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Pre-Flight Homers Beat
Treasure Island, 15-4;

Camp Parks Tilt Today

St. Mary's Pre-Flight proved a
surprise package Saturday, as they
Seldom has there been such
swept past Treasure Island in a
array of "sporting goods" under
flurry of hits and runs in scoring a
one overhead as there was in
15-4 league victory at T. I.
Theatre No. 1, Friday night. The
Both teams belted the ball pretty
long, the short and the beautiful heavily, St. Mary's socking four
were all there. Variations in talent
stuck out like cream in black cof- homers and T. I. contributing one.
On the error side of the ledger, the
fee. Pi rates were buttery-fingered on
One thing about referee Arthur
five occasions while Pre-Flight had
Donovan, he certainly knows how a clean slate.
to duck when G. I.'s start throwing Bender, T. I. pitcher, had an off
questions at him. Asked what he day at the mound and was pounded
thought of Billy Conn in his first mercilessly by the cadets. Condon
fight with Joe Louis, he responded, relieved him in the seventh frame.
"Billy is a great fighter and it is
HIT OR BE" HIT-Bill Ellis ducks a right hand Fr,ontier Base battler, goes through the r,opes from Their combined efforts failed to
possible he will be even greater thrown by L. F. Evans and gets a good l,eft hand one of Hal Fortner's powerful left hooks. Both lads stop an 18-·hit attack.
after he gets out of the Armed lick of hi·s ,own in to the face of the Fr,ontier Base put on a whale ,of battle and repeated the perform- Treasure Island's defeat knocked
Forces because of his increased boy. Ellis got the decision in Tuesday night's smoker. ance .on the U. S. Naval Frontier Base bond rally last
weight stature, but those who ( Photo at right) Scottie Chapman, stout-hearted Sunday. them into a second place tie with
Camp Parks, who will tangle with
figured he was leading Louis by a
T. I. today.
night, were all wrong. To win a INTRA-MURAL ATHLETIC PROGRAM STARTS MONDAY Two runs, one in each of the
substantial margin on that historic
first two innings gave Pre-Flight
championship you must mix it up an early lead.
with your man. Conn was hit while Lt. V. Gilcrease, officer-in-charge T. I. bagged a run in the fourth
doing this. Billy stood up well Fire Fighters Edge D. D. Marzalec Turns In No- of the Treasure Island intra-mural
under those powerful punches but sports program, has announced that on Lowe's base-on-balls and Olsen's
double. St. Mary's nullified this
how long can a 175-pound battler Pool 6-4; Practice Tilt Hitter For ·Armed Guard the Commodore's Trophy Intra- rally with one of their own by
stay up under a barrage of 215 Mural program will start Monday, blasting a pair of homers in the
pounds, especially when Joe Louis D. D. Pool tried desperately to Armed Guard's first no-bit per- July 9. sixth stanza.
is on the throwing end.'' Joe Pasco, extinguish the winning blaze cre- formance was turned in by pitcher Badminton, tennis, volley ball,
A two-run outburst in their half
bag punching champion who holds ated by the Fire Fighters but fell Marzalec, Friday, as the Gunners swimming, hand . ball, horseshoes, of the sixth put T. I. back in the
endurance and speed records for as
prey to the softballers in an extra came from behind in defeating the softball, bowling and basketball will game, momentarily. Lowe doubled,
long as eight hours without stop- inning contest Friday, 6-4. Pre-Commissioning softball ten, be handled in a three-month period. Olsen doubled scoring Lowe, and a
ping, interrupted the backstage This is as close as any team has 2-1. During the three-month period single lined over the head of the
conversation between Donovan and
been to the lossless Fire Fighters, Fire works began and ended in champs will be crowned in the dif- first baseman by Williams, chased
yours truly. "Do you think any of who have rung up a win streak of the third frame when Marzalec beat ferent activities, winners scoring Olsen over the plate.
those palookas could punch one of four straight. a slow roller to first base. Sheely eight points; second place, six Seven men paraded acr,oss the
my bags fo·r just two hours?"
"Tex" Damerall, ace hurler of singled and Peccia tripled to drive points; third place, four points and plate for the cadets in the fatal
the fire bugs, won the game by in the pair of tallies that beat Pre- two points for competing. seventh. Palmer doubled, Bradford
tripling home the winning runs. Com. doubled, scoring Palmer and then
This will be a year-around ac-
tivity divided into four series of scored himself •On Sabo's double.
.. SPORTS .. filled the bases with his sl,ow roller
Bilodeau
McD.owell walked and
three months each, with the Com-
modore's Trophy going to the win-
that allowed no play at either bag.
ners of each series. This trophy
will be kept until the termination This set the stage for Brown's
of the next series. round trip clout that cleared the
b~ses of men and the· mound of
An individual award will be made
FOUR DOUBLE PLAYS FEATURE TREASURE to the player amassing the most Bender. But the scoring didn't ,end
points in the three-month period. here. Al house furthered the damage
ISLAND TRIUMPH OVER L.A.; TAUBY HOM~RS Team members will be scored in the with a walk, advanced ,on a fly ball
and scored on Scarboroughs single.
same manner as the above scoring
St. Mary's added insult to injury
Treasure Island unleashed her for activities. There will also be a by scoring four more in the ninth.
Fleet City Drops 6-5 big guns on Los Angeles of the permanent team trophy to the com- Alhouse's homer with two aboard
Pacific Coast League and silenced
Sports Ed. Perez and Donovan Lou Novikoff and Rip Russell, two mand winning the different events. featured the rally.
Contest to Gunners In sports such as badminton, ten-
Although Donovan, one of the of the southland's big bertha's, in nis, handball and horse shoes, there
greatest referees of all times and One of the major upsets of the trimming the Angels at T . I. Thurs- will be one doubles match and two
third man in countless champion- day, 6-5. singles with a player limited to one Armed Guard Wins First
present baseball season was turned
ship bouts, speaks roughly to fistic Jodie Phipps, mainstay of the event. A team will consist, of four
· contestants, he certainly is the pic- in by Armed Guard Wednesday, Angel team and winner of 23 Half; VR-2 Clinches
when they defeated the third-place players.
ture of modesty when it comes to games last year, was on the mound Title With 13-2 Win
Fleet City nine, 6-5. It was the With the exception of the soft-
talk about himself. Most of the in- for L. A. and gave up 11 hits to
Gunners' third league win. ball league now in progress the
formation on Donovan was ob- the Pirates. Lou Novikoff, "mad Commodore's Trophy is restricted Termination of first half play in
tained from Jack Redmond, man- Under the reins of Lt. (jg) Russian" and Rip Russell, hard hit- to enlisted personnel. The program the American League and continua-
ager of and golf player with the Abbey, Armed Guard turned in ting first . baseman, were both is open to all commands on Treas- tion of the National League marked
troupe. Jack is a former Navy their best performance to date. limited to one hit while the com- this week's action in the Treasure
ure Island.
man himself and learned the game The Gunners were trailing as bination of Bartell, Dunham and Island Softball tourney.
while in the service of Uncle Sam. they went into their half of the Williams of T. I. were making four AMERICAN LEAGUE-
States Redmond, "Besides being seventh when pitcher Eyrich double plays. Armed Guard came from behind
tops in the referee circle, Arthur is boomed his own cause with a single. Tauby homered in the second in- Cincinnatti Rookies Fall to defeat RMS, 3-2, winning the
a very good master of ceremonies.'' Shulte came to bat and produced ning for T. I. and started the first half of the American League
Just then Joanna de Tuscan popped the tying run with a triple, scor- parade of runs that marched across Before T. I. Pirates, 10-6 pennant. An earlier Tadcen victory
in after finishing her fencing num- ing Eyrich. the plate in the next two stanzas. over Armed Guard had set the
ber. "Arthur, I'll bet you never got Larrieu started the eighth stanza Dunham doubled and Bartell's Treasure Island cut loose with all stage for the RMS-Armed Guard
its pent up fury as a result of Sat- "natural."
this hot when you handled one of in bad fashion for the Armed Guard single brought the Pirates total to t t h f
urday's shellacking a he ands° Frontier Base turned in the only
your boxing bouts." He replied, by fanning out. Rose singled and two in the second.
St. Mary's Pre-Flight, in over- other win of the week witlr a sur-
"And I'll bet I never looked as Moore hit a short fly ball that f.ell T. I. added one in the third frame · th · 'ti c· · t ·
pretty." good for another single. Correll commg e v1s1 ng mcmna 1 prising 6-4 victory over the Ma-
when Olsen was issued a base-on- Rookie nine, Sunday, 10-6. rines.
Joanna is pretty handy with the flied out to right field and then nd
balls, stole seco and scored on an Terranova limited the Rookies to NATIONAL LEAGUE-
foil or epee, as it is called by the Eyrich's timely single pushed Rose
L. A-: error of Williams' slow seven scattered hits while his VR-2 scored a 1-0 win over the
French, having been captain of the across the plate with the winning
bounder.
1936 Olympic team and is the pres- run. mates were pouncing on the Cin- Yo-Ho Men in a protested game
ent Women's Professional Cham- Los Angeles finally made a score cinnati hurler for eight hits and 10 that will be continued · from the
pion. Her cat-like agility while go- of their own in the first half of the runs. fifth inning. The outcome will be
ing through a series of parries and cerning his superiority ove·r past fourth on Tyack's walk, Elko's T. I. scored three runs in the decided from there. VR-2 almost
thrusts with her partner and coach champions were flung at Donovan single and Vier's slow roller to second, fourth and sixth inning clinched the first half with a 13-2
are as noiseless as a murmuring with piston-like precision. "I figure Lowe. after a one run outburst in the triumph over the Hospital.
sound. Billy Conn gave him his toughest The Pirates came right back in first. Post Office came out of the cellar
Jimmy Risk, horse-shoe slinger fight although Tommy Farr pressed their half of the fourth frame with to defeat the Yo-Ho Men, 4-1, and
deluxe, entered the picture at this him to the very limit. But then a single by Dunham, Bartell's base- repeated over the Hospital crew,
stage and prompted Donovan on again Farr was more or less a on-balls and pitcher Wilson's double Slide, Kelly, Slide 12-4.
the subject of boxing in the Navy. punching bag, whereas Conn was down the right field line, all adding Scanning an old sports sheet we How they finished:
Donovan had nothing but praise for tagged and counted out without too up to two runs. re_call a ball game once played in AMERICAN LEAGUE
the men in blue, figuring the next much facial punishment. Arturo T. l.'s rally had hardly died down Mississippi. It was played in a cow Won Lost Pct.
title holder would be a man from Godoy employed a rather unique when the Angels started one ,of pasture and ended abruptly when a Armed Guard . . .. .. 8 2
the service. He only wished his style with the 'Brown Bomber' in their own. Wilson walked Phipps, runner slid into what he thought Pre-Com ....... ... 7 .800
guessing was as easy as the ringers their first outing, mainly to estab- first man up. Otera singled and 2 .700
Risk threw blindfolded. The gear lish a reputation, but was flattened Brewster walked. At this point T. I. was third base. Tadcen .. ... . . .. .. 6 4 .600
he had an opportuniity to view in six heats in their second ·go. Yes, held •up the point scoring when Rus- RMS .. .. .. .. ... .. 6 4 .600
while passing through the island I would class Joe Louis as one of sell hit into a double play. But this poked a .hit past the second base- Frontier Base .. .. ,3 7 .300
was the best he had seen in quite the all time greats," concluded was only temporary. Novikoff sin- man, ending the game in sensa- Marines . ..... ... .. 0 10 .000
some time. "How can a boy help Donovan. gled to score Phipps and Otera. tional fashion.
from being anything but good with At this point Arthur got a little Tyack doubled, driving in Novikoff, Scoring: R H E CPO: "I suppose you wish I were
such splendid material to · work word weary and vanished into his and Elko drove in Tyack to net Los L. A. 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0--5 10 2 dead so you could spit on my
with," said Arthur. dressing room. Props were taken Angeles four tallies. T. I. 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 1-6 11 1 grave?"
Joe Louis seemed to be the most down and the troupe was on its Big Bob Williams came to bat Batteries: T. I., Vallero and Wil- S2c : "No, not me--I hate to
discussed boxer and questions con- way once more. with one man on in the ninth and son; L. A., Phipps and Brenner. stand in line.''