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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1943)
Friday, August 6, 1943 ABBOT ENGINEER Davis Tosses Two Wins; Flag in Bag A Cardinal Two Gam es Over the Ruhr Slated for Sunday H ere A baseball game between the (am p Abbot team and a IV Corps Medical unit squad and the championship playoff in the 1‘ost softball tournament will highlight the camp’s week-end recreation program. The mixed double header is scheduled for 1330, Sunday on the Post dia mond. In the baseball fracas, Camp Abbot will be up against a team which has been organized for two years and was running sec ond in a league championship before coming here for maneu vers. T, 5 Eddie Zganjar is man ager of the “ Pill Rollers.” The championship softball contest will be between the 52nd Engr. Tng. Bn. and the winner of a four-team playoff, scheduled Wednesday night just after the Abbot ENG INEER’S deadline. Service Company, the only un defeated unit in the group at the time of the playoff was schedul ed to meet the Supply Company and the Medical Detachment the 56th Battalion. The meeting be tween the latter two squads was t l^ r second, the Medics having d the battalion 7 earl- i^rthis week. In other contests this week, the 56th Bn. defeated the Mili tary Police Company, 14 to 3, and the Service Company de feated the Medics 6 to 2 and the MP Company 23 to 3. Motor Company team was eliminated from the tournament Wednes day when it forfeited a game with the Medical Detachment. The 52nd Battalion team was selected this week in intra-bat talion competition. "Tiny" Is Towering bot Recruit buddies call him “ Tiny” — a rank misnomer for Pvt. Wil liam D. Nooner, Supply Co. ERTC, who tips the beams at a mere 285 pounds and towers only 6 ft. 4’/2 ins.—that’s “ Tiny.” Native of Glendale, Calif., “ Tiny” played frosh football for U. of Southern California last fall, winning his block numeral and was regarded as a potential \arsity player. Despite his Paul Bunyanesque dimensions, he is an agile athlete and popular among his fellow soldier-engineers in training. 16-Team Softball Tourney Slated to Begin Tuesday Delayed until reorganization was effected in Hqs. units, the athletic section of the Post Special Service Office plans to sponsor a 16-team softball tourn- Aale Call 'OKAY, SEEOEANIT...TWAT WILL OO AS A TEST FOR THE NEW SHOVEL ...NOW WORK OUT A PSO&LEfW IN WHICH THE EXCAVATION - WILL PE PUT TO A > ' PRACTICAL USE/ YOU'RE T7 ON YOUR OWN J A Page Three By Sansone The Wolf at Abbot Capyn«to m j to I.KWU* itfitom to N»w»p*p*f Same* A softball team composed of members of the second squad of the Fourth Platoon of Co. A defeated a Co. D team 30 to 8 and 11 to 5 in a doubleheader program Sun- | day to win the 52nd Bn. cham pionship and become battalion l representative in the Post t tournament. The winning team began its assault from the opening gun, scoring five runs in the first inning. Biggest inning was the fifth when they brought in 16 runs to put the game on ice. Winning pitcher in both contests was Davis. Hitting honors in the second contest went to Proctor of Co. A, who scored two home runs. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinirj»iiiiiiuniiiiiiijtit|i»iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii $445,952 Raised By War Relief Baseball Games Capt. Billy Southworth, Jr. com mander of Flying Fortress based in England, wears St. Louis Cardinal cap while blast ing Axis targets. Lucky head- piece was given young South- worth by his father following world series last fall 52nd Sports Fame Board Ready for Listings in Hall Topped o ff by its biggest jack pot yet, baseball has come with in shouting distance of the half- million-dollar war relief bullseye Commissioner K. M. Landis pre dicted it would hit. The war relief program pro duced an estimated $185,000 from 166,715 paying members of Gus Fan’s family. This sum, to gether with the $147,391 realized from the first eight-game War Relief day, June 30, and the $115,-175 from the all-star game, which went to the Bat-and Ball Fund, made up a package of $445,952 for the war effort. The top turnouts yesterday were at Pittsburgh, where 29,- 585 contributed abou‘ $35,000 to see the Pirates pummel the New York Giants, and in New York, where 27,281, also chipping in with approximately $35,000, saw the Cleveland Indians clout the Yankees. At Chicago, the Cubs downed the Dodgers twice for the enter tainment of 25,735, who paid $29,733.55 to see it happen. St. Louis, in the National League and Washington, Boston and Philadelphia in the American were the other host towns. The 52nd Engr. Tng. Bn. will see that its sports and train ing program champions don’t go unsung. Two large boards with spaces for names and records established in virtual ly every sport except bubble dancing and channel swim ming have been installed in the unit’s recreation hall. A dearth of space prevents publication of a detailed de scription of the board's con tents, but a few events listed are softball, weight lifting, obstacle course, rifle, track and field, volleyball, fisticuffs, Fifty soldiers from Camp Ab checkers, and chess, wrist bot have arrived at the Engr. turning, push-ups, pull ups Unit Tng. Center, Camp Sutton, and hand wrestling. N. C., to form a portion of the cadre of the newly-activated in ament opening next Tuesday stallation, camp authorities an afternoon. nounced today. A feature of the meet is the This was the first time ex-Ab- entry of a Wac team. Outfits botmen, in a large group, have pitted against the soldierettes been transferred to fit the roles will bat left-handed—that’s the of cadremen. 1/Sgt. Erving E. only ruling favoring the fem Curphey, formerly of B-54, was inine players. in charge of the movement. Teams will represent the Ser Fort Belvoir, Va., and Fort vice, Supply, MP, Medical and Leonard Wood, Mo., also furnish Motor companies. Detailed in ed a representative number of structions will be forwarded to cadre. respective companies over the weekend, said Sgt. Roy L. Rider, T A K IN G NO C H A N C E S ' ‘W h e w ’i the first s e i* e *n t? ” athletic director. “ He’s down at the butls hanging him- Abbot Furnishes New Camp Cadre Bonds Buy Bullets! s e lf? ’* “ Did von cut him dow n?’* “ N o p e! He wasn’ t dead y e t !’* by Milton Caniff. Creator of Terry and the Pirates" "Let’s get a little sun!’’ Abbot Officers Display Skill On Rifle Range As Bullets Rain 51st Trainees W ill Trek Course With machine gun bullets Nine key officers in charge of administration, training and streaming overhead, trainees of other departments at Camp Ab the 51st Engr. Tng. Bn. will bot recently demonstrated their “crawl” over the Camp Abbot skill on the rifle range by quali- infiltration course Saturday — flying 100 per cent. Five won an first group of future combat En experts’ rating, two as sharp gineers to get a taste of making progress under actual shell fire. shooters, and two, marksmen. Last Thursday evening, a Highest score was made by Maj. LeCompte Joslin, super 1 number of ERTC officers trav visor of the Weapons Branch, ersed the course amid a rain of who rang up 191. Lt. Paul S. live ammunition, hugging the King, of the Tng. Div. was sec ground as they inched their way ond with 187, and Lt. Col. Mer over numerous obstacles. The overhead course is located rill A. Pimentel, director, Sup ply and Service Div., third with in vicinity of the 1000 inch 181. Other experts were Maj. course. Every outfit on the post, Russell D. Turrill, director, Per will tour the uniquely-designed sonnel Division, and Capt. Thom trenches and pits. as M. Huber, assistant execu tive officer, who tied with 180. Sharpshooters were Col. L. II. Hall, executive secretary, and Maj. Paul L. Diedeker, director, Plans for establishing a moLaie Administrative Division, -with library system which will enat le 172 and 169, respectively. soldiers to obtain books from Marksmen were Maj. Fred their recreation halls were an erick J. Landenberger, assistant nounced by Miss Caroline Pad director Supply and Service Di dock, post librarian, today. vision, with 162 and Lt. Col. Thirty book cabinets designed Clarence J. Douglas, director, to serve as both crates and book Tng. Div., with 160. cases will be distributed to i< c- Eighty-two officers and seven reation halls probably next week. warrant officers will fire for Three of the cabinets containing record August 15, Col. Douglas approximately 35 books each will announced. Record firing also is be allottrd per unit. These will scheduled soon for all non-com be interchanged by recreation missioned officers of the first hall supervisors once each month, assuring each unit a fresh sup four grades in the ERTC. ply of books at all times. Some 4,000 books collected in PLAYOFF SCHEDULED the Victory Book Campaign will Play-off between squads of the be used in the mobile libraly 51st, 53rd and 51th and 55th program. Others will be available Engr. Tng. Bns. to determine at the 11th Engineer Traint >g organization softball champs Group library on Group avenue will get under way next Tues pending completion of the Po-.t day. Teams are again reminded Library. to either phone or mail via Mes sage Center results to the EN 12 Hours Saved in Mail GINEER sports department, list ing batteries, and highlights of From Abbot Going East A 12-hour reduction in tran«- the game. mittal of mail from Camp Aid <J destined for eastern Unit'd E N C Y C L O P E D IA A R M IA States has resulted with the Rookie: A Mildter who »alute* anjonc adoption of a new mail sch e d u le , who bin t attired in a fatigue uniform. N o n -to m : A group o f intelligent men the Bi nd [jost office announced appointed by o ffic e r » to ebon o ffic e r « what this week. to do. Mobile Library Units Created Edging The D redging W ith Lace