Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, February 25,1943.
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Hq., 921st, Hold To
96th League Firsts
Handball Hounds In
'Ladder' Tournament
Friday night’s lightweight bout
in Madison Square Garden between
Cleo Shans, veteran Los Angeles
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It had to happen sooner or later ♦
contender, and Johnny Greco of
As a prelude to the Camp ■ .air night at either Field House (phone
ROLL ’ER TO 7
As the sixth week of the 96th Di
Canada, will be broadcast over singles and doubles handball tour-
or Fire Station I (next-door
Added sports news will be found
vision's championship cage tourney by gently turning over—to Page 7
KWIL, Albany. Tutje to 1280 kilo
tc Lorenz Court on 1st St. S. and F>
namtnts’ to be conducted in late
roared by, the three way first place (lucky number!).
cycles at 7 p. m.
Phone is 3131. Play will begin next
tie up in the Kane League was
April and May. a singles “ladder” Thursday and tournament will close
broken when the high and mighty
tournament will be launched next March 16. On March 15 and 16,
five of the 2nd Bn., 381st Infantry
players standing in the first four
Thursday on the Lorenz Court.
took a nose dive at the hands of
rungs on the ladder will meet in
When
the
ladder
tourney
is
well
the 1st Bn.. 382nd Infantry. This
underway and player combinations pl; y-off matches for the champion
leaves the 96th Division H.Q. Com-
ship.
prny and the 1st Bn., 382nd In
arranged, a doubles tournament
Soldier Hockey Star,
To cl;mb the ladder. Chief Sherk
Nothing
Fussy
About
fantry still fighting it out for the
will also be started. This was the said, a player may challenge an-
CpI.
Bob
Smith,
Was
lead.
: Second Guessing Fusselman; He Still
announcement yesterday of Fire o'her player rated rot more than
Tech. Sergeant Howard Berge,
Great Gopher Lineman
Chief A. L. Sherk, who has been two rungs above himself. Matches
t. v guard of the 96th Division
under A.A.U. rules.
By T Sgt. E. A. Brown
Adds; 79 Pts. Total
playing the old Irish game for lo,
Headquarters squad, earned hi*
Corporal Robert A. Smith, ath
The tournament is open to all
T
these 30-odd years, and is sort of
keep in last Friday night's game
letic director assigned to the 96th
handball players—EM, officers cr
when he led his spirited team mates
the
unanimously-appointed
handball
Division
Special
Service
Section,
Ten Bouts on Card at
'Wolves' Hit Stride
The three New York baseball
The high and mighty Lester L.
civilians—on this Post. Al! play
in a 36-24 triumph against the 321»t
was recently added to the lineup
clubs, which can quarrel over noth Fusselman of the 921st F.A. Bn. commissioner pre-tem in these ing dates will be cleared by phon-
Engineers. Dispelling the old feel
of
an
all
service
men
’
s
hockey
team
Salem Armory March 5 ing at times, agree that they won’t still wears the coveted crown of the parts.
With Passing Attack
i ing 3131. Next Sentry will an-
ing that big mon are slow men,
which meets at the Portland Colis
High-lights of tourney rules fol ; nounce entries and ratings; players
let
any
of
their
players
train
by
96th
Division
’
s
basketball
high
Berge, who has to knock the snow
• themselves in warmer climates
eum every Sunday night.
scorer with 79 points to his credit low:
I of proved past performance will be
off his nose every morning, ran
To sports adicts, Bob Smith will
Two 96th Div. boxing teams will after the northern camps open . . . in six weeks of competition, Fus-
With identical, “believe it or
Enter by Monday
1 seeded to start, others to be placed
long-legged circles around the En
not” scores, the Timber Wolf bas be remembered as one of the Uni help the American Legion Capital “You know a ball I player's idea of selman has been in the le^d ever
Entries must be filed by Monday by lot.
gineer* until the competition looked
ketball team clipped the 96th Divi versity of Minnesota’s outstanding Post No. 9, of Salem, put across training,” snorts Secretary Eddie -(nee the round robin series opened
like that they had dropped their I
linemen during the 1940 and 1941 the first of a series of scheduled Brannick of the Giants. “They up and it looks like he’s going to be
picks anil shovels. I ven though his sion in their “big game” at Field football seasons when the Gophers
boxing shows, in the Salem arm- i work out a few i minutes then go us permanent as Gibraltar.
House,
in
a
prelim,
the
Div.
Hdq.
defensive position in past games
were national collegiate champions. ory March 5 and also assist the play a round of ; golf.’’ . . . We’re
Master Sergeant Burdette Owen
has prevented him from taking a | outfit outbattled the 921st FA team
He is 23 years old and parks his day room fund of the Post by doing going to urge them all to do some ' of the 96th Division Headquarters
primary place in the lime light of of the 96th.
| road work before they report," adds Company was right behind him at
The score* — 58-38 — tor both 2J0 pounds at 96th Division Head so.
the high scorers, Berge managed to
quarters
Company.
He
intends
to
I
A
10-bout
card
is
planned,
rang-
games!
One
would
suspect
collu-
Ed Barrow of the Yanks. “We al the close of the week's hostilities
get around the net throughout the
go back to school when the war is ! ¡ng all the way from bantam to ways do.” ... The Dodgers’ Branch with 56 points while his team mate.
setup ami knocked off first place 1 1 ion, had the action not been so
I
.
„
and including a . Rickey says he’d like to get five or Corporal Norman Weiner, boasted
i fast, furious and the scoring *o over and complete his senior year heavyweight
with 9 points.
in busine** administrâtion.
| "grudge” battle between one ' six players together for prelimi 48 points to put him right ahead of
In the Easley League, the M.P. well diversified.
“Lackamu” a 98-pounder and a nary work about March 1 so he the 921st’s J.
Lots of girls. Music by TOPHATTERS.
asley who pulled up
It was a fitting and climactic
Platoon, despite the loss of big Bill
Today’s Guest Star
party called “Lipsey,” who scales could be sure how their condition in fourth place with 47. Donnie G.
Salem's Leading Dance Band
Boeder who was laid up with a duo of melees, marked by presence
Hal Wood, Twin Falls (Idaho) 280. This ought to bring back the 1 ing is coming along.
VanDervort, also of the 921st, has
sprained ankle, subbed Sevier, who of both the artillery bands of the
If the war keeps up flea und the elephant story. the I
dropped down to fifth with 46
Salem Armory—Adm. 50c—Every Saturday, 9 P. M.
heretofore has starred at forward, 96th and the Timber Wolf divi Times-News: "I"
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points.
Sponsored by Capital Post No, 9, American Legion
in the center position and made a sions, plus and a lusty, roaring and the feminine side takes over I Fighters will represent
Babe
Ruth
’
s
idea
that
northern
fourth rally to eke out 27 points crowd of rooter* for both divisions. sports reporting, the boys who make 381st Inf. team, which SSO Lt., training will “ruin” players and
the all-star team will be the one*
against the 15 of the 1st Bn., 381st Among fans who perhaps helped who have the prettiest curls, the Robert Burrett says is going great that the pitchers will only be good
Infantry. Results of the other put the Timber Wolves over the best color combinations on their guns and a team of the 383rd Inf., for a few innings at the start
games:
IM THE
top was Major General Gilbert R. suits — and who look like good with Lt. Edward McCloy, SSO, in brought a series of snorts along the
ITS CAMELS FOR
Kane League- H.Q. Co. 96th Div., Cook and his daughter, Ce Ce, who jitterbugs."
tow.
baseball beat ... “What did he ever |
ARMY
BOMBER
28, 361st F.A. Bn., 18; 2nd Bn„ have been ardent rooters for the I
know about training?” was the
ME-THEYVE GOT
381st Inf., 32, 3rd Bn., 382nd Inf., squad all season long and Brigadier I
general reaction . . . And you gotta
SQUADRONS
26; 1st Bn. 382nd Inf., 35, .161st General Bryant E. Moore.
WHAT IT TAKES !
admit the Babe never took his
F.A. Bn., 18.
Div. Hdq. Smoothies
spring work too seriously ... Dixie
Easley Iaugue 796th Ord. Co.,
In the preliminary game the
Walker, for one, figures that play
30, 1st Bn. 381»t Inf., 24; 921st F.A.
"LAYING THE EGGS
Div. Hdq. squad of the Timber
ers
who live in the North all winter
Bn., 44; 9<lth Q.M. Co.. 27; 798th
for dropping the bombs
Wolves showed the class which has
will
be
a
lot
better
off
for
staying
;
Y
Ord. Co., 29, 362ml F.A. Bn., 27;
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kept them undefeated in their Divi-
there to train instead of moving '
1st Bn., 883rd Inf, 35, 1st Bn.,
"BROWNED OFF
The Redlegs once again crushed i
Infantry League
sion league, when they took the
to a warmer climate and back
381st Inf., 33.
for bored
W.
921st F.A. of the 96th by the 58-3« the Bonehead*, 36-17 at Field House
L. again ...
Tuesday
night
and
clinched
the
Ar-
Mountaineers
11
1
count. Div. Hdq. led by 10 points
"PIECE OF CAKE
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New York
Toma Mauriello, at half time. Vandervoort and i tillery League tit!e;the Mountain Gull*
10 — 2
With as much fanfare as a Byrd 1
for an easy job
189%, New York, outpointed Vin Fusselman, With 16 and 10 points, eers of Infantry de-spouted the Geysers
5
7 expedition setting sail for the '
cent Pimpinella, 172%, New York, high-scored for the losers. The re- Geysers, 36-24 to cinch theirs; so Engineers
"CAMEL
2
10 South Pole, a group of intrepid .
(Ut».
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for the Army man’s favorite
2
10 explorers led by Branch (Christo- I
| markablo 27 points sunk by Pvt. till of the three Timber Wolf league Pill Rollers
cigarette
Artillery League
1 Cleve Kennedy really put the Div, basketball champions are now de
pher Columbus) Rickey has headed j
9 '
Redlegs
11
Hdq. boys across, backed by the cided. Presenting them:
up the Hudson river to find a place ,
Infantry League—the Mountain I Boneheads
10
3 called Bear Mountain, where the
greut floor work of Adams nntl
eers, with' 11 wins, 1 loss.
FIRST ift THF SFRVICF
| Falcons
4
7. Brooklyn Dodgers will establish a 1
Manion.
Artillery League—Redlegs, with Hees
With men in the Army, Navy,
3
8 mailing address in March.
For about the first time this sea
YOU BET
, 11 wins, 2 losses.
Marines, and Coast Guard, the fa
I Generals
1
1 I
son the traveled Timber Wolf divi- j
Bear Mountain is a well-known
vorite cigarette is Camel. (Based
I Special Troops League — Hdq.
TH EYRE PLENTY
Special Troops League
sion teum really got their passing
I ski resort, but underneath that
on actual sales records in Post
Co., with 11 wins, 0 losses.
Hq. Co.
1 I
o white stuff skiers glide over and i
attack on the beam and it was this
Exchanges
and
Canteens.)
There are only two games in
MILD
TUMBLE INN
9
2 sit down in, Rickey has been told
more than any other factor which this great intra-mural competition Snoo)A*rs
Storekeepers
5
6 can be found no fewer than five
gave them victory over the speedy remaining. Neither will affect the
2 Mi. N. of Albany on Hwy. 99
2
9 baseball diamonds where the Dodg
and hard-fighting team of the 96th. standings In any way, hence the Sigs
EVERY SATURDAY
WITH FLAVOR
o
10 ers can practice their profession—
Scoring was diversified for both big guns of the Timber Wolves are Balls o’ Fire
NIGHT
outfits.
The
58
Timber
Wolf
points
if
they
don't
get
tangled
up
in
Enjoy the Smooth, Modern
pointed to the play-off to decide
BASKETBALL GAMES
were earned Frazier, 13; Duffy, which team is class of the three
Stylings of
their skis.
WANTED
13; Badgley, 11; W«im*n, 5; leagues.
Groundkeepers
Baseball moguls- 1st Sgt. Tom 1 Rickey already has accepted
Adams, 4; H. Blown, 10; C. Brown,;
Play Off Rattles
Duvee and Lt. Walter W. Kirksey, Bear Mountain as a training site,
lO-Piece ORCHESTRA
2
I
These
will
happen
next
Tuesday
who
direct the operations of both but never a person to leave any
The
96th
Div.
’
s
38
is
added
'
featuring
DOROTHY EVAN'S
Weimer, 1; Bolte, 9; Sevier, 3; and Thursday nights and, judged on the soft ball and league ball teams thing to chance he decided to take
Keeder, 7; Gilmore, 4; Wiskoske, performance basis, odds favor the of their battery, have decided to do his groundkeeper from Ebbets ,
stream-lined Hdq. Co. squad of Spe their spring training right nt home
2; Berge, 3; Jawkowski, 9.
Field to make an inspection and j
cial Troops. Undefeated, their vic (Camp Adair). (Any ball teams
1 compile technological data such as | i
tories include that against the 96th wanting to book training games
,,
,
_
wiivii
when iiv
he would
wuuiu iivvu
need v»»
to start i va
ex- - , i
Div. 921st outfit.
now write !■ or cull to 1st. Sut. T. I
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.
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l avatine. Newspapermen anil pho-i
rv "( — 363rd
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F.A. __
Bn. .
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Two teams, picked by lot, will Drvee, Btry
tographers were included in the
meet Tuesday night. 7 o’clock, at at 6th So. and E. Ave. All teams expedition to assure that the find- ■
CORI Al.I.IS
Field House, The third will draw invited. Our hall field is your field, ’ ings were recorded for posterity. ;
Thursday -Friday-Saturday
a bye and on Thursday, March 4. and ready, they say.
Many of the newspapermen in '
7 p. m., meet the winner of Tues-
the party have accompanied the
day's battle, By any count, if
96th Leagues
Dodgers to Hsvana. Cuba, for:
you like Dr. Naismith's famous
training in the last two years and
•-a me, these fracases should be
their reactions to the change from
worth the price of admission—just
tropical to polar conditions may be
wear your uniform over to Field H.Q (’<>. 96th Div.
worthy of historical attention, also.!
House. Final league standings:
FRAGER'S
Ist Bn., 383rd Inf
if the phenomena does not destroy !
2nd Bn., 38 Ist Inf
wes
\
the recording instruments.
96th Signal Co.
ROY '
To West Point
ii.l Bn.. MM Inf.
Besides inspecting Bear Moun
VENETIAN
2nd Bn.. 383rd Inf
tain the party will look over the
ALBANY
Mist F A. Bn.
field house at West Point, five
Gabby* Hayes
Ea*lgy League
«
miles away. It is here the Dodgers
Mlg| FA Bn
Now Playing
J*-—
probably will do most of their
M
P
Platoon
//'
-FLYING FORTRESS’
training, if the explorers find what
2nd Bn., 382nd Inf
The Avengers"
KU II V KI» I.KI 1 N I
they expect to find on the ground
3rd
Bn..
381*1
Inf
C »KIA LEHM \NN
With Ralph Richardtutn
at Bear Mountain.
796 t h Ord. Co.
We are doing our level
Arrangements have been made
Ist Bn.. 3M3rd Inf.
Coming Sunday
Starts Sunday
for the Dodgers to use the baseball
321at Med. Bn
best to carry on as near
-CROSSROADS”
cage in the Army’s field house for
ly to normal service —
W ai POW IT I and
three hours on any day when con
Hint I.AMARR
ditions are not suitable for practic
both in stocks and in in-
ing outdoors at Bear Mountain.
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dividual help to shoppers
< »uval i.iw1»tarar rm* in«
Wonder if Ford Frick's effort to
—as it is humanly pos
< OK\ O LIS
get the Phils back on their feet
First Baptist Church
will be as successful as his first big
sible under present con-
Th itrsdayt-Friday—Saturday
GRANADA
Albany ... Fifth and Lyon
job as National League president
ALBANY
Feb. 2.1-28
ditions.
... Baek in 1935, if you remember. I
Frick
stopped
into
John
Heydler
’
s
I
First ILiplist Church
Now Playing
shoes just in time to deal with a '
’orvalli«, Ninth and Monroe
P. M.
HK.HW AYS IB NK.HT
similar situation at Boston ... He j
March 2-8
KH II »RD CARI SON
(or the National League» wasn’t
so gentle that time as yesterday's
Each Address illustratisi with
dealings with Gerry Nugent . . . I
large colored charts.
Munday
Gerry, at least, got some money-
"
ednesday
Dr. Rot I.. Brown Speaker
out
of it. but all Judge Emil Fuchs
Friday
got when they took the Braves
Saturday
DONT FORGET YOU ARE
away from him »i< the bounce... |
WELCOME t participate in
Start* Sunday
But the Braves kept solvent and ,
SKATEWAY
all the activities vf the two
churches.
then moved out of last place, which I
FALCON'S BROTHER”
Roller Rink
was all the league required .. . All
GEORGE SANDERS
SERVICE MENS < ENTERS
we
can say for the Phils’ buyers is
7th
X
Montgomery
also
in ALBANY A CORVALLIS
•.hat they must have as much cour
Albany, Oregon
Coming Sunday—3 Day*
Make it your home when in
M AN W HO ( IMS
age as money—and our understand,
l.'sn Relax Write letters
'Journey for Margaret"
TO DINNER”
mg is that they had to show ■ g sxl
Mid * illaiaettr Valiev'*
UMS TvMPlt,
Always something to eat
ROBERT VOL NG and
Top-F light Roller Kiah
MONTE WiMtU-EY
bankroll for expense* beside«
LARAINB DAY
price of the club’s stock.
Timber Wolves Defeat 96th in ‘Big Games9
Division Pugilists
Battle lor Legion
Identical Scores
Both Games, 58-38
:
DANCE
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Decide Timber Wolf
Cage League Champs
LET’S DANCE
at
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