Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, April 29,1943.
rage Six
Timber Wolf Division Nine To Ploy U of O This Afternoon
Game 3:30 at Albany
High School Diamond
Camp Adair
SPORTS
Sgt. Jack Knott May
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Be Starting Pitcher
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Catches For Bulldogs Today
As The Sentry went to press
last night it was revealed that
condition of the playing field at
Albany would force postpone
ment of the Timber Wolf-Uni
versity of Oregon baseball game.
Cpl. Albert Nachsin, of the Dead
eye Division, came through with
flying colors in the Oregon State
Table Tennis Championships, Fri
day and Saturday, in the Oregon
Athletic club rooms in Portland,
when he went to the quarter-finals
Sea
Embark on where he was upset by an oppon-
ent who then went on to win the
Big Sports Program
men’s singles championship.
Cpl. Albert Nachsin played from
We might as well warn the other
seven in the evening to midnight,
teams in the Timber Wolf leagues 1 when the quarter-finals took place,
that the Sea Gulls have rounded which may be the result of. his loss
up 98 applicants for their baseball to the Cham;» Benvinisti, by scores
team, and they are out for blood. 1 of 17-21, 21-18, 21-19, 21-18.
Co-coaches Lt.'s Shuck and Nyer j
In the Veteran’s singles, it was
say that the boys really produced a different story altogether, Cpl.
in their first practice session.
Nachsin walked off w’ith the crown
The Sea Gulls have already ( Saturday evening,
started work on seven diamonds,
The best attraction took place
which (the)' claim) will be fully • Saturday evening when Cpl. Nach-
as good as any at the Yankee sin paired with a 15 year old Chi
Stadium or Ebbets Field.
nese youngster went on to the fin
als
of the doubles championship,
Softbail Leaders
but lost,—better luck next time
The softball league has been at
Cpl. Nachsin.
it for quite some time now, and
The 90 and 9, Minus
One, Try for Team
Gulls
CSeries
V,nr)» vtanel in I
Af+—
which it wo- e;-- r-’t of eight con-
State’s
i eren~®
haseb"' I 'rrm leaves Corvallis to-
<’ y o- the g ue’linr road trip into
Wasb’-v’-n rd Idaho. The Bea-
V re irn-t r'ay six contests in a
V ->e’- 'r< o«”
Washin"-I
• n ct^te at Pullman Friday and
fitur-move over t<> Moscow
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frf o-nmps with Id^bo "pvt
Monday a-d Tue-dav. and +b®n
wind ■’-• th® trin against Washing
ton at Seattle Ma’’ (i and 7.
If you wanta know whether Pvt. Marshall Hawkins could
have snared that foul tip. drop over to the Bulldogs' home grounds
in the Deadeye Division where, at 5:30 this afternoon. Lt. Bob
Barrett’s Bulldogs meet the invading Willamette University nine
fror’ -'alem. Havkins is an ex-Piedmont Leaguer, with other half
<f th® battery Dale (Lefty) Rittenhouse. The Bulldogs have
alreadv toppled two teams, beating the Deadeye Warriors 19-4. then
t'-pveling to Salem where they lambasted the State Penitentiary
f r--. . 13-7. on their “home grounds.” It is reported that all the
bulldogs got safely back to Camp Adair.—Signal Corps Photo.
Service Men's Golf Tourney in Salem
The Salem Golf Course has scheduled a tournament for service
me n on Sunday, May 2, at 10 a. m.
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Baseball, Volleyball, Softball
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Leagues Look to May Openers
end with it competitive sports in
the Timber Wolf Division will soon
frlossom.
I The first athletic title awarded
fry the Timber Wolf Division went
to the Mountaineer basketball
quintet. The Mountaineers garn
ered the title after a hard fought
Rattle in the Infantry League in
(which they edged out the Sea Gulls
fry half a game, and then went on
to down the winners of the Artil
lery and Special Troops Leagues.
Police Up for Boxing
The Sea Gulls, Mountaineers,
Geysers, Artillery and Special
Troops now have their respective
teams in the final stages of train
ing in preparation for the Divi-
Entry fee is 50 cents, and blanks
tn rarticinnte may be obtained from Sgt. Aleck, G-3 section of the
l Timber Wolf Headquarter Division.
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Tbe’-e will be a nine hole qualifying round and then an 18-hole
tour-ament round.
Medal nlay will determine the winners of all flights. Winners
of each flight will be awarded prizes.
“It’s come one; come all,” says Sgt. Aleck.
Timber Wolf Sports
Schedule Is Heavy
? Summer weather approaches,
Cpl. Nachsin Wins in
State Table Tennis
Reaches Quarter-Finals in
Huge Portland Tournament
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Weather, a-d all the other grem
lins that make life such a sweet
song. nrrmitting. the Timber Wolf
baseball nine will make its post-
po-id “big league” debut of the
season this afternoon, against the
Uni’’e”sit’’ o* Oreg >n.
I Time of U’e battle is 3:30 p.m.
and rbe gar-® "’ill be played on
the ' Ibn®y tT'-b School diamond.
l'u ’nec.-
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Sgt. John
<I--g Job”) V>iK announced.
Start”'r
n-an
was
unan
nounced I: te ’-st evening, though
5* j« r-’-'*-' no ci’bh tb-t Manager
Sgt. Jack K-ett. long-time main
stay in
m harms. —i’l start
< n the
Ft. Dough’“. Utah (CNS) - A
golfer drove hi« ball ir to a flo'k
,
of geese swimming in a water haz-
ard. The yell» t “corled" -n® gander
and left it flont’-o. unsido down,
The gol'er waded m. righted the
frird and then it revived and swam
away.
Eugene. Ore. (CNS) - Thirteen-
year-old Frank Collins found a
wallet containing $180 and then
found the owner. The latter gave
him a $5 reward. Then Frank lost
the five-spot.
By Pfc. Bob Ruskauff
Bulletin!
We Us^d to Be Helped
Like That, in Bistros
In Eugene They Do
The Darnedest Things
Coming Army Champ?
Sgt. Tommy Gomez, A r m y
heavyweight from
Camp
Van
Dorn, Miss., continued his pugi-
istic successes by scoring a tech-
nical knockout over Tony Musto
of Chicago in 49 seconds of the
first round of a scheduled ten-
rounder held at Tampa, Fla., re
cently. The soldier had floored
Musto twice before the referee
stopped the bout. Musto went
nine rounds with Joe Louis in a
world heavyweight championship
bout at St. Louis two years ago.
¡■ion Boxing title. Boxing will
w ind-up the winter sports pro
gram and leave the field open
for summer activities.
We Dare Pvt. Marino
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Three leagues will operate in
softball and in volleyball—Infan
To Use Mess Hall “Silver”
try, Artillery and Special Troops
It was just a group around the
Leagues, with play-offs for the “Jive Box” in the annex of Club 2.
Division title between the winners “Clatter, clatter, clatter” was the
of each league in both sports.
sound that was accompanying the
A baseball league, consisting of Juke music. This “clattering had
five teams—Sea Gulls, Mountain-1 a pleasing sound to the ear and
eers, Geysers, Artillery and Special soon quite a few were crowding
Troops will be operated to decide around the nickelodeon to see who
the champion in the national pas-' the entertainer was.
time.
I He happened to be a kid from
Athletic officers should start New York who plays the spoons,
team practice immediately, as the His name is Pat Marino. In his
leagues will start play in May and civilian days he had a hill-billy
early wins may prove to be the band which was aired over Station
margin of victory.
WOR daily.
has already passed the half-way
marker on their schedule. Anti
tank company is now leading the
league with four straight wins,
but Co. “L” is running them a
close second with six wins and
one loss. “D” Company is bat
ting nicely with five wins and
one loss.
The volley ball championship
will soon be decided, when Anti
tank company and “E” company
fight it out beneath the net. This
game, although already awarded to
company “E,” has been protested,
and is to be replayed this week.
The winner of this game will de
finitely be king of the Sea Gull i
volleyball loop.
The Beach Beckons
Great Falls Folks Get
Stirred Up Quite a Bit
Great Falls, Mont. (CNS)
“There’s a time bomb in my yard!
an excited woman telephoned the
sheriff’s office. Officers investi
gated and cautiously approached
the hedge where the “bomb” lay.
It turned out to be a football.
Will This Make
Chow Taste Better?
The Army Air Forces Technical
Training Command has ordered all
its Training Centers to abolish the
term K.P. From now on K.P.’s
are Mess Attendants.
Headquarters feels that the term
K.P. gives the wrong picture of a
necessary and honorable military
job.
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Yeah! and so does this lassie,
but Bill, the compositor, threw
away everything but her phone
number. It’s HAmpton x036. Call
her up sometime. ! ! ? ?
Ben Hogan, “The Little Giant
of the Fairways,” who followed
golfdom’s golden trail for earnings
of almost $100,000 in six years, is
working for Uncle Sam at a salary
of $50 a month. The 30-year-old
Hogan entered the Army at Dallas,
Tex., last week.
Mountaineers 'Take Over1 Neoku Tomorrow
The Timber Wolf Mountaineers, under direction of Lt. Bob
Saunders arr. stt pping out again tomorrow with their traveling
vaudeville unit a nd portable boxing troupe, as they will visit
Neotsu. a small to vn on the Pacific coast.
Lt. Marty Krpan, boxing coach, will have his boys ready
for several prize fights, to thrill the locals.
Cpl. Bill Siscoe. “Mountain Ear” Sports Editor, will officiate
as Referee. < pl. Jimmy Horan will preside over the galaxy of
talent—using most of the unit that performed in Corvallis last
Saturday night—plus Cpl. Howard Brown, singing sensation of
Service < o. It promises to be a field dav for the Mountaineers and
another show to help create good will and friendly feelings.