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Saturday, May 15, 1943 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three Coming In On The Beam IT WON’T GO INTO THE RECORDS for rain halted the contest in the fourth inning, but Cadet Louis Gremp, Pre-Flight second base man, connected for a homer against Carolina with two mates aboard ^lere Tuesday afternoon. The above photo shows Gremp sliding into home plate head first while Hugh Cox, Carolina catcher, takes a tumble. The umpire making the decision was Lieut. Alexander Sabo, tJSNR. Track Team Closes Successful Season Against N. C. State Here Today at 1530 North Carolina State comes to Chapel Hill this afternoon for a track meet with the Cloudbusters starting at 1530 on Fetzer Field. will be the final dual meet of the i^ear for the locals who have won three of their four contests to ^ate. In a previous meeting between the two teams Navy won, 82 to ^4, but since that time several of the Cloudbusters have completed their Pre-Flight training. Lieut. Charles Werner, USNR, head t^ack coach, expects today’s meet to be much closer. Leading the Pre-Flighters will be V-5’er Louis Gregory, a grad uate of Cornell and a former Olympic runner. Competing against State at Raleigh he set a new field record of 9:56.1 for the two-mile event, and he will be out to repeat here. The present record is 9:58, and is held by Cadet J. J. Kissell of the 19th Battalion. Other cadets expected to cap ture first or second places are J. F. Falls, and R. J. McCallister in the high jump, R. W. Larg in the 440 and A. H. Freeman in the half mile. Both Falls and McCallister are likely to approach six feet in the high jump. Sp/if Season Planned for Soccer Teams The Skyrockets, with six wins, ^0 losses and a single tie, lead the ^Oecer standings through this ^eek. Second are the Wildcats ^ith five victories, two losses and ^ tie, and the Catalinas are third ^ith four wins, a loss, and two ties. Those in charge of soccer have ^Jinounced that a split season will ® held. The wkiner of the first half will meet the winner of the second half for the championship. Also at the end of the season there will be a double elimination tour nament in which all teams will participate. The first half has two weeks remaining. Last week a total of 380 cadets participated in soccer. Each squadron has an A and B team, and all cadets have an opportunity to play. While the B team record does not count in the Sports Pro gram those who play receive credit on their Physical Training record sheets. RATION LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet. Carolina 8 2 .800 Duke 8 4 .667 Pre-Flight 4 6 .400 State 10 .167 Cloudbusters Face Two Tough Games at Norfolk Something new was added to the Cloudbuster baseball nine during the past week, and the results have been most gratifying. " For the first time since the season got underway the Pre-Flighters experienced a perfect week. It started last Saturday afternoon at Annapolis, Maryland, when the locals pounded out a 15 to 5 victory over an outclassed Naval Academy team. Against Carolina on Tues day it continued, and the Cloud-*®^ busters were leading, 3 to 0, when rain halted the fray after three and a half innings had been play ed. Came Wednesday and a 4 to 1 victory over N. C. State behind the six hit pitching of Cadet Ivan Flesser. Yesterday the team left for Nor folk, Va., where they meet the Naval Training Station this after noon and the Naval Air Station tomorrow. The Norfolk clubs are two of the top service teams in the country, and are star-studded with former major league ball players. Pre-game dope make the Cloud busters the decided underdog and a split in the two games will give Pre-Flight rooters something to brag about. Starting on the mound this afternoon will be Cadet Joseph Coleman, ex-Philadelphia Athletic hurler, and tomorrow’s assignment goes to Cadet John Sain, former Boston Braves chucker. Handling any relief as signments necessary will be Lt. (jg) Peter W. Appleton, USNR, last year with the St. Louis Browns, and Lieut, (jg) Robert F. Williams, USNR, of the Bos ton Braves. Starting behind the plate will be either Lieut. Alexander Sabo, USNR, former Washington Sena tor, or Ens. Joseph Cusick, USNR, ex-St. Louis Cardinal. On first base will be team captain Lt. (jg) John A. Hassett, USNR, first baseman last year for the New York Yankees. Cadet Louis Gremp, of the Boston Braves, will be at second, the Boston Red Sox’s Cadet John Pesky will be at short, and Cadet George Bonifant will be at third. Outfield assignments go to Allen Cooke, Pharmacist Mate 3c, and Cadets Albert Marchand and T. J. Ravashere. Lieut. George D. Kepler, USNR, head baseball coach, feels that the present Cloudbuster nine will make a creditable showing in the remaining games on the schedule. “The addition of four former major leaguers gives the inex perienced men on the club a lot of confidence,” Coach Kepler states. The game at Annapolis last Sat urday saw the Cloudbusters score four runs in the first innings to take a lead they never relinquish ed. Cadet George Bonifant, first up, hit the second ball pitched for a round-tripper. Pitching duties were divided between Coleman and Sain with the former receiving credit for the win. Navy was able to gather but seven hits off both of them, Bonifant led the hitting for the Cloudbusters with two homers and a single. Cadet John Pesky banged out a home run, triple and single. Rain halted the Cloudbustei-- Carolina game in the last of the fourth inning with the cadets leading, 3 to 0. Cadet Coleman was on the mound, allowing only 12 Tar Heels to face him in four innings. All Pre-Flight runs were made in the first frame. Albert Mar chand, first up, was walked. George Bonifant flied out to left, but John Pesky doubled to the right field fence, Marchand tak ing third. Then Louis Gremp, with the count one and one, found Shu- ford’s pitch to his liking and sent it into right center for a three run homer. Cadet Ivan Flesser and Herman Vernon hooked up in a nice pitch er’s duel here on Wednesday with Flesser coming out on the top end by a 4 to 1 score. Again, the Pre-Flighters scored three tallies in the first. Leading the locals at the plate was Cadet T. J. Ravashere, In the first frame he hit a two run homer over the center fielder’s head, and in the eighth his single scored Louis Gremp who had doubled. Leading the Cloudbusters at the plate was Cadet Donald Marousek, first baseman, who collected three singles in four tries. Both teams played errorless ball in the field.
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