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43{Saturday, February 27, 1943 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three Pre-Flighters Compete in Southern Invitation Track Meet Today Qfficers^ Basketball Officers Score Two Triumphs Victories over the Ft. deception. Center, 50 to 44, and C. State, 56 to 30, marked the P^ay of the officers’ basketball team <luring the past week. The game with Ft. Bragg, which Was played here last Friday ^‘ight, was one of the best to be ^en in Woollen gym this year, he officers were behind 24 to 21 halftime, but a -determined ^iye at the start of the second period gave them a lead they held ® rest of the way. Ensign Bob Freeman, scoring ^ Points, led the locals, while alter Frye rang up 14 for Ft. ^^agg. Holding N. C. State to two field Soals in the second half while they scoring 25 points gave the ° cers a one sided 56 to 30 victory the Red Terrors here Tues- . ay night. Ensign John Barr, ex- I ^'American from Penn State, I high man for the evening with ' points on six field goals and two shots. Boxing Boxers Victorious Over Citadel; Meet Fort Bragg There Tonight Citadel fell from the ranks of undefeated Southern boxing teams last Saturday afternoon losing to Lieut, (jg) Allie Wolff’s mittmen, 4V2 to 2Vs. This morning the Pre-Flight boxers left for Ft. Bragg where they meet the 65th Division, Gen eral Hospital, tonight at 2000. In Citadel the local boxers had a tough opponent. Cadet Sholl and Williams fought to a draw in the 127-pound class, and Cadet Dymkowski lost to Citadel’s Fos ter by a second round TKO giving the visitors at IV2 to ^2 lead. At this point Co-Captains Ray mond Jones and Herbert Maroot won decisions over Shugar and Carr to give the Pre-Flighters a lead they held the rest of the way. From an audience viewpoint the 175-pound class fight between Cadet Ted Kruk and Andy Victor, Citadel’s all-conference football player, was the most interesting. Both had knockdowns and what appeared to be knockouts to their credit, and the fight ended in a draw. The Navy team had previously defeated Ft. Bragg and VPI. Boxing summary: 127-pound class—Sholl, Pre- Flight vs. Williams. Ended in au tomatic draw when Sholl received slight cut on face in first round. 135-poun<l class—Foster, Cita del, defeated Dymkowski, tech nical knockout, 1 minute, 30 sec onds of second round. 145-pound class—Jones, Pre- Flight, defeated Shugar on deci sion. 155-pound class—Maroot, Pre- Flight, defeated Carr on decision. 165-pound class—Bogue, Pre- Flight, defeated Spencer, tech nical knockout, 1 minute, 25 sec onds of second round. 175-pound class—Kruk, Pre- Flight, fought to draw with Vic tor. Heavyweight — Esposito, Pre- Flight, fought to draw with Lim- bird. AMONG THE 200 track stars from all over the South who will perform in the Southern invitation open track and field championships here this afternoon and evening are these sprinters, high jumpers, broad jumpers, pole vaulters and weight men from the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight track team. Pictured across the top are, left to right, sprinters C. E. Goldman C. E. Swangar, C. A. Charlet, R. Cameron’ ^W. A. Noble, and Fred Doerr. On the lower left are the height men. They are, first row, left to right, H. P. Hancock, T. L. Wilkinson, and H. S. Bunting, all pole vault ers, and M. L. Beccio, high jumper. Second row shows, left to right, J. R. Koshell and E. L. Berger, both high jumpers; R. Gorman, iv broad jumper; Lieut, (jg) R. B. Pitkin, one of the Pre-Flight track coach es; G. A. MacLaury, T. Turnbull, and W. H. Shellington, all high jumpers. Weight men who will partici pate are shown in the lower right picture. Left to right, they are J. L. McTigue, C. Smith, and E. R. Nuttall. 200 Track Stars Here for Classic Sixteen teams and 200 track stars from Alabama to Pennsyl vania began gathering here last night for the Southern Invitation Open Championships sponsored jointly by the U. S. Navy Pre- Flight School and the University of North Carolina. Prelims for the annual indoor See TRACK, page ^
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