The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume Five.
Number Thirty-six. 20 OCTOBER, 1934. AtRIFLE AND PISTOL ROWING AND SAIL-
MATCHES ING EVENTS,
GUANTANAMO
After two weeks of shooting holes in
targets and getting nicely sunburned, the The following is an extract of a letter
Texas sharpshooters stood up on the fir- from Commander Battleships summar-
ing line October 13th and did their best sizing the events held while the ship
to bring home the highest standing in ha en here in Guantanamo Bay.
the fleet rifle and pistol matches but they Rowing and sailing events sched-
were opposed by too much competition uled ingCombatships serial 5683 of 24
for first prize. Sept., 1934 have been completed with
Out of fourteen teams entered in the the results indicated below.
rifle match, the Texas team came out in 2. Commander Battleships believes
tenth place with a total score of 2083; that these events have served in a great
the Arizona taking first place with a measure to achieve the purpose of Battle
total score of 2185. In individual scor- Force Athletics as laid down in Battle
ing the marines came through with Po- Force Athletic Rules, 1933, by provid-
sey, R. leading the pack from the Texas, ing heathful exercise and amusement
standing 18 with a score of 277. Second for the largest possible number of men.
honors in the team went to another ma- It is his opinion that Fleet athletics
rine, Zimmer, E. C., who stood 22 with a should include all hands, and that effort
score of 276. The other members of the should be directed towards this end,
team who came in for their share of the rather than toward developing outstand-
scoring were: Britz, F. - 43, score 270 ing teams which would include a very
Stiltz, J. - 46, score 269, Young, F. S. - small persentage of a ship's company.
54, score 267, Miller, R. J. - 98, score 247, 3. The large number of disqualiflcat-
Farmer, C. - 104, score 243, McElroy, - ions in the events just completed indi--
114, score 234. cates a lack of familiarity with the fun-
In the pistol matches, the officers' team damentals of small boat seamanship.
came in seventh with an aggregate score It is considered that the value of every
of 9,2; the Nevada winning by a score sailorman, irrespective of his rating, is
of 1054. The officers shooting and their increased through an ability to handle
scores were: Ensign Champlin, - 19, boats under oars and sail. The recent
score 247, Ensign Houston, - 25, score series has helped to provide this basic
241, Ensign Fortune, - 30, score 235, and training, and other small boat events
Ensign Fritter, - 36, score 229. The Tex- will be held as opportunity affords.
as' high for the day was made by the 4. Summary of Points, Rowing and
enlisted personnell team with our team Sailing, Guantanamo:
taking sixth place with a score of 1209; Standing Ehip Points
the Nevada again winning, with a score 1. West Virginia 140
of 1321. Our sharpshooters with the pis- 1 2. California 120.5
tol were: Cantrell, T. - 7, score 264, Mc- 3. Tennessee 87.75
Manus, W. - 35, score 243, and Williams, 4. New Mexico 69.25
W. S. - 59, score 193. 5. Arizona 48.25
Even a casual glance will bring out the 6. Lexington 45
fact that the competition was very keen 7. Colorado 41.5
as seen from the individual scores. Con- 8. TEXAS 39.75
sidering all the contemporary activities 9. Mississippi 34.25 !
going on the same time as these try-outs, 10. Saratoga 33.5 (
and actual competitive firing, one can 11. Nevada 24.25 1
easily say to our teams, "Well Done." I (Continued on Page Four)WARDROOM
WINS, BUT--
-By a J. O. Observer-
r It all started over an argument and
- Sunday morning found both forces, the
s Wardroom "Charley horses" and the J. O.
Bean ball artists lined up to play an epic
- game of ball for the undisputed champ-
ionship of the good old Texas Maru. The
n Wardroom won but the championship is
still disputed. Gather 'round fella's, this
is how is happened.
Our Chief Engineer announced the bat-
teries for the opening game, the beer was
packed away on ice, and our J. O. of the
"B" Division, Ens. Fortune, got up to bat
and contributed the first of five outs he
made during the game. The fighting J.
O.'s soon took the game in hand until the
count stood 10-4 in their favor, in spite of
the fact that only six runs were credited
to them when the twelfth man up made
the third out and only two were left on
bases. It's interesting but figure it out
for yourself.
The going was too tough for the Ward-
room along about the fifth inning so the
pitcher for the day, "Bean ball" Chandler
was retired to give the crippled a chance
to revive. We don't know how it happen-
ed but an out wasn't an out for the Ward-
room. They converted outs into runs and
runs into money because the beer had to
bs paid for. With the game over and only
ten out of one hundred bottles of beer
left on ice, the count stood 11-10 in the
Wardroom's favor.
Results were as follows:
1. Nine charley horses, two cracked
heads, one swolen arm for the senior offi-
cers, not to mention the greater part of
the beer consumed.
2. For the J. O.'s we cannot close our
story without mention of the stellar per-
formance of our shortstop, "Lightning"
Fortune. As the heavy better on the
game, he came through with no hits, ioruns, and five errors.
mance.
(Continued on PaWhat a perform
age Two)
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