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 Pacre Four JAX AIR NEWS 8 September 1949



 HAS Skeelmen Capture




 Gulf Coast Tournament' '




 A; \\: f tl Ii l ,,4 Trip Pensacola In Playoffs .


 : In Tough Service TourneyDespite


 a pouring rain which gave more of an atrno;

 &k phere of a duck hunt, Jax-Navy's veteran skeetmen con.

 tinued to add to their laurels by capturing the Gulf Coast

 Skeet Championship at Pensacola, Fla. last Saturday, topping ( 

 a NAS Pensacola squad by three points in a playoff

 ,>\S. i shoot for first place honors. i

 ', scheduled Shooting event 476x500, the In local the gunners regular i The-high overall- individual; trophy ; : f

 gf.. tied with NAS Pensacola. but I was copped by Aviation Ordnance -
 3. 'knocked down 21 out of 25 clay Chief J, R. Freeman of NAS "
 pigeons in the shoot-off forcingthe Memphis who missed only one bird
 host team to take a second In the match. The two.man team "
 ,S place. Corry Field Fla. finished championship went to W. P. Kemp Y
 third with a 469x500 tally, while and K. E. Field of Pensacola who ,
 k Brookley Air Force Base from Mo. I together tallied a 196 score.
 bile, Alabama, fired a 467x500/ for Top triggerman for Jacksonvillewas
 fourth. Gene Varner who shot a
 97x100 score, while Bill Arthur
 With eleven teams
 participating
 was second( in line with a 96xl<).) ,
 in the affair, NARTU Jnkson.vllle's -
 tally Herb Pistole finished with'
 skeetmen made their season
 debut in grand style by placing 95 targets while Wayne Eddlngt.mand
 Nick Gallitano each knocked
 eighth in competition a good position 
 ix down 94 clay birds.
 in a Shoot which boasts some
 I the NARTU
 Leading skeetmen
 of the best Navy ana Air Force
 In their initial match Bob
 the : wa,
 aggregations in southern partof
 the States. I Kincaid, followed by Bill McElroy.
 I Ken Pendergrass, Gil Touche and
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 Furys Finish on Top i I Charlie Myers.Edd1ngton.

 In 2-Ball Foursome ScoresIn

 I Amil and Al Fury walked off Jax Skeet Shoot
 with high honors in the Officers' Wayne Eddington one of Jax
 .S C Wives Club monthly golf two Navy's highly touted skeet shooters -
 $ ball foursome tournament staged finished in the higher bracketat
 last Sunday over the NAS greens. the Jacksonville Gun Club in
 Sam and Kirk Horton and practice shooting over the week "
 Blackie and Cookie Kennedywere end, picking off 48 out of 50 birdain
 deadlocked for the runner. the skeet division, and registering 
 up honors in the first flight. a 44x50 tally in the trap
 Steve and Alexis De LaMaterand shoot event.

 COP ANOTHER CIIA\IPIONSIUP-Jax.Nuy's: skeet team continued to set the pace among Marshall and Sara Gatchell' Eddmgton's score in the skeet
 district service teams by winning the Gulf Coast Skeet tournament held at Pensacola last Saturday. topped the second flight competition. firing put him in a tie for tint
I Front row, left to right, are, Herb Howell, Bill Hartley and Wayne Eddington. Back row, Nick Gal- with Mrs Marie, Ellis while his
 lltano, John Barleon, and Bill Arthur Missing from the photo are team members Gene Varner and In the Bingo Bango Bungo trap tally was good enough fora
 Herb Pistole play Tuesday three players tied runner-up spot outshot only by
 -- - I for the top spot, including Hazel Captain Avery and tied by Herb ,
 I Hirst, Cathy Thorpe and Dodie Pistole who registered an identicalscore. t
 Grind Toughens For Jax Gridders Marchel Captures Smith. '
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 1 15-Hole Handicap 3 Straight Wins Puts Softballers

 As Skirmishes Fill Benefit Golf Play :.
 Daily AgendaWith

 I Accurate driving L. T Marchel In Finals Of Duval County TourneyDisposing ;.

 less than three weeks remaining before their opening grid captured low gross honors in the -, ,. -, -
 clash ot the season at Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept. 24, against the best selected 15-hole handicap of their first three muir and a triple by Don Savin.).
 Corpus Comets Jax.Navy's football eleven is still far from being in tournament held at the Air Station opponents in sterling fashion, Daring Iia.se Running S
 A-l condition; but recent scrimmages and workouts have been continually links last Saturday by bang- Jax-Navy's softballers won their ','
 Both teams went scoreless for
 shaping the gridders into what head coach Don Jacka hopes ing out a neat 64 tally, which witha way into the finals of the Duval
 will be one of the nation's top service aggregations in the coming handicap of 9, gave him a net County softball tournament By the first thre frames, then Jax-
 pigskin campaign.Although score of :55. downing the City Engineers 4-3 Navy opened up in the fourth to '
 men are being cut !'1 _____ __ ________ __ ___ __ The proceeds of the tournament't in a semi-final fray Tuesday I push over 3 runs gaining the "
 from the squad day by day, still Chuck Moore, Frank Henningerand will go toward the annual Junior night. The locals were slated to last on a triple steal. The Engineers i. -
 enough able huskies remain on Vince Annania, all three hustling girls and boys tournament slatedto tangle with the Jax Police for crossed the platter twice in
 the Held to build two powerful jug. anchormen who are very be held later this month. I the County title last night at the same canto, then knotted the ...
 gernauU to carry the colors of adept at snagging passes. Norris Low net man in the recent affair Lackawanna.In score in the fifth as they registered :r
 NAS Jacksonville. While the top Thompson, Jim Patterson, Tom was J. M. Rayfield who cardeda their first tourney fray NAS a lone tally. Daring base *> '
 team will battle its way through Henderson and Ted Daum are 70, minus a handicap of 15 took King Edward Cigars into running by NAS in the sixth "
 tough competition against outstanding making things hot in the battle which gave him a net score of camp, 11-2, and proceeded to I paid of for the second'time as !i': .
 service squads of the 'for starting tackle assignments. In 54. Charley Miller was next in drub Sargent Seat cover'S 8-4 before they pulled off a double steal to -.
 fcoutheast, a second team, expected the pivotman spot, George Hoi- line with a net tally of 55, fol. beating City Engineers. The I score the winning run. :
 to be tabbed the "Rockets," lad and John Coxon are expectedto lowed by S. W. Reed and W. F. locals now boast of a 15-game I With Ed Bucherich hurling; :':
 will take on lesser foes including I see plenty of action this year. Lyons, who each recorded 56's. winning streak. extending their superb four-hit ball, Jax-Navy'j; -
 Green Cove and Florida StatePilson. Both men are returnees from lastyear's season's slate to 29 wins against softballers came from behind to ft/
 match
 Other scores In the were ,.
 :: squad. With such an arrayof 4 losses. I their second win
 score of the .
 as follows: C. H. Turner, 59; I /
 I'awt lw.'kfl"ld talent for a forward wall, line .Mickey Boytis, 59; Glenn Barnes, Ed Bucherich registered his : tournament by defeating the Sar- ,,
 The backfield, after a slow, coach Walter Shin is hoping to' 58; Clem Connaly, 59; Cuido Rus. : 12th straight victory of the sea- gent Seat Cover squad 8-4 in the &:
 \lnpolihl"dIItart, ia now shaping will build a strong barricade which cetta, 60; A. B. Connor, 60; and son as he hurled the local aggregation quarter-finals round last Friday. r'
 into top-notch form with several stop anything thrown at them H. Russell, 60. I to victory over the Sar Paul King's hitting power spark red -
 the
 men'! battling hard for each starting coming season.'I'I'II The coming Junior tournamentwill gent nine while Paul Franke I the locals in batting as h<s ('
 position. Coach Ben Griffin, have two flights, one under ; boosted his pitching record to I banged out a home run and twoi
 backfield mentor, expects to moulda SPORTS QUIZ 1 12, and the other over 12 yearsof twelve wins and only three los- i i singles to drive in five runs. Don
 pair of hard-hitting blocking age. AH matches will be playedon ses by stumping the Engineers SavinG added to the attack byI
 backs out of Gordon Kent and Harry I 1. In 100 pro fight Sugar Ray the back nine, one round being Tuesday. Both pitchers gained I collecting two safeties.
 Mar'r. Setting the turf afire Robinson lost only one, and had played off each week stalling top suport as the Navy squad The locals fell behind early ia
 with his speed and agility is Curly I two draws. Do you know the lone September 17th. Further paiticu- i played erorless ball on the field the contest when the Sargent II
 Penyak, an outstanding candidate' victor over the welterweight king? lars will be available next week I and pulled off brilliant base-run I club scored two tallies in the
 for the wingback spot. Penyak, 2. What two players are in a'' --- -- -- --- I i' ning strategy.In :1 initial frame and one' more in .,
 considered one of the fastest backson i close fight for the career leadership Dover, Eng (AFI'S) Philip the most recent tiff, Franke the third. But, Sargent hurler .
 the field, doesn't stay long in I in homers among players now Mickman, an 18-year-old British gave up only four safeties to the Cecil Harrell began to weaken in .
 one place when he gets his hands active In the majors? I school boy, recently swam the Engineers, not more than one the fourth and the local combo
 un the pigskin. I 3. The first game in the major English Channel In 23 hours and per inning, while local sluggers tallied three runs to knot the
 Gus Kinnear, outstanding full. leagues to be forfeited since 1942 I 48 minutes the youngest ever to garnered seven safeties includinga score, then chalked up two more
 back on the 1948 squad, is still occurred recently in the National do so. pair of singles by Jim Lang. scores in the fifth to ice the fray._ %
 shooting hard for the same post ''I League. What two teams were involved I ----- "
 this geadun. but has competition and which was given the !
 from Ken Kinball and Ed Grass, I game? I
 two spirited boys also battling I 4. How did the recent Walker
 hard for the fullback spot with : Cup Golf Matches come out? I -
 both expecting to see plenty of action I 5. By what nickname are these
 this year. Lucky Nelson, Larry three college elevens known :
 Scharr and Cal Rhoades are Wisconsin, Dartmouth, Tulane, ; :
 three live wires with plenty of ANMVKKSuonv : S
 savvy and speed shooting for the .\If.UoJoJIO 'IiUIIpUr! 'ilJoJofpllg q S
 tailback berth. 'punbll lilltIJH (
 LliM Tough/ al(1 WOJI JOPI\ l(1UoJ.\( )('} s11! 4'a
 The punting and passing depart. i uiH4) .sajBjg Pultun, ; MJ, 't J y
 lent boasts a pair of powerful'' "tuna! { glgd'IaPel4J { 3may. -
 toe artists in Lucky Nelson and ( (! { ;un ql.J'PlHI{ oIqnlpIf ( .
 Marty Handler. Both men have 10 awed PUOJM mJUBIO ( pdpJ8\\1f ,
 been booting the ball with accur .1'\\ MzW JoA.oJN: aQL 't .
 acy and have equal chances of '.} ( UUlL"( 'UOIJIPP" ..haus g .e 5' o"h c
 handling the punting chores this >{uvA *qi( puneduiHiu olddeygiQ oIOf 't
 Season.' Nelson and Bandler also 'Mil! UI Wn dUO ;
 kriow great promise as passers, UI'tlU't"J| Pdl"loj( 'VH"W1l"t llIr v fS
 Arid are proving very helpful in 'duin<(> 1dMoJPPW< ( JutloJJd 'I
 Scrimmage when it becomes necessary I ----- --- -- \
 to gain ground via the aerial KIMI.MIIA.' WU. (AH'S, >)> I. A.

 route. "Corky" Corraini went the route o ___ n____________.__._________
 Three top-notch guardd Joy recently In i 4'l-inning softball PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Setting up lays and running tliem through the opposition, : '
 Slnko, Bill MolonoHki-j and Ski game. H" pitched 1-9 shutout such as these Jax-Navy gridders above demonstrate, is Just one phase toward. the building! &f the ,
 'Kososki are stundouU Rounding which took four hours. and ten 1919 edition of the station's grid DI,, hhie. Quarterback: llama II llutchiuwn (arrow>)> takes the bill
 cnU th soda in promising style 'He minute front center to initiate a play '