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Treasure Island Shells San Diego Padres, 9-5 .• SPORTS •.

Calvert Hurls Victory

As Olsen Homers In 6th
Fleet City Downed in Batting Averages
Treasure Island's baffling sailors
continmid to raise havoc with Pa- Navy Ameri,an league
cific Coast League baseball teams Williams Presses Bartell
by routing the San Diego Padres in Championship Bid, 5-4
a heavy breeze Thursday, 9-5. For Batting Honors
Faulty fielding on both sides per- Treasure Island's baseball team
mitted the teams at least three un- whipped the fast Fleet City club Manager Dick Bartell continues
earned runs and left a total of 11 5-4 last Saturday to take the lead to belt the ball well over the .400
men stranded on the bases. Treas- in the 12th Naval District Ameri- mark while Lloyd Lowe, third base
ure Island's keystone combination can League pennant race. Treasure speed merchant, paces Treasure
of Bartell and Dunham, made up Island now has won 6 and lost 1. Island's runs batted in department
. for some of the fielding despair by The game early developed into a with 22 ..
executing two double plays in keep- pitcher's battle between Bender of Team Batting Averages
ing with their two per-game aver- T. I. and Ray of Fleet City, witb G AB R H Avg.
age. the hitters on each side attempting Bartell, ss .. 23 83 19 34 .410
Barney Olsen, hard hitting out- to knock holes in the fence at every Williams, 1 b . 20 84 17 32 .380
fielder, smacked his third homer of pitch. Lowe, 3b .... 23 99 31 36 .363
the season and contributed a single Fleet scored two runs in the first Tauby, of ... 16 55 10 19 .345
and a double on his two other trips when Turner tied into a fast one Olsen, of . ... 21 88 25 26 .329
~o the plate. for a home run with one man on Donnely, of .. 5 13 6 4 .307
Mike Kreevich, Padre infielder, base. In the second inning Fred Durdan, of . . 21 89 25 26 .292
opened the San Diego scoring in Tauby of T. I. smashed a shin- Vallero, c . . . 13 44 7 .12 .273
TAUBY SCORES-Rounding the bases after doubling in the sevent h cracker to third base, and while the
the second inning with a single. frame is chunky outfielder Tauby. Tauby was responsible for two of Dunham, 2b . 23 95 18 23 .240
Thompson singled, Kreevich ad- the three runs that crossed the plate in the eventful seventh. Treasure Fleet City infield was still fumbling Sheely, c . ... 16 42 9 10 .238
vanced to third and -then scored on Island won the ba ll game, 9-5, from San Diego Padres on their own around, Tauby reached third hnn~ Richardson, of 10 34 4 7 .206
diamond . self, scoring later on Bartell's in-
. Vezelich's single. fitcher Trahd Pitchers' Record
field screamer to second base.
aided his own cause with a bingle Condon, p .. . 8 22 4 6 .273
that scored Thompson. Williams. Outfielder Tauby doubled scored Lowe and "Rebel" Calvert Fleet City scored again in the Wilson, p . .. 10 18 1 3 .166
Treasure Island got two in the them both home and scored min- singled to score Williams, ending third. In the seventh, Bartell of T. I . Bender, p 5 18 3 3 .166
sixth frame on Lowe's single and utes later on pitcher Calvert's long the parade of Treasure Island runs. after fouljng off a couple over Calvert, p 4 7 3 3 .428
toward the Oakland Ferry building,
Barney Olsen's home run. fly ball. Calvert retired the Padres in Terranova, p 4 9 0 0 .000
walloped out a triple, scoring on
San Diego scored one run in the A four-run barrage greeted Padre their half of the ninth in one, two, Odom, p ... . 1 6 0 0 .000
fifth on consecutive singles by Mar- pitcher Martin in the eighth stanza three order, to end the game. William's fly to right field. Fleet Definitions: Games, G; At Bat,
City scored ag'ain in the eighth,
tin, Abbot and Reynolds, and then when leftfielder "Rabbit" Donnely Score: R. H. E. AB; Runs, R · Hits, H; Batting
with Sheely, T . I. catcher, blocking '
added another one in the sixth ses- walked and Lloyd Lowe singled him San Diego . 002 011 100- 5 13 4 Average, Avg.
off another possible run at the
sion. to third. Olsen singled to score Don- T . I. ..... . 000 002 34*- 9 10 3
plate.
The Treasure Island bellbottoms nely and Williams walked, filling Batteries: T. I., Terranova, Cal-
In the last o.f the eighth Olsen
again came to life in the 'seventh the bases with Treasure Island vert and Vallero; S. D.: Trahd,
hit to right field. Williams hit to Foreman-Groehler Take
inning on doubles by Olsen and runners. Fred Tauby's timely single Martin and Bollinger.
left field. Fred Tauby hit one so
hard to center field that when the T~ I. Tennis Title;
Armed Guard Trims RMS ball quit hopping it was as flat as
last year's tire and Tauby had made Men's Tourney, June 11
For loop lead; VR-2 a home run, scoring both Olsen and
Williams. Inconsistency at the net cost Lt.
Commander Hall and Lt. Lassa the
Snags National league Treasure Island Officers' doubles
tennis tournament, Wednesday, as
A strong Armed Guard softball Armed Guard Gunners
contingent gained undisputed pos- they bowed out in the final round
session of the American League Defeat Maritime to Lt. J. Foreman and Lt. T.
by edging RMS in Monday's top Gruehler, 6-0, 6-3, 6•1.
softball tussle, 4-2. Both teams Offi,ers' Club by 13-4 Foreman and Gruehler possessed
played heads-up ball but the Armed too many shots for Lassa and Hall,
losing only four games in the three-
Guard batting-supremacy was the At Washington Park, Alameda,
out-of-fi ve sets.
deciding factor. In the only other the Armed Guard Gunners dug
Beautiful plaques were awarded
game, Tadcen defeated Pre-Com- down and pulled out a 13-4 win
to the winning team and the same
missioning, 3-0. over the Maritime Officers' club,
will go to the winners of the en-
National League Sunday. Smarting over a league listed men's doubles tourney tha't
VR-2 took a commanding lead in defeat the day before the Gunners
the other loop by banging out a rapped out 14 strong ones. Larrieu starts June 11.
14-2 victory over the Treasure Is- led the Gunners with 3 for 4.
land Hospital. Operational Training Batteries - Dick ~arlascio, J . Definition : Optimist-the cross-
knocked the USS-O from the unde- Howton and Mike Boyko; Gene word puzzle fan who starts with a
feated ranks with a convincing 6-4 Kohn and Warren Lynch_. fountain pen.
CHEWING THE FAT-Former Ohio State gritlder CSp(A) S. Fox score.
(sitting at left) confers with CSp(A) H. Wineroth (center) and CSp(A) In the top fracas of the Officers' NEW DIVING EQUIPMENT
D. Medigovich. Fox is headed for the South Pacific whjle Medigovich League, Tadcen copped a 10-7 dis-
and Wineroth ar~ connected with the Armed Guard.
puted verdict over OTS, while Pre-
Commissioning banged out a 14-2 TESTED AT GYM NO. 2
while pushing 16 companies through win over the Dispensary. Armed
Ohio State Grid Star "boots" at Farragut, he managed Guard trimmed Receiving Ship, 8-3.
to write a book on boot training, Standings:
Visits Armed Guard Pals "Hey M_ac," that sold thousands·of American Leag·ue
copies and drew a letter ·of com- Won Lost Pct.
Before Shipping Out mendation from Vice Admiral Ran- Armed Guard .... . . 5 0 1000
dall Jacobs, Chief of the Bureau of Tadcen ... . ........ 4 1 800
Football talk is still pretty much
in the background with baseball Naval Personnel. Radio Materiel .. .. . 3 2 600
still around to give it an argument His two buddies pictured are by Pre-Com. • • • • • • .... 2 3 400
no means new in the "leather" busi- Frontier Base . . . . .. 0 4 000
but CSp (A) Sammy Fox, former
ness. Chief Wineroth has a flashy Marines ...... . .... 0 4 000
Ohio State gridder who thinks in
football background at Cal. Poly National League
terms of pigskins, puts the football Won Lost Pct.
and played center on the San Diego
question early to his old cronies VR-2 . . .. .... ...... 4 0 1000
Navy team that was a contender
of the Armed Guard, CSp(A) Harry USS-O ............ 3 1 750-
for national honors in 1944.
Wineroith and CSp(A) Dave Medi- OTS . ... . .. . . . .. .. 3 1 750
govich. Chief Medigovich, Armed Guard
Rec. Ship . .. . . .... . 2 2 500
softball coach, played in the back-
Chief Fox dropped into the field for Arizona State under coach T . .I. Hosp. .... . .... 1 3 250
Armed Guard Center to cut up a Dixie Howell. Post Office ......... 1 3 250
few touches with a pair of old YO-HO Men . .. . .. . 1 3 250
buddies before shipping to the bat- T. I. Disp. .. . ... ... 1 ·3 250
tle zone. Fox is enroute to the South Alameda Hell,ats Take Officers League
Pacific where he will either coach Won Lost Pct.
or play on one of the Navy Teams. Armed Guard of T. I. OTS . .. . ... . . ..... 2 0 1000
His grid career started in 1939 Pre-Com. . ..... . ... 2 1 666
and terminated in 1941. He was in- In Exciting Game Armed Guard .. . . .. 1 · 1 500
vited to the annual All-Star classic In a free-hitting game on their Rec. Ship .... . . . ... 2 2 500
in Chicago but by game time, he home diamond the Hellcats from T. I. Disp. . .... . ... 1 2 333
was already busy with the physical the Alameda Naval Air Station Frontier Base .. . ... O 2 000
fitness program at Norfolk, under belted three Armed Guard pitchers Tadcen ...... . . .. .. 0 0 000
Commander Gene Tunney. for sixteen hits and fourteen runs
Fox isn't just a one sport man. in a Navy league game last Satur-
His gifted ball handling earned him day. Bill Rigney, Hellcat short Well, So What?
the head basketball post at Beira pitcher clouted a 400 foot homer Here is a tale of an inebriated
College in Kentucky, where he in the eighth to score Hogue ahead Yale student who saw a signpost
guided the destinies of his southern of him. in Providence that read: "New SHALLOW WATER tllvlng-helmet drill to accustom specialists in
melon tossers to the finals of the R H E Haven 126, Cambridge 54." "Yip- underwater repair work is practiced In the combat and training tank.
Navy diving Chiefs are (left to right) Geraux, Mooney and Roberts,
state championship in 1944. Hellcats . .. . . . .. . .... . . 15 16 2 pee," cried the scholar, "I always checking their men. Swimming Instructor Bob Cowing watches under-
To further show his versatility, Gunners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 11 5 knew we could trim those guys!" water movements of men swimming with weighted belts.