The White Falcon - 30.09.1944, Blaðsíða 6

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Cmaylo Meets Gillespie
For IBC Tennis Crown
It will be GI against brass when Lt. Campbell Gillespie of
Miami Beach, Fla., and Pvt. Alex Cmaylo of Lakewood, O., meet
tonight on the floor of the Andrews Fieldhouse in the finals of
the IBC tennis tournament. The match will be decided on the
best out of five sets and will start at 2000 hours.
Cmaylo will be favored to
take the first tennis tourney on
the island in the wake of his
win Wednesday night over LAC
Eric Cross who already holds
a decision over Gillespie.
After drawing a bye in the
opening round, Cmaylo defeated
Louie Ramseyer, Bloomington,
Ill., 6-0, G-2, and Sgt. Dick Su-
man, Moline, Ill., 7-5, 6-2, to
reach the finals.
Gillespie brushed aside Pvt.
Joseph Davis, Brighton, N. J.,
G-4, 6-1, and Pfc. Alvin Gorlick,
Los Angeles, Calif., G-0, 6-1, fol-
lowing a first round bye, to gain
the finals.
Tulsa Holds Record
University of Tulsa (Okla.)
holds the intercollegiate record
for scoring the greatest number
of points in a single football
season.
In 1942, -Tulsa raced through
its schedule, scoring 427 points.
BLAMES BOWLING —
In case that “sweat job” back
home has taken up bowling, you
can be prepared for something
like the above. Lovely Shirley
Ballard, 18, a Southern Cal coed,
says that those curves are the
result of bowling. She has rolled
264 in competitive play. Oh, yes
— she was chosen as “Miss Cali-
fornia” for 1944.
Bowling Teams
Begin Second
Round Of Play
Maple activity in the IBC
bowling competition the past
week saw a change in leader-
ship in one of the leagues while
olher loop leaders retained their
grips atop their respective circu-
its as the teams entered the sec-
ond and final round of play.
In “C,” the Alertments climbed
from second place to the top of
the heap when they took six im-
portant points in their match
with the Eightballs, last week’s
pacesetters.
In “A,” the Wildcats, with 43
points, are 15 ahead of their
nearest rivals, the Redliners. The
Needlers, in “B,” have 38 points
to lead the Tigers by two pins.
The Red Legs, with 36 points,
lead the Chords in “D” by four
points. Inactivity in “E” left the
Thunderbolts and Dischords
locked at the top with 18 points
apiece.
For the fourth straight week
the Tigers, in “B,” look their
usual share of scoring honors.
They captured high team score
for three games with 1683 pins
and rolled 595 to annex single
game honors also. Pvt. George
Metsopulos of Four Strikes and a
Spare in “A” posted 168 for indi-
vidual high sepre.
• • • '
Death Counts Ten
Over Sonnenberg
Gus Sonnenberg’s Heath last
week robbed sports in general
and wrestling in particular of one
of its most colorful figures.
lie was largely instrumental in
the spectacular revival of the
‘grunt and groan’ game in the
late twenties and is credited with
originating the “flying tackle.”
Sonnenberg was an All-Amer-
ican tackle at Dartmouth and lat-
er played with the Providence
Steamrollers when they won the
National League grid crown in
1928.
Glenn Dobbs Signs
To Play After War
Glenn Dobbs, liow a lieutenant
in the USAAF and Tulsa’s 1943
gift to the ranks of All-American
football players, will play for the
New York club of the All-America
football conference after the war.
The club is the property of Mrs.
Lou Gehrig.
Dobbs was picked by writers
as the outstanding player in the
recent College All-Star—Bear grid
game at Northwestern.
Yankee Pins
Loss On RAF
Net Artist
Throwing up a defense as
steady as the “Rock” itself, Pvt.
Alex Cmaylo, Lakewood, 0., de-
feated LAC Eric Cross of the
RAF in their long-deferred ten-
nis battle Wednesday nigtht at
the Andrews Fieldhouse, 6-2,
6-4.
The match finally brought to
an end a net duel which started
three weeks ago and was tem-
porarily postponed and called
a draw when Cmaylo suffered
an injury after each had won
a set.
Cmaylo proved invulnerable
to Cross’ best strokes Wednes-
day night and kept pouring a
steady stream of returns at the
British star which eventually
slipped by for decisive points.
Newark, Baltimore
Score In Playoffs
Louisville needs but one more
victory in its series with St.
Paul to clinch the - American
Association playoff title and the
right to enter the Little World
Series against the winner of the
Newark-Buffalo fight in the In-
ternational League.
After eliminating pennant-
winning Milwaukee four games
to two, the Colonels took the
first three tussles from St.
Paul by scores of 6-2, 5^. St.
Paul ousted Toledo to gain the
finals.
Newark knocked Toronto off
in four straight games to reach
the final round in the Interna-
tional, while Baltimore had to
go the limit against Buffalo,
taking the important seventh
game to continue in the playoff
lace. Weather has kept the
Birds and Bisons from starting
their series.
Down in the Southern Asso-
HELPS —
Pictured above is Stan Musial,
classy St. Louis Card outfielder
and hitter, whose booming bat
was a major factor in his team’s
drive to their third-straight pen-
nant.
LAC Eric Cross of the RAF (left) congratulates Pvt. Alex
Cmaylo of Lakewood, O., at the conclusion of their tennis
•match Wednesday night. Cmaylo, the victor in straight sets,
6-2, 6-4, meets Lt. Campbell Gillespie, Miami Beach, Fla., in
the finals of the IBC net tourney tonight at the Fieldhouse.
ciation, Nashville, second-half
winners, knocked off Memphis,
first-half champs, 11-10, in the
seventh and deciding tussle to
take the loop crown.
Out on the coast, Los Angeles
and San Francisco are ready
to fight it out for the league
diadem after eliminating Port-
land and Oakland respectively
in the semi-finals.
Teams Now Seek Bids
To Six Bowl Tussles
The inauguration of the Oil
Bowl game last New Year’s gives
football devotees a total of six re-
cognized Bowl attractions on the
first day of the year. The other
five are Rose Bowl, the Cotton
Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar
Bowl and the Sun Bowl.
Riccardi Faces McBride
In Leather Show Tonight
Pfc. Andy Riccardi, king of the island’s heavyweights, will
be risking his title tonight when he crawls through the ropes
for the main event of the boxing and wrestling show at Kefla-
vik’s American Red Cross Club 21. The first attraction will go
on at 2000 hours.
The slugging leather slinger
from Chester, Pa., undefeated
in GI circles since his trio of
wins in the ETO tourney last
March, will be seeking his
eighth straight conquest when
he swaps punches with Pvt.
Charles (Tim) McBride of New
York City.
McBride has had ilttle op-
portunity to show his talents
on the island, bid the Gotham
boy has had considerable ex-
perience in handling mitt men
and seems to know his way
around the canvas.
Other bouts will see such
favorites in action as Pvt. Joe
Padilla, Santa Barbara, Calif.;
Tec 5 Johnny Duncan, Youngs-
town, O.; Pvt. Earl Zimmer-
man, Woodstock, Ill.; Pvt. Uribe,
Los Angeles, Calif.; Cpl. Joe
Sarvadeo, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; and
Pvt. Louie Bennette, San Fran-
cisco, Calif.
Two bouts between represen-
tatives of the Icelandic Armann
Sports Club and the popular
RCAF wrestling exhibitions
will round out the card.
Major League
Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
wv L. Pet.
Detroit . 86 64 .573
St. Louis . 85 65 .566
New York .... . 83 67 .553
Boston . 75 75 .500
Cleveland .... . 71 79 .473
Chicago . 68 82 .453
Philadelphia •.. . 68 82 .453
Washington .. ...63 87 .420
NATIONAL LEAGUE
w. L. Pet.
St. Louis .... . 103 47 .686
Pittsburgh . 89 61 .593
Cincinnati ... . 87 63 .580
Chicago ..... . 73 n .486
New York .... . 65 85 .433
Boston ....... . 62 88 .413
Brooklyn .... . 61 89 .406
Philadelphia .. 60 90 .400