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Walt Parsons, outstanding 155 pound grappler, won by decision, contributing only three points instead of his usual five to the Crimson end of the score. Jim Reidy, diminutive 121 pounder, used a double bar-lock to give the wrestlers their only fall of the match...
This was the second loss of the season for the matmen. The team, coached by Jay Schaffran, has also garnered two victories. Pete Fuller, agile 165 pounder, starred for the Crimson in this meet...
...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...
After noon the stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...
...Wildcats from one of the U.S. carriers. But its own record was nevertheless superb. The ship, which must have been one of the new North Carolinas since they are the only U.S. battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into "Windy Gulch," between Guadalcanal and Savo, and helped win the great night battle of Guadalcanal by sinking four Japanese warships by gunfire...