Officers Set Tennis Ornament Entries for Sheppard Field
Entries for the annual tennis ornament at Sheppard Field must be in by Sept. 1 and will be run by Captain Elson P. Davies. Play on two clay courts near the Officers Club begins the first weekend in September with Sgt. Jackith directing and Capt. Edmund S. Smith as current favorite.
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Sheppard Field
Elson P. Davies
Sember
Davies
Jackith
Texas
Edmund S. Smith
Battle Royal Tops Boxing Program Monday
A blindfolded battle royal for at least 10 fighters will open the weekly boxing program Monday night. The winner takes $5 from the crowd. The card includes eight or ten bouts and draws about 3,006 fans to the north gymnasium. Maj. Pooley’s office and the Physical Training Department sponsor prizes.
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Leo J. Mahon
March Field Flyers to Clash With Redskins in Coliseum
Col Joseph H Davidson, new March Field commander, oversees football prep as Flyers face the Washington Redskins in Los Angeles Coliseum. Emmy Baugh and Jack Jacobs, former All-Americans, sharpen passes for the anticipated spectacle amid riotous pennant tension and crowd turnout.
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Davidson
March Field
Washgton Redskins
Los Angeles
Emmy Baugh
Jack Jacobs
Baugh
Jacobs
Marrul Schissler
Flyers
Eagles Rally To Beat Fort Sill 8 3 In Night Game
The Sheppard Field Eagles exploded for five eighth inning runs to defeat Fort Sill 8 3 at Spudder Park. Heavin earned the win with seven strikeouts while Phillips took the loss, as Eagles hitters Woloshyn Hughes and Cost contributed key hits including a long drive by Hughes.
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Sheppard Field Eagles
166Th Infantry
Fort Sill
Okla
Spudder Park
Eagles
Dylan Day
Gross
Day
Fields
Heavin
Clarence Heavin
Eagle
Snitkoff
Bill Cost
Phillips
Cost
Woloshyn
Hughes
Pete Hughes
Buddy Poeer
Dolezal
Fugles
Horgan
Heagin
Boeer
Kitten Infield Cracks Up In Stormy Fourth Frame
Lefty Tom Graham and the Thunderbolts defeated the Hellcats 6 to 1 in Spudder Park in the opening game of the post baseball championship series. Graham fanned 15 and the Kitten infield rallied with a four-run fourth inning on errors and a walk. Hellcat ace Johnny Wahila allowed five hits in a tense, crowd of about 4,000 despite the loss.
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Kitten
Lefty
Tom Graham
Thunderbolts
Hellcat
Spudder Park
Graham
Johnny Wahila
Bolts
Rubry
Neely Vaught
Walter Smith
Charley Dye
Smith
Dye
Joe Sellah
Vought
Bill Karosick
Hellcats
Bill Kerns
Bill
Z. F. Warren
Cats
Checker Champion in Officer Tourney Expected Today
Sheppard Field may crown a new checker champion today as 32 officers competed at the Officers Club. Tourney director Capt. Nelson P. Davies notes Lt. Col. Homer L. Morgan and Maj. Ernest R. Wahlberg among the leading contenders.
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Sheppard Field
Nelson P. Davies
Homer L. Morgan
Ernest R. Wahlberg
Davies
Calisthenics Drive Sun Bronzed Fort Worth Area Troops
RAF Sheppard Field personnel earn sun bronzed bodies through rigorous calisthenics in April. Denver inspectors praise the PT program run by Lt. Ted Skrodzki and Sgts Dick Danielson Jack Smith and Bill Wepman Maga ran. Four classes daily, 24 per week, form the core of sections A B and C training with marked fitness progress over three months.
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M. Lore
Ones. Field
Malibu
Vita Monica
Gulf of Mexico
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
RAF
Bill Wepman
Carl Magaran
Denver
Ted Skrodzki
Dick Danielson
Jack Smith
Wepman
Magaran
Skrodzki
Fragmented Dust and Grounder Error Define Narrow Loss
In a low scoring game the Hellcats and Thunderbolts traded plays as errors and timely hits loaded the bases. Dual Autry misplayed a grounder allowing two runs, while Vahila matched seven hits and 15 strikeouts over seven innings. Belts added two runs in the eighth before an infield error doomed them.
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Gretti
Pierce
Hellcats
Stokes
Sheptock
Simon
Autry
Dolinski Ang
Bolt
Cats
Richardson Takes Ping Pong Meet at USC Club
Richardson defeated his old rival S Set Larry Piepmeier in two straight in the finals of the weekly ping pong tournament at the Eighth Street USC Club. He earlier beat Pvt Charles Hench to reach the finals while Piepmeier beat Pvt Harry Regan in the semifinals. A free telephone call to Richardson’s Santa Ana home was the prize. Fifteen players started the USIO sponsored event.
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Conrad Lesh
Lou Tickle
Lt Cairnes Departs for Atlantic Coast for Special Service School
Lt John C. Cairnes who last spring assisted the post physical training officer left this week for an East Coast port of embarkation. He leaves training duties to attend a special service school and on return to Sheppard Field will serve as assistant to Maj Pooley in the post Special Service Office.
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John C. Cairnes
Sheppard Field
Special Service Office
W. L. F. Pooley
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Jim Lindsey
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Joseph H. Davidson
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Chunky
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Thunderbolt
Steve Dolinski
Nick Woloshyn
Terry Moore
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Johnny Sheptock
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Sam Sedicino
Sedicino
Walt Smith
Sammy
Pug
Spree Rockets Eagles
John Sheptock
Vahila
George Stokes
Tony Alle
Ost
Woleshyn
Kamperman
Mingua
Karasick
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Delinski
Imington
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Huches
Rf Kamperman
Warren
Richardson
Cairnes
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