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moneys worth, Promoter Corpl.
Henry (zeke) Bonura, the former
big league ball player who now is
in special services, threw in
camel and burro race for WACS and
Red Cross girls and an Arab free
for-all fight on the sports program,
which was broadcast to the wounded
In nearby hospitals.
San PHILIPPE Stadium was filled to
overlooking for the game and G. rs
were squatting on the tops of nearby
houses trying to watch the play.
Privates sat next to generals, who
shouted just as loud as the lowest
G. l., while Arab chieftains, some of
whom came as far as 300 miles.
watched the man Americans" with
puzzled frowns, while they huddled
in their colorful red, white and blue
costumes.
Both games were touch football
because of the lack of equipment.
In the Army-Navy game the sail
ors drew first blood in the opening
period when Robert BUD James,
Navy guard from Shreveport, La.
blocked an Army punt and recov-
cred on the soldier 2-yard line.
Fullback Dave Fleming, former
West Virginia gridder from Charles
ton, w. Va, tossed a short pass to
Robert Hitchcock, left end from
Taneytnwn, Md, former Wash
ington College player, for the touch
down. Quarterback Aram Ehram-
jan, who cavorted on Brooklyn,
N. Y, gridirons for Erasmus High,
kicked the extra point.
The soldiers tied it up in the sec
ond quarter when Corpl. Jack
(Shoeless) McKenna, left halfback
from Waterloo, Iowa, and Quarter
back John De Mello of Oakland,
Calf, kicked the extra point.
With time left for just three plays
IN the final period Army Back Ed
die Herbert of New Orleans inter-
cepted pass on the Navy 20 as the
WACS cheered and the admirals
groaned. De Mello then kicked the
winning field goal.
In the Casablanca- Oran game
Sergt. John Macdonald, former
Arkansas State Teachers player
from Tampa, Fla, kicked the win
ming point after Sergt Howard
Willis, quarterback ex-Richmond
Academy player from Augusta, Ca,
skirted left end for 20 yards and
a touchdown.
Grams only score in the second
quarter when Quarterback John
Cerjewski of Whiting, Ind, passed
80 yards to Ben Leach of Pail
sades, N. j. The try for the extra
point failed.
The doubleheader had definite
coed atmosphere with each of the
teams represented having feminine
sponsors and the Red Cross and
WACS competing in the camel and
burro races.
The honorary queen was Movie
Star Rosaline Russell, but there were
five live on-the-spot queens who
kindled great interest. They were
Army Sergt. Irene Witt, 22-year-old
blond from Taos, N. Mex; Navy
Sergt. Helm Jones, 28-year-old bru-
nette from Fresno, Calf, and the
Oran teams Pvt. Mary Pulfrey, o.
year-old blond clerk from Clare
mont, S. Oak.
Miss Casablanca was American
Red Cross Worker Ann Goplerud.
graduate of Grinell and the Uni
versity of Colorado from Usage, Ia.
Miss Stars and Stripes program
sponsor was Nancy Catch, another
Red Cross worker from Washington.
Much to the merriment of the
soldiers and sailors and the more
conservative amazement of the
Arabs, WAC Pvt. Alice Rau, whose
husband is lieutenant colonel in
Panama, won the camel race while
attractive WAC Pvt. Eleanor Welton
took the burro race, but hurried of
before anybody could learn her
home town.
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