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. The Gold Bug, Western Maryland. College, Westminater, Md.. March 2, 1944 PAGE THREB lieut:Lyal Clark ... Athletics Department From The Stands ... former WMC Athlete And Line Will Sponsor Sports Requirements OF Good Ball Game , Coach Now Lakehurst Officer Exhibit March n Reviewed; New Rules For Court Cream of the crop in civilian and Lieutenant Lyal Clark, USNR, for- ball, basketball, and baseball teams. ASTP physical education specimens By Fred Holloway mer- Western Maryland athlete from After graduating, he became line on the campus will be exhibited in a 1925-29, has become athletic officer at coach at Virginia Polytechnic Insti- sports show to be presented by the One prerequisite for a "good" ball game of any sort, is that it should be t.he Lakehurst Naval Air Station, tute, returning to Western Maryland Athletic Department in Gill Gymna- close and thrill-producing, and 'this usually requires two evenly matched Lakehurst, N. J., a press release from one year later to become line coach sium, on march 11, at 7:15 P. M. teams. To this, however, can easily be added a second need,-that of fair and the public relations office has an- under Dick Harlow. After three ycars Under the direction of Coaches Le- efficient arbitrating by the officials. as head football coach at the Univer- roy S. Byham, Peter Grimm, and Al More than one contest has had the "edge" taken from it by the poor sity of Delaware, Clark rejoined Har- Sirkis, the program will have as its decisions of a referee. This is some- low at Harvard in 1938, and continued major event a basketball game be- DaYMHop Presents --- in the capacity of line coach until tween the ASTP team and a quint ::i~~ ~~!y:~.~ a:n\~~i~,~~h:h:f~:~s;I:~~ Februar-y, 1943, when hc entered na- from Camp Dietrich in Frederick, ing a fine game throughout, have it val service. Maryland. taken away by one poor choice of of- My (Hey) Day .Athletic Officer Other events listed for the evening ficiating. the ASTP basketball boys By Sera Jane Rice When After being stationed at Chapel arc boxing mat c h e s, wrestling a volleyball Hill, N. C., for one year, Lieut. Clark matches, gymnastics, and contest, tum- met the Gettysburg Seminary last The library is one of the most quiet bling, that the war- month it was evident calisthenic was transferred to the lighter-than- time judges have slipped. It reminded spots on our green, but gracious, air training and operating base at demonstrations. bouts, of three rounds Terror rooters of the Gettysburg grid campus. One always finds in a li- The 'four Lakehurst to become athletic officer. each, wiij) be refereed by 'student tilt of 1942. There, one poor decision, brary long tables arranged in rows, Lakehurst will have its first sta- proven poor by the movies of the with chairs and books to match, and tion baseball team this year, Clark coach AI Sirkis, who has been train- game, erased 58 minutes of fine Green people tiptoeing about on squeaky boys for has announced, saying that permis- ing several the of the AS'l'P Lightweight, and Gold play, and turned a certain shoes. Usually gentle consideration in service ring. sion-has been received for his depart- welterweight, middleweight, and victory into a heartbreaking loss. is shown, and a special species cf ment to arrange a baseball schedule. heavyweight 'classes will be repre- This type of incident has occurred Tired Plant are placed about the room It is possible tha~ L:kehurst ,,:ill pl~y sented. many times, not only to the Hill fo,' scanning, when the tables, chairs, the New York Giants, who WIll tram Starting ont with 150 potential fls- teams, but to every other team as books, and toes have put all their this spring at Lakewood, N. J., which well. Not all can be seen from the drawing cards on the table, one might is only eight miles from the Lake- tic experts, the Sirkis has narrowed down stands, nor can those on the field see say. to thirty most pros- promising , hurst Naval Air Station. (Cont. on page 4, col. 4) all, but the complete disregard for the • Brace Prejudice obvious is a slap in the face. Yesterday, my Cunning Cadet and Corner Brightening ... Witnessed recently one of the I happened to meet 011 the library Lieutenant Clark was an outstand- strangest basketball games on record steps. Beginning with a spirited dis- ing figure in Western Maryland sports when the Pitt Panthers succumbed to cussion in blank verse that surround- on the foot- Radio Scripts Are found To Be for four years, playing Penn State in a 15-12 defeat. 'I'r ail- ed and tramped upon that question of prejudice among the the hour-brace ing 8-5 at the halfway mark, the ASTP Pres.nls---- Mockish Imitation Of Happiness "Jungle-kittens" rallied valiantly but adolescent classes-we careened over I've discovered lately, to the Muses. fell short as the taller State boys ap- but not hastily, that the modern mind, By lucinda Holloway The Gold Brick I do not object to happiness and her cereal, and Junior is now at the plied the pressure. from the view that no matter how circular its stairways, It was strange never fails to have one landing upon fl'eezing minutes tire forty ----By Harvey Smallwood good cheer. 1 do object, however, to head of his class." the Pitt team elected to spend the en- the question of poetry. If only to the ball a mockish imitation of these two Announcer: Try Glossy-Glo Paint. when in their possession. Each man remark, "\Vhat's that, huh 1" If anyone read our last column, priceless ingredients of life as pre- It works miracles! Why don't you. grabbed a comparatively permanent Until seven-thirty we tossed our besides me and my long suffering sented .by the daily "cheer-up pro- brighten that dull corner with Glossy- position on the floor, and even passed minds about and though each of 11S roommates (can you imagine--they gram". The following radio script Glo? up easy set shots to carry through the had the floor at one time or another, started complaining the 14th time I was written merely to prove that any Trio: team's plan of "attack". The reason it was always I who bit the dust read it aloud to them); he may have fool can write this sort of program. Every little so-and-so for this type of game, according to thereon. Therefore, I shall tell you noticed that we said something about If any fool can do it, why do we pay Get your can of Glossy-Glo-o-o Dr. H. C. Carlson, nationally promi- of our conversation and present only writing a column on rumors and money (in the form of increased It's okay! Shout hurray! nent Pitt coach, was that against the my unbiased viewpoints, being a very griping. Well, this is it, unless we prices for everything from soup to Get a can, a can, today-ay-ay! height advantage of the Nittany fair girl in not too many more ways get sidetracked along the way. nuts) to listen to it? Brightens bedrooms, kitchens so, Lions, it was their only chance to than one: Wherever you find the army you (Organ plays opening bars of Get your can of Glossy-Glo. win. And, they almost did. • Poetry Defined find rumors and griping. The main Announcer: And now, your friend This brings up the argument that Poetry is the regular recurrence of reason for this is not quite discerni- "Brighten the Corner") . The Glossy- and mine, Sunnyside Sam, who's go-' has been tossed around so freely for a stressed syllable and must contain (heartily): Announcer ble to anyone not in the army. They ing to read some poems of faith and the last few months-that of raising an emotional undercur-rent of some point out that you make $50 a month Glo Paint and Enamel Company comfort. And maybe he'll sing us a the baskets to a greate'r height. Sup- kind. (If you're writing a poem and (or a reasonable facimile}, and have brings you once more, "Brighten the song or two. How about it, Sam? posedly this is proposed to make it can't seem to grasp an emotional un- a designed program all your food, clothing, and medicine Corner", the hearts of young and old. to Sunnyside Sam: I sure will, folks. harder for the tall men to score, and dercurrent, just forget about the reg- brighten furnished. All this, in addition to Right now, I'm going to read a poem harder to prevent opposing shots ular recurrence and begin construc- such paraphernalia as rifles, pup And now, a transcription: that I'm sure you'll like. It's called from going in. This is designed to tion on a green, instead of an ivory, tents, fuli field packs, and slide rules. "Mary, how do you keep so happy help the "dwarfmen" of the court, but tower. You must know this.) For and smiling all the time? Life always "Looking For the Rainbow." (Reads .Good Hours seems to go smoothly for you." in ultra-soothing voice): many fail to see any improvement example, if your eldest son comes The working hours are> good, 16 --""'''Oh, life didn't always go so (Cont. on page 4, col. 2) (Cont. on page 4, ClJI.5) (Cont. on page 4, col. 2) hours a day isn't bad, for you have smoothly. Some time ago, Tom was eight left to try to find something to about to lose his job, Jane wouldn't do with, if you have Insomnia or your eat her cereal, and Junior was mak- Studies ... roommates snore. During these 8 ing low grades in school. But I just hours they also furnish a bed check, redecorated all the rooms with cheery In Olive Drab as the fellows walking with rifles on Glossy-Glo Paint and you should their shoulders can testify. have seen the difference. Tom received By Cadets R. Lewis and F. Maddox In spite of this apparent state {,f a raise in salary, Jane began to eat paradise, some of the gripes cnc~un- tered are legitimate; for instance, if Cadet Sidney U. Folse, Jr., is that talents turn to modeling in clay as a difficult for fellow cadets to get the we get court martialed for writing Forty-Five On dark, swarthy fellow with the broad means of exprcssion. And although . wrong opinion here, so we hurriedly he wasn't no musical one of "those this we'll gripe. flashing smile and throaty chuckle he plays music from the instrument, he to add that who run up and do\vn trains, classics guys" enjoys For the most part, however, this Dean' s List 'In who finds the finer things in life to modern works. He likes the three awakening sleepy soldiers to see if griping is far-fetched, Example be "right off the planet". • one--after the Thanksgiving dinner He is originally from the home of B's of both-Bach, Beethoven, and they have their furlough M.P. papers. Brahms with boogie- to barrelhouse, was He an Battalion which was enough to satisfy the big- First Term the Mardi Gras-New Orleans, but gest chow hound, one fellow was grip- .scarcely betrays it in his lack of woogie and blues. slated for duty in the zone of opera- ing because they didn't serve tooth- Forty-five students have been an- e lce Casualty tions and his outfit has since gone picks. Also, when we got a furlough nounced as members of ,the 1943-44 Only recently he was a victim (;f P. J., as he is known to the fellows, the same day we got paid (who could Dean's List. Of these, eight are men, the treacherous ice and as a result ask Ior anything more) this same fel- and thir-ty-seven are women. he carried his right arm in a aling for is married, and is the proud father low was complaining because one of They are as follows: Seniors: Dor- a few weeks. There is some doubt his dollar bills was wrinkled. othy Clarke, N. J1ean Eckhardt, Viv- as to whether the ice was actually ,,0 jan V. Forsythe, Lucille C. Gischel, slippery since the accident occur-red .Rumors Plentiful Phyllis L. Hess, Eilen J. Lovell, Ann in the small hours of a Saturday And rumOl's-next'to gigs they're R. Meeth, Mary GJadys Rehmeyer, night as he and Cadet J. C. "Zoot." the most plentiful thing on the cam- Ann M. Rice, S. Beverly Slacum, Jones were returning from the evcn- pus. 'Ve've even heard it rumored Margaret Ann Smith, Mary 1'11. Turn- ing's entertainments. that the A.S.T.P. is being dissolved. ley, Joseph P. Geary, William H. He frankly admits that the girls at (Wha t a morbid sense of humor I've Harrington, and David J. Wynne. Western Maryland are not to be over- got). Some of the rumors are utter- looked, but his memories are of those ly fantastic too; why, just the other Juniors: Jean E. Andrews, Janet L. honey-voiced belles of the old South- da~; we heard that someone actually Baugher, Helen M. Fockler, P. Dean land. passed a physics test. Who would be- Hess, Alice R. Kuhn, Ruth L. Miles, .Paul Backas lieve a story like that, I'm asking Ethel L. Stevens, M. Lee Stiffler, C. Paul Backas is one of the many ca- you? Adele Tenny, Margaret A. Thompson, Cadet Sidney Folse dets on the campus, who come from Rumors are also rampant about Catherine A. Waring, Mary Virginia Southern drawl. But he does have the windy city-Chicago; the city y what happened to fellows who were Webb, David C. Bennighof, Robert W. that good natured ease about him which we all must admit has given shipped from here. Just recently a Hanison, Paul F. Maynard, Earl W. that speaks of Dixie. the 3308th some of its best cadets. cadet had a letter from one. of them Morey. Folse has seen 16 months service Paul, when attending high school saying that he expected to be in the Sophomores: Winifred M. Baker, in the Air Corps at Kelly Field, Tex- in Chicago, played left-halfback on Cadet Paul Backas country for about three months and Grace S. Bevard, Henrietta T. Jones, as, where he had reached the rank his Alma Mater's football team, and then !:te'd be on his way. When I Doris L. Kemp, Doris V. Knowles, of sergeant before he doffed his managed to excel in his academic of a six-month-old daughter. Proof Betty R. Leister, Phyllis R. Myhre, stripes to enter A.S.T.P. He is one work, in spite of extra-curricular ac- that the word proud is not just an Shirley J. Noll, A. Winifred Shauck, of the many who endured life in what tivities. idle adjective are the facts as pre- M. Jean Shirley, Virginia G. Voor- was later to become a German prison Before becoming an AST cadet at sented by his roommates. Even they hees, R. Louise Willis, Marie E. Wil- camp at Camp Maxey, Texas. Western Maryland, Paul was a cor- know how many teeth she has. son, and Bermml Friedman. He is interested in art where his poral in the M.P.'s. It wouldn't be (Cont. on page 4, col. 4)