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Show KEARNS K ARVINGS CAMP KEARNS, UTAH With Utah Service League play half over, the Air Base Wings appear to be the team to beat. The Wings have walked through eight opponents with comparative ease. Coach Al Woolard, whose Kearns Eagles showed up so promisingly early this season, has had his troubles, what with men dropping from the squad for reasons of shipping, injuries and the press of military duty. For the first half of the Uni-University Uni-University of Utah game Saturday Satur-day night, it looked as though the Eagles might pull the upset of the year. In fact, early in the contest, the soldiers he'd a seven sev-en point margin but Utah's size, plus several other handicaps changed the complexion of things las the game progressed, j Woolard, who has a fine coaching coach-ing record better than .800 in a ten year period has one of the smallest teams both in statue and personnel. The club averages 5 .feet 10 inches and now numbers eight. The constant turnover of men makes matters just that much worse for Woolard and any other coach of the Service aggregations. ag-gregations. i In 14 games, the Eagles have won nine, averaging 45.1 points j per contest. The enemy has held I to 38.6. Woolard's netters have (collected 262 field goals and 107 free throws. Loss of Al Popick, high scoring guard from the University of Oregon, Ore-gon, hurt the Egles offensive ; punch and Rufus Holmes and Bill j Thomas, forwards, both are in the i hospital and may not be able to don a uniform again this campaign. cam-paign. The Eagles have been able to jWin only one of the last four starts. However, they are a fight-jing fight-jing team, which never gives up until the final whistle sounds. Pvt. Al Woolard, who has had more than his share of bad luck; deserves a lot of credit for the fine showing of the soldier quintet. quin-tet. His men like him, they want , to win for him and they will play their hearts out for the soft-spoken Oklahoman. Contrary to most beliefs, the winner of the University of Utah-1 Camp-Kearns basketball game was not the victorious team but : the Infantile Paralysis Fund. All proceeds of the contest went to the poli fund. I In 13 games, the Camri Kearns Eagles basketball team has averaged aver-aged 45.7 per game as compared with 37.2 for the opposition. Coach Al Woolard's five has won nine and lost four. Bob Lewis of Arlington, Va., fine Kearns forward, got his collegiate col-legiate training at small Peper-dine Peper-dine college, in California. Along with him on the first team was Bill Thomas, also a Kearns regular re-gular now. The two were roommates room-mates at college, entered the Army at the same time and have traveled together from first team was Bill Thomas, also a Kearns reguler now. The two were roommates room-mates at college, entered at the same time and have traveled together to-gether from post to post for the past year. Injuries plagued the Kearns football team the past season and Coach Al Woolard, former head man at Edna, Kansas am Commerce, Com-merce, Oklahoma high schools, is having similar bad luck. Larry McColloch, of Burlington, la., suffered suf-fered a leg injury while skiing. Frank Boyle, former St. Mary's guard is -ailing with a leg and shoulder injury and B'U Thomas, of Dallas, Texas, is hospitalized Ray Mann, boxing instructor at Camp Kearns, is a veteran of 250 professional fights. The former Sioux City, Iowa, scrapper won 90 per cent of the contests. And among his victims was Gorilla Jones, former welterweight title holder; John Pakcheck, Canada Lee and others. He once participated partici-pated in for fights in one week. He won a dicision in Omaha from Canada Lee in eight rounds on a Monday; battled Kid Carr at Sioux Falls, S. D. to a draw on Wednesday, Wednes-day, knocked out King Saunders in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday and captured a decision from Patterson Patter-son in Omaha on te following Monday. |