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CLOUDBUSTER—SPORTS
Friday, June 15, 1945
In Surprise Visit, Bill Tilden And
V. Richards Show Court Skill Here
Big Bill Tilden and Vincent
Richards, two of the great stars
of tennis for the past two dec
ades, paid a surprise visit to
Chapel Hill last Wednesday and
demonstrated their court skill
before upwards of 1,100 enthusi
astic and appreciative fans.
Currently on a USO tour of
service camps, the court stars
offered to perform at Chapel
Hill while travelling among
nearby service units on their
regular itinerary. The offer was
quickly accepted and the re
sponse was terrific.
The colorful Tilden, still mas
ter of the game at 52, easily out
played his travelling partner and
former national doubles cham
pion, Richards, in a singles ex
hibition, 6-1, 6-1. His game was
steady throughout, spectacular at
times, and spiced with the show
manship that has made him the
idol of tennis fans since the 20’s.
The power drives for which the
ageless champion is famous were
there in reserve when needed.
Rounding out two hours of
playing under a withering sun,
Tilden and Richards later paired
a doubles match to defeat Bar
nard Welsh, twice national pub
lic parks tennis champion and
now a Pre-Flight academic in
structor, and Aviation Cadet
Clarence Mabry, Texas junior
champion. The scores were 6-3,
4-6, 6-1.
The teams played on even
terms for the first two sets, the
Pre-Flight pair rallying brilliant
ly to hold their own with the
veterans. With the pressure on
though, the former national
champions came through to take
the third and deciding set hand-
ily. ^
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Don Freeman, artist illustra
tor of the book “The Human
Comedy,” visited the station this
week making sketches and
paintings of the cadets engaged
in the Pre-Flight training pro
gram.
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The Cloudbuster baseball team
won 10 out of 12 games in the
past month. The entire Cloud
buster nine is hitting well over
.300 with cadets Williams,
Gremp, Pesky and Lt. (jg) John
A. Hassett, USNR, the leaders.
A new record for the obstacle
course was established this week
as cadets Powelle and Johns of
the 24th and 25th battalions re
spectively covered the course in
3:10.
French Cadets Find
Dutch Marines Tough
The Pre-Flight French Unit
soccer team which journeyed to
Camp Lejeune for a tilt with the
sturdy Netherlands Marines last
Sunday met tough opposition
from a squad which included
several internationally - known
stars and bowed 0-7 before a
large and enthusiastic crowd.
On Sunday, June 24th, a re
turn match will be played at
Chapel Hill and Coach Robt. B.
McLeary plans to drive his
charges hard in anticipation of a
much closer game. It is safe to
assume that the entire French
Unit will be present to back the
Pre-Flighters in this phase of in
ternational rivalry.
Make Up Your Mind
Chicago (CNS)—Mrs. Nar-
lene Wons, 21, is seeking an an
nulment of her marriage to Emil
Wons, 24, who, says she, she
doesn’t remember marrying at
all. She said she thought Wons
was merely an acquaintance. “I
must have married him during a
lapse of memory,” she testified.
Lt. Bauer^s 67 Balt
Finishes First in
Sports Program
Oustripping Battalion competi
tors in Academics and going into
the lead by a goodly margin in
the Sports Program finals, the
67th Battalion, directed by Lieut.
A. C. Bauer, finished well ahead
of the field in activities ending
June 8th.
Summary.
66th 67th 69th 70th llR's
Military 75 50 10 25 0
Academic 10 75 50 25 0
Class Ath 10 50 25 0 75
Sports Prog 120 70 60 125
VarsityComp 5 10 15 20 5
215 _245 145 175 80
Auld Lang Syne ...
Lt. Comdr. Gene Curry re
ports regularly to his former
colleagues of the E.N.S. Depart
ment from an island post some
where in the Pacific.
Lieut. A. J. Yunevich, from
somewhere in the Latin-Ameri-
can theatre commented as fol
lows: “The natives here don’t
seem to get any lighter as the
boys all told me when I first
came down.”
Lt. Comdr. Howard Hamilton,
just before departure, forwarded
one of his familiar “Old Guard”
letters to former plank owners
and Pre-Flight veterans.
“My girl has everything.”
“What do you mean—every
thing?”
“She has a typewriter, plenty
of film for her camera, and a
set of brand new tires and her
father runs a gas station.”
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PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE—and like it! Nothing could be
more inviting one of these hot afternoons than a cruise on a lake
with a lovely paddling partner like vivacions Ann Rutherford.
’Busters Loose to
Duke as Ration
League Closes
The Cloudbusters and Duke
rounded out the Ration League
schedule last Wednesday with
the collegians topping Pre-
Flight, 4 to 3, in a close 10-inning
battle. Duke finished second in
the league race to Carolina’s Tar
Heels, while the ’Busters finished
last with three wins, against nine
losses.
Pre-Flight and Duke split even
in the season series with two
wins each.
Downfall of the cadets in the
final game came when Lefty Lee
Griffeth, Duke’s one-man hurling
corps, crashed out a home run in
the last of the 10th to end his
duel with Pre-Flight’s Ken Ol
son.
The ’Busters scored first in the
second, and Duke came back
with a pair in the fourth. The
locals went ahead again with a
couple in top of the ninth, only
to have the Blue Devils knot the
count in their half of the same
frame.
Hoyle Chancellor, Pre-Flight
third baseman, had a perfect day
at bat, getting four-for-four,
while Centerfielder Gregg drove
in all the Cloudbuster runs with
a single and double.
Last week-end the Cloudbus-
ters split a pair with the Camp
Peary nine, losing a 13-6 de
cision on Saturday and coming
back with a 6-5 win on Sunday-
The final Ration League stand
ings follow:
W. L. Pet.
Carolina 9 4 .667
Duke 7 5 .583
State 6 6 .500
Pre-Flight 3 9 .250
More Hospital Ships for
Wounded in Pacific
Pacific (CNS)—The journey
homeward for many casualties
from the Pacific will be as com
fortable as it is humanly possible
when six new 15,000-ton, 171/2
knot, air-conditioned hospital
ships begin operations.
One of the vessels the USS
Tranquillity, has a cruising ra
dius of 12,000 miles, and beds
for 802 patients, which can be
increased by several hundred in
an emergency. Its operating
rooms are in the center of the
second deck, where the rocking
of the vessel causes the least mo
tion. It is equipped with an eye-
ear-nose-and-throat department,
blood bank, dental clinic, shop
for grinding glasses, X-ray and
hydrotherapy rooms, and other
modern appliances.
Small boats bringing patients
aboard are hauled right up onto
deck by special davits, so as to
disturb the men as little as pos
sible.
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