easley
| leagues are tied for first place and
The Serviceman’s basketball
1 the .only way to break the deadlock teams are wreaking as much havoc
I is by a series of elimination games. among collegiate foes as did their
However, the leaders on all fronts gridiron brethren in the first half
are far from completing their of the football season-
Reports
schedules and anything is liable to from various sections of the coun
happen before that time does ar- try indicate that there are about
10 different military outfits that
As a harbinger of things to come rate with or above the best college
the outstanding game of the past teams.
Ineluded in the listing are the
week featured the severe 39-21
trouncing that the 3rd Bn. of the Noifolk Navai Training Station,
383rd Inf. inflicted upon a larger Great Lakes, 36th Armored Regi
but slower team • representing the ment, Camp Grant, 111., Aberdeen
96th Signal company. Following Proving Grounds, Corpus Christi
till- old adage of the bigger they (Tex.) Naval Air Station, St.
come, the harder they fall, the Mary’s (Calif.), Nava] Pre-Flight,
mighty mites opened the game with Newport (R.I.), Naval Training
a tremendous burst of speed and .Station, Camp Edwards (Mass.)
kept up the pace throughout the and Manhattan Beach Coast Guard.
The Norfolk bunch seems to be
entire game.
Signal company picked up the the best. Led by Red Holzman, the
pace in the second quarter and former <]ity College star, they
dropped a number of field goals rushed through their first 20 games
to score seven points to the Infan against the stiffest sort of opposi
try’s four but dropped down again tion without coming close to de
in the second half. From then on, feat.
Observers who have watched the
it was speed exclusively and the
383rd had a monopoly on the mar- Norfolk outfit in action say it
might possibly be the very best in
ket.
all the land. Their most outstand
Leading the hot shots was Gil-
ing performance was a complete
more of the 383rd who outpassed
route of the powerful Georgetown
both his team mates and his oppo
team. The Hoyas, rated highly in
nents by chalking up 14 points. In
the East, were unbeaten when they
all probability he would have piled
faced the Norfolks .... had not
up even more had he not been taken
even been pressed by any of their
out in the middle of the last quar
Southern and Eastern foes. But
ter when the referee called his
the Sailors romped to a shocking
fourth foul.
ly one-sided, 15 point triumph.
Results of the weeti's games are
You can start an argument in
as follows:
any military reservation if you
Easley League
attempt to rate any of these clubs.
921st F A Bn. 49, 796th • )rd. But we'll risk having the MP’s and
Co. 22.
SB’s called to say that the Great
3rd Bn. 381st Inf. 35, 1st I Bn.. Lakes team seems to be the second
383rd Inf. 26.
best among the boys in the Service.
M. P. Platoon 55, 362nd F. A. It has met defeat now and then,
Bn. 16.
but it boasts defeats over Creigh
Kane League
i ton, which had been unbeaten, and
361 st F A. Bn. 25. 3rd Bn. 382nd Stanford, which was ’42’s national
Inf. 20.
champion.
2nd Bn., 383rd Inf. 34. 363rd
The Great Lakes outfit, which is
F. A. Bn. 19.
loaded with stars from the Big Ten
3rd Bn., 383rd Inf. 39, 96th Sig
teams and other outstanding court
nal Co. 21.
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leaders, started out the season with
And here are the league stand
an all-star five, led by Bob Davies,
ings:
former Seton Hall sensation. Every
lad on the team was a crack shot,
Lost
they were good pals, and yet they
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F. A. Bu.
Jacked smoothness because each
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Platoon
hail been drilled for three years in
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college to take command of the
1
2 hall, and do the playmaking. After
a couple of few-points set backs,
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the duh was shuffled and now the
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training station has three complete
teams which shuttle back and forth
5
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during a game anil run you ragged.
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The “all-star” five now is the sec
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ond team.
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The St. Mary's Pre-flighters
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must be rated right behind Great
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2 Lakes. It is led by Hank I.uisetti.
former Stanford stalwart, who is
considered by many to be the great
SGT. COMMI MH I»
est basketball player of our time.
The Moraga
Marauders have
Official recognition of Sgt. i whipped most
of the best on the
Paul F C Vaka’s work in con
1 West Coast - — a fast league, you
nection with the Timber Wolf
: know.
Division Army Orientation
The 36th Armored Regiment [
course broadcast has been made
seems to be the best of the Army.
in a commendation by Major
General G. R Cook, The com- ; It bogged down a bit after a bril-
mendation cited the sergeant’s ' liant start, but it suddenly acquired
presentation of "The Battle of I John Garfinkel, (former St. John’s
star) from the Bowman Field
the Atlantic" as outstanding.
' Bombers and John Toomey from
I the Fort Knox post. (AAU All-
I American), and has been going
great guns since
LET S DANCE
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BOYD
RUSKAUF KAYO’ED
Pfc. Bob Ruskauf. sports edi
tor of Ye Sentry, over matched
himself last week and is rele-
gated to the sidelines by the
team physician. So if in this
issue you find the basketballers
playing football and the hand
ballers playing black-jack, blame
it all on Kid Measles. His sneak
punch to Ruskauf makes this
page a trifle spotty.
Hq. Co. Five Leads in
Round Robin Tourney
Mur) Spark< ( op) and 1 city lidie ol the 1 ,os Angeles
Athlcti»’ club rebeurse a dificult U) mi uEtic stunt in preparation
for dui» compdilion. Their acrobati< h require both grace and
physical I ouk I iik
Four Quintets Still
In Race for Crown
'’’MOPP'
UtKbKLS
Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, February IS. 1943.
10-Piece ORCHESTRA
I
featuring
DOROTHY EVANS
I
The routine physical examina
tion began shortly before 8 a. m.
The «ath of induction, provided the
examination is passed, will follow
later and the New York Yankees'
•43 750-a-y.ar star would be in
the lineup of another Yankee team
for the duration.
Schoolboy Rowe Returns
To Minor Leagues Again
Pitcher Lynwood (Schoolboy)
Rowe and Catcher Homer (Dixie)
Howell have been sold to the Mon-
treat Royals of the International
league in a straight cash trans-
action, the Brooklyn Dodgers an
nounced Monday.
Bought originally from the De
troit Tigers, Rowe was optioned to
the Royals last August. Howell also
was on the option with the Royals
last season.
Washington State continues to
lead northern division basketball
with only three defeats as yet, one
fewer than Washington has, but
don’t bank on it too much. The
Cougars have seven left to Wash
ington’s six, four of ’em on the
dreaded four-gaines-in-five nights
Willamette valley trip.
Worst,
their sparky captain Owen Hunt
TERRIBLE TERRY
goes immediately to the army.
PHIL MANAGER?
With Oregon and Oregon State
I
Sports fans in the Quaker
rapidly putting each other out in
t city Monday looked forward tc
their throat-cutting series, Wash-
Bill Terry a« temporary presi
ington chances loom as be? r. T -e
de:.t of the Phils, as a syndi-
♦ ; ■ i
Oregon schools have now li
' ate’s offer to buy the National
tach. Oregon having fo-.r? mcr o
play (three at home, one at Cur-- league team seemed to have hit
a snag.
vallis) and Oregon State six (three
Terry has been reported to
at home, three on road). Washing
ton with six left has thus far lost
be willing to assume charge of
only feur. and after the recent Ida
the Phils’ business affairs, and
ho '■ ries the final four all come
in the event that he is given
on her own floor.
executive powers, it is predict
ed that he will appoint Frank
The main chance to haul down the
Huskies is for Idaho to rally and ; I (Pancho) Snyder, former big
league catcher, as manager.
take a game. It could happen, at
that, if B ib Ryan helps by having I
a big basket-hitting night, for the SCU team their first defeat,
Freddy Quinn, the league’s leading i Previously the SCU’s had won It
scorer, is always apt to break loose. straight games.
In fact, Washington defense would i 1 Pvt.’s Torgerson, Sid Rosen,
seem to be made to order for him. Charlie Johnson, John Steer, Larry
Ford, not defensively brilliant, Belka and Sgt. Hank Di Benedic-
would never stop Quinn. If the job tus who comprise the sturdy Ser
is put up to Chuck Giimur, who vice Command hoopsters, are out
gets it done only at cost’of many ' for revenge. Teamk next on sched
fouls, he’s almost sure to foul out.
ule—look out!
QM Hoopsters Lose
Heartbreaker, 36-34
The QM SOU 1911 basketball
team bowed to the 337th QM Depot
Co. 36-34 in a hard, fast game last
week. The 337th hoopst'ers, league
champs, had the honor of handing
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