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PAGE TWELVE THE ECHO MARCH, Maintenance Wins First . Place In Men’s Leagtf MACHINE ROOM FINISHED SEASON M SECOND PUCE The Maintenance team won first place in the men’s division of the Ecusta Bowling league and are the champs of the 1943-44 season. This strong team won 46 games and lost only 14 and finished the season with an average of .766 per cent. Machine Room won second place and Champagne third. Trophies will be awarded to all three teams. Emil Vassey is captain of Main tenance and other members of the team are Bruce I^eynolds, Bob Kappers, Wayne Conn, Waverly Morris, James Bradley and Tallis. Jim Poteat is captain of Machine Room and Chris Rogers heads Champagne’s team. High individual average for the season was won by Bruce Rey nolds, with an average of 170. Paul Simpson was second high with a score of 169 and Bob Kappers third, 165. Simpson made the highest score in any one game, 266, and he also won high set score, 614. Medals will be awarded to the winners of high averages. Machine Room won the season’s high team score, making 2,509 and Champagne won high team aver age, 911. The final league standing is as follows: League Standings MEN’S LEAGUE Team Maintenance Machine Room Champagne Control Office Refiner Room W L Pet. 46 14 .766 43 17 .716 40 20 .666 29 31 .483 18 42 .300 4 56 .066 Basketball Is (From Page One) Prince was second high in each game, scoring 7 and 11 points. Other players who participated in the games were Wanda Smith, Lucille Heffner, Mary Prince, Col lins, E. Morrow, Watkins, Taylor, MerriU, Hazel Smith, Henderson, Margaret McKinney, Fisher, Hol lingsworth. Miss Lucy Clarke is coach and she is doing a grand job of it. Men Form Team Not to be outdone by the girls, several of our men got together and formed a team and played their first game against the strong Brevard college boys March 22. They were in the lead much of the time until the last quarter and the final score was Brevard 29, Ecusta 21. Playing on the Ecusta team were Fisher, Taylor, Coan, Vance, Rhodes, Shook, Nelson and Hut chins. They also played Grey Mills Friday night. Interested In Calisthenics? At a recent meeting of the Ac tivities’ Committee, hope was also expressed that a regular calisthen ics program could be worked out for any of the men who would like to take part as a conditioning pro gram. It is requested that those interested get in touch with the recreational department promptly. Champions Of The Men’* Bowling League SERVICEMEN NElf> Champagne Was Third. All Three Teams Will Re ceive Trophies Here are the members of the Maintenance team, first place winners in the^ men’s division of Ecusta Bowling league. Kneeling in front are, left to right, James Bradley and Bruce Reynolds^ back row, Wayne Conn, Waverly Morris, Bob Kappers and Emil Vassey. Captains Of Our Men’s Bowling Teams Most all of these fine fellows are smiling even though all of them didn’t win trophies in the men’s league. Reading from left to right, they are, kneeling, Bob Mattheiws and Jimmey Poteat;' back row, Chris Rogers, A1 Montville, Paul Plaut and Emil Vassey. NOW IN NEW YORK 1st Lt. Joseph E. Himter, Jr., writes from New York: “. . . After being moved from south to north and north to south a few times, I have ended up in New York . . . My work is very interesting, for working in the Chemical Warfare Procurement office I come in con tact with all the articles manufac tured in this territory as well as the manufacturers themselves . . . I think I have handled about every item known except cigarette paper, and am wishing I could get back to that again . . . Among other things I have been given the job of operating quite an extensive chemical and physical testing lab oratory for the New York district. This is most interesting because of the experience gained and the wide variety of problems which are handled . . .” IS IN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN Captain Tom Ramsey writes from overseas: “. . . Since arriving overseas I have been in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Was in the campaign in Sicily and now am in the Italian campaign *. . . Ap parently a number of other Ecusta m^n were in Sicily and are now in Italy. So far I have not met any of them ...” SENDS HIS REGARDS W.‘Howell Me4ford, A-S, writes from the Naval Training Station, Bainbridge, Md.: “. . . I am in the Navy for sure now and like it well enough . . . We have a real train ing center here. There are lots of boys from Western North Carolina here . . . Tell all the boys at the Boiler Room and the Turbine Room hello ... I really think all those boys are swell and efficient ENJOYS MESSAGES Pvt. Douglas McCormick from Camp White, Oregon: “• • would like to have been ther« see the Christmas pageant enjoyed reading the Presi and Mr. Bennett’s messages know that you and the rest 1 there think about the boys li* ^ service and are doing your r to help win this war . . . I letter from Jim ... first October . . . Tom is still in land . . . Mel is just getting the flu. I hope it didn’t hit yo“ ^ so hard, but seems like the A** hitting pretty hard back there • They stopped visiting in the pital here on account of it Tell Tony and all the boys OUT OF COMBAT ZON^ Pfc. Harry Reese writes ^ the Fleet Post Offlce in San ^ cisco, Calif.: “ . . . There’S^ much that we can write that ^ pass the censor. They are V^a strict . . . This Christmas seeK more of a holiday than last were at Munda at the time of the boys in my section rec«‘^' lots of packages. We' ate fruiW*! for weeks .. . The planes we ,, ed were a beautiful sight. We suffered some losses that day* ,j are out of the combat present, but where we will go here is more than any of ^ figure out. Naturally all would like to get home for a There’s lots of talk about ovif j ing to the States, but I think go the other way . . . Had a from William Hannan the day and he seems to have, “world by the tail.” Says he be shipped out at most any % . . . Bill Daly is still with me We are supposed to be here ^ several months. I think it a training and reorganization r od. There’s lots of new men J. officers with us so we all/tli^ they will send the old men ^ outfit home after the trainin^jj riod is over ... Everyone that the office has lost the employees I knew. I pro'’ wouldn’t recognize the place • Best regards ...” PEACE OF MIND Sgt. Mary P.- Rickman from Arlington, Va.: “ . . . I of you people often, but in ing for the signal corps, som®^' I think it must be spelled The soldiers overthere worl^^ ^ ^ij er than we ever could and p more than we ever would, glad I’m really in on the I now feel very close to the ^ line, closer than I thought a ^ could ever be. We work and get off the ninth. We five days furlough a year, this we have satisfaction and y of mind—that we are really ing the attack with our evef5^ of work ...” SWIMMING FOR CHRlS'T^^ Tom F. Cooper, Seiam*** , writes from Miami, Fla.: have been transferred to a course, and am crazy ami, although I missed my Christmas. Instead I went ® jiii ming ... It was kind of surPj* to hear of Mr. Goolsby, ^ foremah, catching a deer lived there almost all my ^ didn’t even ]kiU one . ,
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