Saturday, May 1, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Pag:e Three
Lexington Leads
Softball League
Downing the Essex 14 to 8 last
Wednesday afternoon, the Lexing
ton officers’ team took over undis
puted possession of first place in
the Pre-Flight softball league.
In other games of the day, Cow-
pens defeated the Hospital Corps,
16 to 7, the Ranger triumphed
over the Enterprise in a 13-inning
battle, 8 to 7, and the Saratoga
downed the Satellites, 19 to 11.
At the end of two weeks of play,
six of the eight teams are bunch
ed in a tie for second place, with
the Hospital Corps the only team
without a victory.
The standings:
W L Pet.
Lexington , 2 0 1.000
Cowpens 1 1 .500
Enterprise 1 1 .500
Essex 1 1 .500
Ranger 1 1 .500
Saratoga 1 1 .500
Satellites 1 1 .500
Hospital Cor^s 0 2 .000
Officers and enlisted men who
are not now members of any team
atid who wish to play should leave
their name and playing position
with Lieut, F. L. Gillespie, USNR,
assistant welfare and recreation
officer, and they will be placed on
a team.
A few of the regulations govern
ing softball play, as agreed to by
team representatives in a meet
ing last week, are as follows:
Only one base is allowed on an
Overthrow, when,, the ball leaves
the playing field.
Runners must hold the base un
til ball leaves the pitcher’s hand.
Runners cannot score on wild
pitch or passed ball.
At least four full innings must
be played to constitute a game.
Postponed games will be played
the following v^eek.
Kingfishers Lead
Sports Program
The Kingfishers, with 46 points,
took over undisputed possession of
first place in the Sports Program
^ast week end, breaking a three
^ay tie for top honors with the
^indicators and Wildcats.
In second place, were the Vin
dicators with 45 V2 points, followed
by the Wildcats with 42. Other
Squadrons and points show the
^nstangs with 37, the Mariners
''^ith 36, the Helldivers with B5V2,
Buccaneers with 35, the Devas
tators and Catalinas with 34, the
buffalos with 30, the Skyrockets
''^ith 26, and Coronados with 19.
16 Meet in Wrestling Finals Monday
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Sixteen survivors from an orig
inal field of 159 wrestlers will
meet Monday afternoon at 1530 in
the finals of the wrestling tourna
ment which got underway this
week.
Competition was held on Tues
day, Thursday and Friday after
noons, and Lieut. Charles Speidel,
USNR, Tournament Director and
Head Coach of Wrestling, stated
that most of the bouts had proved
very interesting.
“Naturally in the first round,”
commented Coach Speidel, “there
were plenty of falls, and the ex
perienced wrestlers took care of
the others in short time. In the
semi-finals, though, most of the
bouts were very even, and some of
the participants proved to be
clever grapplers.”
Although the results of yester
day’s competition were announced
too late for today’s edition of the
CLOUDBUSTER, most of the eight
seeded wrestlers at the start of
the tournament were expected to
PRESENT at the opening round
of the wrestling tournament was
Henrik de Kauffmann, right, Dan
ish minister to the United States,
who inspected the Pre-Flight
training program this week. He
is shown in the above picture with
Lieut. Charles Speidel, USNR,
Head Wrestling Coach.
participate in the finals.
Seeded were Cadets R. D. All
croft and E. Pappert in the 151
pound class, B. N. Tuttle and F.
T. Vitcusky in the 158, John Ab
raham and S. J. Brocato in the
175, and 0. G. Anderson and B. W.
Dennison in the heavyweight divi
sion. In the opening round all
eight took care of their opponents
in short order, and Vitcusky pull
ed the quickest fall of the tourna
ment when he upset Cadet W. P.
Yarger of Skyrockets in 28 sec
onds of the first round.
In the original field there were
16 entries in the 132 pound class,
17 in 138, 20 in 145, 20 in 151, 22
in 158, 19 in 165, 24 in 175, and
21 in the heavyweight class.
Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish
minister to the United States, who
spoke on the University campus
this week, inspected the Pre-Flight
program and was present at the
opening of the tournament.
Assisting Lieut. Speidel with
the tournament is Lieut. Rex
Pyles, USNR, of the athletic de
partment.
Cloudbusters Meet Duke Here
Today in Ration League Game
Cadet Ivan Fleser, chunky
righthander, is expected to start
on the mound for the Cloudbusters
this afternoon when they meet
Duke’s Blue Devils in a Ration
League contest starting in Emer
son Stadium at 1600.
The encounter will mark the
fifth game played by the Cloud
busters during the past six days
and their second start against Ra
tion League competition.
Sporting a record of three wins
and four losses in league play, the
Pre-Flighters need a victory to
day to keep them near the top in
the standings. At present Caro
lina’s Tar Heels, with five wins
against a single loss, are the
leaders.
The Cloudbusters should have a
better record. Against N. C. State
at Raleigh on Monday afternoon
they led, 9 to 0, going into the
seventh. Then a bunch of errors,
some free passes to first base, and
a couple of wild pitches gave the
State boys 10 runs and the ball
game.
Over the first six innings State
had been able to gather but three
hits off Cadet Ivan Fleser, who
started, and only one man had
reached third base. Came the fatal
seventh, and the Red Terrors
found the range, aided by three
Pre-Flight errors. Four runs were
scored in this frame, a like num
ber were added in the eight, and
Goodman’s triple with two on in
the ninth produced the margin of
victory for the winners. Cadet W.
H. Sims hurled the last two inn
ings for the Cloudbusters and was
charged with the loss, “
Bonifant with a triple and single
in five trips led the losers at bat.
He also drove in two runs.
Playing Catawba here on Tues
day aftei’noon the locals waited
too long to get started and drop
ped a 9 to 5 decision. It was a
long ball game, lasting two hours'
and 50 minutes.
Cadets Brosang, Zorn and Tay
lor hurled for the Pre-Flighters,
but none was very effective. The
visitors scored two in the first,
single runs in the second and
third, two more in the fourth, and'
three in the eight. They were
never behind during the ball game.
Until the seventh when a single
and two errors produced two Pre-
Flight scores, Don Hanley, Ca
tawba pitcher, had complete
charge of the proceedings. Fol
lowed two more Pre-Flight scores
in the eight and a single run in
the ninth.
K. Karl, Catawba catcher, led
the hitting, for both clubs with a
home,run and two singles in five
Ration League Standings
W
L Pet.
Carolina
5
1 .833
Duke
4
3 .571
Pre-Flight
3
4 .428
State
2
7 .222
trips to the plate. His homer came
in the eighth with two men on.
He drove in four runs. Hagstrom
and Bonifant had three hits for
the losers.
A four run rally in the ninth
inning at Davidson on Wednes
day gave the Pre-Flighters their
first victory of the week. The
score was 8 to 5. The losers had
held a 1-0 lead and then a 5-3 ad
vantage and were leading 5-4 at
the start of the ninth.
Cadet Ivan Fleser, Pre-Flight
hurler who had relieved Cadet
Roderick Zorn in the sixth, led
off with a triple in the ninth, and
George Bonifant doubled, scoring
Fleser with the tying run. Fol
lowed singles by Marchand, Rava-
shere, and Marousek, and three
more runs were in. Fleser re
ceived credit for the victory.
Besides starting the ninth inn
ing rally which led to victory,
Cadet Fleser held the Davidson
lads hitless during the four inn
ings he was on the mound.
Yesterday’s game here between
the University of Virginia and the
Cloudbusters was not finished un
til after the deadline for this
week’s issue.