Page Six
Friday, November 19. 1943.
Busy Court and Ring
Season Coming in 91st
Hq. Co. Expects Hoop
Title Again; 362nd
Looks Best for Ring
WELTER CLASS OPEN
Arriving at Camp Adair too
late.to participate in the Fall foot
ball program, the 91st Division,
through its athletic and recreation
officer, is making extensive plans
for an early-starting basketbull
schedule ami, at a little later date,
a division-wide boxing tournament.
Last gear’s division champion
hoop combination from division
Headquarters Co. and captained
by Sgt. Atki nson came through the
past year with the loss of but a
singlt player Every indication is
that once again they will be on top
at the end of the season. Last year
they won by coming lip from be
hind to beat the Anti-Tank Co. of
the 361st Inf. in the finals of the
tournament.
•PLAY BALL’ CALL AT 6 A.M.
GETS RISE OCT OE CIS
Irked over failure of some of
his charges to fall out for pre
breakfast drill, Sgt. Bill Rowe,
of Fort Custer, Mich., posted
this notice:
“All members of this organi
zation will fall out for morning
drill at 6 am. There will be no
exceptions. Co-operation is nec
essary; if you men will play
ball with me, I will play ball
with you.”
This appendage was added,
shortly after the notice was
posted:
"We’d like to co-operate, Sgt.
Rowe, but 6 o'clock in the morn
ing is a hell of a time to play
ball.”
Camp Adair
SPfORTSJ
By Pfc. Lionel Kay
ASTU Football Action on the OSC Gridiron
Badminton, Table
Tennis Tourneys
Underway in 274th
ASTU Football Round
Robin Starts at OSC
Rainbows Win; Bears
And Wolves Deadlock
The first Saturday’s double
header of the ASTU round-robin
football tournament was played last
weekend, and some high-grade
football playing and coaching was
ir> evidence.
In the first game, Luke Gill's
Rainbows drew first blood to win
from Lon Stiner's Army Bearers.
20-6. The Bears, coached by Jim
Carr, and the Wolves, coached by
Al Cox, battled to a 0-0 deadlock.
Games Are Free
Double-header games are play
ed every Saturday at the Ore
gon State college gridiron by
teams formed from among the
students of the Army Specialized
Training Unit at the college. All
servicemen are admitted free to
these games, though there is a
25c charge for civilians.
Games will be playqd every Sat
urday for the next four weeks,
double-headers every week. The
first game starts at 1:30 and the
second game at 3:00. Tomorrow’s
schedule is Rainbows vs. Civilian
Beavers in the first and Army
Beavers vs Bears in the second...
363rd Boxing Best
The 363rd Inf. Regt, won team
Badminton and table tennis tour
boxing honors when the Fir Tree naments got under way this week
Division was at Camp White, but in the 274th Inf., with keen inter
they have lost three of their unit competition creating interest
crack fighters.
' among the followers of the two
Lodge, who won the division sports.
featherweight championship last
On the converted regimental
y ear by a knockout, has gone, but handball court, scheduled first- !
the runner-up, Hocker, is still with round badminton matches singles
the regiment, and should be a for- < promised to have the “birdies” fly- |
nudable threat to all competition. ing thick and fast. All matches will
Pando, a senior welterweight, is i be played in accordance with Na- :
also gone. Pando went the distance tional Badminton Rules applying. 1
i.’iial Corns Photos
CUYLER, LEFT HALF of the Rainbows, takes a pass on the
in the finals last year, hut lost the | games being
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scored on the basis
Army Beavers’ nine-yard line but is immediately tackled by Tsagris
referee’s decision to Flores of the 1 of 21 points
(54). The Rainbows walloped the Army Beavers, 20-6. to win the
I
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362nd Inf. Flores should win again
opening game of the ASTI schedule at Oregon State. In the
All
singles
table
tennis
matches
easily this year.
bottom picture. Mitchell of the Bears runs into trouble while
i will be played in company day
returning a kick in th«* second game of the afternoon, which ended
Welter With 70lh
in a scoreless tie between the Wolves and the Bears
rooms, nil of which are now com
Nackow, the 363rd’s best wel plete with the ping-pong tables re- |
terweight. is now with the Trail ! cently issued by the division spec
blazer Division, and while not ial service office. An inter-com
in the 91st Division ring, may pany schedule starts the competi
still be heard from at this Post. tion, hut championship play-offs
Btry. B of 883rd FA Bn. has
Holland, division welter champ, will take the spotlight later.
has transferred, leaving the class
scheduled basketball games with
The
70th
Division
touch
football
tournament
is
reaching
Basketball. Too
wide open for new talent.
I a climax with just a few more games to be played to deter- the Dallas and Independence high
, Basketball enthusiasts are or-
Myers, who won the middle- 1
;mine
the representative of the field artillery in the big schools, and will welcome the op
ganizing a regimental five which I Thank«0-ivin<r
Dov game
n*nn*/> against *■
weight crown by knocking out
portunity to play any high school
Thanksgiving Day
will meet others in the division dur-
Krier, is still the 362nd favorite. '
the 276th Infantry.
or service teams outside the 70th
I ing the winter months. The 274th
WHEREVER WE TURN
Abbott, also of the 326nd, is the* '
Division, it was announced this
Headquarters Btry. won the play
boasts a wealth of former high
THAT OREGON WEATHER
bantam best though a close battle I
week.
off in the 882nd FA Bn. and will
school and college players, and will
The N. Y. Yankees’ tentative
is expected to come from Cirinesi I
Outfitted in new maroon and
' probably be under the direction of meet the B Btry. eleven from the plans to do their spring train
of the 363rd, whom Abbott out-1
883rd. Btry. A of the 884th FA
gray
uniforms and built around
Lt. M. H. Chenoweth, special ser
ing in Asbury Park, N. J.,
punched last February.
will meet the champs of the 725th
several
college and high school
vice officer and former Penn State
brought forth a howl of protest
In the light-heavy anil heavy
in the other quarter-final game.
.«tar hoopster.
from Oregon’s own Joe Gordon, performers, the Cannoneers’ five
weight classes, it looks like the
The two winners will then meet to
promises a creditable performance
native and resident of Eugene.
361st all the way. Graham, light
determine the division artillery
against any challengers.
Gordon
put
himself
on
record
heavy, and Garcia, heavy, were Graduations Weaken
«'.tampions, who will play the 276th
against training “in gale and | The battery is also winner of the
I Infantry on Turkey Dav.
Iwith winners last year anel are still Nations Best Elevens
battalion football championship and
frost.”
with the outfit.
"I can do a lot better work will furnish its own transportation
In all, however, it looks as though
HQ Takes 882nd Title
ing
out right at home.” he said, to play a regulation game of foot
Nov.
1
graduations
of
Navy
and
the 362nd will do the best, having
Hq. Btry. of the 872nd FA Won
ball with any high school that will
four champs last year, and having I Marine Corps V-12 students weak- [ over Charlie Btry., 6-0. in the with a well-directed boost for loan the equipment for the day.
that
mellow
Oregon
spring.
all four still in the regiment. But ene«i some of the most powerful battalion playoff last Saturday,
(Ed. Note: Joe, you stay here.
as the experts say, "Don't bet on , football elevens in the country. thus earning the right to meet the
Notre Dame, for one, lost Angelo 883rd'» best in the inter-battalion WE’I.L go to Asbury!!)
fights!"
j Bertelli, Coach Frank I !«•->»-•-
Fahy’s play-off games.
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for the point after touchdown.
good right arm. and four other
Long Pass Scores
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players. Bertclli was called to re
Headquarters tallied the only
port for Marine training at Parris score of the game in the second
884th Playoffs Close
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Island, S. C., Nov. 1.
period w hen a long pa-- by Fran-
In a closely-contested game, Btry.
The highly touted Trailblazer
The University of Pennsylvania, cu to Steenerson was good for a
A nosed out Btry. C to take the MPs went down to defeat last
powerhouse of the East, lost Full touchdown. The game was hard-
884th FA title. 7-6. This was the week to the 770th Ordnance, 12-0.
back Georgs* Veling ami End Ben fought throughout, with Hq.
second meeting of the two elevens, | With five seconds remaining in
Co. L nosed out Co. K in a hard- Celian by transfers.
looking good when holding the which had previously played a
the first half, a pass from the MP’»
fought, closely-contested game,
Yale's scrappy team lost its line and showing power on their
scoreless tie the week before.
which marked the o.
_ of ' bas- ...
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. star hurler, Patrick, was inter-
opening
J sparkplug
captain. Pvt. Timmy «•w n offensive play.
¡cepted by Hintermeister. who
End Run Tallies
ketball aMson for the 3rd Battal- I Hoopes, and Princeton lost Bill
Francu stoosi out for Hq.. but
In the second quarter, the A scampered 36 yards for the first
ion of the 362nd Infantry Regi | Miller, speedy hack who scored Cobb, mam threat in the C back-
r
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1
ment
the . »1st
Division.
by the | ' six touchdowns against the Lake- , field. , never managed to get start - team pushed the hall close to | touchdown. The try for the extra
the goal line. Line bucks failing ; point failed.
score of 26 to 24.
hurst Naval Training Station ear-,ed Michael Ventura.
against the stiffened C team line,
Outstanding player of th«* game ly this fall.
Again, in the fourth quarter,
rirnela«. Btry. A quarterback, Hintermeister snared one of Pat
and also high scorer was Cpl. Pe I Southern California had a tre- B Btry. Wins in 883rd
-wept far around end to fall over rick’s passes to scurry 57 yard»
terson of Co. L.
mendous Mow dealt its Rose Bowl
Mixing ground and air
the line for the initial score. A along
side lines for his second
Battalion play continued last , hopes when Quarterback Mickey tacks. Btry. H outplayed at-
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pass from Prieb to Mitchell made touchdown. The try for the extra
night with three games scheduled ; McCardle. Capt. Ralph Heywood Btry. to «in the 483rd FA Hq.
the extra point, which was xilti- point again failed, leaving the fin
for the Field House courts.
r.nd Pete MacPhail were trans- football champion-hip, 7-9, Bn.
last
I al score, 12-0.
mately the winning margin.
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ferred.—CNS.
Saturday.
Btry. C went into the second half
• • •
Pvt Alfred Este, of Columbus, I
Held to a «coveless tie at the
_
with new vigor and took to the air.
In their second league game, the
Ohio, who trades his paint brushes
’ Huntsville Arsenal. Ala.—The end of the first half, the husky
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Ordnance - was knocked out
for the pots and pans of C Btry officer of the day rattled a locked cannoneers from Btry. B pu-hed I a«s after a-- failed until the , 770th
kitchen, has l*een promoted to T 5 fence gate. Came a voice in com* their »ay to the Hq. 26. and then very end of the la»t quarter, when of the running r for the divisional
T 5 Este was an interior and ex- manding tone. “Stop! I have a 45 scored on a pass from Fultz to a leng pass to Stamick clicked for touch football , 1 ile by lb* *wb
rrennan-
terior painter in civilian life.
and a sharpshooter’s mesial.”
Clark. Fait» went oxer center six points. Conversion failed, hove- Recons. 6-0.
ever. and the game ended.
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—T’ 5 Doug-»-
|Divarty Football
Loomon 70th Schedule
362nd Inf. Fives
Get Underway in
Third Battalion
Battalion Football
Champs Organize
Their Hoopsters
770th Ordnance
Beats MPs, But
Loses to Recons