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T. I. Swimmers Place
High In Oakland AAU T. I. Navy Scuttles Seattle of P.C.L., 10-5

Four of Bill Egan's Treasure
Island natators splashed their way Sailors Jam Stands As
into the finals of the PAA of A.AU
swim championships last week. T. I. Ball Hawks Win;
Duane Draves, of the Armed
Guard, cracked the toughest bill of Face Albany Today
· the evening wide open when he won
Nearly 2,500 hit-happy sailors
.the 300-yard individual medley
(100 yards of br.east stroke, back- watched their Treasure Island
baseball nine wallop the Seattle
stroke and free style) in the ex-
cepti-onal time of 3 minutes 36 sec- Coast leagu!l team, 10-5, Friday.
The T. I. band, peanuts and cokes,
onds. He also placed 3rd in the 440- with a stray dog chasing himself
yard free style. '
across the field, all brought out
Dale Webster, Radio Materiel that old ball game atmosphere.
School drowned his fourth place And the victory was a solid one-
jinx for good and all when he Seattle is one of the leading coast
thrashed through the backstroke league outfits, and our boys really
100-yard event to place second, los-
went to work on them with their
ing first only by inches. Ted Fotis, heavy guns.
T. I. swim instructor of the Armed Heavy Hitting Begins
Guard, took third place in this Treasure Island scored three runs
event. Bob Ray, T. I. swim instruc- in the first inning (Lowe, Durdan
tor, took 3rd place in the 100-yard and Olsen) and Seattle answered
free style. in the second with one. In the third
Durdan of T. I. walked and Olsen
formerly -of Chicago Cubs, smashed
out a double. Williams, T. I. first
Loop Leaders baseman, then took a toehold and
slammed the pill so far it looked
T. I. All-Stars Nip like an aspirin being chased by two
headaches in bas,eball pants. That
JOU RN EV'S END-Barney Olsen, T. 1.'s left pasture
bases by the l,ong center field clout of Williams. made it Treasure Island 6, Seattle
S. F. Marines, 2-1 guardian, legs it h,ome after being belted around the Treasure Island won the free-hitting contest, 10-5. 1, .
In one of the season's stiffest Bob Condon, T. I. right handed
softball scrapples, Treasure Island CSp(A) Ray Fee On T. I. Navy[League~Falls .,Into Smoker Lovely pitcher who throws them strictly
All-Stars, sparked by the brilliant from his own shoelace level, had
four-hit hurling of "Speedball" After 18 Months Duty Four Way Tie AslT. I. the Seattle hitters chopping like
Bolton, nosed out the battling San Aunt Hattie with a hatchet. About
Francisco Marines, 2-1, in a 12th In South Pacific Defeats Camp Parks, S-2 the third or fourth inning the,
Naval District league game played Seattle team commenced to swing
before a large crowd of bluejackets Regardless how many men pass Treasure Island combined 10 hits up. From then on they looked like
through the Treasure Island portals in gaining a 5-2 victory over the Uncle Charley digging worms out
on the Treasure Island athletic
field Friday. daily, few can claim the colorful, league-leading Seabees of Camp behind the_ barn ... but they didn't
Heavy stickwork by hard-hitting illustrious background of Chief Ray Parks last Sunday, throwing the get much aait or hits.
·Fee. 12th Naval baseball scramble into Treasure Island got two more in
"Moose" Alston, who drove in the
two runs, paved the way for the The dapper Fee, a recent arrival a four-way juggling act for the the fourth and Bartell scored in the
scoring attack which scuttled the from the South Pacific, toils dili- lead. fifth. Seattle got two in the seventh
scrappy "leathernecks" in the dia- gently in T. I.'s Gym No. 1 as box- Masterful pitching by Chief when Vias beat out an infield hit
mond thriller. ing instructor and coordinator of Bendar paced the T. I. sailors into and Garibowld socked the apple for
Topping the 12ND pennant race the physical fitness program. the win column while the Alameda a homer. Seattle finally called it a
with a trio of victories against no His fistic ambitions materialized Air Station was going down the day with a total of five runs.
drain to the Coast Guard Surf
Dick Bartell, Treasure Island
defeats in their first year of league in the early '20's, partially on: the
prom"pting of a friend and because Riders, 5-1. . short stop, coach and manager,
competition, the hustling All-Stars T. I.'s jack-rabbit infield scored who used to create baseball riots
loom as the team to beat. Skipper his natural ability endowed him three double-plays and squelched at for the New York Giants, has got
"Snag" Bryant, who once won top with such promise. least two other Seabee rallies with us a sweet infield and a fast
honors in Ohio's semi-pro baseball Paddy Dillon took the managing their airtight fielding.
league as leading first baseman on reins of Fee, guidJng him through One reason why T. I. Smokers are I ground-gobbling outfield. Twice in
the ranks of the country's best such a success is "figuratively" pie-. this game T. I. made two double
the All-Buckeye nine, is piloting tured above. . plays-Bartell to Dunham to Wil-
his aggressive squad towards top amateurs in the 112 pound division. world's flyweight champion, for the liams, and this has been· g.oing on
honors in the district's flag race. Fee's invasion of the Pacific Coast title. Fourteen seconds was all it
ended in the championship for the took for Fidel to find the range Eight rip-snorting bouts plus almost every game so far-close to
little Olympic Club battler. and dispose of the game Fee. some excellent floor show enter- an average of two double plays per
Ray Fee made Robert Ripley's tainment furnished by those talent game is hot baseball, friend!
Armed Guard Drops "Believe It or Not", as "One Round, collectors Paige and Wise, will The T. I. Mr. Five by Five Val-
One Fight F ee". In his first and feature the Wednesday night' lero got himself a home run in the
Fourth League Encounter last professional fight Fee fought smoker at T. I. seventh. The stocky .catcher wasn't
LaBarba for the world's champion- Wrestling champs Bill Pickett taking any chances on only getting
To St. Mary's, 1S-1 .ship, something nobody has ever and Charles Pallei will perform in a triple- he ran so fast he looked
done. · the mat exhibition while the punch like one of those California jack-
St. Mary's Pre-Flight success- Fee hung the mittens up imme- pupils from San Bruno, with ex- rabbits with a hot foot.
fully completed another bombing diately after, retiring to a matri- Flyweight champ Jackie Jurich at Sailor, _if you are missing the
mission this time ruining the peace- monial life until his enlistment in the helm, will furnish T. I. with all Treasure Island baseball games at
ful villa of the Armed Guard Sun- the Navy in 1943. the competition they can handle. the Athletic Field, blame somebody
day, by blasting them 15-1 in a ----------~~~ -----~~~---------~~ but don't miss the next game.
12th Naval baseball tussle. Schedules are posted all over the
It was even-steven until the SOFTBALL. island and admission is free. The
fourth when the cadets found the season is in stride-get into it your-
offerings of pitcher Tomlinson, to self and enjoy the games.
their liking, pasting him for three Shaw of Radio Materiel Shuts Out Marines
hits, three errors and a base on
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balls for four runs. This was the With No Hitter; T. I. Hospital Trims Dispensary' 8 oyes pr1ngs a es
beginning of the end for Tomlinson, Softball got off to a flying start ·the National League, T. I. Dis-
the finish coming in the sixth in- Ripley's Ray Fee on T. r. this week and after the pensary losing a wild contest to the 12-3 Bat Drubbing From
ning when he allowed three batters dust had cleared from the score T. I. Hospital, 9-5, and VR-2 trim-
free passage to first base. The 1924 Olympic game try-outs board, three teams still remained ming Op~rational Training, '.-4. - Armed. Guard Center
Dick Carlascio went on the held in Boston claimed Ray as one unbeaten. American League Standings
mound for Armed Guard, serving of its contestants. Ray waded
American League W. L. Pct. Smarting from the defeat suf-
up a home run ball to Sabo, that through all opposition until the It remained for Radio Materiel's Radio Materiel . . . . . 2 0 1000. fered at the hands of the St. Mary's
cleaned the bases. There for· all final round where he was scheduled Jim Shaw to turn in the week's top Armed Guard • . . . . . 2 0 1000. Pre-Flight Sunday, Armed Guard's
practical reasons went the ball to trade wallops with Fidel La- performance. Shaw stole the spot- Tadcen • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 0 1000. rejuvenated nine turned back the
game. Barba. LaBarba turned the tables light with his no hit, no run game Marines • • • • • . . . . . . 0 1 000. Boyes Springs, 12-3, at Sonoma
Armed Guard scored one run on on Fee by virtue' of a T.K.O. in the against the Marines; only one man Pre-Com. . ...... .. . . 0 2 000. Valley.
seven hits and three errors·. second round. His gameness and Armed Guard combined 17 hits
reached first base. The RMS school Frontier Base . . . . . . 0 2 000.
boxing skill earned him a spot on boy hurled his first shutout in stop- National League Standings ' and two errors in scoring an even
the Yank boxing team that went to dozen digi.ts while the Barracks D
"Beware the deadly sitting habit, Paris that year. ping the Leat hernecks, 5-0. W. L. Pct. chucker was handcuffing the Sono-
0 1000.
Shaw's batting was instrumental T. I. Hospital · · • • • • 1
Or, if you sit, be like the rabbit, Fee ran into some unexpected in RMS 6-5 victory over Pre- VR- 2 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 1 O 1000. ma lads with 11 hits.
Who keepeth ever on the jump trouble in the semi-final round, Commissioning. A home run and a T. I. Dispensary . . . . 0 1 OQO.
By springs concealed beneath his bowing to the English champion triple were credited to the Radio Operational Training O 1 000. "To run like hell it has been found
rump.'' after four rounds of furious mill- Materiel pitcher. Post Office • • • • • • • • . 0 0 000. Both feet must be on the ground.''
(We have springs on the trampo- ing. Pacific Coast fans were Armed Guard's title defending Receiving Ship • •. • • 0 0 000. (Baseball and softball fields on ,
lines too, at both Treasure Island pacified somewhat by the one-sided squad stayed in the undefeated USS 0. • • • • • • • •· • • • • O O 000. the Athletic Field-basketball in
gymnasiums). victory turned in by LaBarba in
thumping Fee's conqueror for the ranks with an 8-7 win over Fron- Yo-Ho Men • • • • • • • • 0 0 000. the Gyms-let's go!)
title. tier Base and a 2-0 decision over
"And so my son, avoid the snare Although Fee vowed never to Pre-Com.
. Which lurks within a cushioned turn professional, the yearn for The Tadcen team, dark-horse Baseball ...
chair.'' the bright lights was too great for of the tourney, looked good in de- Treasure Island faces Albany Landing Force at T. I. today,
(A workout in the swimming pool him. In his only appearance as a feating Frontier Base, 6-3. 1400. Receiving Ship will oppose Treasure Island tomorrow at the
will really treat you right; come on professional, Fee fought Fidel La- National League same time.
over). Barba, who at the time was the Only four teams saw action in