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CLOUDBUSTER — SPORTS
Friday, February 9, 1945
’Buster Trackmen In Meet Tomorrow
10 Teams File
Entries In Big
Race Carnival
A total of nearly 150 track-
sters, representing 10 college,
university, and service units,
will compete in the annual Invi
tation Indoor Meet sponsored by
the University of North Carolina
and to be held in Woollen Gym
tomorrow night, it is announced
by R. A. Fetzer, Carolina direc
tor of athletics.
Teams entered include Clem-
son, Georgia Pre-Flight, Vir
ginia, N. C. State, Georgia Tech,
Cherry Point Marines, Laurin-
burg-Maxton Air Base, Norfolk
Naval Training Station, Carolina
Pre-Flight, and the University
of North Carolina.
Carolina Pre-Flight’s Charles
Beetham, middle distance ace,
and Earl Mitchell, nationally fa
mous one- and two-miler from
Camp Lejeune, assure the meet
of at least two national stand
outs, in addition to many of the
best track men in this section.
Mitchell is entered individually,
not as a representative of Le
jeune.
Dale Ransom, assistant track
coach at Carolina, reports that
the entries filed indicate the
meet “will be just as good as
any in the past.”
As in the past, there will be
an admission charge for the
meet, $1.00 for reserved sections
and $.50 for students, cadets, and
enlisted personnel.
Lt. (jg) Charles Beetham, former
Ohio State star and new head
track coach here, is one of the
many tracksters slated to flash
their speed at the UNC Invita
tion Indoor Meet in Woollen gym
tomorrow night. Now in his 14th
year of competition, Lt. (jg)
Beetham won the Rodman Wana-
maker international trophy as
the standout athlete in the 1945
Millrose games in which he com
peted while on leave recently.
Pre-Flight Boxers
Seek Repeat Win
Over Marylanders
’Buster boxers will be out to
repeat last week’s triumph over
the University of Maryland
when they enter the ring with
the Terrapins at College Park
tomorrow night.
A week ago Coach Ab Young’s
mittmen mauled the Terps in
Woollen Gym, 5-3, after conced
ing the 120-pound bout on a for
feit for lack of a ringman in that
division.
The return meet is the last on
the season’s schedule, with the
record at present standing at
two wins, one tie, and one loss.
Summary of last week’s meet
follows:
120-pound class: George Murphy (M)
won on forfeit.
127-pound class: Jim Calvey (PF) de
feated Ray Richards.
135-pound class: A1 Salkowski (PF) de
feated Bill Filbert.
145-pound class: Byron Hostetler (PF)
defeated Bill Greer.
155-pound class: Tom Maloney (M)
knocked out R. T. Kirkpatrick in third round.
165-pound class: W. C. Craigmile (PF)
defeated A1 Novik.
175-pound class: Max Schumacher (PF)
defeated Dick Terry.
Heavyweight: Ken Malone (M) defeated
Ben Lum.
A cross section of the war veter
ans entertained by the Cloudbus-
ter court team during the past
week is shown above, as they
watched Pre-Flight trim the Jax
Flyers in a 52-48 thriller last
Friday. Now convalescing at
nearby Camp Butner, the group
included some back from wars
in Europe and in the Pacific, On
the right, Otto Graham, whose
24 points figured prominently in
the court triumph, chats after
the game with Pfc. Neil K. Col-
liard, of Detroit, Mich., back
from 18 months in the Southwest
Pacific, and Cpl. Norman L. Rob
ertson, of Wilmington, Del., who
has had 22 months in the same
area.
Cadet Swimmers Defeat Duke
V-12 in Service Meet^ 20-13
Pre-Flight tankmen defeated^
Duke University’s V-12 service
men entries by a score of 20-13
in the swimming meet held last
Saturday in Bowman Gray pool.
Led by Cadet A. L. Hausman,
who won the 50-meter free style
event, and Cadet W. G. Maas,
who copped the 50-meter back
stroke race, the ’Buster entries
took eight of the 12 point win
ning places in the three service
events, as follows;
50-meter free style: First, A, L. Hausman,
five points; third, R. B. Sullivan, two
points; fourth, F. A. Bostivich, one point.
50-meter back stroke: First, W. G. Maas,
five points; second, A. Stanley, three points;
fourth, A. F. Frazen, one point.
50-meter breast stroke; Third, R. S. Wil
kins, two points; fourth, F. A. Pedrich, one
point.
In the annual Carolinas and
National Junior AAU champion
ships held the same night, Pre-
Flight compiled 18 points to take
third place behind the Univer
sity of North Carolina, with 67,
and Duke, with 24. Cadet Al
bert Stanley won the only first
place for Pre-Flight in this meet.
Summary of cadet point win
ners in the AAU meet:
100-meter back stroke; First. Albert Stan
ley, five pomts; third, A. F. Frazen two
points. ’
400-meter free style: Second, N. N Diopv
three pomts.
Third, W. G.
Maas, M. Cuniberti, and A. L. Hausman
four pomts. ’
Diving: Second, C. P. Willis, three points;
third, R. H. Swigert, one point.
Battery Test Records
Are Of Long Standing
Just to give every cadet
something to shoot at, here
are the all-time records in the
battery test, as reported by
Lt. (jg) William E. Dole of
Mass Exercise:
Chins—27, established by
M. E. Stouffer, 21st Batt.
Sargent Jump—33 inches,
A. H. Kirk, 42nd Batt.
Push-ups—80, F. E. Hahn,
40th Batt.
Speed Agility—25 seconds,
T. E. Cavallo, 32nd Batt and
J. A. Gullen, 40th Batt.
P.F.I.—139, B. N. Reynolds,
30th Batt.
Matmen In Meet With Duke
The Cloudbuster mat team,
which defeated Duke’s Southern
Conference wrestling champs
here recently 19-9, goes to Dur
ham tonight for a return meet
with the Blue Devils.
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Weakened Quintet
Faces ’Crackers
Tomorrow Night
A Cloudbuster court teaii^'
greatly weakened by the tranS'
fer this week of its two leading
scorers, will invade Athens, Ga^
tomorrow night for its second
encounter with Georgia Pr^'
Flight.
Minus his ace forwards, Ott^ 1
Graham and Dean Meador, wh^'
are now in primary flight traii^'
ing at Glenview, 111., CoacP
Dyke Raese will seek to shuffl^
up a combination capable
downing the Skycrackers
the second time this season. Tli^
first battle of the Pre-Fligli^
quintets two weeks ago went to
the ’Busters by a 35-25 count.
No defeats marred hardwoo^^
play during the past week,
courtmen tripping Jacksonville
Naval Air Station, 52-48, la^^
Friday, and submerging tb^
Wake Forest Deacons, 78-2'''
last Monday.
In the game with the J^^
Flyers, each team was good fo*
20 goals, the margin of victon
coming on charity tosses, wi^^
the cadets connecting on 12 tri^^
and the visitors on eight.
The Deacon tilt, the last
the home court this season,
a runaway for the ’Busters a^J
a parade of substitutes with
players cracking the lineup—^
of them for Pre-Flight.