Camp Adair Sentry
Page Five
Thursday. March 25, 1943.
Timber Wolves Tangle in 10-Bout Card
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New Pole Vault Mark 47-45 Triumph Makes Post Fighters 'Fight' I
And Salem Re-Invites
By Warmerdam
Flying Dutchman'
Clears 15 Ft. 8’/2 In
CHICAGO — Ensign Cornelius
Warmerdam shattered all existing
pole vault records by clearing 15
feet 8% inches at Chicago indoor
relays; Frank Dixon, New York
university freshman, who reports
for active duty with U. S. army
Thursday, finished third to Gill
Dodds in 4:08.5 mile; Herb
Thompson equalled world 40-yard
dash mark of :04.4 and Greg
Rice won 63rd straight race by
taking two-mile.
Hdq. Co. 96th Champs
921st F. A. Cogers Go Down in
Shifting Field House Contest
The long debated question about what happens when
two like objects of the same size and weight but moving in
opposite directions come in contact with cacti other was
answered when the 96th Division basketball championship
was settled Wednesday night at, the Field House as the
921st F. A. Bn. went down fighting before the 96th Div.
Hq. Co. by the narrow margin of 45-47.
'Butcher Boy1
I.uby of Sea Gulls
Scrambled Sports
Lt. Emerson W. (Spike) Nelson,
former Yale head football coach,
was appointed recently to the
top gridiron post at the St. Mary
Naval Pre-Flight School.
Bill (Wild Bill) Hallahnn, who
pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals
in several world series games, re
ceived an honorable discharge from
the army last week.
Cadet Johnny Doolittle, son of
Maj. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, is on
the U. S. Military Academy box
ing team. He’s a middleweight and
is undefeated in three dual meets
this season.
Leo Durocher, Brooklyn Godg-
ers’ manager who was rejected by
the army recently because of a
perforated ear drum, is going to
start the season at shortstop. “In
don’t know how long I’ll last,”
Durocher declared, “but I’m hop
ing my starting infield will be
Vaughan at third, Herman as sec
ond, Camilli at first and myself
at short. That won’t be hard to
Although he dropped a highly-
disputed decision to Ernie Roster
take.”
man in his first fight. Bud Luby,
157 and former St. Paul butcher, is
A single Britain night raid of a top fighter of the Sea Gull stable.
1,000 bombers over the Rhineland He’ll take on “KO” Smith of the
cost close to 14 million dollars, the Mountaineer* as the prime Timber
regimental teams battle each
largest single item being the cost Wolf
other April 2 in Salem Armory.
of the planes that were lost.
— Signal Corps Photo.
i Thanks fo Her, Timber Wolf Ball Club
; Will Have Plenty Zoots for the Spring
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If there is such a thing as a
fairy godmother, the Timber Wolf
ball club has one. She is Mrs.
George E. Waters, owner of the
Salem ball team — silver-haired
and unassuming woman who has
just given the “wolves” another
big boost in their spring training
campaign, viz.:
The complete set of uniforms
“for a song” of the Balem nine,
plus right to use throughout the
season, three dozen practice uni
forms.
It all comes under the head of
a grand and welcome boost to the
spring crusade, AO Lt. Bob Duffy
and Business Mgr. Sgt. Long John
Wulf were united in declaring yes
terday.
In fact, unless the brothers on
the south side and elsewhere about
the Post are making a few under
cover plans on the very q.t., the
Timber Wolves have at least got
ten themselves a hop-step-and-
jump ahead of their competition
for spring baseball.
Try Out April 5
First workout« will be called for
April 5. Sgt. Wulf said. There will
be plenty of talent Plan is to give
every team hopeful a full and fair
break and after the try-outs It will
be up to Manager Sgt. Jack Knott,
the former St. Louis Brown« pitch
er, to whittle ’em down to squad
size.
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While the lead changed hands
frequently throughout the game,
the 921st headed away at the end
of each quarter. When the fourth
round started they had a five point
edge which the Hq. five started to
whittle down slowly but surely.
Dark Horse
Three minutes before the whis
tle. a dark horse came into (he
picture in the shoes of Pvt.
Bobbie Ludwig. Unheralded and
practically unknown. Ludwig had
warmed the headquarters bench
during most of the playoff and
his substitution at guard seemed
a matter of last minute routine.
Then the Hdq. men began cook
ing With gas. Ludwig cut loose
with a terrific offensive that re
minded some of the fans of Chicago
vintage of the kid’s ability around
the Windy City that made him an
all prep cageman. He followed be
hind swell blocking and sank the
two successive field goals which
gave headquarters the winning
points.
Staff Sgt. Clarence Bolte put
another feather in his already well
plumed cap when he scored 15
points for Hq. Company and thus
assumed the vaunted individual
high scoring honors of the entire
championship playoff. Bolte's dead
eye accuracy Tuesday night against
the 1st Bn. of the 382nd lof. made
him top man also on that night.
96th Finals
Boz Score
Hq. Co. 96th Div.
Player
Fouls FG TP
W. Weiner
9
2
4
R. Ludwig
2
8
4
2
H. Berge
3
6
L Bonano
0
0
0
C. Bolte
. 1
7 15
B Owen
..... 2
0
4
2
N. F tied
... 1
5
Several games will be played in
the Salem Park, which Sgt. Wulf
describes as “one of the finest Class
B ball parks I’ve ever seen; well
set up and with a particularly good
J.
infield.”
D.
T.
L.
E.
J.
Strong Duck Baseball
Team Being Readied
10
20
2
3
2
o
3
0
4
2
0
5
3
4
47
921st F.A. Bn.
Horner
Van Devort
Goad .........
Fusselman
Thompson
Spiller
Mountaineers and Sea
Gulls Battle April 2
The kind of punching that Camp
Adair's fighting men dish out ap
parently is exactly the kind that
fight fans who pack Salem’s Arm
ory in the Legion-sponsored by
weekly fight cards like to see.
At least the third series matches
at 8:15 p.m. April 2 will see two
outfits of the Timber Wolf divi
sion tangling.
Proceeds will help the day room
fund and EM are invited at the
cordial admission of 25 cents.
Two main events are billed and a
pair of semi-windups by Coach
Cpl. Siscoe’s Mountaineers outfit
and Pvt. Oscar Liuzza’s Sea Gulls,
who make their second appearance.
The gos:
Sea Gull* vs. Mountaineers.
Main Events
Louie Beni—170—Willie Epinettv
Eddie (.litterbug) Collins — 115
.Johnny Seriuino.
Semi Windups
Bobby M om »*
1 16 Bill McDaniels
Johnny Cruickschank -15.H • i*rter "l.iml.
Other bouts: Gracia vs. Morris 12•<.
Surface vs. Judd. 13G; Borrego vs. Krich
en. 158: Easley \s. Martino. 130; Harsh
man vs. Ellis, 1 |H.
Sour Puss Outlook in
Beaver Track Future,
Says Gloomy Doc Swan
Coach Grant “Doc” Swan is
gloomier than usual about track
prospects at Oregon State this year.
Even in good years Swan is pessi
mistic. This spring he has good
reason to be gloomy. Only six let
termen are back.
Returning lettermen are Don
Findlay, defending Northern divi
sion champion in the broad jump
and also a good high jumper and
sprinter; John Kilbuck, javelin
thrower; Jack Dudrey, pole vaulter;
Bill Waterman, two-year letterman
in the 880 and mile; Bill Shinn, an
outstanding 880 man as a sopho
more last spring; and Len Moyer,
sprinter.
League Softball Series
Begin Tuesday Evening
With eight potent teams in the
firing line, the league softball ser
ies of Dt. Darby’s Field Artillery
Bn. of the Timber Wolf division
will get underway Tuesday night at
1630. Two games scheduled will
see the -Pill Rillers vs. the Doodits
and the Wildcats vs. Hurricanes.
Other teams in league play will
be the Cats, Sluggers, Beavers and
the Yardbirds (which happens by
some betwixture of nomenclature,
to be composed of officers).
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Shipment of export freight to
9 U. S. ports by American railway*
I has increased more than 40 per
45'cent since Pearl Harbor.
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EUGENE, March 24. — Uni
versity of Oregon baseball players
began limbering up today in prep
aration for inter-squad games
scheduled by Coach Howard Hob
son for this week.
The Oregon team, with seven let
Marked by fairly close competi
termen returning, is conceited a
good chance to repeat as northern tion on all fronts, the ladder hand
ball tournament on Lorenz court is
division champion.
■flattening" out.
Nobody in reach has yet chal
20 Softball Teams in
lenged him, so fireman Herb Funk
sits in No. 1 berth with fireman
Sea Gull Series Start
Ray Maddy on rung 2 and Chap
Soft bail among the Seagull* of lain Lt. Victor Newman in third.
Still well down the line in the
the Timbe r Wolf division is on with
a vengeance. Three games on Mon tougher battles before all hands
day launched the 10-week round merge into the grand melee at the
rol>in for the 20-team league. The top are the p^-tourney favorites,
results:
who were placed down toward the
The •ff.cers defeated the Medics cellar and are fighting each other
detachment 8-2; Co. L downed Co. for right to a clear track.
M, 12-2 and Co. A defeated Co. B,
It became apparent with
18-16 in what Cpl. Clarence Obitz matches this week that the first
insists on calling a pitchers duel.
place battle is Mely to become
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By l*fc. Bob Ruskauff
Sports Editor
In the barracks latrine the other
evening I picked up somebody s
home town paper from New Jer
sey, to note with a little surprise
that Ed (Strangler) Lewis is
trooping again.
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Wrestling? I shouldn’t think so.
Today’s grunt and groan policy is
tar from the wrestling of two de
cades back, when this greatest of
mat champions was pinning them
all—and on the up and up.
Lewis is 51 and for one I am a
little sorry to see him come out of
retirement and back to a game that
at best is a sorry successor to the
wrestling of yesterday. Evidently
Ed’s classy little beanery and
drink parlor down by the sea,
Long Beach, Calif., didn’t do so
well.
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My las( m e m o r y of the
Strangler w as a swim we had in
the ocean two summers ago. Out
through the surf and a few hun
dred vards seaward, toward the
spot where, just a few years be
fore, the grand old Lexington
rode at anchor.
We raced back through the
breakers. Lewis, blowing and
spouting like a benign whale,
flopped unto the warm sand. Ut
terly content, he patted his fat
belly. The famous Lewis grin
flooded his broad, ruddy face:
"This is great stuff for an old
man to retire to,” the Strangler
said.
x x x x
It may be about time to dedicate
this colunm. We can declare no
fixed policy. We'll attempt a round
up of the things left out of our
sports pages and treatment of mat
ters in our world of sport on which
we feel somewhat qualified to
make comment. That might not be
much, or often.
The sports editor who is happiest
is he with more stuff than can
be crowded into the columns at his
disposal. Judging from the way
that the sports program is bur
geoning throughout this post that
is about to be our exact situation.
X X X X
* The thing I like is that the
will to participate is becoming
so much greater than the will to
watch. Even the civilian gal
workers on the Post, bless their
restless hearts, evidence this.
They are starting their own ssft-
l.all league and the enthusiasm
is great.
Sports participation and a
fighting spirit in sport is a grand
thing. You go into a game to
have fun; but you go into *
game to win it. \nd when you go
out to win the demand is for all
that you have to offer. Every
thing. And that is good.
X X X X
Any num who plays at a sport,
no matter how badly or how well,
knows that it can be his gn »test
of all morale builders. When th«
body is perturbed” a nd the spirit is
low—in other words, when moral«
has dropped out of formation and
into a nose dive—he can go out
a duel lietween Pvt. Al Richen of and play his favorite game and
the 96th lldq. Co. and former lose himself. Take it out on the
Multnomah A.C. star and Pfc. opposition.
Competition chars the air, keen*
Bob Ru-kauff. Hdq. Co. 8CU
1911 and »inner of the recent the mind and re-arranges the vis
ion better than 10 liottle* of PX
open tourney.
brew.
Richen haa gone from 15th to
Much, much, better.
II th on the ladder by challenging
and defeating Sgt. Sidney Feig in
straight games, 21-9 and 21-11, "Fot" learns From Stonewall
then staving off the strong first-
Q. I»id Nori General Rommel
game threat of Bill Ritz. ARC, to aver visit the U. 8.?
win 21-16, 21-5 from his tired
A. Yea. He visited the U. 8.
rival.
once and studied the militak-y
Though still in 16th, Ruskauff
tactics of Confederate General
got over two tough opponents, beat “Stonewall" Jackson on the ac
ing Pfc. Charles Sonne, SCU 1911,
tual battlegrounds of the CKil
21-18 and 21-16 and T 5 Eddie
War.
Jacobson of the 96th, 21-11, 21-17.
Going Gets Tougher as
¡Handballers Near End
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