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Page Four CLOUDBUSTER Saturday, January 23, 1943 „Sport Slants,, Biggest individual loss to the basketball team is that of Cadet Gus Broberg, who left Wednesday to report for primary training at Memphis, Tenn. Captain of the Cloudbusters, and leading scorer in every game but one, he was a great team leader and player. In seven games he scored 107 points, an average of over 15 a game. Under normal circumstances this would have been an achievement, but here it is no less than a miracle. Getting out of bed at 5:30 in the morning and keeping on the go until game time is not the best prelude to tough basketball competition. Bro berg took it in stride not to men tion that he was ranked among the best in his battalion in academic achievement. * ♦ ♦ The Cloudbusters victory over North Carolina State snapped a three game losing streak, and Coach Raese hopes that another victory will be forthcoming this afternoon against Wake Forest. The only drawback is that prac tically a new team will be starting for the Pre-Flighters, and they’ve had little time to practice together as a unit. Most outstanding at the moment is Jack Kraft, the diminu tive guard and former St. Joseph ace. 5(c * Perpetual Joe McCluskey, the old Fordham flash now a lieuten ant, junior grade, at the Pre- Flight School here, was named for the 12th time to the National AAU All-America track and field team, it was announced this week. Lieut, (jg) McCluskey won the 10,000 and 15,000-meter champion ships last year, running his title total to 23. WARING (Continued from page one) that Japan holds the Eastern Em pire and plenty of materials to wage a long war.” ; Replying to those military ob- eervers who predict a collapse of Germany in 1943, Commander Waring declared, “That might be true, but we must remember that Japan will not crack. Japan’s fighters will not surrender. Total death of their armed forces is the only way for complete victory.” Commander Waring told the fu ture naval aviators that they “have an individual responsibility to prepare themselves to fight. A naval pilot may drop the bomb that will turn the tide of a battle or the tide of a campaign.” Cadets Set Five New Track Records Scoring the most victories dur ing the week the Vindicators in first place with 30% points won the liberty award last week. In second place were the Kingfishers with 28 V2, followed by the Wild cats with 28. Five records were broken in track. In the 4/5-mile relay a Mariner team of C. Swanger, J. Ring, W. Murray, and F. G. Doerr set a new time of 2:57.2. L. Michot, J. McAuley, J. Hornung, and G. Bell of the Coronado squadron set a new time of 9:18.2 in the two- mile relay. Individual records were made by J. P. McKernan, Buffalo, in the %-mile run with time of 3:39.3; F. G. Doerr, Mariner, in the 100- yard dash with time 10.5, and L. R. Werner, Kingfisher, in the 3/10-mile event with time of 1:12.3. The standings as of Jan. 16: Squadron W L T Pts. Vindicator 27 12 7 30 V2 Kingfisher 26 15 5 281/2 Wildcat 27 17 2 28 Coronado 26 19 2 27 Mariner 24 18 4 26 Devastator 22 18 6 25 Skyrocket 21 23 2 22 Catalina 19 25 2 20 Buffalo 16 24 6 19 Helldiver 17 27 2 18 Buccaneer 17 28 2 18 Mustang 11 33 2 12 You'll Laugh Too (Continued from page two) ed one score instead of adding it, and we lost the game.” And another from the same source: “A (we’ll say yeoman, third class) was issued two pairs of shoes when he enlisted in the Navy. They were the first shoes he had ever seen. When he found out he couldn’t get both pair on his feet at the same time he sent one pair back home to his father. “His father promptly wrote back: ‘Thanks, son. They are fine. The briars don’t scratch my hands any more now.’ ” y rfi ^ i ■ It happened during a basketball game at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex. Several of ficers were playing. Finally the referee—an enlisted man—^blew his whistle and brought the play to stop after a particularly rough maneuver. He bellowed to an of ficer: “One more trick like that, and I’ll throw you out of the game —sir.” Value of Proper A number of hitherto unknown' facts about immersion blast in juries—injuries suffered by a man in the water when an underwater explosion occurs nearby—have been uncovered by medical officers of the U. S. Naval Hospital at Pearl Harbor in a careful study of casualties from the Battle of Midway. The principal effect of immer sion blast injury is damage to lungs and intestinal walls. Since the victim may be critically hurt even though external signs of violence are lacking, this type of injury has been one of the most challenging medical mysteries of this war. The study of the Battle of Mid way casualties lends the strong support of combat experiences to the importance of learning the safest and most effective ways of getting around in water under all circumstances, as taught at the Pre-Flight School here. It was found that the men who had their backs toward the blast or who were swimming on their backs suffered lung, rather than abdominal, injury. One of the PARALYSIS (Continued from page one) was raised. Chapel Hill is located in Orange County. Servicemen may use their usual franking privilege in mailing the cards. The infantile paralysis fund raising drive will be climaxed here with the President’s Birthday Ball to be held in Woollen Gymnasium on Saturday, Jan. 30 from 2100 to 2400. Lively entertainment will be provided, and music supplied by the Pre-Flight orchestra. Officers, enlisted men, university faculty, students, and townspeople are all Invited to dance at the local President’s Birthday Ball. Lieut. Frank Gillespie, assistant welfare and recreation officer, heads the committee arranging the dance. Tickets will be on sale all next week in the Welfare Office, Room 113, Alexander Hall for $1.00. One ticket will admit a couple or a stag. Movies at Carolina Today: “Whistling in Dixie,” featuring Red Skelton. Shows 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Sunday-Monday: “The Black Swan,” with Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. Shows 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Casualties Shows Swimming Skill 5. — patients told of two shipmates swimming near him. An under water blast, about 150 feet dis tant, occurred as one of the men was climbing into a raft, with his comrade a few yards behind him, swimming in a prone position. The former was unhurt, the other kill ed instantly. The patient telling the story had turned over on his back to rest for a few moments when the explosion came and was not seriously injured. Medical research thus far has revealed that among the important factors in immersion blast injury are the . victim’s position in the water, his distance from the deto nation, whether the mouth is open ed or closed, protection offered by the lifejacket, and the actual position of the jacket on the wearer. One of the specific recommenda tions made by Capt. J. J. A. Mc- Mullin, medical officer in command of the Naval Hospital at Pearl Harbor, is that men should be in structed to swim on their backs if the abdomen is not adequately pro tected. FARMING (Continued from page one) tion a few of the results, the labor engineers have built a 650-yard obstacle course used for military track, constructed new concrete dugouts for the baseball diamond, helped to build outdoor pavilions for boxing and wrestling, and have cleared a heavily timbered area for the construction of six athletic fields. All this by way of hardening up flabby muscles to meet the demands of a fighting life. For advice on what crops are best for Carolina’s soil, when to plant them, what fertilizer to use, and similar earthy questions which up to now have been of little con cern to the boys who sail the seas, the Navy will consult experts of the University’s Federal Farming Project, administered under the Soil Conservation Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As for what to do with the potatoes, corn, beans, tomatoes, etc. produced, that question is solved even before it is presented. Each Aviation Cadet takes aboard more than 5,000 calories daily, and there are 1800 Cadets at the Pre- Flight School. The fresh vege tables from fourteen acres of well tilled land will contribute sub stantially to the menu;
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