Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 10

S-2 NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, RENO. NEVADA SUNDAY, JULY i. 194S RAAB Barracks Bag (Editor's nott: Barracks Bat column devoted to sports at Reno Army Air Base, win appear at Inter vals In tho Noada State Journal) In the best competition of the whole doubles handball tourna- RAABFIyersTop Softball Circuit With No Defeats 20-30 Team Unbeaten In Service Club IVenO wnoie oouDies nhnanau IUUI-IKI- 1 ment held at the Reno ferrying A With the comnletion of a full' division base's gymnasium, Capt. 4 Will! UlC rtr.l.,,,1, 5 Ty Cobfe, Journal Sports Editor. Ph.

4121 JUNIOR SOFTBALL the Reno City Awin Asher and Cpl Jack Rebick League, the Reno Army Air Base tookthe measure of Caps Softball team Is out in front of the night circuit The ferrying division have won four and lost none, while Saviers and Section "A A are right behind Kistler and Levon Ray After dropping the first game 21-17, Asher and Rebick vere behind, 1714, before rallying and, holding their opponents scoreless, went Pla resumes on Tuesday July ahead to win, 21-17. In the third 3 with the 566th Squadron playing I game the victors really hit their "A stride and won going away, 21-9 Competition for the singles ThrelKel 3b 4 Aylswth Ib 2 Morrison 3 Cartl.eg: 3 Savage st Pattson 2b 4 Scbwauk 2 Pllk gton 2 Warren Qrltton ToljUa rt 2 0 1 0 1 0 01 32 ID SI liCobb OiCorta ss OlSpoou llaonl Ib Becker If 0 Rice cf 21 Jensen 2b 1 Belli 3b 01 Scott 1 Buchannan 2 2 3 1 4 2 3 4 2 4 2 3 3 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Coasting Along 30 11 Team Won Lost Pet Reno Air Base 4 Sas'iers 3 Section "A 3 Aircraft Mntnce 2 Farmers Exchange 2 566th Squadron Sierra Furniture Reno Ordnance 1 .1 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 1000 750 .750 500 500 i crown has begun with Asher and Rotary NATIONAL LEAGUE Rebick, who are rated number one A Exchange (12) A and two respectively, competing in or a different brackets of the tourneys Panicari Broolu 4 1 1 Qabarloo 2b 4 1 3 4 0 Ib 2 1 1 dray Mnro than lilrtflv thev will mppt Brooks 2b 4 1 1 Miller 3b wore tnan imeiy tney wiu. meet ThomaB Jb 2 0 0 Faret to ib each other in the finals for the rox ss 2 i Asher 250 championship 2501 Rebick is an all-round athlete 000 He plays right field on the post i Softball team and is a real threat In the Service Clubs League the at the plate Born 33 years ago in Yenter Eads If cf rt 3 2 2IDorrah rt 3 1 If 4 TOUU! 3 i i 1 0 0 28 811 Courtw ht. cf 3 Daly TotaU 20-30ians are out in front with no defeats and are closely followed by the Optimists Tuesday night the Junior Chamber of Commerce meets the Exchange Club at 6 4C Toronto, Canada, he is now six I COAST LEAGUE feet tall and weighs in at 185 Ibs I notary In Canada he played the Dominion's national sport, ice and one of the world's most rough I Kni'ght sb By HAL HOOD United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 (UP)--The war isn over but already we're getting those giant importations in the fight racket. The latest according to the local frequenters of gymnasiums is on- Robin (Tiny) Lee a raw-meat eating half-Inaian who his owners Came From Behind Team Won Lost Pet A .4 1 4 1 4 2 McGulre.

4 2 0 20-30 3 0 Optimists 3 1 Rotary 2 1 Jaycees 2 2 Lions 1 2 Exchange 1 3 Kiwanis 0 3 Ptazzo Ewers rf and tumble games--lacrosse He played both sports for the St 1000 Christophers Club which partici-' Myers ib .750 pated in the city league Coming el I 666 tt the United States in his early I 500 twenties, Jack was naturalized and Holloran Vlettl 4 1 1 3 0 0 Randall 3 1 2 McPartland 1 3 i .333 later started playing semi-pro base- 35 12 Totals 333 ball with a barnstorming club ROTARY 000 After seven years of this, Rebick (Note--with the Sparks Lions settled down New York City apparently dropped out of the and started playing professional League, their games are not softball in the Central Park counted here i League for a team sponsored by the Ship Ahoy Restaurant At the air base he holds down an im- Munzo Suspended For Knocking Boss SAN DIEGO June 30 (UP)--la the most drastic action taken this t- i a MV I I I a i Ul. I 1 4 1 In Navy Old Fportant administrative job in the I year against any Pacific Coast Bachelor Officers' Quarters Cpl league baseball player, Bill Starr, ANNAPOLIS, June 30 (U PJ i Rebick is married and makes his Three backfield stars of last sea- home in Reno with his wife son, Robert Hoernschmeyer of In- diana, Tony Mimsi of Pennsylvania and Robert Kelly of Notre Dame, officially were in the fold today for a navy football team that is expected to be one of the most powerful in the east 'Little VASHINGPON, June 30 UPJ-- Tennis and basketball players have "little hope of getting an adequate supply of canvas rubber- last season are expected to be soled shoes ir the coming months among the 1,200 members of the the war production board reported Several other college btars of class at the academy i today president of the San Diego Padres, today indefinitely suspended right hand hurler Carl Munzo. Starr Munzo came to him and objected to the way Pepper Martin was managing the club Munzo told me he did not like Martins using Vellie Eaves as a relief pitcher last Starr said 'He said he was going to return to his home in Oakland As a result, I fined h-m and placed 1 him on the ineligible list i fOU CAN TEll that Bobbv Per- mane the well-known jockey didn have his mount out in front all the way on a muddy Belmont track for Bobby the ef fecU of following other horses Bobby did bring his mount in a winner however and that the 1 reason for smile (Internttional) claim, is biggeer (and smarter) t.ian Primo Camera ever was This sounds pretty much like old build-up, but if Tiny is just half the man they claim he is, then the ringside seats will have to be moved back at least two feet more from the ropes--to make room 1 when this Gargantuan falls Lee right now is the property of Del Wisenor, who purchased the big boy from Tony Stecher of Minneapolis for a leported price of $0 000--which is quite a few dollars per pound for even such measurements these Six feet seven inches tall weight 270 pounds 84-mch reach from tip of glove to tip of glove size 13-EEE shoes, 35-Inch waist I The background legend is equally impressive Tinys father was a 6 foot, 10-inch full-blooded Indian who weighed in at 350 pounds The lad assertedly was born in El Paso Tex When he had grown to his "full" size he joined up with the Canadian army (being a real fighting man) wherp he went through Dunkirk After that he was based in Eng- laind where while working with a bomb disposal crew, he ran into disaster getting his feet and chest crushed But he patched up good as new now and rarm to go--getting his lessons from pint-sized Tony Onvera, the Duration bantam champion Tiny has tried his hand a bit at wrestling but prefers boxing He scoied nine knockouts during his limited career in Canada "And the surprising part of it," Olivera "is that this man looks like a natural, he hasn't got a bad right at all i So prepare folks another "Ambling Alp is on the loose Should we dub him the Ramb- 11m" Rock or the Dur' 'ery Sunday Softball League Schedule Ready to Resume Reno Firemen Play Ordnance Shop Today One game today between Reno Firemen and Reno Ordnance Command Shop will straighten up a schedule recently delayed by a change in teams, and next Sunday the Sunday Softball League will be in full swing The firemen and vehicle repairers will play at Wa- she Hospital Field at 9 30 a m. Others in the league are Ink- spots, Reno newspapermen, printers, etc Weather-AACS (army aviation control system) Squadron from Reno Army Air Base and the A team managed by Frank Coughlm composed of some of last years phonemen and firemen and sponsored by Art's Venetian Blinds and Cy of Sierra Bar In the only game played so 1 far Inkspots nosed the tjy one run John Pringle will serve as umpire and commissioner for all games, which are to be played at Idlewild Park Teams are not allowed to use players from the Reno City League The rest of the schedule Jul 8 9 45-- A vs Ordnance 11 00 Firemen vs Weather July 16 9 45 Inkspots vs Firemen 11 00-- A vs Weather July 22 9 45 A vs Firemen 11 00-- Ordnance Inkspots July 29 9 45-- Inkspots vs A 11 00-- Weather vs Ordnance August 6 9 45 Ordnance Firemen 11 00-- Inkspots vs Weather August 19 9 45 Weather vs Fiiemen 11 00-- A vs Ordnance August 26 9 45-- A vs 11 00 InKspots vs Firemen 3 9 45 Ordnance vs Inkspots 11 00-- Firemen vs A Sept. 9 9 45 Weather vs Ordnance 11 00-- Inkspots vs A Powerful Portola Team Plays Virginia Bar at Sparks Park Moana Bail Park will be idle this afternoon with the Reno town team playing away from home, and local interest will center on the Sparks diamond where the Portola club makes an appearance The Reno townies ate playing at the Nevada State rison this morning Portola hooks up witn the Virginia Bar composed of Tleno aad Sparks players, at 2 30 on the Sparks field, an dtw irlmg for the Plumas county lumberjacks and railroaders will be Alf Sorensen, erstwhile Reno-Sparks star He will be opposed by Bud Dutcher or OAakie Smith for Vingnia Ba-, Breaks Leg which also includes Tom ROTS, Johnny Parisena Art Harris, Art Olivien, Barny Hahn Bruno Tassone, Buster Enchante.

Pete Chnstensen and others Portola team includes Howell, Lusar, Lockwood, Potter, Hettinger, Sdlkil, Hettinger, Thrail- kil, Story, Caffrey, Parrish, Swartsley McNaughton and Sotv ensen, and coached by Lee Hoag who "handled Graeagle's nine a. few season back Portola has victories over Reno Air Base Fallon Navy, Virginia Bar Nevada Prison Tonopah Air Base, Herlong and has lost Failon Navj Camp Beale and Mather Field NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 1945 News Of Nevada Written For Men In Service RENO MAN'S UNIT GIVEN CITATION Robert Gladding of Reno is a member of the 50th Fighter Control squadron in England which was recently awarded the meritorious service unit plaque for superior performance of duty with the Eight Air Force following D- Day WALTHEN RETIRES FROM NAVY POST Codr. H. Walthen, formerly of Hawthorne has been retired from active duty and will return to his home in Reno His son, Warren 'Jay" Walthen, is serving overseas with the navy WILLIAM BORDA WILL BE HOME ON LEAVE William Borda of Reno, now in Salzburg, Austria will be home this week He servco in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany as a member of the 30th infantry in the Ninth army RENO OFFICKR WINS CITATION Col. Fred W.

Drury of Reno, who was wounded and taken prisoner by Germany, has been awarded the legion of merit for work he performed while in the prison camp YERINGTON MAN FREED FROM NAZIS John F. Giomi of Yenngton has been released from a prison camp in Germany, it was announced by the war department NEVADA MAN SAVES BRIDGE Pfc Harry E. Springer of Hawthorne, standing guard near a vital bridge or the main road to Shuri castle on Okinawa, was instrumental in the capture of seven Jap soldiers Locating their hideout, he effected their capture and found that in the same cave with the Japs was enough explosives to destroy the bridge. ROGER GROUELL IS DECORATED Sgt Roger Grouell of Reno, now in Europe, has received the cembat infantryman's badge He has been overseas since October. DAN CANAK GETS FOUR GERMANS Sgt Dan Canak of Reno, serving with the Third army in Austria, led a fight against 500 S3 troopers and personally accounted for four dead in a fierce battle Tie day before V-E day.

He and man were cut off from support and fought three hours before -relief troops arrived ONE LONE NEVADAN IN 12TH AIR UNIT Capt Alson Gibson of Las Vegas is the only Nevada man serving with the 12th army air force in Italy A staff officer, he has been overseas for 29 months PFC. CAROL BURT RETURNING HOME Pfc Carol Burt of Pioche, who was taken ill in Germany, is being brought to a hospital in California He served with the signal corps overseas VAUGHN KEELE ARRIVES HOME FOR FATHERS DAY Pfc Vaughn Keele of Sparks arrived home on Fathers' Day after spending almost a year in a German prison camp The same day he became an uncle, a daughter being born to Lt (jg) and Mrs Vincent Keele Lt Keele is at present on duty with the navy air force at Mat- tr.a Vineyard Mass BROTHERS MEET IN HAWAII Leonard Wines, MM and Sgt Albert Wines, brothers from Smith, met recently in Hawaii for the first time in three and a half years Another brother, Lt Carroll Wines, is stationed in Germany RENO MAN GIVEN ADVANCE IN RATING Oscar Johnson of Reno has been promoted from private first class to corporal He is at present with the 147th infantry, engaged in mopping up operations at an advanced army base in the Pacific BISHOP SERGEANT GIVEN CITATION Sgt Jessie Simpson of Bishop, serving with the 81st infantry in the Pacific area, has been cited for courageous action during the fighting on Angaur Island He is a medical corpsman MAJOR BEN MURPHY IS RENO VISITOR Maj Ben Murphy, formerly of Reno, visited Reno recently Now 23 years old, he holds the distinguished flying cross an oak leaf cli.s c-i He has flown 50 bombing missions in Italy. LOVELOCK MAN ON USS PINKNEY H. Stewart of Lovelock, pharmacist's mate second class, was one of the medical corpsmen aboard the hospital ship Pinkney when It was hit by a Jap, suicide bomber near Okinawa. Stewart and his staff rescued most of their medical charges.

CLIP OUT THIS PAGE AND MAIL IT TO YOUR SOLDIER, SAILOR, FLIER OR MARINE KEEP THEM POSTED ON HOME TOWN NEWS, AND ACTIVITIES Or OTHER MEN IN THE SERVICE. THOMAS MACAULAY AT NAVY HOSPITAL Thomas Macaulay, of Reno is a patient at Wesley Memorial hospital in Chicago, recovering from pneumonia He is enrolled at the radio-radar school at Wright junior college in Chicago ONE XEVADA MAN ON USS "NEVADA" William Dangberg of Babbitt has the distinction of being the only Nevadan at present serving aboard the USS Nevada JOHN M. NOW AT NEWPORT John Laxalt of Carson, is serving as seaman first class at the Atlantic fleet's naval training station in Newport, I CAPTA1IN FAIRHURST BACK FROM EUROPE 1 Capt Kirk Fairhurst of Reno, is on leave here following many months' duty in England LIEUT AYMAR IS IN CHINA Lt Oliver Aymar of Reno, has recently arrived in China where he is stationed as an intelligence officer with the air force His brother, Sgt John Aymar, is radio man on a B-24 operating from the Marianas DABYL REYNOLDS HAS CLOSE CALL Daryl Reynolds had a narrow escape on Okinawa when two mortar shells landed close nearby. One wounded him in the hand, the second was a dud i DANIEL HARVEY RAISED IN RANK Daniel Harvey of Reno, has been promoted to full colonel as signal officer on the staff of the Fifth air force fighter command He is now rtationed in the Philippines. EDWARD REED ON FURLOUGH Sgt.

Edward C. Reed Jr of Reno, is home from the European theater after serving in Fro nee, Belgium, Germany and Austria with artillery communications He will report to Camp Gruber, Okla, at the end of his furlough ROBERT BARTER IS PROMOTED Robert Francis Harter of Reno has been promoted to first lieutenant the war department revealed recently BOB BACK WITH FINE RECORD Gunner mate serond class Robert Keefer of Reno is home on Ipave after participating in operations extending from Bougainville to liman He has participated in six major battles and spent more than 30 days in the most recent Philippines campaign He will report to Washington, for electric hydraulic training on completing his furlough CAPT. BILL CASEY KILLED IN ACCIDENT Victim of a train accident in Germany on his, way home, Capt William Casey of Sparks died on June 16, it was learned here He had served overseas with the 104th infantry, and was in charge of a troop train carrying soldiers to France when the accident occurred RENO WAC OFFICER BACK IN AMERICA First Lieut Miram Butler of Reno, first WAC to serve in Italy, is back at Camp Hood, Texas, at the Infantry Replacement Training center With a record of 20 points overseas 1 she has served in North Africa and Italy with the Fifth anny doing administrative work RENO OFFICER TALKS ABOUT GERMAN CITIES Lt Robert Crowell of Reno, now in France, wrote home recently that Aachen, Cologne and Coblenz look'like multiplications of Washoe City, although Washoe City he said, is far better prpserved GARDNERVILLE MAN GIVEN DISCHARGE Sgt Raymond Park of Gardnerville has received an honorable discharge the army, after serving 32 months overseas in the tank corps ELKO MAN DISCHARGED Samuel Femhaadler of Ellto, was recently given his honorable discharge after serving 33 months with the Seabees, 22 of them overseas ELY MAN GETS DECORATION Ralph Mangum, warrant officer radio electrician of Ely, has been awarded the silver star for bravery in action A submarine crewman, he also wears the bronze star and submarine combat pin with six stars PFC. ROBERT ENNI8 GETS PURPLE -HEART Pfc Robert Ennis of Reno has been awarded the purple heart for wounds received while fighting Japs the Kennon Road sector near Baguio He is serving with the 136th infantry, 33rd division FORMER NEVADAN AT PEARL HARBOR Leslie Spnngmeyer, carpenters mate first class of Carson City, is now at Pearl Harbor HP is in charge of pnnting maps files, aerial photographs and map records there BRADLEY IN FLORIDA Naval Aviation Cadet Bill Bradley of Reno has been transferred to the naval air training center at Pensacola after completing primary training at Glenview, m. LAIRD WILCOX JR.

WOUNDED ON LUZON Pfc Laird Wilcox Jr of Reno, was wounded in action on Luzon where he was serving as Browning automatic rifleman He is recuperating from morttr shell wounds the body and arm at a field hospital. FRANK SULLIVAN ON LEAVE IN RENO Lt (jg) Frank Sullivan of Reno, arrived home for a few days leave following eight months in the western Pacific war zone YERINGTON MAN RETURNS HOME Pvt Brady Emm of Yenng- ton was recently released from the army, and returned home 25 months overseas. SAM BULL HOME FOR SHORT VISIT Sam Bull of Reno, now gunners' with the navy, returned home after a furlough spent here He has taken part action at Iwo Jima and other operations In the Pacific. SPARKS MAN IS CASUALTY Louis Martini of Sparks was reported killed in action on Ok-, inawa May 9. In the army only a year, went overseas last December Jockey's Course Zig-Zags; Fined ARCADIA, Cal June 30 (U Pi- Jockey Jack Westrope was fined $100 by Santa Anita race track stewards today for failing to keep his mount Kelley straight at the finish of the first race Thursday and for his impudent attitude under ques $100 fine also ws assessed against trainer Raberage of Mrs Quinn stable for 'continued disobedience of the stewards and the starter.

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