Page Four
CLOUDBUSTER — SPORTS
Friday, December 22, 1944
New Coaches^ Mittmen Poised For Season
Rebounding Cagers
Idling Until Duke
Contest Next Week
On the rebound after two de
feats in early season play, the
Cloudbuster cagers will meet
their first college opponent of
the year next Friday night in
Woollen gymnasium when Duke
University invades Chapel Hill.
The visitors, winners of the
Southern Conference basketball
tournament last year, have one
of the finest college quints in this
section. The two teams met
twice last year with the Cloud-
busters winning both times,
here by a 58 to 39 score and at
Durham by a 48 to 35 margin.
During the past two weeks
the Cloudbusters have shown
much improvement. Last Mon
day the Laurenberg-Maxton Air
Base team was defeated, 64 to
38. As usual, it was Bob Mehl,
W. D. Meador and Otto Graham
who set the scoring pace, while
Donald Gleasner and Tippy Dye,
the other starters, continued
their fine defensive work.
Last Wednesday the team won
its fourth game in six starts by
coming from behind four times
in the second half to decision
Fort Bragg, 49 to 44.
Bones McKinney of Bragg was
Ring Coaches And Bright Prospects
Boxing returns to the varsity spotlight with four meets already
on schedule and others expected to be added during the next two
weeks. Left to right are pictured Lieut. J. A. Young, head coach;
Lieut. Robert Kellogg, assistant coach, and Cadets A. D. Byrd, 170;
Dan McCarthy, 135; Jim MacConnachie, 155; A1 Salkowski, 135,
and Joe Craigmile, 160, all promising prospects.
the scoring star despite fouling
out with 14 minutes of play re
maining. For the Cloudbusters,
Graham scored 19 points, Mea
dor, 17; Mehl, eight; Glesner,
three, and Meserve, only local
sub, two.
Don Gleasner, Cadet Center,
Has Indian Sign On Middies
Coach Dyke Raese is hoping
that Donald Gleasner, the Cloud-
buster’s first-string center, will
continue to hold his jinx over
Navy when the Pre-Flighters
meet the Naval Academy at An
napolis next February 17th.
Last year, while playing bas
ketball at the University of
Pennsylvania, Cadet Gleasner set
the pace as his team defeated
Navy, 52 to 43. This fall he was
a member of the Cloudbuster
football team which scored the
year’s biggest upset, defeating
Navy, 21 to 14.
From Wilmington, Delaware,
Gleasner has been participating
in sports as long as he can re
member. In high school he was a
three letterman—participating
in football, basketball and base
ball.
Penn Team Praised
The good fortune of playing
on a winner is synonymous with
Gleasner. His high school bas
ketball team dropped only four
games during the three years he
was on the varsity. At Morris-
Harvey, where he played two
years of college football, the
same held true, and at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania the
1943-44 basketball team won 16
Mehl Is ^Buster
Scoring Ace With
15-Points Average
Possessing a game average of
slightly more than 15 points.
Bob Mehl, who played high
school basketball in his home
town of Indianapolis, Ind., is
setting the scoring pace for the
Cloudbuster basketball team.
Mehl has registered 76 points
on 34 field goals and eight foul
shots during the first five con
tests. In second place is W. D.
Meador, another high school lad,
who has scored 57 points. Otto
Graham, who has played only
three contests, has 32 points to
his credit.
The scoring in Wednesday’s
game with Fort Bragg is not in
cluded.
The leaders:
GP.
G.
F.
TP.
Mehl, f
5
34
8
76
Meador, g
5
24
9
57
Leakey, f
4
16
5
37
Graham, f
3
11
10
32
Gleasner, c
5
12
1
25
at
of 18 contests.
Gleasner considers that Penn
team tops. “We lost only to
Army and Dartmouth,” he mod
estly admits, “and there were
some fine basketball players on
the squad.”
•—Holiday Fare—
(Continued from Page 1)
with town liberty starting
0830 and ending at 2400. Noon
meal formation will be at 1300.
Navy Hall will hold open house
all day and at the Village The
atre the movie will be “And the
Angels Sing,” with four show
ings.
New Year Day will not be a
holiday. There will be, however,
a pre-New Year Eve regimental
dance in Woollen gym and an ex
tension of liberty until 0100.
Four Meets Listed;]
Coach Young Still!
Picking First Team
New coaches and a new teani
are in the offing for Pre-Flight
boxing for 1944-45. 1
Already four meets—one eacli
with Emory and Henry, and Vir-j
ginia, and two with Maryland—'j
have been scheduled, and others,
are expected to be added within"
the next two weeks. |
Coach of the present squad
Lieut. J. A. Young, who prioi,
to being commissioned in tWi
Navy was attached to Blackfo^i!
Military Academy in Hollywood.
Calif. He is ably assisted
Lieut. Robert Kellogg, of Cloud-^
buster fame, Lieut. Robert
Grieve, and Lieut. Gale O’Brienj
As of this writing the person-,
nel of the squad is uncertain!
Much will be decided on nex<
Friday night when a boxing
smoker will be held in Woollefl
gymnasium immediately folloW-j
ing the Duke-Pre-Flight basket
ball game.
Won Title In Baltimore
Perahps the two outstanding
men on the squad are
Salkowski, a 135-pounder out of
Baltimore, and Connie Squiteir'i
ri, 145, who calls Pittsburgh hiS;
home. Salkowski won the Bal'i
timore Golden Gloves and.
reached the quarter finals in the
same event in Boston.
Squiteirri, a good friend oi
Fritzi Zivic, is a southpaw oi
fairly stocky build. He fough^
in several Golden Gloves tourna-
ments prior to becoming a V-5er'
Other standouts include Jim
MacConnachie, 155, Montclair.
N. J.; Joe Craigmile, 165, HinS'
dale, 111.; A. D. Myrd, 170,
Shreveport, La.; and Dan Mc
Carthy, 135, Maywood, 111.
Neither MacConnachie nof
Craigmile has had any previous
boxing experience. Byrd, wb^’
came into the V-5 program froH^
the fleet, has participated in seV'
eral amateur fights while Mc
Carthy boxed a bit in higl’
school.
“The team is coming along
fine,” Coach Young pointed out
“and there are several other bo3^‘
who may be fighting in the vari'
ous weights. We’ll know a lo<
more about the personnel of th^
team after the Smoker on
29th.”
Pre-Flight Chosen
Four Cloudbusters were nam^'
on the Camp Peary All-Oppo'
nent team. Ray Bray was sfi,
unanimous choice at his guaf
position, as was Otto Graham
the backfield, while Wa0
Schumacher and Warren Andei"
son were named to the first teaf*’
end positions. Bray was select^'
ed as the finest lineman to pl^J^
against Camp Peary all year.