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Scene: Spring of 1939 on the U. S. S. Bushnell off the coast of Colombia. Yeoman striker Kerr interrupts his daily routine long enough to read a dispatch confirming his appointment to the Academy. It was a happy day in Seaman 2/c Kerr's life, for the dispatch was the fulfillment of his motive for joining the Navy...
Next week husky, dusky Bill Smith will probably break some more world's swimming records, most of them his own, and become the swimmer of the year. The Navy's 19-year-old seaman 2nd class will enter every free-style race from 100 yds. to half a mile at the National A.A.U. championships at the University of Michigan. Very likely he will win them...
...have always maintained that address should be changed, and here is a substantiating case. Coming from Brigg's Cage last Monday, Lt. Salmon discovered an apprentice seaman in the center of the field, equipped with duffel bag, typewriter, and other accessories of "Haavaad" war. After all, his orders did say "Soldiers Field," and orders are orders, after...
There were 16 knockouts in the weeklong finals, the most professional job by French Seaman Marcel Cerdan. The wel terweight champion of prewar Europe twice floored U.S. Private Joe DiMartino of Bridgeport, Conn, before the damage was halted. Cerdan is already under post war contract with the Hollywood Stadium...
Subarctic Series. Brooklyn's left field had nothing on the W.S.L. for enthusiasm. Shouting sailors crowded the foul lines, jeering at umpiring officers. Some afternoons, $500 changed hands-a quarter of all the money in the fleet. The outstanding star was Seaman 1st Class Joe Sienko, a husky twirler who learned baseball in a Catholic Youth league in Massachusetts. Behind his pitching on the Fourth of July, the Navy All-Stars walked away with the W.S.L. World Series, whipping a picked Merchant Marine nine...