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Show NOTES ARMY AIR BASE KEARNS UTAH Fred Coppodona, member of the Medics bowling team in the Independence League in Salt Lake City, holds the top single game total for the season, a 244 ten higher than the nearest rival. He set the season high again last week. At the Army A;r Base Kearns, Utah, Technical Sergeant Charlie Watson, pass snatching end on the Keamg football tea was judged judg-ed the best all-around athlete ever ev-er to be turned out of the Air Forces School for non-commission ed officers at Miami Beach. Watson Wat-son hell the pole vault record in the Lone Star conference for two years while attending East Texas State Teachers college. He also played basketball, baseball and temiis, winning letters Jn all. At the Army Air Base at Kearn Utah, there is a nucelus of fine material for a basketball team already on hand, the Kearns Eagles cagers will swjng into regular re-gular practice sessions next week John Hewett, 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 195. played five seasons with the New York Ren-najssence Ren-najssence colored five, World Champions for many years. Another An-other crack hooper is Dente, from 1939 to 1942, a regular on the powerful Seton Hall quintet. Numerous other outstanding college col-lege players are signed for action this season. Lieutenant Earl P. Beckman, 29, a baseball and tennjs star at the University of Illinoise from 1935 to 1937, will organize the club and then prehaps turn over the actual coaching to one of his ajds. -The Illinoise athlete was co-captain of the 1936 tennis team which copped the Big Ten championship. cham-pionship. After being graduated he coached Peoria, Illjnoise High School's basketball, track and ten nis teams, from 1937 to 1942. Lieut. Beckman received his Master's Mast-er's Degree at Illinois state Norman Nor-man in 1936. |
