TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1944
THE BATTALION
PAGE 5
100 Gridders On Hand For First Drill
and some special work with the-f
linemen.
- Because of the workouts which
were held for the first two months
of the summer, the squad was in
•good shape Monday afternoon. In
fact, the boys were so spirited in
the initial drill that Coach Nor
ton closed the session with a short
ten minute scrimmage, running the
ooys who were here this summer
against some newcomers.
Afternoon drills will be held at
5 o’clock each day until the days
-start getting shorter. Those boys
who are not in school will work
out each morning at 10 o’clock.
These morning drills will give the
new men a chance to catch up
^with those men who were here
this summer.
Coach Norton has five weeks in
which to iron out all of the mis
takes and get his team ready for
the first game, against Bryan
Army Air Field, September 23.
^ About 20 new gridders arrived at
jDoilege Monday and participated
in the drill. Most of this group
were freshmen, but some old faces
were seen among them. Among this
jgroup just arrived was Damon
‘Greek” Tassos, regular guard on
A Company and B Battery Play For
Intramural Softball Championship
competition+one
With the softball
completed, A Company and B Bat
tery have emerged as champions
of their leagues. A Company com
pleted its schedule with a perfect
record while B Battery ended with
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the 1943 team. Others who have
seen previous service on the grid
iron at Aggieland were Grant Dar
nell, Ed Shira, and “Sleepy”
League.
With the addition of these men,
Coach Norton has all of the mater
ial he expects to have on hand this
fall. A few more boys -will prob
able come in. but the Aggie men
tor can start figuring now on what
he will have next fall.
Two familiar faces were absent
from the initial practice. They were
Monte Moncrief, giant tackle who
will play in the College All Star
game in Chicago August 30, and
“Uncle Billy” James, line coach.
Both James and Moncrief will be
in the fold by September 1.
With Moncrief in Chicago, Tas
sos and Butch Butchofsky, block
ing back, were the only two re
turning regulars in uniform Mon
day. It is around tese men Coach
Norton wil Ibuild his 1944 edition
of the “Kiddie Korps.”
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defeat on their record. The
playoff for the Corps Champion
ship between the two teams will
be held tomorrow afternoon at six
o’clock. *
“Pop” Kidd’s B Battery Fresh
men have proved to be another
dark horse in the intramural sys
tem. They got under way in a slow
and unsure way but took the lead
and kept it without much competi
tion. Their last game was with A
Battery which ended with a score
of 8 to 3. The only team to defeat
the champions was G Company by
a score of 20 to 9. B Battery tal
lied up a total of 66 runs as com
pared to a total of 37 made by
their opponents. Their final game
of the season will be tomorrow
night when they meet the A Com
pany Indians for the Corps Cham
pionship.
Not satisfied with merely win
ning the football crown in their
league, B Battery, under the
coaching of Tommy Walker, has
won the softball crown. They have
played all their games and won
them all.
The League A champion has not
yet been determined and it is any
team’s chance to win it. At the
present C Battery is in the lead
with four victories and one defeat
against her. The playoff between
B Battery and the League A cham
pions will probably be held before
the end of the month.
Army Builds P. 0.
For Overseas Mail
In New York City the Army is
getting ready for the Christmas
mail rush by building the nation’s
largest one-story post office.
The Engineer’s Corps has tele
scoped a year’s construction job
into little more than three months
to have the building ready by Sep
tember 1, just two weeks before
the start of the Christmas mail
ing season to overseas troops.
The site is in Long Island City,
just across the East* River from
Manhattan’s midtown skyscraper
belt, on the land formerly occupied
by the Madison Square Garden
bowl. The project will cost $3,-
500,000.’
The flood of mail through New
York during this particular period
will total nearly 90,000,000 par
cels to troops on 11 fronts, on the
computation of Col. R. E. Eggle
ston, postal officer of the New
York Port of Embarkation. That’s
more than went to the same areas
in 1943.
The new building’s 528,000
square feet of floor space will be
staffed during the Christmas mail
ing season by 10,000 postal em
ployees, and 2,500 enlisted men.
.Even after this mailing period
ends, 4,000 men will be on duty.
Military mail, which was taxing
available facilities last year, has
been doubled in 1944.
A similar, although smaller^
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Intramurals
Softball—League A
Organization
Won Lost ;
A Company
6
0 j
G Battery
2
3 <
B Company
5
1 (
C Company
1
6
F Battery
0
6
D Company
5
2
E Troop
2
2
Softball—League B
Organization
Won
Lost
A Battery
4
2
Band
3
3
G Company
3
3
B Battery
5
1
C Battery
1
6
F Company
3
3
D Troop
3
3
Basketball—League A
Organization
Won
Lost
C Battery
4
1
A Battery
1
3
F Company
3
1
D Troop
0
2
B Company
3
2
C Company
1
4
D Company
2
1
Basketball—League B
Organization
Won Lost
B Battery
5
0
G Company
0
3
F Battery
2
1
G Battery
1
2
A Company
2
0
Band
0
2
E Troop
0
2
Volleyball—League A
Organization
Won
Lost
E Troop
2
2
F Battery
1
1
G Company
1
2
A Battery
1
3
D Company
5
0
C Battery
0
2
Band
1
• 1
Volleyball—League B
Organization
Won Lost
F Company
4
1
G Battery
2
2
A Company
2
1
C Company
3
1
D Troop
1
3
B Battery
2
2
B Company
0
4
Tennis—League A
Organization
Won
Lost
A Battery
5
1
B Company
0
3
C Battery
2
4
D Company
5
2
G Company
1
4
F Company
2
4
E Troop
5
1
Tennis—League B
Organization
Won
Lost
A Company
2
3
B Battery
1
5
C Company
0
4
D Troop
2
3
G Battery
7
0
Band
4
1
F Battery
2
3
For 50 years the New York City
building is under construction near
San Francisco to serve war thea
ters in the Pacific area.
The New York project will serve
as a funnel through which will
pass all mail originating in Amer
ica for men in the following sta
tions: Newfoundland, Northwest
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