Saturday^ December 18, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Three
The Wolf by Sansone
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... now that we’re off—what'll you miss th' most?”
Norfolk Naval Air Station To Play
Cloudbusters Wednesday at 1930
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An easy 60 to 23 victory over
Emery & Henry last Saturday
flight and the game with the Char
leston Coast Guard last night took
a back seat in interest as Lieut.
R. A. Raese, head basketball men
tor, prepared for the biggest test
of the season on Wednesday
^'‘ight at 1930 in Woollen Gym-
^^asium.
Furnishing the opposition will
be the strong Naval Air Station
from Norfolk. Last year the two
teams played one contest with the
Norfolk quintet winning by an
easy 65 to 35 score.
But things should be different
this year. The Cloudbusters are
^uch stronger, have a better bal
anced team. Since dropping their
, opening game of the season by a
; 44 to 43 score, they have had little
* trouble with the opposition.
i Among others, Duke was defeated,
j 58 to 39, and the Blue Devils are
I ^ated tops in the Southern Con
ference.
The record of the Air Station is
just as impressive. Most of their
Sames have been won by lop-sided
Scores. Some of the finest college
stars of the past few years com
pose their squad, and' they have
been playing longer this year than
the Cloudbusters.
The game is a tossup; certainly
^t will be one of the best to be play
ed in Woollen Gymnasium this
year.
The Emery & Henry contest saw
Coach Raese use his starting five
^ess than half the game. Midway
the first period the starting quin
tet retired with a 20 to 4 advan
tage.
At halftime the score was 26 to
14, and the first stringers, back in
for the start of the second half,
Save the Pre-Flighters a quick 30
Point advantage.
It was Cadet Bud Palmer who
' the scoring. Playing half the
Same he connected for 10 field
Soals and 20 points. Stanley
Skaug had 10, John Smith 8, and
'I’ippy Dye 6. The other 16 points
^ere divided between seven Cloud
busters.
Cameron led the visitors in scor-
with seven points, while Mc
Clellan and Bakke had five each.
In that the Coast Guard game
played last night it was im
possible to get the score in today’s
Cloudbuster.
Expected to start for the Pre-
^^ighters against the Air Station
be Smith and Dye at the for
wards, Palmer at center, and
See BASKETBALL, page U
Cadet Louis Gremp
Returns as Member
Of 39th Battalion
Cadet Louis (Buddy) Gremp,
one of the most popular cadets
ever to take Pre-Flight Training
here, returned to active participa
tion in the Pre-Flight program
last week. For the past four
months he has been in the station
hospital recovering from a knee
operation.
Young Gremp, who played pro
fessional baseball for six years be
fore enlisting in the V-5 program,
injured his knee while playing first
base for the Boston Braves in
1942. He was bothered with the
injury again while playing for
the Cloudbuster baseball team this
past summer.
Cadet Gremp played at both sec
ond and third base for the base
ball nine. His fielding was sensa
tional, and his batting average
was well over .300.
A ball player’s ball player,
Gremp always gave the game the
best that was in him, and his hus
tle and spirit was an inspiration
for the whole club.
Asked about his stay in the hos
pital, he stated that he hated to
get so far behind his mates in the
program, but that he was deter
mined to catch up with them.
“I enlisted in V-5 because I
wanted to fly for the Navy,” Gremp
added, “and I hope that before very
long I’ll be at my Primary Base.”
From St. Louis, Missouri, Gremp
got his first taste of professional
baseball with Albany, Georgia of
the Georgia-Florida League in
1936. He played there for two
years and then moved to Colum
bus, Georgia, Hamilton, Ontario,
York, Pa., and the Boston Braves,
in that order. He was with the
Braves in both ’41 and ’42.
A “bug” about baseball ever
since he was a kid, Gremp was
just beginning to hit his stride
when he received the knee injury
near the end of the 1942 season
with the Braves.
His first time at bat in a Cloud
buster uniform, Gremp hit a home
run in deep centerfield with one
man on base. That won the game
for the Pre-Flighters, 2 to 1.
Gremp was a cadet battalion
commander of the 25th battalion,
but due to the setback resulting
from his knee operation he is now
in the 39th battalion.
Mustangs Set Pace
In Winter Sports
Program Race
Ending up in second place in
the fall sports program was evi
dently a good stimulus for the
Mustang Squadron for with one
week of the winter program fin
ished they are in first place, some
four points ahead of their near
est rival.
In wrestling, boxing and swim
ming the leaders are undefeated,
and in soccer they participated in
one contest which ended in a tie.
Only in basketball have they suf
fered a loss.
Five squadrons—the Devasta
tors, Catalinas, Wildcats, Coro
nados, and Buccaneers—are tied
for second honors with 12 points.
The Kingfishers have 10, Sky
rockets and Mariners 8, and the
Helldivers, Buffalos and Vindi
cators 6 each.
In wrestling the Devastators,
Catalinas, Wildcats and Mariners
are undefeated, while in boxing
the Catalinas, Coronados,, Bucca
neers, and Mariners have yet to
suffer a loss. Victories in swim
ming have been registered by the
Devastators, Wildcats, Coronados,
Buccaneers and Kingfishers, and
in Soccer by the Catalinas, Wild
cats and Kingfishers. The Coro
nados, Skyrockets, and Helldivers
See SPORTS PROGRAM, page
SEA POWER
(Continued from page one)
tery of the seas.
Japan, according to Kiralfy, is
primarily a land power, and the
Japanese army is the principal in
strument of their aggression.
When the Imperial navy is em
ployed it is only for the establish
ment of beachheads. In fact the
role of the navy is limited to the
protection of land forces in transit
and the covering of amphibious
operations. While every other
navy assumes these duties, only in
Japan is naval strategy complete
ly subordinated to the require
ments of the army. Hence the
Japanese have no conceptions of
naval strategy comparable to the
control of the seas and blockade
which have been fundamental ele
ments of Anglo-American naval
thought since Mahan’s time.
Japan’s strategy of minimum
naval risk is borne out in their
naval history. During the Sino-
Japanese War of 1894 Admiral
Ito, commanding the Japanese
fleet, neglected every opportunity
for a Nelson-like victory over the
Chinese. His warships were not
exposed to unnecessary risk less
their loss deprive troopships of
protection.
Admiral Togo, the commander-
in-chief during the Russo-Jap
anese War of 1904-1905, followed
See SEA POWER, page U