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SMOKER LURES 6000 PUNCH PATRONS

TO GYM NO. 1; SUNSERI CHARMS SAILORS .. SPORTS ..
Pandemonium reigned as fighters
manning their battle stations were
Rugby Champs! given "booster shots" by a host of
entertain,ers headed by little Pat
We were romping through t)le Sunseri, tiny tot of song, on the
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main lounge at the Armed Guard Treasure lsle s Spirited Wednesday night smoker.
Center the other day when one of
Truly one of the best shows to
Bill Posedel's MAA's let out a bel- Team Crushes Albany 19-3 date, the three ring conglomeration
low that b 1 ew us right into th-e in Gym No. 1, ranging anywhere
gear locker and almost onto the lap Running through a crumbled d-e- from an acrobat to a puncher with
of Sp(A)lc Johnson, who was fense like flash fire going through upholstered mittens, . was run off
moodily regarding a spiked shoe. a lace curtain, Treasure Island's the assembly line in clock-work
"That," we said, "is a funny look- mighty rugby squad plowed its way fashion.
ing basketball shoe." "That," said to a 9-3 victory over a scrappy
Johnny, "is a baseball shoe. Wake Naval Landing Force team from Seven-year-old Patty, a "three
up and live, Spring is here. The Albany in a recent rugby clash at and a half foot lass" with the voice
robins are yanking worms out of San Pablo Park, Berkeley. of a seasoned performer, all but
the lawn in front of the chapel and Spearheaded by the stellar play stole the show and the sailors'
even the seagulls are beginning to of Bill Fassler, who tallied six hearts with her renditions of "St.
yell 'Habbbaaa Habbbaaa' instead points on free kicks, and Coates, Louis Blues" and "There Goes That
of what they usually put out. who crossed the marker to annex Song·Again." Little Patty, who had
Spring training is here, you rope- another three, the Tars from Treas- enough trouble trying to reach the
head," he grunted. Then he went ure Island went on to outwit, out- "mike", had even more of it in
back to staring moro:;:-ely at the flank and outplay the game Al- trying to keep up with the rhyth-
spikes. Johnson looked sad. The bany outfit, chalking up a decisive mic feet of Tommy Conine, tap
MAA glo_wered through the upper win that cinched them the Rugby dancer deluxe. Edith Cameron
singing "Embraceable You" had the
opening of the door, caught sight football title.
of Johnson's frown and the spikes The rugged Island squad will boys thinking just that of 'her
and then went away muttering tangle with the Navy's Coast while Miss Marlene, a loose-jointed
acrobat, went through a series of
something about buffing the deck Guard Pilots today at 1400 in the
with somebody's nose. Guess we San Pablo park, Berkeley. This tilt splits, flips and other contortions. BARRETT WINCES ... Gonzales ( left) gives the rapid punching
shouldn't have stepped in that fresh will mark 'finis' for the rugby foot- Some real blues singing by Thelma Georgie Barrett a wicked left to th,e breadbasket. Gonzales earned the
wax. Maybe if we keep out of ball season. Gracin brought down the curtain nod after socking Barrett to the ca.nvas in the second round.
sight for a few days . . . on the show provided by the Armed
Forces Entertainment committ!le.
• ARMED ClUARO • RecShip Blasts Robert Tate, 135, found a tartar Civilian Bowling King 12ND Athletic Chairman
&%E8ALLPI.AYiiS and not a sucker in the blazing
Stubborn RMS fists of Don Fish, 138. Crowding in Will Exhibit March 12-13 Announces Formation
close with a punishing uppercut
i/ .... , , Cagers, 33-22 and a helpful head, the clever Fish "t T. I. Pin Alleys Of Bowling Leagues
. I I' escaped injury in the first stanza
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11· f ·.,1~,I ' The league-leading RecShip bas- by coming_ back in the last two Frank Benkovic of Milwaukee, District Bowling Leagues are
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·: ~ ketball team took an easy victory cantos to gain the verdict from one of the all-time bowling greats, being formed with the start of play
from their old rivals, RMS, by a Tate. will open a personal appearance tentatively set for the last week in
score of 33-22. Southpaw Al Gonzales, seeing stay at Treasure Island, March 12 March or the first week in April,
Sparked by "Big" Jim Wolfe, his last local action before depart- and 13. at 1400 and 1700 to exhibit according to Athletic Bulletin No.
his championship pin - toppling
sharp - shooting center, RecShip ing to the "bigger" battle, used a 34, issued by Lt. Commander R. S.
rolled to a 16-3 lead at half time. devastating left hook to the body skill and to cross alleys with Is- Kimbell, Chairman, Twelfth Naval
Coach Lt. Jones' cage experts of in slowing the fast-moving Georgie land bluejackets who will be in- District Athletic Council.
vited to join him in ten-pin com-
RecShip had control of the ball Barrett down to a snail's pace. Gon- Leagues will be on a "traveling"
bat.
from start to finish. Cooper, RMS zales gained a unanimous verdict. basis rather than "home and
star, was held to a mere four points. Two belters from a destroyer Bowling alley number two will home", that is, all teams will bowl
By defeating DD Pool last week, put on one of those rare exhibitions be his Monday scene of action at the lanes of one activity at the
38-22, and Tuesday night's win where neither party is hit with any- while number one will get the bene- same time. This activity will be the
over RMS, RecShip, first-round thing but the blow thrown by the fits of his talents on Tuesday. host for the evening and will defray
®. ·. _a: A quick glance ·at Benkovic's
/-77 ;-_ - ' champs and undefeated in 21 starts, referee. In this case it worked the pin-boy expense on this one
JOHNSON'S PRE-SEASON 'MNQUET .... needs only a win over Treasure Is- differently as the supposedly' agile bowling vecords over 15 years of night. Each team will be host for
league and tournament play will
land, "Doc's" to annex the league Frankie Carter found himself one night each round. An activity
"What cooks?" we asked. convince anyone that he is one of
"Plenty," John.son said. "Here it is championship. tangled in the elastics and socked the country's topline keglers. Dur- having no bowling alleys will act
the first week in March, the season in the puss before rendering a draw ing the 1940-41 season, for example, as host on the lanes of a neighbor-
opens on April 15, and I need noth- Armed Guard Bags Quad decision to the reckless duo. Frank compiled a season long game ing activity.
ing but outfielders, a chucker or Acey Roggie and Al Fury, a av.erage of 223 for play in three These leagues are being formed
two, a reliable backstop, and second Before Being Scuttled couple of over-sized middleweights, leagues. to encourage participation and
and third are open to all comers." dodged and skipped for three there will not be a limit to the
"This is a tough league," he went By Olympic Club Quint rounds with Roggie getting the nod number of entries from each ac-
on, "candidates must be experi- after three slow cantos. tivity.
enced. We are bucking a bunch of Armed Guard's classy "B" quint Shades of greatness were dis- Complete details about plans of
ex-major and minor league talent recently chalked up four wins in played by Jimmy Rhodes as he the District Bowling Leagues and
and competition is rough and rug- hoop competition by outmaneuver- cuffed and belted Denver Robinson Tournament may be obtained from
ged, ing Hunter's Point, eking out St. of the Oakland Supply Depot for a Lt. A. N. Higgins, Physical Fitness
We have. a tentative 60-game Mary's Pre-Flight, blasting a "die three-round decision. Rhodes is one Officer.
schedule winding up in August with hard" U. S. Maritime School and step on the right road to success.
games played Saturday and Sun- clubbing a fiery-veined San Quen- Willie Clemmons of Oakland
day and one in the mid-week." He tin Lions before meeting the cagey Supply found the going pretty easy,
buried his face in the shoe and im- Olympic Club basketballers, who dumping big Walt Scott with a Fleet City Quint Edges
mediately withdrew it with a eliminated them from the PA barrage of lefts and rights that left
pained expression. "What'll I do Tournament in one of the season's him in a heap in the neutral corner. Treasure Island Cagers
for starting pitchers ? " he asked most thrilling hoop frays. Scott was no match for the hard
dismally. Stellar floorman Fischer and punching Clemmons. In Semi-Final Tilt, 42-36
We couldn't help him except to hawk - eyed Mathewson spear- Feeling each other out for the
tell all ball players to r-eport to headed Armed Guard's hardwood first canto, Ray Williams and Willie In a rugged and argumentative
J ohnson before transferring to a c9mbination in each fracas. Cox opened up their heavy artillery During the course of his bowling overtime struggle, the Fleet City
sea-going unit. Find out about the in the next two frames, shaking career, he has rolled nineteen 300 Bluejackets, paced by Jim Moran
club before reporting. Write your the rafters with their big guns but games - that's perfect - and in and Leo Leary, won the consolation
mates at sea-they might be com- Competition Keen gained no better than a draw for addition, he has scored twenty- round in the preliminary to the
ing in. No man's spot on the team their three-round effort. It was a eight 299 games, which is so close NCBA-P A championship final at
is · cinched for the season. Write As Hand Ball crowd pleaser, Cox doing the run- to perfect that we won:t quibble the Auditorium by defeating Treas-
your sister- she might be in love ning and Williams the chasing. about it. ure Island, 42-36.
with a boot at Farragut. Get some Tourney Nears Judges for the evening were On March 7, 1939, Frank startled Fleet City led virtually all the
talent out, fellows, or so help me, CSP(A) McLaughlin, tennis artist, the bowling world when he amassed way, but were tied in the last 15
we'll have a sprinkling of Waves Enlisted men and officers will vie and Chief Ed Jacobsen, former the towering total of 854 pins in the seconds when Bill Hoizman, stellar
on the bench. And Waves do not for honors in' the Treasure Island Navy welterweight king. Milwaukee classic tournament guard, scored from 45 feet to dead- ·
make very good ball players as Hand Ball Tournament, beginning which is an all-time high for three lock the co-unt at 32-32 and forced
- they have never studied navigation Monday, March 12, on the hand games in the State of Wisconsin the contest into five extra minutes.
Winners will be seeded in the Island Bluejacket
and cannot lay a steady course ball courts in gym one. and the fourth highest league series In those five minutes the Fleet
around the base paths. ever bowled in sanctioned leagues City quint battled their way to
The club, last year, . won the 12th Naval District Tournament, in the U. S. The bowling world was victory and what will go down on
commencing March 26, as repre- Sets New Record
Navy League Blue pennant and lost just as impressed when Frank the records as third place in the
the play-off for the 12th Naval sentatives of Treasure Island. In 5½-Mile Run shared the ABC World's Champion- 1945 tournament.
District Championship to the Camp ship Doubles title in 1943 and then Moran led the tally makers with
Parks Seabees. They won 30 and Young Wife (sadly): He never William O'Donnell of Treasure came back to share the same title 15, followed closely by Phillips,
lost 23 games playing against all used to snore before we were mar- Island clipped 11 seconds off the the next year, thus being the only Treasuve Island's sharp-shooting
Army and Navy cubs in the bay ried. best previous time mark when he bowler in ABC's history to win the forward.
area. This season the clubs will be won the annual Pacific Association same championship in successive
divided into major (American) and to 1500 every week day, and in Junior and Senior Cross Country years. The ABC World's Champion-
minor (National) Leagues in the order to keep J ohnson from eating championship run in Golden Gate ship mark he helped set in 1933, a give helpful k11owledge on the
Navy League which plays Saturday that shoe, spikes and all, stop in park. mammoth 1415, still stands. Brunswick's new rangefinder.
afternoons and the Army-Navy and see him at the gear locker. We O'Donnell covered the five and In addition to being a bowling Ther-e is no question that Ben-
League which cavorts on Sunday fear for the guy . . . he had a wild one-half miles in 29 minutes, four star, Frank is an accomplished kovic is one of the greatest bowlers
matinees. look in his eye and was picking his seconds. Finishing second was John bowling coach- one of those fel- now rolling balls down the nation's
The Armed Guard Aggregation teeth with a pitcher's toe plate Kwartz, S. F. police. Hank Watty lows gifted with \he talent of being mapleways. He'll prove it person-
takes over-the ball park from 1300 when we left him. of Camp Beale was third. able to teach others. He will also ally when he appears here.