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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, March 6, 1943
Schlingheyde
Or Schlyghyde—
Just Call Him W
A typographical error on a birth
cei'tificate almost kept Cadet
Charles Henry Schlingheyde (yes,
that’s the correct spelling) from
becoming a V-5 cadet.
When Cadet Schlingheyde en
listed in Pre-Flight training he
discovered that on his birth certifi
cate his name was spelled Schlyg
hyde. The recruiting officer told
him that he would have to go by
his birth certificate name if he
wanted to become a V-5’er imme
diately. He could, he was told,
wait and have it corrected.
Rather than delay his entrance
he accepted the birth certificate
name.
Only 22, Cadet Schlyghyde
(we’ll start calling him that to
make it legal) was graduated
from Springfield College last June.
At Springfield he was a member
of the gym exhibition team for four
years, and participated in track
over the same period.
Along academic lines he repre
sented Springfield College at the
Mount Holyoke scientific confer
ence in 1941. He was in the physi
ology department not to mention
that he also did some coaching in
track and gymnastics.
Members of Schlyghyde’s bat
talion state that it makes little
difference to them about the
change in his name. Whether it
be Schlyghyde or Schlingheyde it’s
so hard to pronounce most of them
have been calling him “Bud” and
letting it go at that.
B. L. Boyd, PhMlc, has been
transferred to Receiving Station
in Philadelphia, Pa.
Shepard’s Battleships
Battle Other Officers’
Teams into Defeat
“Undiluted, undefeated, untied,
but not unimpressive” are the
Battleships, at present the top
team in the officers’ basketball
league.
“We’ve got the hottest team to
perform in Dixie this season,”
Lieut. Bo Shepard, Battleship
coach, remarked in an exclusive
interview yesterday.
Coach Shepard was quick to add
that it was the finest team in the
country now. He says now be
cause two of his men—Lieut. Ed
ward Cortland Finzel and Ens.
Irving S. Tutt—have received or
ders to report elsewhere. “Unless
I can get Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox to change their or
ders, we might lose a game or two,”
Coach Shepard explains.
Asked who were the stars.
Coach Shepard quickly replied
they were all stars. “I wouldn’t
trade Lieut. Edward Cortland
Finzel, Lt. (jg’s) Rex E. Pyles,
Simon J. Golden, Marion R.
Brownlee, or Ensigns James E.
Hatfield, Richard Pohndorf, Greg
ory G. Zitrides, Irving S. Tutt, F.
S. Donnelly, Jr., Samuel C. Ham-
merstrom, and William H. Mc-
Cachren, any of them, for any
other player in the league,” the
Battleship coach commented.
It was strange to hear a coach
call his players by their full names.
Coach Shepard did, though, and
didn’t bat an eyelash. He knows
his players, their backgrounds,
their eating and sleeping habits.
Coach Shepard shoots >all the
technical fouls for the Battleships.
He has had two chances thus far,
made both of them good to give
him the highest completion aver
age a basketball player has at
tained in the history of the sport.
“Each man will get a $2.00
steak after each game won,” Coach
Shepard stated. “That is, if we
can find the steaks.”
Three weeks of play remain in
the officers’ league. On Tuesday,
March 19 will be played the
grudge match of the season—the
Battleships vs. the Carriers,
coached by Lt. Comdr. Harvey J.
Harman.
Coach Shepard has agreed to
start that contest if Coach Har
man will.
In their three games to date the
Battleships have defeated the
Cruisers, 36 to 34; the Mine
sweepers, 48 to 35, and the Sub
marines, 34 to 28. Other results
Thanks from Coach Bob
March 2, 1943
Commander John P. Graff, USN (Ret.)
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Dear Commander Graff:
May I express the sincere thanks of the Athletic Department and
my personal appreciation of the cooperation you gave us in staging
the Invitation Indoor Games.
I should like particularly to thank the band' for its contribution.
The band did a fine job on short notice, and entered wholeheartedly
into the spirit of the occasion.
We are indebted to you also for entertaining the Naval Academy
squad. It would' have been impossible for us to have entertained them
the way you did. I also appreciate your lending your personal support
to the meet and your attendance Saturday night.
With your ’permission, I should like to express through the
Cloudbuster our thanks and appreciation to all the officers who gave
so generously of their time in serving as officials for the meet.
Yours sincerely,
R. A. Fetzer
Director of Athletics
University of North Carolina’
last week gave the Cruisers a 42
to 41 victory over the Destroyers,
and the Minesweepers defeated
Lt. Comdr. Harman’s club, 58 to
45.
Games scheduled for Tuesday
night at 2000 are the Battleships
vs. the Destroyers, Cruisers vs. the
Carriers, and the Submarines vs.
the Minesweepers.
FREEMAN
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boat, which is similar to a PT boat
minus torpedo tubes. During an
engagement at Fedala, Freeman
inherited command of the ship for
four days when the officer in
charge was lost in battle. In the
face of French opposition and air
attacks by Nazi Junkers, Free
man’s crash boat rescued 140 men
from a torpedoed transport.
Although Freeman had applied
for aviation training before leav
ing the country, his request was
granted partly out of recognition
for service performed during the
landing at Casablanca. Recom
mendation that Freeman be sent
back to the U. S. for training as a
naval aviation cadet was made
after the Casablanca action by
Capt. George Sickle, commandant
of the Naval Operating Base at
Casablanca, French Morocco.
Freeman, 25 years old and a
resident of Waban, Mass., has been
in the Navy since early 1938. His
five years of service include three
aboard the light cruiser, USS
Nashville, and several months
aboiard the battleship, USS Wyom
ing. Naval duties carried him
across both the Atlantic and Paci
fic oceans. Among his noteworthy
trips was participation in the ex
peditionary force to Iceland in
July, 1941.
Being in excellent physical con
dition when he arrived here. Free- |
man is taking the toughening up
program in stride and looking for
ward to the time when he will re
turn to battle against the Axis
from the air.
BASEBALL
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April 14, N. C. State, here; April '
17, Carolina, here; April 21, Duke
at Durham; April 26, N. C. State
at Raleigh; April 27, Catawba,
here. I
May 1, Duke, here; May 3, N. C.
State at Raleigh; May 5, Duke at
Durham; May 8, Naval Academy ;
at Annapolis; May 11, Carolina,
here, and May 12, N. C. State,
here.
A seaman returning to the
Navy’s Armed Guard Center at
South Brooklyn, N. Y., found 90
letters from the same girl waiting (
for him. He tore open the first |
and the last, and tossed the rest;
away. Then he went and married j
the girl. 1