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.. SPORTS .. Jammed Gym Site of Corking Smoker
More drama than a dime novel
Sports Dribble featured this classic between the
titans of Europe, involving lads
Di M'aggio Home ... fro,m the ranks and the front lines
Taking it easy at a recent Treas- who, tomorrow, may be casualties
ure Island boxing smoker, Joe Di in battle. But for all its solemnity,
Maggio, former slugging outfielder the occasion had its lighter side.
for the New York Yankees, is home The weather ? ? ? That will have
after a six-months stay in Honolulu. to remain a military secret.
Twenty pounds lighter as a result Navy Hopes Bolstered . • •
oi ulcer trouble, Joe is a bit re- Navy's high flying football jug-
luctant on his fu- gernaut, who engages the unbeaten
ture doings, leaving Army eleven, today, will get a
everything up to his shot in the arm for the 1945 grid-
present boss, Uncle iron season. Transfers concerning
Sam. eligible football stars for the com-
Engaging in 35 ing season are in order, and their
games while sta- addition to the roster is expected
tioned on the islands, to load the Navy victory wagon.
Di Maggio hit the pill Tony Minisi, Penn's great south-
at a .410 pace, breaking their long paw passer; "Hunchy" Hoern-
distance clout record in his initial schmeyer, Indiana's triple threater;
trip. to the plate. . ·'Shorty" McWilliams, Mississippi's
Joe feels that a team made up of tailback sensation and "Bullet" Bob
service. men from the Honolulu sec- Kelly, Notre Dame's All-American
tor, which is loaded with former big candidate, are exp,ected to enter
league stars, could have given the Annapolis at the season's end for
Cards a run fo·r their money. further training.
1948 Olympics Planned ..• Front Line Chatter • • •
J. Sigfrid Edstrom of Stockholm, One-armed Pete Gray, Memphis
acting president of the Interna- outfielder and most valuable player
tional Olympic Committee, stated in the Southern Association, will Marinship Succumbs To
that tentative plans for the 1948 play for the St. Louis Browns next
games were being made. year. Just before the season ended, Navy Bombardment In
No country at war may be host to Pete was visited by a one-armed,
the games and Edstrom, who is in nine-year-old Los Angeles boy, and Quick K. 0. Fashion
the United States to attend the In- Gray, who is very obliging, belted a
ternational Business Men's Con- triple, a double and three singles Doors gave way to an ava-
gress, listed Lausanne, Switzerland, for the kid. . . Top service team of
lanche of 7,000 fight-hungry
and Stockholm as probable sites, the Eastern U. S. is the North
fans who shoved and squeezed
with cities in Spain, Portugal and Carolina Pre-Flight eleven. Victors
Finland as possibilities. over Navy, Duke and the Cherry their way into the sardine-
Army Wallops Navy. , . Point Marines, the "Cloudbusters" packed Treasure Island gym-
Don't get the wrong idea fellas, are led by "Automatic" Otto Gra- nasium, Wednesday, Novem-
it is not the hot classic being staged ham, brilliant Northwestern back
ber 22, to witness a fist-a.-
at Baltimore, but a revised edition, and Stan Koslowski, Holy Cross . ..
held in London. Marine Cpl. Robert Zbikowski, se con d combined_ boxing-
Sixty thousand football-starved former San Francisco State Col- variety extravaganza.
Yanks were "back home" for three lege football player, is his motor Highlighted with the round
hours today when they saw a U. S. transport mates' nominee for the ring donation to the Training
Army team, loaded with former col- biggest Marine overseas. Robert
and Distribution Center by
lege stars, sink a scrappy Navy stands 6 feet 5 inches and weighs
Bill Kline and Charles Hunter
eleven, 20-0, to win the European a small 230 pounds. Just a pee wee,
championship. fellas. and the championship hand-
ball awards for the Twelfth
Naval District, were gracious-
T. I. Opens Hardwood Season With
ly received by Commodore
Win Over United Engineers, 43-29 R. W. Cary, Commander, U. S.
Naval Training and Distribu-
Dusick Paces Island Just when the visitors' engine tion Center, and Lt. Nash
started warming up, the flashy
Quint With 17 Tallies Navy quint drowned it in a flood- Higgins, Treasure Island .ath-
like scoring spree. · Crum, Haines, letic officer.
In Heated Cage Contest Dusick and Rokosh successively A sex-sational all-girl revue from
Striking with the ferocity of a chalked the board with field goals, the "Music Box" in San Francisco
the latter registered 'two baskets to rang the bell on the entertainment,
bullfighter's man-hating opponent,
his credit. Then the United Engi- giving a sparkling routine _in tap
the Spartan-like Tr~ure Island
neers called for time out to unite and soft shoe dances. Vivacious
hardwood combination, led by
themselves for the alre~dy heated Irene Cromwell, who gives a dis- Top left-Lovely Irene Cromwell, doing the "splits" in a fantasy of
playing - coach Lt. (jg) Zunic, battle against their cagey foe. tinct picture of South Sea Island swirling ballets ... Landing a paralyzing right to the solar plexis of
hapless Kid Dorsey, Marinship, is the new Treasure Island slug sensa-
drubbed a high-spirited United En- When the play resumed, the Is- beauty, was very eye-filling in an tion, Don MacNeal ... Top right-A give-and-take affair is plainly ex-
gineers five by a score of 43-29 be- land basketeers lost no time staging exotic sarong number. Shades of hibited here by a couple ,of "sock 'em and rock 'em" artists-Con New-
fore a cheering audience of blue- mother rally. Haines received a Kate Smith irt' the petite form of port, Armed Guard, and Ted Lewis, D. D. Pool ... Figuratively speaking,
position pass from Rokosh, who Pat Evans were put to good use the five beautiful Music Box Girls would make a pretty setting to any
jackets and visiting spectators last with her renditions of "St. Louis picture .•• Going in circ.les are George Neubeck and Tony Ferrari,
?~Shed the global leather from his gettin_g their first dizzy spell in the round ring.
Friday night, November 24, in the. Blues," and "Oh Johnny." The
:hest in a bullet-like fashion to
yet - to- be-commissioned Treasure 1oor general Lt. (jg) Zunic, who Roller Skating R~wters, twirled the D. D. Pool, making his second guests, Eddie Davis and Kid Dorsey
and ·whirled the audience silly, liter-
Island Gymnasium No. 2. nade a fast break through his op- appearance, ran into some stiff of Marinship. Scoring knockouts in
Sparked by the all-around play ?Onents' well-guarded defense and ally as well as physically, with their resistance in the form of Armed the early stages of the bouts, Wil-
colorful panorama on skates. Chief
of Dusick, who led his teammates ,ank a spectacular one-handed Inspector Phaan and 'his knowl- Guardsmen Con Newport. Furnish- son showed a devastating right paw
with eight field goals and one gift ;msh shot. ing one of the evening's best bouts, while MacNeal was impressive as a
edge-bent Fox Terrier, Peggy,
shot, the Treasure Island hardwood Again, the Engineers staged a rang finale with their bag of-tricks. these two titans of the canvas, went punishing body puncher.
aces cogged the gigantic wheels of rally with Connolly and Sobrero, The Chicago fire had nothing on at it hammer and tong for the dura-
the powerful Engineers' cage ma- :ormer Santa Clara court ace, hit- the opening bout staged between tion, ending the three stanzas in a
chinery, stopping them in cold de- :ing the basket for points; but their
Johnny Payne, 137, and Speed El- draw. Treasure Island Casaba
feat, as the 1944 basketball season :ally was short-lived when Treasure liott, 144. Throwing caution to the Sworek, Millich Delight
made its initial appearance here. [sland virtually put the game on ice wind, these two men of perpetual Funsters Joe Sworek, Tony Gal- Men Trample Matson
Treasure Island Strikes First ln the closing seconds of the first motion, climaxed a rip-snorting ento of Treasure Island, and Young
When the referee signalled the half by piling up a 22-12 lead. bout by going three rounds to a Millich, heavyweight menace, pro- ._Navigation, 68-13
game to get underway, the echo of
Heated Second Half draw. vided the show's fun with their
his whistle had hardly faded before An Engineers team, whose bas- clown antics, in and out of the ring. Pouring a steady stream of set-
Treasure Island grabbed -the lead ketball machinery appeared to have Armed Guard Cuties It can be said that Referee Frankie up shbts through the hoop, the
by cashing in a free throw as a re- A wild and wooly .fracas between 1944 edition of the Treasure Island
been completely overhauled, came Armed Guardsmen Charlie Ash and Carter was as much a recipient of
sult of a foul charged against So- back in the. second half and gave punishment as the contestants. basketball squad opened the melon
brero. Rokosh 'increased the lead the hustling bluejackets a real fight, Texas Walt Hood, ended in victory season with a crushing 68-11 vic-
by sinking the first field goal , of holding them to a margin of four for Ash, after a bruising hit-and- Neubeck Impresses tory over a submerged Matson
the game. rt was at this point that points during the second half. . miss affair. Botl!. boys showed signs George Neubeck, Southw,est Navigation.
the Engineers got into the cage Connolly paced the scrappy En- of fatigue after the . bout. Pacific importation, and California Led by their playing-coach Lt.
scrabble. Stultz sank a free score Scott Fails to Last Tony Ferrari were very impressive (jg) Matt Zunic, who paced the
gineers with two tallies and six
for the Engineers, narrowing·Treas- Sleek Hank Mutoza started out in their three round draw. Neubeck winners with 22 points, the Treas-
free throws during the game wlilile
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ure Island's lead to two points. ear Y W It S tt fl oormg 1m seemed satisfied to duck and ure Island hoopsters were in com-
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Dusick led the Island squad with a
Then Connolly, Denver's former three times with devastating blows counterpunch while Ferrari chased plete command throughout the four
AU - American guard, found his total of 17 points, followed by Ro- to the breadbasket and then him on occasions, fanning the sessions.
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range and dropped the global pig- kosh, who scored ten points. finishm . g him off wi'th a n"ght to breeze with some wild blows. D f 1 th e par o f
e ensive pay on
skin through the hoop for a tally The referees for the game were the chin. Both boys weighed 188. Navy Sinks Marinship Haines, guard, and Crum, forward,
which brought the scores to a dead- Bill Fassler (Treasure Island), and D. D. Pool Debut Jackie Wilson and Ted MacNeal were commendable for the local
lock. Al Kyte (University of California). Ted Lewis, 204, pride and joy of were a couple of rude hosts to their boys.