Flying Time (Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1944 Page: 6 of 7
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PAAF TEAM WINS SIST TITLE, 6-3
Rubber
PAAF Grid
Contest Enters
Second Week
Winners Announced
Next Week
The first week entries on the
FLYING TIME Football Contest
are continuing to pour into the
receiving boxes. The winners of the
first contest will be announced in
the Oct. 21 issue of FLYING
TIME. Winners may pick up their
theater books at the Public Rela-
tions Office.
Flying Time asks all GIs who
think they are grid experts, get
busy with your pencils and turn
in a contest blank.
' FLYING TIME-
FOOTBALL CONTEST
Games Week-End of Oct. 20-22
Return By Oct. 19 to Post Gym or
South Athletic Field
Win Win Tie
— Alabama vs. Tennessee .......... — —
— Army vs. Coast Guard............ — —
— Auburn vs. Tulane................. — —
— Brown vs. Holy Cross............ — —
— Colgate vs. Penn State............ — —
— Georgia Tech vs. Navy............ — —
— Great Lakes vs. Ohio State.... — —-
•— Northwestern vs. Indiana — —
— Iowa vs. Purdue....................... — —
— Missouri vs. Iowa St............... — —
— Notre Daine vs. Wisconsin ... — —
— So. Meth. vs. Kice.................... — —
— Texas Christ, vs. Texas A&M —
— V.M.I. vs. Kentucky.............. — —
— U.C.L.A. vs. St. M. Pre=Flt. — —
•— Temple vs. Syracuse — —
-— Kansas St. vs. Oklahoma — —
— Arkansas vs. Texas................. — —
— Lafayette vs. Lehigh............ — —
— Nebraska vs. Kansas.. ........... — —
Name .....................................................................
Section ................................................................
Here’s the SIST Champs—The Post Tearn
Cage Managers
Make Plans for
New Season
Section basketball managers me-
at the Physical Training office Oct
6, to discuss plans for the coming
cage season. It was decided that
two leagues will be formed;
The A league will consist of the
first teams of each Section while
the B league will be made up of
B or second teams.
The A league entries and man-
agers are: Section A, Cpl. Earl L.
Gartman; B—Pfc. Paul Huff; C-l
and 2, T/Sgt. Arthur Bishop; C-3
and 4, S/Sgt. Howard Ely; E, Pfc.
James Moore; Section F, Ground
Officers, Lt. Baum; and the Flying
Officers.
The B league entries are: Sec-
tions A, B, C-l and 2, C-3 and 4,
E, Weather and Communications.
The A league will play three
rounds. Medals will be awarded to
the top team of the league, known
as the PAAF champions. Second
place winners will also be pre-
sented medals.
At the end of the season, the
four leading teams of the league
will enter a play-off. The winner
of the play-off will receive the
PAAF major sports award.
Men who are interested in ref-
ereeing and umpiring should get
in touch with Lt. Bremer at 242.
The PAAF Softball Team—Kneeling: Sgt. Biff Potter, S/Sgt. Emko Slater. Cpl. Tom Barbour,
Cpl. Earl Gartman, (manager), Cpl. Bob Dr^wry, Sgt. John Stanford, and Sgt. Mike Candlea. Standing:
Pvt. Donald Clark, S/Sgt. Joe Lovison, Pvt. Charles Behrens, S/Sgt. Whittey Robbins, T Sgt. Arthur
Bishop. Pvt. Sam Siwinski. S/Sgt. Joe Antonnucci and Cpl. French)- Urbais were absent when the picture
was taken.
PAAF Bowling
League Schedule
Oct. 16 and 17
6:30—Section F vs. Section C-3
and 4.
Section C-l and 2 vs. Sub
Depot.
8:30—Officers Club vs. Medics.
Section B vs. Section A.
(Same schedule for A and B
leagues, A league Oct. 16;
league Oct. 17).
B
Major Leaguers
Tour War Sectors
NEW YORK.—Five theaters of
war will be visited by five troupes
of major league baseball stars and
two umpires following the World
Series.
By arrangement betw-een USO
shows and the National and Amer-
ican leagues, the tours, sponsored
by Army Special Services Division,
will consist in showing combat
forces movies of the 1944 World
Series, recital of sidelights on
master-minding and answering GI
Joe quizzes.
The roster for the tours, which
will take two to three months,
sounds like a “Who’s Who” in
baseball, with five big shot man-
agers, 11 active players, four for-
mer stars, two umps and five base-
ball writers.
A nice girl shouldn’t hold a
man’s hand—but on the other hand,
a nice girl has to.
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and men, I cannot stress too highly
i importance of physical fitness!"
Section B’s cage squad is out
to prove its place in the PAAF
Besketball League, rain, sun, snow
or come what may. What ever
may happen later, B is away to
some early practice sessions.
The team is coached by Pfc.
Paul Huff, who has his squad prac-
ticing three times weekly in the
gym. Huff is hoping to get the
jump on the other Sections w-ith
early practice sessions.
Huff has a wealth of material in
the 25 men who answered the
first practice call. He will have
three mainstays in S/Sgt Bob
Stunkhard, S/Sgt Bob Smith and
Sgt. Virgil Shepard. Stunkhard
is a former letterman from the
University of Indiana. Smith and
Shepard starred on last years team.
Coach Huff doesn’t want to be
too optimistic, but he thinks that
Section B will win both the A and
B leagues.
Section B’s squad includes: T/Sgt
Everett Hale, Sgt. Red Gorman,
Pfc. Jack Evans, S/Sgt Bob Stunk-
hard, S/Sgt Bob Smith, Sgt. Mike
Candella, Sgt. Wtlliam Andres, Sgt.
Virgil Shepard, S/Sgt James
Evans, Sgt. William McNeill, Sgt.
John Guilluame, Sgt. Bob Wedell,
and Pvts. Cresentini, Wendler and
Mass.
Navy Hero to
Play Football
If heroism, courage, and bravery
count for as much in football as
they do in the Navy, then Ronald
0, McWilliams of the SMU Mus-
tangs should win the center posi-
tion on the All-Southwest Confer-
ence eleven this fall. McWilliams,
a hard-working, unassuming, like-
able chap from. Ozona, was
awarded the Navy Silver Star for
outstanding bravery while working
with a fire and reside party aboard
a bombed and burning ship, on
April 7, 1943, off Tulagi Harbor.
Later McWilliams saw action at
New Georgia, Bougainville, and
Munda.
Section'll'Calls Early Cage Practice
25 Men Turn
Out for Squad
Superbombers
VS.
NT AC Aggies
ODESSA, OCT. 21
Tickets at
Special Service Office
Field Supervisor
Visits Red Cross
This week the Rod Cross office
at Pecos Army Air Field was vis
ited by Terry Townsend, Field
Supervisor, representing the Are?
office in St. Louis. During this
routine visit Mr. Townsend ex-
pressed his gratitude for the fine
cooperation which military person-
nel are extending to Wayne E
Clark, Field Director and his staff
and added that the quality of ser-
vice rendered merited the confi-
dence of the field.
Game After
Losing Opener
Sgt. Stanford Chalks Up
His Fifth Win
The PAAF Softball Team won
the Southwest Invitational Softball
Tournament at El Paso early last
week. Playing Mission Cafe from
Doming, New Mexico in the finals,
the local club dropped the first
game 6-3, but came back strong in
the second game for a 6-3 victory
and the SIST championship.
Mission Cafe, defeated earlier in
a -two game elimination tourna-
ment, had to win both ends of the
double header from PAAF. Mean-
while, one victory for the unde-
feated Post Team would give them
the championship.
Going into the eighth inning of
the second game, the score was
3-3, after PAAF had tied the score
on a home run by Earl Gartman.
Sammy Swinski, first man up in
the eighth, singled to start the
rally. Slater was safe at first on
an error and Stanford bunted,
filing the bases. “Frenchy” Ur-
bais tripled to right, scoring three
runs and giving PAAF the game,
6-3.
Sgt. John Stanford, PAAF
hurler, won his fifth game of the
tournament against one loss.
The PAAF team received a tro-
phy and miniature ball bats which
>vere donated by Rex Wilson, di-
rector of the SIST tournament.
The local club was coached and
managed by Cpl. Earl Gartman
and directed by Lt. Frank G.
Bremer.
PAAF
Player
Clark 3b
Urbais sg
Bishop rf
Barbour sf
Robbins cf
lartman lb
.’otter If
■?iwinski 2b
Slater c
Stanford p
Totals
PAAF
Mission
Mission Cafe
all h
r
Piayer
ab h r
a
1
1
Petroowski ss
4 0 1
4
1
0
Anderson 3b
4 0 0
4
1
0
Polach lb
4 1 0
4
0
0
I>ebonis c
3 0 0
3
0
1
Clifton cf
3 0 0
3
1
2
Rav sf
3 0 0
3
0
0
Noble rf
2 0 1
3
1
1
I.ewerth If
3 1 1
3
0
0
Kiser 2b
3 0 0
3
1
1
Staford p
3 1 0
32
6
€
Totals
32 3 3
...... 020
100 03
.........021
000 00
WARMIN'
MBEMCm
SGT- FRANK DEBLOIS
Bowling League
Starts Oct. 16
When Wilbert Robinson was
manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
the bewildering Bums were the
funniest team in the circuit—not
the saddest as is the case today.
It was during the colorful Rob-
bie’s regime that the Dodgers first
earned their reputation for egre-
gious bonehead plays. Indeed,
their play became so grotesque
that Robbie finally put his foot
The newly formed PAAF Bowl-
ing League will get under way
Monday and Tuesday nights, Oct down.
16 and 17. The first matches will j “The next guy who pulls a
be run off at 5:30 and 8:30 at the boner," he announced one day,
local bowling alleys. “will be fined ten bucks. In fact
Each Section has entered two we’ll form a Boners Club with a
teams, one team in the A league membership fee and at the
and one in the B league. The A en<l of the season we’ll split up the
league will bowl on Monday nights, j dough."
the B league on Tuesdays. He glared around the clubhouse.
Cash prizes will be awarded by The players were straight-faced,
the P.X. The following is a list serious, subdued. Then the portly
of awards: High pin for one game, j Robbie talked majestically from
first prize—4 dollars; second—2 i the dugout and handed the uni-
dollars; third—one dollar. High pire his laundry slip—instead of
pin for three games: first—4 dol- , the lineup.
lars; second—2 dollars; third—one A Little Data That Doesn’t Matter
dollar. The team rolling the high- I Xhe Washington Redskins won
est number of pins in one night the Hrst footbaI, Raine of the sea_
will receive five dollars.
Mother Rigs Son's ’Chute
Bergstrom Field, Tex., (CNS)—
When Lieut. Sam Proffitt, AAF,
reported here for duty the first
person he ran into was his mother,
Wac Pvt. Pearl Proffitt, a para-
chute rigger at this field. A day-
later Lieut. Proffitt made his first
The Section team managers are:
Section F, Sgt. Price; Section C—
1 and 2, Sgt. I’oluski; Sub Depot,
Jesse McKiddy; Officers Club, Lt.
son w-hen they topped the Fourth
AAF of March Field, 7-3, before
50,000 Los Angeles fans who
braved the August heat to watch
the two teams play. The Redskins
Manners; Medics, Pfc. Harris; | won when Mike Micka intercepted
Section B, Pvt. Kelloff; Section A. a pass by Jack Jacobs in the last
Cpl. Daubert.
Ruth Rode in my little jeep
Directly back of me
flight from this base, wearing a I hit a bump at sixty-five
parachute rigged by his mother. And rode on Ruthlessly.
quarter and ran down the field
for a score. . . Rollie Hemsley,
Yankee catcher, has been assigned
to the Sampson Naval Training
Center where he will catch the
slants of Johnny Vandermeer.
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