Camp Adair Sentry
96th Plays Willamette Nine Here
First Visiting Nine
To Battle Post Team
Page Seven
Thursday, April 8, 1943.
Call to Leather!
Geysers Work Out
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By Pfc. Bob Ruskauff
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So— You Wanna Get Nauty-cal!
Sport» Editor
Timber Wolf boxers who are try­
In this particular day and age it
ing for a spot on the Geysers’ box­ is often in poor taste to apologize
Game Slated 4 P. M •/ ing team began working out Mon­ for anything, but we are con­
day under the direction of Lt. Dan­ strained to say a word for our
4th St., S., and B.
iel Coyle. Lt. Coyle is assisted by girls softball league.
Cpl. Watts and Pvt. Gorman who
It was, but isn’t and the gals are
The 383rd Infantry Regiment will , have given and taken many punch­
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champing
for action. Unfortunate­
play Willamette College of Salem es in their day.
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ly
regulations
have for the nonce
tomorrow afternoon at Camp Adair
At the first call many potential crept in to prohibit league com­
in the first baseball game of the leather throwers were on hand
season to be held within the post ready to commence training. Work­ petition.
area, according to an announcement outs will be held Monday, Wednes­ I This happened just as the eighth j
made yesterday afternoon. Time day, and Friday afternoons from ' gals team was being formed and
the lasses of CACE had finished !
for the game has tentatively been 1300-1500.
set at 4 p. m. in the area bounded Volleyball Deadlock—2, no deck r taking the kinks out of their lovely [
by 4th street South and and B I Competition is mighty keen in the arms and limbs and were ready to I
wind up and “pla-a-a-ay ba-a-all!”
avenue.
Geysers’ volleyball league in the
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Saturday afternoon, the 383rd Timber Wolf Division.
We are also sorry for we had
will reciprocate by meeting Willam­ I The Special Units league is dead­
ette in a return match on the lat­ locked with Hq. Co. Anti-tank and in mind writing a short piece
ter team’s home grounds in Salem. the Medics all tied for first place. about one Dorothy Jezuit of Post
¡These companies will play a round Engineers. This lass is very de­
Topkicks Are ”x@!xM! Meanies!
robin to determine which will rep­ ceiving indeed. She looks like a
Keesler Field, Miss. (CNS) - A resent their unit in the champion­ Cinderella at the height of the
bugle mysteriously missing for ship playoffs. In the 2nd Bn., Hq. ball. So. when she said:
two days reappeared within 24 Co. and Co. H are running a close
“You’d like to be sure if I have
hours after the company topkick race for top honors.
muscle?”
posted a notice on a bulletin board. ' In their game this week action
We didn’t believe her. But we
The notice announced that all should be plentiful as Hq. Co. has 1
do now. She played three years
men would stand reveille one hour won five games and lost none while I
in Chicago at short stop for the
earlier in Uniform A every morn­ Co. H has won four and lest one '
Catholic Youth Organization
ing until the bugle was found.
i game.
girls’ nine. This team, we are in­
formed, was well qualified to
lick nine-tenths of the organized
men’s team's extant.
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60 Ball Players Hear
Timber Wolf Male Call
There are many men of modesty
among ball players of the Timber
Wolf division, and Sgt. Jack Knott,
team manager, wants them to come
out and augment the GO hopefuls
who answered sign-up call at Field
House Monday evening.
Team business manager. Sgt.
Long John Wulf, said that sched­
ule is arranged so that play on
the Divisional team will not upset
candidates who want to wallop
The Story
When you look at those stripes
and stars and bars a dozen times
a day, to see whether you should
salute, did you evei- wonder how
they come to be?
Back to the days of the Ameri­
can Revolution goes the story of
the origin of insignia for the Army.
Then there were no uniforms for
the troops, since the Continental
Congress, with limited funds, was
scarcely able to provide the neces­
sary arms and ammunition to say
nothing of supplying clothing. So
each soldier came along in his own
outfit, such as he had, or fancied.
It was quite the thing, then, to
loot the homes of the hated Tories,
so that many a private appeared
in expensive and colorful garb such
as he had never known previously.
Since the officers were usually
more conservatively garbed, this
condition led to some difficulty and
confusion. This was evidenced in
an order issued in 1775 to the ef­
fect that, since many inconveni­
ences arose from not being able
to distinguish commissioned offi-
Trimmed down to her storm sheets, with a half gale raging
abaft her beam is sloop-rigged Natalie Park. This picture also was
not taken at Sea Adair, but most likely in some NBC boudoir and
they explain how she is that lovely voice (Marietta Sherwood) who
plays in "Hawthorne House,” Monday night radio serial.
Time Is Lost:
One of the cooks that dishes
This week sports is a trifle short,
out the things you like to eat
but a long way yet from ripping
at PX-3 has lost her watch. She
the horsehide in the Regimental out at the seams. One thing and first missed it Sunday evening,
another, including weather, has
league competition.
and feels she lost it somewhere
Timber Wolves who want to try­ (deterred the events that were in the vicinity of Postal Avenue,
out are urged to call Sgt. Knott at planned, but plans continue,
Club Avenue, Theatre 4 and the
i Tonight, of cours»e, there are two
3479.
Bus Terminal. It is a lady’s
Opening game will probably- be great boxing shows slated on the wrist watch and has the mono­
held the last week in April. Rival , Post. For your money (even if it gram “EMG” on the back of
remains unnamed though it is un­ were to cost you a farthing or so), i the case.
derstood there are several teams you shouldn’t miss the nine-bout
Will the finder please return
willing to take the first crack at card on tap at Field House. Or, j it to the manager of PX-3 (op­
over in territory of the 96th Div., i
the Division outfit.
posite the Bus Terminal) where
j Balance of this week will be where there is some real fightin’,
the owner can claim it.
talent, Lt. Robert Barrett’s boxers [
filled with signing-up.
of the 381st Inf. will take on Capt. |
Edw. McCloy’s fighters of the That is’ they would have become
of Insignia
383rd
champions at any era. But Abe
Lt. Barrett by the way. should | I
nev*r Yeighed more
cers from privates, some badges
be given some credit for his ener­ than 130 pounds dripping wet,
of distinction be worn.
In consequence, the commander- getic pioneering of team boxing could have belted away any other
in-chief was directed to wear a and getting up a hardy bunch of of today’s light heavies or heavy­
light riband across his breast, be­ leather-pushers at the starting weights you care to name. Include
tween his coat and waistcoat. Maj­ gong. Now, of course, there are Tami Mauriello, Billy Conn,” said
or generals were designated by­ any number of cracker-jack boxing Johnny Dundee.
purple ribbon; brigadiers by a pink teams here. Those KOs and hair­
line decisions at the Salem Armory
one and aides by one of green.
The beginning of the epaulet and fights bear evidence of that.
stars came in 1780 when Washing­
Quite by accident our office
ton ordered that major-generals
was
honored on the same day
should wear one on each shoulder,
with two stars on each, that brig­ and time by a visit from two old
adiers . be adorned with two cronies of the days “back when."
epaulets with one star each, and While talking to Sgt. John (Long
that field officers wear a sold John) Wulf, business manager of
the Timber Wnlf baseha’I t”am,
epaulet od each shoulder.
Sergeants were ordered to wear who shoo’d w Ik in h-t Post
a worsted shoulder knot on each Chaplain, Capt. Lloyd V. Har­
shoulder and corporals such a knot mon.
Whatever we were d» cussing,
on the right shoulder. This order
was
forgotten the”, for the ' ears
however did not come into effect
drooped
away. Again Sgt. Wulf
until 1782.
and
Chaplain
Harmon were back
The insignia you know so well
came along as a sort of evolution in the Robidoux Hotel in old St.
through the years, following the Jo, Mo., lingering over a lager
(well, not the Chaplain, said Sgt.
establishment of the Republic.
Wulf).
—Pvt. Harrv Klissner.
Among that little clique of
athletes and lovers cf sport were
NOT AT THEATRE 4;
The Lt. May Have
such as Warren Giles and For­
NO SIRE-E-E-E-E-K !
rest Di Bernardi (many-time
Meant Free Love
Bellows Falls, V't. (CNS) — A basketball all-American), and
Camp Edwards, Mass. (CNS) _ i theater projection room served as Anton (Stan) Stankowski, who
a delivery room during the birth of
Spring arrived recently, causing a a baby to the wife of a movie is still revered as the greatest
quarterback ever to call them for
young lieutenant to write a more operator recently.
the Llniversity of Missouri.
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than usually ardent letter to his
girl. He was so carried away that Prize: Carton of Cigarettes
Said by any lesser man it would
Durham, N. H. (CNS)-A prize not be worth repeating but tne
when he addressed the envelope he
for
being a “good” girl is awarded other night sparrow-like Johnny
wrote “Love” in the upper right­
each co-ed who gets eight hours Dundee, dancing master of the
hand corner instead of “Free.” This
sleep nightly, gets three vitamin- lightweights a couple decades ago
touching bit of absent-mindedness choeked meals daily, gets one and a great champion, declared:
caused no trouble at all. The letter hour of exercise followed by a
“There are few real champions
in
any division today. Louis is one.
was delivered to the girl by a nice warm bath and cold shower daily,
Dempsey at his peak, was one.
and—stops smoking!
old postman.
Well, That’s “Human Comedy”
storia, N. Y. (CNS)-The Signal
Corps recently hired a Hollywood
screen writer, at $20 a day, for
some special duties. He was sent to
Astoria, where he was assigned to
instructing some soldiers in how to
write a movie. One of the pupils in
his first class was a private who
won the Pulitzer prize and the
Critics Circle prize, wrote the cur­
rent Book-of-the-Month and is the
author of a new four-star movie
hit, “The Human Comedy.”—Pri­
vate William Saroyan.
'My Name Is Jones'
Declared the Monk
Washington (CNS) — Lt. Gen.
Brehon B. Somerrell. chief of th*
Army services of supply, told an
off-the-record story recently about
the biggest surprise he had on a
trip. Later, thiough an aide, he
consented to it being put on the
record. The story:
In Jerusalem Gen. Somervell and
other high-ranking American Army
men visited the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. They stopped at the Ro­
man Catholic Chapel. Over in a
corner was a monk. The monk
looked up and saw American uni­
forms. His eyes opened wide. He
hurried across the room, thrust out
his hand and—to the utter aston«
ishment of the visitors—said: “My
name’s Jones—of Emporia, Kan«
sas.”
Theodore the Timber Wolf
“Theodore is always reading about something.”