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Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, August 13, 194u.
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Sports Develop Our Fighting Might
Element of Fair Play Discarded for the Duration
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Sports, to the young, are a thorough obsession. But to
the old in body, but young in heart, sports falls into their
*.rue perspective, a game, fun to play; a game, to enjoy the
-.brill of competition: a game, to give all until it is over, then
to 'augh. to shake hands with opponents, and forget it.
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Many of our so-called critics of American sports fall into
rror when they think that fair play learned by American
oung men and women is fatal in a war such as we are in ■
today, where everything goes. True, we at once concede that
•air play in fighting the Jap and Nazi is a handicap, except
- hen we remember that the true sportsman or athlete out
raged is a thousand times fiercer fighting man than the
thug or the footpad.
BOB HAWK
Quizmaster
"THANKS
TO THE YANKS* I
SctorSays, CBS
1. There are tour time belts in
the United State«. How many are
Jim Thorpe, the great Indian all-American football play there in the world ?
er. ran around end one day in an ordinary football game. His 2. Which is the most catching—
opponent, realizing his "inability to stop the great Thorpe, laughing, crying or yawning?
1 am going to name three pairs
tried to injure him. Only the Indian’s great agility saved I j of o. adjectives
and you are to tell
him. The next play. Jim went around the same position and me which 'pair may mean the same
warned the end, who still did not heed his warning. On a third thing: credible and incredible; cor
-lay, an end run at the same spot, a smashing straight arm porate and incorporate: corrigible
jammed the erring opponent’s head into the ground. Time and incorrigible.
4. Was there a women’s Marine
was taken out until they carried him off the field.
organization in World War I?
These critics should also remember that fair play is 5. Give within three pints the
capacity of the average person’s
•n! ’ one thing learned in our athletics.
stomach.
Could the Jap or Nazi know the exultation that two 6. There are five states in the
Americans feel in team play? Tommy Harmon swings loose United States which border on the
on one of his daring, swinging runs in a broken field while, Gulf of Mexico. Name four of
them.
clearing the way is Forest Evashevski, who blocks with all of
Answers on Page 15
his 200 pounds, and as he brings down an opponent with a
rushing block, he almost yells in glee, “Run, Tommy, run.”
Today Tommy Harmon is running with the ball as a flier,
and his ground crew “blocks” for him in their invaluable
vork. And Tommy, too, runs interference for the bombers.
In sports, we can even forget fair play, yet there is skill:
hrowing ability from forward passing, throwing to second
>ase. shooting for the basket, putting the shot, shows in our
rrenade throwing.
From sports, we get teamwork. No backfield in foot
ball, no double play combination in baseball, no relay team
passing the baton, no basketball team setting up a basket,
ver worked any smoother than the naval gunners on our
ighting ships who knock hell out of the Japs every time they
neet on anywhere near equal terms, or our great bombing
rews on their missions over Germant'.
From sports, we get great American tenacity that out-
.asts the Japs on Attu, on Guadalcanal, and that fights the
Nazi in North Africa.
From sports, we get that “come back” spirit. The boxer
.¿nocked to the floor of the ring, just as the Americans were
at Faid Pass, doesn’t stay there, but gets up. and then there
s a Tunis and a Bizerte. An American, knocked down, laughs
and gets up. “They can’t do that to me: here I come. Jerry.”
And Jerry backs down.
To sum it up, the American soldier, sailor and marine
is a better fighting man for the lessons learned from athletics,
with his initiative, skill and tenacity, than the Jap and the
Nazi automatons. Maybe we can teach the meaning of fair
play to others, even if we have to ram it down his throat with
the butt of a rifle or a bayonet. We can do that, too!
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Pvt.: But if a man is on his
hand« and knees ire the middle of
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crazy,
does it?
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MP:
No, it doesn’t, but you were
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trying to roll up the white line.
Q. I- the American ihea*er rib
—Camp Callan Rangefinder
bon worn for service in Panama?
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Are officers permitted to wear
The British barmaid was a flirt,
ribbons earned while they were en
and when the corporal went «ut to
listed men?
buy a paper she pursed her lips
A. Yes to both questions. The
invitingly and leaned over the bar
American Theater ribbon is worn
toward the shy young private.
for service in the Western Hemis
Putting her face against his,
phere outside the continental lim
she whispered : “Now’s your
its
the U.S.A. The wearer must
chance, darling.”
have been assigned to a unit sta-
The private looked around the
ti< ned in that area, however. He
empty room. “So it is,” he remark
can’t wear the ribbon if he just
ed. and promptly drank the corpor
passed through on a visit. This rib
al’s beer.-Camp Callan Rangefinder
bon is blue with narrow red. white
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and blue stripes. German colors
They laughed when I picked up
are on one end and Japanese col-
the violin. They didn’t know 1 was
ors on the other. Officers are per-
from the installment company.
mitted to wear any ribbons they
—Marianna Air Field Base
earned as enlisted men.
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Pat Monahan, scout from the St.
Louis Cardinals, tells about a young
prospect who applied for a job on
a minor league team whose ranks
were being depleted by military
calls.
“I’m a terrific hitter.” said the
applicant, “and besides, I’m 4-f and
draftproof.”
“What position do you play?
eagerly asked the manager, his
eyes as big as silver dollars.
“I can pitch, catch, play the in
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King, and top naval and military advisers appeared likely to become field or outfield. I can manage or
a momentous one as plans to re-align strategy for the phases of the coach your team, take tickets, act
global war now in progress and those that lie ahead for total victory as trainer or handle any other kind
were indicated .... Badoglio stalled for time with the hope of better of job.”
“You’re nuts.” growled the pilot.
conditions for peace and appeared to be moving closer to Germany ....
“Sure I'm nuts,” retorted the ap
Stunned by the greatest aerial assault ranging over Europe, millions
plicant,
“why do you think Im
of panicky Germans were evacuating Berlin while Allied warnings
4-F?
”
—
Fort
Dix Post.
to Italy that all-out air raids were near, brought a mass exodus from
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cities there. In the Mediterranean absolute Allied air superiority over-
Mrs. C’olepaugh was having.dif-
the straits of Messina and southern Italy was in evidence. Allied
ficulty in getting Junior, age 1",
planes blasted Naples for three successive nights.
his supper.
Finally she
Targets throughout Sicily were battered by bombers which con to eat
“
Oh,
come now,
centrated on axis communication lines. Falling back on all sectors, axis urged him with:
Eat it
forces were harried by huge formations of allied planes. Their posi Junior, eat your supper,
tions along the coast were under fire from American and British war like a little soldier.”
“Okay,” said Junior. “Pass the
ships. Allied forces continued to tear into axis lines across the tip of
Sicily. Along the east coast Americans reached Cape Orlando—the !!*xzr / i(-&)‘ mess.”
— Scott Field Broadcaster
British were the first to sight the Italian mainland. Canadians and
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British made gains around Mt. Etna. Catania was occupied Thursday
He: “Is your wife a good cook .
by the British Sth Army after a 21-day battle. The Sicilian campaign
Groom:
“I don’t think so.
was brought to its closing and hardest phase as the allies were com
terday she tried to open an egg
pressing the Germans into the shrinking triangle toward the Messina
with a can opener."
bridgehead.
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IN RUSSIA, eight Soviet armies closed the circle around the citv I
“Are you the soldier who saved
of Orel after 24 days of fighting. The Russians pursued the fleeing
my little boy from drowning?
Nazis who abandoned artillery, machine guns and vast supplies of
“Yes, ma’m.”
ammumtioii to score a double victory by driving the Nazis out of
“Well, where’s his hat:’
Belgorod Thursday.
—Camp Beale Beaiiner
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC American forces took the Munda
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amdrome on New Georgia island after a 30-day battle against the
say
the soldier y°u
“Did you
most stubborn resistance that the Americans have encountered. In-
with has trouble *‘th
fantrymen and matmes cleaned up the last pocket, of resistance around went riding
his eyes?”
the airfield and pushed northward to Bairoko Harbor the onlv
r
point
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“Yes—he keeps seeing parkin«
where the Japanese are holding out on the New Georgia bland
- The spots before his eyes.”
Allies hold complete control in the air over the island.
—Camp Beale Bealmer
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