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PAGE 10 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1945

Fem Bowlers Led by District Tennis Awards Made
Armed Guard- Lynch

Rolls 194 Game
Armed Guard Wave keglers se-
World .of Sports cured a better foothold on their
Shoemaker's powerful Fleet rather shaky perch atop the bowl-
City Bluejackets sunk knee deep ing ladder wh~n they successfully
in a mire of touchdowns Sunday, led the 11-team field into the sec-
when they whipped poor old Camp
Beale, 88-0. ond round of the two week old
The sco,re is enough indica~ion tourney.
of the power in the Fleet City The number one bowlers from
steam roller that has squashed barracks D hung up an even 2000
three foes and is destined to total and polled 92 pins more than
flatten another one this week. the Disbursing team. Donham, top
Coach Bill Reinhart substituted bowler on the Armed Guard
freely, injecting something like squad, failed to approach her 184-
36 men into the game. Some think point score of last week and
Fleet City would make more than wound up with a meager 372 in
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a worthy opponent for the Army three attempts. Her teammate,
juggernaut that is haunting the Saltsman, upheld Armed Guard
opposition in the mid-w.estern cir- tradition by winning the high
cuit. series of the evening with a 468.
Another Navy squad flashed to Lynch of Personnel ,eased her POW-WOW GETS RESULTS-Huddled a bout Lt. Grenfell a nd Lt. John Fo reman. Perez and Abrams
won the crown from Foreman and Grenfell in t wo
(jg ) E. Sa lerno, who is ma king the tenn is presen-
the front as the result of some way to an . easy 194 high point t ations to the w inners a nd runners-up in the 12th hotly contested sets at the Ca lifornia Tennis Club.
brilliantly executed pigskin work. victory and was part of the reason At right Lt. Abrams ( l.eft) a nd Robert Perez,
Highly touted Duke University her team placed so high in the Naval Dist rict net tournament, a re Lt. J,oey newly crowned District doubles champs, strike a
Abrams (recevng medal ), Rober Perez, Dick
jolly pose for t he island phot og rapher.
fell before the midshipmen of the scoring.
Navy, 20-7, with big Bob Jenkins Red pins fell more often than in , J I d • D• •
d T 1
I
carrying the sea-bag for Navy .. . any previous engagement and as While here on Treasur.e Island,
On the coast, St. Mary's Galloping a result the little box on the table Al ame a fOI S reasue S an In ISffl(f George was one of the more prom-
Gaels turned their wind machine that usually contained all the f p· t T • w· inent physical instructors in Gym
• b v· t
into a hurricane by whipping Ne- jingle ended up in the red. S cor1ng y If ue O 1ra e enn1s 1n No 1 whose body-building tal-
en~ encouraged and helped thou-
vada, 39-0. Herman W.edemeyer,
hailed far and wide as one of the A complete domination of the Treasure Island .. . ... . .. 8 1 sands of bellbottoms.
best backs on the coast, carried Fleet City Wallows point scoring in the 12th Naval Moffett Field . .. . . . . . . . .. 6 3 Prior to his naval enlistment,
t he bulk of the Gael attack by District sport calendar for the Mare Island . .... .. . .. . . . 5 4 I George won national honors in
running, passing, kicking and In 88-0 Victory year is Treasure Island, with the Fleet City, Shoemaker ... . 4 4 weight lifting and gained the Pa-
tackling his shifty team to a Fleet City Bluejackets, prob- amazing total of 57 digits. Maritime Officers, Ala ... . 3 5 cific Coast military press cham-
one-sided victory. It was truly a ably the most powerful service Close on the heels of the T. I. Camp Parks .. . . .. . .. . ... 3 6 pionship. His entire Navy career
Hawaiian "mickey" for the Ne- team in the nation, massacred the juggernaut is the Naval Air Sta- Coast G., Capt. of Port . . . 3 6 has been spent with the Loprinzi
vada boys who went home on the game Camp Beale Soldiers from tion, Alameda, who f.ell from the San Bruno . . ........ . . . . 1 8 brothers and his first separation
short end of a 39 point hang-over. Marysville, 88-0, at Camp Shoe- top perch when she failed to quali- Port Chicago . . .. . .. . . . . . 1 8 from them turned out to be his
World Series fy a team in the tennis standings. Singles championship to Fleet last.
maker, Sunday.
At this writing, Chicago has T. I.'s flashy racquet combine City. H. Likas def. J. Abrams
'Throwing his two full teams
just finished tying up the Series registered 11 points in nabbing (T. I.)
and then some at the bewildered
with a story book, 8-7 triumph the District title and catapulted Doubles championship to Treas- lasltet/Ja/1 Is Here
Camp Beale Bears, Coach Bill
over the Detroit Tigers and forces to an eight-point margin over Ala- ure Island. B. Perez-J. Abrams
Reinhart provided a field day for
the Series into the seventh and meda. def. D. Grenfell-J. Foreman (T.I.)
10,000 white caps and their
final game. Big Hank Greenberg
friends in clear weather. Fooball and rugby-football still Commandant's teams scoring:
proved a tower of strength in the remain on the sport slate with T. I., 11; Shoemaker, 7; Hunters
12-inning contest when he smash- A big hand for their hustle and Fleet City, Coast Guard, Alameda Point, 2; Naval Air, Oakland, 2;
ed a home run in the sixth frame willingness to take a beating was and Moffett Field as probable Port Chicago, 2.
to tie the ball game and force it about all the Beale boys had pigskin starters. Treasure Island FINAL BASEBALL
into extra innings. Sunday. It might have been a will not field a grid elev,en al-
slightly different story had Camp ( AMERICAN )
Stan Hack provided the win- though a strong rugby squad is
Beale been able to use the seven 1st- Alameda Coast Guard.
ning combination when he singled in the offing.
recently assigned members of the 2nd- Fleet City, Shoemaker.
to centerfield and went to second West Point 1944 team. They in- The bulk of the rugby respon- 3rd- Alameda Naval Air.
when the ball took a bad hop over clude Joe Stanowicz, All-American sibilities will be laid on the shoul- 4th- Treasure Island.
Greenberg's head. "Peanuts" Low- guard; Bob Hays, tackle; Lorn ders of returning All-Americans:
rey scored the winning run from Lombardo, quarterback; Bob St. Chuck Pinzone, Bob Pickett, and FINAL SOFTBALL ( PACIFIC )
first base. Three more innings Onge, center. The last three were Johnny Lynch. A crew of seasoned 1st- Camp P arks, Shoemaker.
were all that were needed to mentioned on All-American selec- veterans will bolster the Pirate 2nd- Armed Guard, T. I.
make this the longest series game attack. 3rd- Naval Landing Force, Al-
tions.
on record. bany.
All in all Fleet City scored 12 TENN IS TEAM STANDINGS 4th- Fleet City, Shoemaker.
According to Walter W., a
W.
rather humorous incident occurred touchdowns in amassing that Naval Air Sta. (NATS) . . . 9 L. FINAL VOLLEYBALL
0
huge score.
sometime ago when John McGraw (OFFICERS)
was with the Baltimore Orioles, w. L . ,....,
where they started t he matinee It's Only Ille le9lnnln9, Sailor I I I St. Mary's P re-Flight . . .. 5
late so Senators, Congressmen Shoemaker ... . . . .. . .... . 4 ~ Basketball Practice
and others at the Capitol could
Maritime Officers ........ 3
see the games. As a result many ! Slated for October;
San Francisco Hospital .. . 1
of the contests were "called on
Naval Air, Alameda .. . .. . 1 4
account of darkness." "Men Needed"-Walla
Oakland Hospital . .. . . . .. 0 5
In one gam e, with the score
VOLLEYBALL ( NORTHERN ) Basketball will carry on for the
t ied, McGraw was at bat. H e w. L. tired baseball herd that has been
had two strikes and t hree balls '
on him ... The pitcher signalled Armed Guard Gunners . .. 4 1 put to pasture. Lt. Walla, casaba
the catcher to make a terrific Maritime Officers . .. . . . .. 4 1 specialist, is scheduling practice
sessions for the latter part of Oc-
thump into his glove on the next Treasure Island Pirates . . 4 1
3 tober.
throw . · .. The big idea was to get Hunters Point .. . ........ 2
the game ended, relying on the Mare Island . . . . . . . . .. .. . 1 3 Needed badly are grade A bas-
• umpire not seeing the ball be- T. I. Hospital .... . ... . . . . 1 3 1 ketballers to replace such vet-
cause it was so dark . . . Also, Receiving Ship, S. F . . . ... 1 5 erans as Matt Zunic, Ed Rokosh,
remember McGraw was a great "Moose" Alston, Dan Ducich and
arguer. The pitcher went through Three Navy Mates Are a host of others who have de-
all the motions but never threw parted to points unknown.
the ball. The catcher thumped his Separated; Pavlich Is "Depth in players and size in
glove hard, making the ump be- men are something we need,"
lieve he caught it. Discharged on P~ints says coach Walla. Men with any
1 •You're outtt! !" shouted the kind of experience are urged to
I J· Another athletically inclined come out and meet the new bas-
ump, ending the game.
"You so-and-so!" screamed Mc- sailor departed from t he Treasure ketball mentor in Gym No. 2. ........__
Graw. "You know darn well it Island fold last week, the latest Walla is shaping his squad
was three feet wide!" dischargee being George Pavlich, around two seasoned campaign-
ARNOLD SCO RES T KO-Hitting the deck from one Billy Arnold's Sp(A) l c. ers, J ack H aines and Kenny
explosive right hand is D. Denson, Radi,o Materiel midd leweight. Al- Muscle man Pavlich returned Clark, and hopes that enough
Sailor: "Hello." though Benson a r,ose at the count of six, he was in no condition to to civilian life on 48 points, most good men will turn out to make
continue and subm itted to Arnold via the technical knockout route.
Girl: of which were accumulated on Treasure Island a contender for
This was one of the many action -packed bouts held at the RMS
Sailor: "Oh, well." Smoker. overseas duty and time in service. I bay area honors.
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