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CLOUDBUSTER — SPORTS
Friday, April 13, 1945
Living Up To Name,
’Busters Hit Hard
But Lose 3 Games
With an average of over 11
runs per game in five contests to
date, the Cloudbusters have in
dicated they have a happy fac
ulty for making runs and enemy
pitchers miserable. What is wor
rying Head Coach Wes Schul-
merich, however, is the Cloud
busters’ own pitching, along
with occasional lapses afield.
The slab shortage, plus mis
takes, have been costly. In five
games to date the ’Buster have
won only two, both against
Camp Butner. In Ration League
competition Pre-Flight has
dropped both starts to North
Carolina State.
After scoring 14 runs against
the Naval Academy and seven
against North Carolina State—
and losing both games—the
’Buster hitters bore down with a
vengeance last week against
Camp Butner and took matters
strictly into their own hands.
Rallying to overcome an early
lead, they pounded out a 9-to-6
victory over Butner before 3,000
spectators at the Army base on
Saturday and then went berserk
the following day at Emerson
Stadium to win a 21-to-6 decision
in a seven-inning affair.
Lefty Riggan, a southpaw
curve-baller, not only checked
the Cloudbusters in the opening
Ration League tilt in Raleigh, 9
to 7, but repeated last Wednes
day in Emerson Stadium when
he won, 12 to 6. State, which
failed to win a game last season
as Pre-Flight captured the title,
piled up a 6 to 1 lead going into
the last of the fifth and appar
ently had an easy victory.
Coach Schulmerich’s club,
however, awoke suddenly and
pounded Riggan for five runs to
tie the score at 6-6, largely due
to Lawrence’s base-cleaning
triple. Riggan, however, steadied
and State jumped on Bryan, and
Roudenbush to pile up another
half dozen scores.
Wilson, centerfielder for the
Red Terrors, did most of the
damage to the Cloudbusters with
his four hits in five trips.
Army Stars Ineligible
Bobby Dodd and Max Minor,
of Army’s unbeaten football
team, won’t play next year.
Both have been declared in
eligible because each played
four years in inter-collegiate
football.
Doug Kenna and Dale Hall,
other Army backfield stars, will
be commissioned in June.
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OPEN SEASON WITH VICTORY—Having de
feated Duke’s Blue Devils in the opening Spring
track meet, Cloudbuster trackmen tomorrow will
seek another triumph when they will oppose the
Georgia Pre-Flight speedsters. Left to right, the
squad lines up as follows: First row—W. I. Fran
cis, W. J. Buckworth, J. C. Barrow, S. Circirello,
W. M. Davis, D. M. Broome, R. J. Bowman, J. W.
Daum, K. E. Gephart.
Second row—E. R. Weipert, F. J. Peckinpaugh,
C. D. Wilson, J. A. McCoy, E. R. Myers, G. R.
Pokrant, D. N. Goode, R. J. Bomkamp, G. I.
Baechler.
Third row—W. Hersman, manager; V. Skogen,
J. F. Zoellin, W. E. Nowers, C. S. Bacik, C. W.
Neal, J. F. Moore, S. D. Bailey, A. T. Kindling,
J. J. Packo.
Fourth row—B. E. Hoeft, manager; J. O. Fred
erick, R. J. Nyquist, W. J. Cunningham, J. N-
Hutchins, L. W. Pose, C. E. Wenzel, J. E. Mac
Donald, W. H. Hamilton.
Fifth row—E. C. Blackburn, W. E. Otton, P-
Gettinger, Lt. (jg) W. B. King, assistant coach;
Lt. (jg) G. D. Smith, assistant coach; Lt. (jg)
C. J. Beetham, head coach.
’Busters To Tackle
Catawba Saturday,
Marines On Sunday
Two more diamond contests
will be played over the week
end by the Cloudbusters in
Chapel Hill.
Tomorrow in Emerson Sta
dium Catawba College will be
entertained by Coach Wes Schul
merich’s nine and on Sunday
rivalry with the Cherry Point
Marines will be renewed on the
home grounds. Both of these
contests are due to start at 1500.
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Trackmen Meet Skycrackers
After Defeating Duke, 73-57
Keener competition than was experienced in defeating Duke’S
trackmen last week, 73 to 57, is expected to be encountered by the
Cloudbuster speedsters tomorrow when they visit Athens to face
Georgia Pre-Flight.
The dual rneet with the Skycrackers will be the second formal
outdoor carnival on a schedule of five, which includes a second
meeting with Duke and meets with Virginia and the Naval
Academy.
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BIG GUN—Leading cadet hitter
of the Cloudbusters is Outfielder
Anthony Bozich of Detroit.
Against Camp Butner in two
games last week-end Bozich col
lected six hits in 10 times at bat
mcludmg a home run and a
triple.
In opening the Spring season
last Saturday on Fetzer Field
Coach Charles Beetham’s team?
had too much balance for the
Blue Devils.
Pre-Flight cap
tured eight first
places and tied
for another,
revealing
strength in the
middle dis
tance and dis
tance events,
low hurdles,
the high and
broad jumps, pole vault and re
lay.
Duke’s Jim LaRue, also a foot
ball star, was the high individ
ual scorer, winning the 100 and
220 yard dashes and finishing
second to Pre-Flight’s J. A. Mc-
coy, 11-R-A, in the broad jump.
Frank Irwin of the Blue Devils
captured both the shot put and
discus.
Highest scorer for the Cadets
was J. W. Daum, 64th Batt, who
won the 220-yard low hurdles
and was second in the 120-yard
high hurdles. Daum’s victory
also was marked by the break
ing of one of the two Pre-Flight
records. His time in the 220-
yard hurdles was 24.8.
Bacik Sets Record
Second record-breaker was
C. S. Bacik, 65th Batt, who won
the 440-yard dash in 51.7. Other
Cloudbuster winners were S-
Circirello, of the 65th in the
mile, D. N. Goode, 11-R-A in the
880, J. C. Barrow and C. W. Neal
of the 65th in the high jump, for
which they tied; W. J. Buck-
worth of the 66th in the two-
mile run, W. E. Nowers of the
65th in the pole vault and G. R-
Pokrant, 65th, W. J. Cunning
ham, 64th, Bacik and J. F-
Moore, 65th, who formed the re'
lay team.
Pre-Flight Netmeu
Are Sunk By Naval
Academy Team, 7-2
Daniel Watson in singles
John Davison and Edward Fog'
arty in doubles were the only
winners for Pre-Flight as the
Cloudbusters, playing formal
team tennis for the first tim^’
went down to defeat before th®
Naval Academy last Saturday 1^
Annapolis. The score was 7 to 2-
Watson won in two sets over
Midshipman H. Edwards, 9'*’
6-4, and Davison and Fogarty
downed J. T. Smith and J.
Rogers, 6-4, 6-4.
B. T. Welsh, Davison, R.
Swigert, W. R. Boocock and Fog'
arty were beaten in singl®^'
Welsh and Swigert and WatsoP
and Boocock lost in doubles.