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Pairo TTu’Cb Page Six Camp Adair Sentry Friday, March 10, 1944 Leggo of Thqj Ball, Dang It! Camp Adair SPORTS QM Wins T railblazer Baseball Opener Cage Title over 276th 361 si vs. 363rd 'Frank Merriwell Finish' Sinks Strong Infantry Outfit, 39-37 361st Boasts College, Professional Talent; Game Sunday at 1403 Bv Pvt. Ed. Arnold A Frank Merriwell finish brought the 70th Division bas The 361st Infantry Regiments ketball championship to the 70th Quartermaster Co. Thurs ' newly organized baseball dub. coached by 1st Lt. George Hadley day night at the Field House. of Anti-Tank Co., will pry the lid off the season Sunday afternoon when it clashes with the 363rd Regiment’s nine on the diamond just east of A.P.O. 91. Game starts at 1400. Starting out with 50 candidates at the first workout two weeks ago, the 361st squad has been pared to 20 men. The squad is composed 70th QM f- fgtp 276th Inf. ft ft fg tp of men with high school, college, Shaff.-r <• «• Standage. c .L 1 tL* -« i Shaffer. i ' 5 It professional and semi-pro -exper J 1 “ I tipïak : Dun top/ g * “ ' . 0 4 8 0 ** _ Sinn, -g- ... ience. , . 0 (' Sele. f o 0 O Maloney, f Miller. g 1 1 Ex-Giant For 36Íá’í'!-' Schrock. f .0 1 2 Spicer, g .. II 1 Giovanetti^ f 4 6 22 Nichols, g .. o o o Lear b. f .0 4 6 Tompson. g .1 4 9 One of the outstanding candi I.owtusd. f <> dates for berths in the 361st Totals .. . 7 IB 39 Totals .3 17 37 starting lineup is Sgt. Bill Bard in. a snappy shortstop who was formerly with a New York Giants farm team. Others include S/' Sgt. Leroy Ste phens, formerly of University of Before being tripped by QM in Washington, who is a classy sec the finals, Co. M of 276th had con ond sacker; S Sgt. Hoffman, an quered two tough rivals in quarter ex-semi-pro from California who and semi-final cage games leading looks good at third; Pvt. Salzman, to the big game. The 274th fell another Californian who is seek ¡34-18 and 275th quintet was taken ing the first base post; and Tee. into camp 32-24. Backboard play Sgt. William Teshera, Sgt. Pich- of Scheffer and Liptak were high- otti and Sgt. Jendazyczak, top- ly-contributory factors. ranking outfielders. 276th fg ft tp 274th fg ft tp Pitchers with plenty of exper- Liptak- ... . .3 I 7| Robertson Oil Shaeffer <1 O 12 Ku*«rl 0 o ( iencc are Sgt. Johnson, Pfc. Fan- Thompson I 0 21 Magno ...2 O 4 Maloney 1 0 2| angston . .6 1 13 tuzzo, and Pvts. Keegan and Curu- Dnree 2 0 4 Krake . ..... 0 0 0 chet. Pvts. Moa and Warren will Xi. hols 0 O 0 Thomas ..... 0 0 0 Solee .0 0 O'Long ....... 0 0 0 do the backstopping. QM trailed Co. M of the 276th*---------------------------------------------- Infantry for most of the con Giovanetti was high scorer not test, which they finally won 39-37. only for the champs but for the The Infantry jumped to an early whole game. He dropped in eight lead and at the half they led 24-13. field goals and made four out of Thompson paced the foot soldiers the seven charity tosses he was in the first half with four field awarded. Leach scored four times goals and a free throw but was held from the floor in the closing scoreless in the second. spurt. Free Throws Clinch It The line-up: Trailhiaaer Photo ____ THE STRUGGLE SHOWN here as 70th QM and 276th In fantry eagers rassle for the ball looks just about as close as the game. It wound up 39-37, with QM coming from behind to win in the closing minutes of play, to take the Trailblazer division title. His team mate Shaffer dropped in five baskets in the last half and until the Q.Ms finally cinched the decision with a pair of free throws in the closing minutes, Co. M looked like a sure winner. 276th Stops 274th, 275th Cage Teams Trailblazer Division Basketball Champions HERE WE HAVE the red-hot 70th Quartermaster basketball team, which rose to the heights at Field House March 2 to take the Trailblazer divisional championship. Pictured above are, left to right, (pl. Fielden Miller. Sgt. Elmore Dunton 1,'. Stenhen Lustig (coach), I’fc. Pa( Sandage and Pfc. Gordon Sinn. The bottom photo shows, left to right. Pvt. Gene Leach, TecS Rudy Giovinetti Pfc. Charles Law head. (’pl. Clifford Shrock and Pfc. Leroy Burns. Spicer . .. ...3 Totals 276th Liptak Mhaeffer Dii roe Xi.-hol* Maloney Selp Thompson '■’Dicer Knapp 16 1 7| 2 34| tt ft 2 O 4 0 1 O 0 0 • 3 o 2 0 2 1 0 4 0 1 Totals . ___ ___ ... .8 2 16 tp; 275th fg ft tp 4 1 ipping 0 0 0 9 ('armndv 6 O 12 2 Murkin 1 3 5 0 Izoiue ... O2O 6 Vonkoff 3 5 7 4 0 0 0 1 McKenzie . . .0 1 0 2 1 Total* 21 Softball Claims 91st Divartymen Trailblaier Phot< 361st Continues Play In Softball Tourney A double elimination softball tournament which ROt away to a ID-game start a week ago. is in progress in the »61st Inf. to determine the Regimental champion. Biggest upset, and feature tilt' of the first round, was F Co.’s 5 to 4; H Cn. 4. 2nd Bn. Hq. Co. S; I I Co. 2». K Co. »; I. Co. 15 QM. Co. 4 win over G Co., defending 91st 12; and Medical Detachment 28. Division champion. The hitting of I 3rd Bn. Hq. Co. 8. 1st Sgt. Bartolini and Cpl. Espino First round winners were next sa was a big factor in F Co.'s vic tory. G Co. was handicapped with matched against winners and Ins out the services of its «tar hurler. iera against losers. Anti-Tank. C, Stain bulich. Travato. Wayland and E, and H Co.’s and Medical De Christensen looked best for the tachment were winner« in the win losers. ning side of the bracket and thus advanced another step in the tour First Round Result« ney Regtl. Hq.. B. G. K and L Co.'s I 1" another opening game Ser- came out on top in the losing brack vice (a. banged oat a 15-7 win et to keep in the running. •ver Regtl. Hq. Co. Other re- salta: A Ca. 7. B Cw • ; C C*. 15. D Cat <; E Ca. 5; lai Bn. Hq. C'a. Stowed By Ye Mudde ! SGT. LOUIS VS. SGT. MILLS’ RAF Sgt. Freddie Mills, light heavyweight champion of the Brit ish Empire, has challenged Sgt. Joe Louis to a title bout if and when the Brown Bomber comes to England. The War Department has announced that Louis soon will be sent overseas to entertain U. S. servicemen in a series of bouts — (CNS). M ith spring around the cornet and the pools of water disappear ing from the fields, the 91st Divi sion Artillerymen are digging out heir war clubs and ball gloves to take up the sport of soft ball. 1 earns have been organized I within each battery, and games will be started to decide a champion ship team for each battalion. Then playoffs will be arranged to pick a Divarty champ. The Artillery teams would wel come challenge matches with other clubs in the division and arrange ments can be made through the Divarty SSO. slowed down considerably this week by rain and muddy fields and only a few games were played. In these. FOX HOLE ri N; AT A C Co. downed a highly favored An MERE 420 BUCKS PER HOUR ti-Tank outfit, 10 to 1; E Co. Bougainville Island (CNS1—Pfc. handed H a 25 to 6 drubbing and G Roy I.. Webb, of West Liberty. Co. came back strong to pound out Ohm. bet his fellow soldiers $80 he a 10-2 triumph over K Medical De could dig a foxhole eight feet wide. tachment handed E Co. an 8-3 set 10 feet long and four feet deep in back. four hours. He finished the job in Week-end schedules call for 3 jfour minutes under the stipulated games on Saturday and 3 on Sun- Tempo of the tournament was 18. dhreoUic for energy. BUTTERFINGERED BABE! Babe Rujh can still cut the old cake. Celebrating his 50th birthday at his home in New York recently, the great man spaded a big hunk out of his birthday cake. Then the cake slipped from the table and landed, frosty side down, with a squashy plop on the floor. No Speak Low
