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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT PROFS OPEN BASEBALL PRACTICE Barrett Voted "Most Hustling" Prof Player Unpublicized, unheralded and almost unknown, diminutive Fred Barrett has been chosen as the most hustling, attentive bas keteer on the Prof team and with that signal honor goes an a ward of a SSO war bond. Barrett was born 19 years ago in Philadelphia and by his own admission “will play any game, any time, anywhere.” He was a track star at Gerard College and came within a few feet of the broad jump record but ironically enough he wasn't allowed to play basketball be cause of a weak heart. This didn’t dampen the spirits of our hero whose love for sports bor ders on the fanatic. When war broke out the fath erless Barrett waited only until he was eligible and then enlist ed in the service. After basic training at Camp Croft, South Carolina, Freddy came down to the Academic Reg iment as an enlisted radio in structor and has been here ever since. He starred in softball for the Company A team and last season was credited with the longest home run of the year He also played soccer as an invited guest with the 176th Infantry Aside from sports, Freddy likes Profs Take Third Place In Loop: Beat Raiders The Profs grabbed the third place honors of the TIS Basket ball League second half Sunday by turning back the 4th Infan try Raiders 53-38 at the Sports Arena, Harmony Church Had the Profs lost, the 3rd STR would have taken the third place slot Since the Profs ended the first half in the second division, their final standing represents a virt ual come-back in the league. • • • Final TIS Standings W L Pctg. 176th Inf 11 2 846 6th TR 10 2 833 PROFS 7 5 615 3rd STR .65 .583 4th Inf. .5 7 417 4th TR 2 10 167 7th AD 111 »91 •131st Inf 0 2 .000 •Inactivated The Profs, with revenge in their hearts for the team who had started them on a four-game losing streak, battled the Raiders tooth and nail in an eventful first quarter to no avail as the Fourth seized a scant 12-10 lead while the fans were howling and visualizing another upset. The second quarter was stir ring as the Profs came from be hind, tied the score, lost the lead, and then almost squared it again as the half ended with the Raiders out in front by a slim one-point margin, 23-22. The third stanza was almost a replica of the other hard-fought periods but the Profs managed to tie the ball game, 32-32, as the whistle blew terminating the quarter. Troy Ricks, Prof coach, must have decided that the game was entirely too close so he started whirling in approved All-Ameri can style in the fourth quarter. When he had finished his torna dic wave, the Profs had 53 points, the Raiders 38, and he had personally accounted for 20 markers. ’Twas a good total for Ricks and one of his best in TIS movies and girls although he says of the latter, “They’re nice to look at but—.” When asked if he had any par ticular desire to emulate some sports hero past or present Bar rett surprised us no little by choosing his teammate Benny Zientara "Benny is my idea of a hustling ball player”, he said of the fiery red head. “Hustl ing”, Barrett went on, “is not the only necessary trait of a good ball player as I believe that a sincere love of the game is a primary need.” Barrett has no set post war plans “Td like to play profes sional basketball," he sighs with a far away, wistful look in his eyes. When asked about the biggest thrill he had during the just-con cluded season, Barrett brought back memories of one of the most dramatic games ever play ed on the Main Post Gym. With seconds to play against the then undefeated and league-leading 6th TR Eagles, Barrett dropped in a beautiful lay-up shot to tie the score “I was sitting on top of the world at that moment.” he reminisces. As Coach Ricks would say of Barrett. "He tries hard.”—B L. League piay. (PROFS 53) FG FT Pts Belk. F 4 0 8 McCrary, F 0 0 0 Niebler, F 3 0 6 Prasse, C . . 4 0 8 Ossi, C 4 1 9 Partenheimer, G 1 Q 2 Ricks, G 9 2 20 Total 25 3 53 (RAIDERS 38) FG FT. Pts Ghilotti, F . 0 11 Lemond, F 1 0 2 Holland, F I 0 2 Hussey, C 3 0 6 Peden, C . 7 0 14 Jarrett, G 3 0 6 Klein, G 10 2 Swiftbird, G 10 2 Szepanski, G 11 3 Totals 18 2 38 Personal Affairs Office Opened (Continued from Page 1) partment. governmental, state, and private agencies, such as Army Emergency Relief; Ameri can Red Cross; Veteran’s Admin istration; General Accounting Offices, Office of Dependency Benefits; Fiscal Director, Army Service Forces: Office of The Judge Advocate General; Bar Associations; Legal Aid Socie ties; Civil Service Commission; U. S. Employment Service; Se lective Service; and the Federal Social Security, but will not as sume any of the administrative functions of these agencies. As a branch of the Personal Affairs Division, a volunteer wo man’s committee will be estab lished to organize units of wo men relatives of military per sonnel. Members of these units will visit homes of military per sonnel, provide clerical assis tance, establish day nurseries, and aid in other problems REGIMENTAL MIRROR HUSTLIN' BARRETT Partenheimer Gets 'Hot' As Profs Win Over 'Not~So~Luckies' In a "so what” game played at the Main Post Gym Thursday night, the Profs nosed out the I not-so-lucky Luckies 43-40 The Profs watched the Arm ored boys jurpp off to an early 6-0 lead and finally whittled it down to 10-9 at the quarter. McCrary's two-pointer gave them the lead in the second half but it failed to survive a last minute goal by the sandy-haired Roberts as the Profs trailed 19- 18 at the half. The game seemed to be a good substitute for counting sheep but it was only because the Luckies were unaccustomed to leading anybody and the Profs were playing their unperturbed way. However, when the Profs did turn on the twat in the third quarter, the Luckies were com pletely submerged. Prasse, Bar rett and McCrary dropped in 18 points and took a command ing 36-25 lead over the hapless 7th. But theLuckieS were far from through as field general Ball (who deserves a better fate than playing with the 7th) and his mates crept up, tied and went ahead with two minutes to play So it remained for the blonde cyclone from the mid-west, Johnny Partenheimer, to person ally account for the Prof mar gin of victory. Partenheimer’s late sprint gave him a total of 11 points to lead the Profs in that depart ment while the game’s high sco rer was Roberts with 13.—8 L (PROFS 43) F G FT. Pts. Belk, F 1 2 4 McCrary, F 4 0 8 Ricks, C .3 0 6 Partenheimer, C . 4 3 11 Prasse, G 2 1 5 Ossi, G 2 15 Barrett, G 2 0 4 Totals 18 7 43 (LUCKIES 40) F.G FT. Pts. Roberts. F 6 1 13 Petroski, F 1 0 2 Opderbeck, F 0 0 0 Adamson, C 1 0 2 Ball, G 4 0 8 Wicker, G 5 0 10 Szudarek, G 2 1 5 Totals 19 2 40 Candidates Run Thru Light Drill, Calisthenics The 1944 edition of the Prof baseball club, minus such ’43 stars as Chet Dabbs, fleet fielder, Garnet Mercer, out fielder property of the Chicago Cubs, Richard Plunk, sterl ing catcher, and Herb Moore, slugging first baseman, went through its first workout yesterday afternoon at Academic Field when a galaxy of baseball hopefuls answered the practice call of player-coach Lt. Erwin Prasse. Candidates ran through light calesthenics and baseball drills. Among the likely prospects who have signed up for this year’s team are Benny Zientara, Johnny Russo, Elmer Niebler, RossFenno, Joe Dickinson, Bill Cox, Rudy Rundus, Lefty Leh ner, Fred Villafranca, and coach Machine Gun Drama On Air The use of the Infantry 50 caliber machine gun will be dramatized on station (WSB next Monday night at 11:30 p. m as part of The Infantry School’s "Thirteen Weapons of War” series of radio programs Dayrooms in the Academic Regiment will remain open until midnight so that all in terested soldiers can hear the half-hour broadcast Pirrello, Somerson Barrett Lead Blues By Cpl. Charles Schwalm The fast-moving Company A “Blue Devils” defeated the PW Guards in the Ninth Street USO, Sunday, 38 to 7 to retain a firm first place footing in the USO “American League” basketball tourney. The first quarter proved that the Guards were no match for the Academics, as the score mounted to 17 to 0. At half time, the losing quintet was still with no points to its credit, while the Blues had 23 Manns, of the Guards, netted the only field goal in the third quarter. The final scoring period ended with the overwheling total of 38 to 7 in favor of the Blue Devils Profs Tally 1131 TIS Markers For Season The Profs ended the season’s play in The Infantry School Basketball League with a total of 1131 points (462 field goals and 207 foul throws) for a 43% point average per game in their 26 scheduled contests. Troy Ricks headed the procession with 305 points, 111 of which were field goals and 83 made from the foul line. Second place honors went to Erwin Prasse with 162 points while Me Crary came from far back, (having only 57 points at the end of first half play) to snatch the third place laurels with 126 mark ers. Partenheimer was the most sustained four converter, loop ing 14 through the nets out of a possible 17, for an average of 824 The team has, as a whole, a foul line average of .643 for the season FG Foul PA Foul Pctg. Tot Pts Place in TIS Scoring Ricks 111 83 125 664 305 5 Prasse 63 36 48 750 162 16 McCrary . 59 8 17 471 126 22 Belk 50 17 34 .500 117 23 Zientara ... 49 16 30 .533 114 27 Ossi 45 11 14 786 101 29 Niebler 32 11 19 .579 75 34 Partenheimer 21 14 17 .824 56 43 Harpe 17 4 9 444 38 44 Barrett 12 4 6 .667 28 55 Pirrello 7 2 8 .250 16 67 Keeler 1 2 2 1.000 4 De Cicco 11 1 1.000 3 Somerson .... 1 0 0 .000 2 McNamara ... 0 0 0 .000 0 Dempsey 0 0 0 000 0 Russo 0 0 0 .000 0 Thursday, March 16, 1944 Erwin Prasse, who all played on last year's nine. Newcomers such as Lefty Wissman? Spirit hero of last year’s champion ship bout between the 176th and the Profs; Herb Bremer, former Boston Redsox catcher; Pete Barden, TPS star of last year; Lee Harris, Uclan star; Lohring, a former performer for the Bir mingham (S A.) Barons; Tony Giaimo, "Pappy” Ball and Tony Pirrello, who scintillated for the '43 softball Profs, will be on hand to plug the gap created by the loss of the four Profs of last year “Although these men are men tioned it does not necessarily qualify them for the team—any one who wishes may come out,” points out Lt Prasse to other diamond players who haven’t as yet signified their intentions of coming out for the club. “With the available talent in the Regiment, coupled with new replacement material, the Profs should do fairly well in the league race,” sums up the coach New Prof uniforms will be is sued on or before April 16th, ac cording to Lt. Prasse, in time for the post opener which will prob ably pit the Profs against the strong TPS club. Any team on the post desir ing an exhibition match with the Profs should call Lt. Erwin Prasse, Company D, Academic Regiment. The TIS League, with five very strong competing clubs composes a formidable barrier to the Profs’ chance of adding the ’44 pennant to their baseball post trophies of 1936, ’37, ’3B, ’39, '4O. ’4l and '42—but you just can’t tell about the Profs! They lost out in the finals last year in a nip and tuck, hammer and tong full seven game series to the Spirits by the margin of only one game.