6 Wounded Vets Know Their
BasebalT Says Al Schacht
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NEW YORK—Baseball still
has a marvelous hold on the
wounded GFs says Al Schacht
baseball’s clown prince who
has just returned from a tour
of southern hospitals.
“Baseball has nothing to worry
about as long as the veterans con
tinue to show their interest,” says
the funny man who is serious about
his hospital visits. “You can’s talk
football or hockey to these kids.
But baseball! That gets ’em.
“The spirit of the American
kid is remarkable. They never
let out a beef. I have yet to
hear a boy complain.”
During his recent 5,000-mile
jaunt through the south, Schacht
visited hospitals in Richmond, Va.;
Asheville, N. C.; Atlanta, Augusta
G'a., and Lake City, Fla. At some
hospitals he gave away dollar bills
for those fortunate enough to an
swer his four stock questions.
He asks them their name, home
town and weight and tops it off
with a baseball question. “I’m no
fool,” says Al. “But I must be
slipping or the GIs are brushing
up on their baseball. At one hos
pital I gave away $6 and pretty
soon everybody wanted up on the
stage.
“At another place I visited some
mental patients. I thought I was
entertaining them and all the while
they were ribbing me.
“I walked in and a big fellow
recognizes me. He’s about six-
foot-three and has his feet on
the table. ‘Hey,’ he shouts,
‘what’s wrong with you?’
“Not a thing,” I said. “I’m here
to form a baseball team.”
“‘Look,’ the fellow says, ‘those
guys aren’t interested. But tell me
what you want and I’ll fix every
thing. I’m the king here.’
“So I say ‘OK you’re the king
but who wants to pitch?’
“Pretty soon there’s a chap
winding up without anything in
his hand. He’s throwing an imagi
nary baseball. He’s my pitcher.
Then I see a fellow walking around
in circles. I stop him. He says he’s
running the bases.
“Pretty soon I get enough
men to form a team but nobody
wants to catch. Those boys
know what it’s all about. Catch-
AL SCHACHT
ing is too tough, they tell me.
So I go away convinced if we
ever get to play I’ve got to be
their catcher.”
Schacht says he probably gets
more entertainment out of visit
ing veterans than they do out of
his efforts to entertain them. It’s
fun when they get him into a base
ball argument. “I usually wind up
in the middle,” he says.
Raconteur and Restauranteur
Schacht likes to recall how he got
in on the Italian invasion.
“It was 4 o’clock on a Friday
morning, Sept. 3, 1943,” says Sch
acht. “The previous day I had en
tertained Montgomery and his
British 8th Army and part of the
U. S. 5th Army at the Catania
Opera House in Sicily.
“On the third they flew me to
Italy. When we hit the airfield
three jerries strafed us. The pilot
told me' to lie on the ground. It
all happened in 10 seconds. ‘If
you can shake, get up,’ he said. I
shook all over. I had never been
in a war before.
“I saw tanks rolling through
the streets. I learned it was the
British 8th Army. There I was
in on the invasion and didn’t
know it.
“They gave me a room in a
broken down hotel and a major
told me to grab an hour’s sleep. I
never got a chance to sleep. Shrap
nel was flying all over the town.
Part of the hotel balcony went fly
ing through my room.
“I removed a cot from a closet,
put it against the door to the room
and ran into the closet. When I
did that the lock snapped. There
I was locked in the closet with the
cot against the door of the room.
It was almost impossible for any
one to reach me. A major broke
down both doors.
“Another time we were aboard
ship a half mile off shore. Radar
picked up enemy planes and we
abandoned ship. I was undressed
at the time, ready to take my first
shower bath in seven weeks. I spent
the next few hours in a sewer.”
Aggies Test Longhorns In Home Tilt
Four Keglers Top 160 in First
Night of Bowling Tournament
Moans and groans were heard on the YMCA alleys last
night as those end pins failed to fall. The occasion was the
first session of the bowling tournament to select a team to
compete against Baylor. And many of those groans wouldn’t
pass the rigid rules of speech habits at that Baptist school.
Competition was high for the
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fifteen berths, and so were some
of the scores. Four men beat 160,
but Claude Lee posted the top
score for the night with an aver
age of 188, striking his first four
frames. He added another 14
strikes in his three lines for a
total of 563 points.
William Klabumle took second
place honors with a total of 516
for an average of 172. Brad
Holmes, a short man with a
straight ball, sneaked into third
place in spite of a bad final
game of 132. Holmes’ 482 topped
Don 'Boston’s effort by a single
point.
Wally Dixon, the most consistant
shooter of the night, shot 474 for
fifth place. Dixon was plagued
with splits, having five during his
three games. Another bowler who
deserved a better score was Mar
vin Hagemeier, who left numerous
tenpins rocking but still up.
But the champion of the one-
pim-left bowlers was “fast ball”
Floyd Henk. His ball left the
tenpin standing alone numerous
times, and the sloping alleys
made his second shot difficult.
Most of the curve-throwers had
trouble on the uneven lanes, and
resulted in mu-'h of the moaning
and groaning.
R. L. McClure was one of these.
McClure won the intramural cham
pionship, beating out Dixon in the
finals.
Due to the increased number of
entries, two nights of tryouts will
be held next week for the remain
ing contestants. Both Wednesday
and Friday nights have been re
served, and all entries must be
turned in to the Batt Sports desk
by Saturday afternoon.
Bowlers will be notified by mail
when they are scheduled to play.
The limited number of alleys
limits each session to 12 bowlers.
Lee—205, 170, 188 (563); Kla-
bunde—169, 169, 178 (516); Holm
es—174, 177. 132 (483); Boston-
138, 184, 160 (482); Dixon—165,
165, 144 (474); Hagemeier— 162,
145, 155 (462); McClure — 145,
160, 152 (457); Henk — 127, 189,
128 (444); Peterson — 131, 119,
146 (396); Tatum — 153, 136 104
(393); Houston — 127, 153, 113
Swimmers Meet
In Intrasquad
Tilt Saturday
Coach Art Adamson has an
nounced the probable swim
ming lineups for the Satur
day afternon tussle between
the Fish and ineligibles on
one team and the Varsity
squad on the other.
Probable lineups will be:
For the Fish,
300 medley relay—George Reev
es, T. W. Comstock, Bill Sargent.
220 freestyle — Van Adamson,
Billy Hale, John Parnell.
50 freestyle — W. G. Karow, J. I
R. Ellis, Gayle Klipple. ;
Diving — P. L. Shaffer, David
Mitchmore, Gibb Matlock.
100 freestyle — Ellis, Klipple,
Albert Hilton.
150 backstroke — Sargent, Ree
ves.
200 breaststroke — Karow, Com
stock, W. A. McKenzie.
400 freestyle — Adamson, Par
nell, Hale.
400 relay — Ellis, Klipple, Hil-1
ton, Sargent.
For the Varsity
300 medley relay — Ed Kruse,
Billy Moye, Paul Clevenger.
220 freestyle — Bernard Syfan,
John Peters, James Gaines.
50 freestyle — Danny Green,
Jerry Fisher, J. P. Westervelt.
Diving — Joe Canning, J. L.
Flowers, Harold Johnson, Scotty
Potter, Guy Saunders.
100 freestyle — Edgar Butler, R.
W. Rouse, Fisher, T. D. Davis, S.
G. Southworth.
150 backstroke — Kruse, Paul
Fleming.
200 breaststroke — Jimmy Flow
ers, Gene Summers, Moye, George
Dieck, John Shepard.
440 freestyle — Syfan, David
Vardeman, Peters.
400 relays — Davis, Butler, Per
cy Bennett, Green.
Coach Adamson also stated that
he would not limit the number of
team entries in order that he
might get as many boys .in the
pool as possible in order to find
out what material he can depend
on to turn in the best races in
future meets.
There will be plenty of good
swimming on the program for
those who wish to see the boys go
through their paces, and the var
sity squad, though they will be
heavy favorites to beat the Fish,
will find that it can’t be done with
out a fight all the way.
Hamilton Biggest Threat
Faced By Aggies Tomorrow
By PURR SIMMEN, JR.
Going into the fourth week of conference cage compe
tition, the Texas Aggies meet a strong TU five when the
Austinites journey to College Station this Saturday night.
The Teasips have lost only one conference tilt this sea
son and that one to a determined Owl quintet in Austin
two weeks ago. The Texans de-4
feated Baylor, last year’s confer
ence champs and NCAA tourna
ment participants, Arkansas, TCU
CLAUDE LEE shows the form which made him high-point man
last night in the bowling tournament. Lee’s first four throws were
strikes, and he added 14 more while averaging 187 in three games.
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A three-game series with the
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the pre-Southwest Conference base
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Ohio State will meet the Aggie
nine here on March 24, 25, and 26.
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George Guerre, Michigan State’s
graduating backfield star, has been
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The leading scorer, Tom Hamil
ton, has racked up a total of 55
points in conference competition
with an average of 13.8 per
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the race for leading scorers.
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for a scoring average of 14.8
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trouble in the tilt along with his
playing mate, Al Madsen.
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percentage of 10.8 in the con
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total of 43 points. He is second
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who stepped into a starting birth
in the closing games last season,
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back for his fourth season with the
Longhorns, has shown considerable
improvement in his play this sea
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