Saturday, July 3, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Three
Naval Training Station Here Wednesday
"^Rizzuto, DiMaggio, Hutchinson,
Padgett, McCoy, on Norfolk Club
The question both cadets and officers have been asking Lt. George
D. Kepler, USNR, head baseball coach, is when the Naval Training
Station nine from Norfolk would make its first formal appearance in
Chapel Hill.
For the benefit of all concerr^ed the date is next Wednesday after
noon. The time is 1600. The place is Emerson Field.
^
Wrighfs Machine
And Shipbuilders
Lose to Pre-Flight
Cadet Joseph Coleman won his
eighth straight victory while the
Cloudbusters won their twelfth
when Wright’s Automatic Mach
ine company nine from Durham
was defeated here Sunday after
noon, 8 to 2.
Cadet Theodore Williams, for
mer Boston Red Sox outfielder, ac
counted for two homers and a
single in four appearances at the
plate, driving in four runs.
Never in serious trouble, Cole
man allowed but eight hits and
struck out seven men.
Score by innings:
R H E
Wright 000 000 200—2 7 3
Pre-Flight , 030 201 20x—8 13 1
Haswell and Goodwin; Coleman
and Sabo.
Shipbuilders Also Defeated
Scoring four runs in the fourth
See BASEBALL, page U
Buccaneers Win
Liberty Award
Over Wildcats
Still in first place at the close
of last week’s Sports Program
was the Wildcat Squadron, but
it didn’t win the special Liberty
Award.
A surprising spurt by the Buc
caneers moved them from fourth
to second place in the standings,
and gave them the Liberty Award
since their squadron had the best
record for the week.
Their total of 25 points places
them just 1% points behind the
first place Wildcats.
Tied for third and fourth posi
tions with 22 points are the Vindi
cators and Devastators.
Others in the order they stand in
the Sports Program include the
Catalinas with 21, the Buffalos
and Kingfishers with 18, the Hell-
divers with 16, the Skyrockets with
15 V2, the Coronados with 13, the
Mariners with 11, and the Mus
tangs running a poor last with 8.
Red Spring Nine
Here Today at 1600
Red Springs Red Robbins, one
of the better semi-pro teams in
North Carolina, will play the
Cloudbusters here this afternoon
at 1600.
, On Monday the Pre-Flighters
go to Burlington to play the Bur
lington Mill Weavers, who took
top honors in the Industrial Lea
gue for the first half of the
season.
Cadets Joseph Coleman and
John Sain or Lt. (jg) Robert Wil
liams, USNR, will start on the
mound for the locals, Lt. George
D. Kepler, USNR, head baseball
coach, announced.
Both the Cloudbusters and
Cadet John Sain, in particular,
will be out for revenge. The two
clubs have played one game pre
viously—that at Norfolk—and the
Training Station won, 3 to 0. Sain
was on the mound for the Cloud
busters on that occasion and pitch
ed perhaps the best all-round game
that any Pre-Flighter has turned
in this year. He struck out 12 men
—Don Padgett three times and
Dominic DiMaggio and Phil Riz-
zuto twice.
Among the former major league
players adorning the roster of the
Norfolk squad are Pitcher Fred
Hutchinson, Detroit; Catcher
Vince Smith, Pittsburgh; Third
Baseman Jeff Cross, St. Louis
See NORFOLK, page ^
Cadet Powelle Wins Obstacle Course Exhibition Race
Five tenths of a second was the
difference between Cadets Sierfei
Powelle, New London, Conn., and
G. C. Armstrong, Hamburg, N. Y.,
when the two ran the obstacle
course on Wednesday afternoon
before the entire regiment of
cadets and a host of officers.
For the past month Powelle and
Armstrong have had the obstacle
course record very much to them
selves. On June 24th Armstrong
made the time in 2:50 only to have
Powelle follow a moment later
with a mark of 2:47.
Whether Armstrong challenged
Powelle or Powelle challenged
Armstrong is not known, but on
Wednesday afternoon the two
agreed to run against one
another’s time. Powelle was first
in 2:54.5 while Armstrong came
in just a step behind at 2:55.
Powelle and Armstrong’s nip-
and-tuck race for a new record
caused Lieut. Charles Werner,
USNR, head track coach, to check
over the best obstacle course
ttiarks made during the past year.
As there have been several ad
ditions to the course from time to
time it is well to note that with
the changes the record time has
changed.
The original obstacle course had
a fence instead of a bulkhead as
the first obstacle. There was no
undercover run or pipe crawl.
Neither was there a bulkhead at
the finish.
Cadet John Killiany, Wildcat,
was the first to hold the record
with a mark of 2:50,5. Cadets E.
Roberts, D. Johnson, J. McNee-
land, L. F. Williams, and E. Rob
erts then held the record in that
order with the best time being
that of 2:29' made by Roberts.
In August the pipe crawl was
added, and Cadet Burns’s time of
2:35 was best. That record stood
until in November when the cargo
net, undercover run and last bulk
head were added.
These new obstacles upped the
time considerably, and Cadet R.
B. Weston’s 3:22 was best. Cadets
C. W. Scranton and F. J. O’Don
nell with times of 3:09 and 3:05
respectively continued to improve
the mark.
The last obstacle to be added
was the “wailing wall” (now the
first obstacle) on April 13th of
this year. Cadet* E. F. Conlin’s
time of 3:16 was best.
Cadet Powelle first bettered the
existing record on May 7th with
3:10. A month later Cadet F. C.
Johns tied Powelle’s mark, and on
June 17th Cadet Armstrong made
the almost unbelievable time of
2:55. Then on the 24th Armstrong
made the aforementioned time of
2:50 only to have Powelle better
it at 2:47.
his record should stand for a long time