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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1943)
Rider Exhumes Last Season's Baseball Data C O O L IN G ? ? Sgt. Roy L. Rider oi the Spe cial Service Office sports de partment set some sort of record last week when he brushed the cobwebs off his score book and turned in performance statis tics for the Camp Abbot base- ■ ball team hardly more than a month after the end of the sea son. Rider left his treadmill long enough to reveal that Cpl. Steve Pocheck, shortstop, was the No. 1 | hitter during the season, batting .500 in the 10 games in which he played. Pochek batted 38; times and got 19 hits, including a home run, a triple and two doubles. Sgt. William Fitzpat rick, outfielder, was second with an average of .471. In six games, i Fitzpatrick got eight hits out of 17 trips to the plate. In third position was Pvt. Saul “Lefty” Maslan, first baseman, who made an average of .375 in nine “ To cool you o ff” said NBC in passing along this interesting games, hitting 12 times in 32 study of Georgia Carroll, nation’s top model and singer on the Kay Kyser show. So NBC thinks we’d rather swim . . . Watch out for times at bat. Other team members who , eyestrain, brother. played three games or more and their averages are: Lt. John Wainright, .339; Sgt. Alexander Orloff, .308; Cpl. Francis Ward, .300; Pvt. Thomas Nokes, .286; Sgt. Anthony Pizzi, .259; Pvt. I f you’ve never seen a woman become a dancer. Herbert Seid, .250; Lt. Donald “ My brother-in-law, Eddy Ria, taking a bath and are curious Hanson, .250; Cpl. George Con about feminine ablutions Cpl. who’s been in the show business way, .231 and Cpl. Frank Capas- Jerry LaSalle of the Medical De for 24 years, talked me into it,” so, .214. tachment, former welterweight Jerry remarked in explaining Pitchers and performances: Golden Gloves champion and how he became a stage “con Sgt. Chickirda, won one, lost dancer, can give you a pretty vert.” Pantomine and eccentric none; Pvt. Tom Nokes, won one, good idea of what goes on. La dancing were mainstays of Jer lost none; Pvt. Glen Kern, won Salle has done a burlesque of the ry’s act, but now and then he two, lost four, and Sgt. Albert Saturday night ritual more times would sing what he described as Zande, won none, lost two. than he can recall since he f‘heartbreakers.” LaSalle toured (The figures are Sergeant Rid abandoned the prize ring for the the country, appearing at thea er’s. Apparently none of the tres and night clubs, among stage several years ago. pitchers could be trusted with a Jerry took the Golden Gloves them the Blackhawk in Chicago, bat.) belt in 1936. He decided to stick before the army called for a com In the event baseball season with the fight game for a while, mand performance in April, 1941. is just a distant memory, here’s LaSalle’s army career was and under the direction of Izzy what happened; good news first: Klein, widely-known trainer, met spent at Fort Ord, Calif., where The post team won over the a number of top notch welter he was boxing instructor for the 54th Battalion twice, defeated a weights including Barney Ross, 17th Infantry of the 7th Division. Service Company team and the with whom he tangled at the He came to Camp Abbot in May Redmond Air Base. On the dark Trafton Gym in Chicago. In 1937, and is with the supply branch of side: The Engineers lost three Jerry went to Hollywood where, the Medical Detachment. LaSalle games to the Bend Elks, two to after training a few hopefuls is scheduled to appear in "Cas a Medical Regiment team here and boxing a few bouts, he di tles of Fun” whenever the show on maneuvers, a n d one to a vorced himself from boxing to is produced here. Quartermaster Regiment on ma neuvers. is stationed at Jefferson Bar Attack by Draft Board racks, Mo. Ex-Golden Gloves Cham p Now Entertains for Medics SPORT SLANTS CLUB GETS DRAPES Draperies were installed in the Sergeants’ Club by Pvt. Howard Boyer this week as the first step toward redecorating and refur nishing the unit. Private Boyer, former interior decorator for the Marshall Field Company in Chi Pvt. John Melius, ex-Villanova cago, selected green draperies and New York Football Giants ! for the bar, maroon for the li end, is stationed at Camp Davis, brary and cream-colored, flower ed drapes for the game room. N. C. Recreation facilities include two S/Sgt. Tom Smith, former ping p o n g tables. Books are Louisiana College track star, available in the library. cracked his own Kessler Field I ABOUT THAT BOOK iMiss, i javelin mark w ith a 206- ' Any soldier who fails to return foot, 9Vinch mark heave at the third summer track and field a book to the Service Club li meet held at the Base recently. brary within a week after receiv ing an ’overdue” notice will be Bob McLeod, ex-Dartmouth required to pay for the book on grid great, who downed four Jap a statement of charges, M i s s planes over Guadalcanal, is now Caroline P a d d o c k , librarian, a Navy instructor at Pensacola warned this week. Soldiers are Florida. liable for the loss of any book checked out from the library, Chalky Wright, once feather she said. weight champion, gets his pre induction physical soon. Wright CRUSHING PROBLEM wanted to join the Martitime; England (CNS) — Most ingen Service Nit his draff board's ious GI at one Flying Fortress •'greeting'' heat him to the base here is Cpl. Archie L. Mor punch. ris of St. Charles. Mo. Told to flatten 100 tin cans by dropping J im Castiglia, Georgetown the 20-pound weight on each one, football star and later catcher he completed the job in one min for the Philadelphia Athletics, is ute by getting the operator of a Lt. James V. Castiglia now. and steamroller to run over them. By Camp Newspaper Service Capt. Ray Barbutti, former Syracuse University quarter mil- er ami Olympic champion in 1928. has recovered from an at tack of sand fly fever and re turned to duty in North Africa. Saturday, Sept. 18, 1943 ABBOT ENGINEER Page Four Follows That of Nazis New Orleans (C N S )—Charlie Burnett, a New Orleans marine engineer, was torpedoed by Ger mans and Japs and broke his leg when he fell into the hold of his ship. But more trouble was waiting for him when he return ed home. He was arrested as a draft evader. Burnett was cleared of the charge when an investigation un covered the fact that his draft board had mislaid his record. ORGANIZE HOSTESS GROUP Between 30 and 40 civilian workers, with Mrs. Lorene Brandvold as president pro tern, have tentatively organized a hostess group for social func tions on the post. Future plans include naming the club and adopting an insignia for club members to wear. Until a final organization is formed members are acting as unofficial hostesses. DANCE BAND NAMED Camp Abbot's newest dance orchestra no longer is a name less child. Cpl. A. G. Tiemann Jr., leader and drummer for the or ganization, announced this week the unit hereafter will be refer red to as the ERTC dance band. The orchestra played at a dance for members of the 54th and 55th Battalions Wednesday night. Basketball Takes Sportlight Here D-53rd Wins Shot at Post Softball Title Basketball came into its own at Camp Abbot this week as sev eral Engineer Training Battal ions organized teams and began practice sessions on tbe All-Pur Company D of the 53rd Battal pose Recreation Building’s new ion took the 11th Group softball ly-lined courts. Company D of the 54th set championship this week by de itself up as a leading contender feating Company C of the 54th among post cage squads by win Bn., 4 to 6 in one of the hardest- ning three contests. The unit fought contests ever to be played defeated Co. A of the 53rd, 30 to here. The 53rd team will meet 23, Co. A of the 57th 55 to 0 and the Service Company softball squad on the post diamond Mon- Co. C of the 54th, 43 to 14. Company B of the 54th was 1 day night to determine the post less fortunate. The unit was de championship. Held scoreless through four feated in a contest with Co. A frames in its contest against the of the 55th, 28 to 56. Co. C of the 54th redeemed 54th, the championship squad itself for its loss to the Co. D scored a lone run in the fifth in team by defeating the “ Wild ning. Avilla, right fielder for the unit, put the game on ice in the cats,” a pick-up team, 39 to 20. i sixth frame by pounding out a home run with two men on base. Both Esson, pitcher for the 54th, and Holtmeyer, hurler for the 53rd, turned in good perfor mances on the mound. Watch Checks For Damage New Equipment For Post Show • Soldiers were asked this week to warn their dependents against mutilation of Allotment checks The Post theatre will be closed mailed out by the Office of De the earlier part of this week to pendency Benefits. The plea allow time for installation of came from the government new equipment on a par to that check departments of the Fed in use at the Roxy theatre in New eral Reserve banks, who eventu York, Lt. Henry Hansen, theater ally handle these checks after officer, has announced. Reopen they’ve passed through normal ing of the unit is set for trade channels. week. It was explained that even a Establishment of a new record pin hole in one o f these new ! for attendance at the threatre cardboard benefit checks can also was announced. A total of literally jam up the works of 2,681 patrons atended showings the Federal Reserve banking of “ So Proudly We Hail” during system—and often does. the two-day showing of the film Reason is a group of intricate 1 September 5 and 6. This record machines which sort, count and probably would have been brok- cancel checks by the use of small | en with the showing of “ Salute rectangular holes punched in to the Marines” the following each check which makes possi week-end had not presentation ble the determining of the month, of a USO show Monday night in year, number of check and tervened. More than 2,040 atten amount. ded the showing of the Marine Machine Saves Manpower Corps film during its four show Use of the cardboard checks ings, and the picture drew a mat and the new canceling machines inee attendance Sunday of 810, was started last May to alleviate the largest to date. manpower shortages. The ma Attendance figures for “ T ^ chines in the New York Federal Is the Arm y” which was ex peer Reserve Bank require but 200 ed to break all records, was employees, whereas the old ad 2,045. Theatre officials attribut ding machine method required ed the failure of the film to es 6 , 000 . tablish a new high to the fact Top speed efficiency can be the picture was shown in Bend maintained only if the benefici for more than a week prior to ary and every other person hand the showing here. ling the Allotment check takes ordinary care in their handling. Jagged edges, folded or torn MORE ABOUT checks considerably slows the work of canceling them. It is suggested persons receiv ing these checks cash them im (Continued From Page One) mediately as a means of cutting wasted time and labor caused formed in connection with the by mutilated checks. chapel, and that a five piece or chestra be included in the per Wilmer Allison, who outstrok- sonnel of the Special Service ed the great Fred Perry to win Branch. In addition he recom the national tennis champion mended that singing be used in ship in 1935, is a Lieutenant the theater and- also that train Colonel and his old doubles part ing battalions be assembled at ner, Johnny Van Ryn, is a Lieut least once a week for 15 minutes of singing. enant in the Navy. Music Classes SEND THE ENGINEER H OM E (Fold paper, fasten it together, place l ’ ac stamp in comer, mail) From l'/i Cent Stamp Here Camp Abbot, Oregon
