Tech Court Tilt Opens Four-Game Weekend THE Sk s sKYERA KER x wy ( “TOMORROW WE FLY” Vol. Il, No. 4. U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, ATHENS, GA., JANUARY 28, 1944. Former Tennis Champ, Two Grid Notables Report Aboard Elwood Cooke, Bill Kern, Jim Yeager Join Staff (NE of the top-ranking tennis stars of the nation and two former col- lege grid coaches reported for duty aboard this week. who wen the World’s Doubles Championship at Lieut. Elwood Cooke, Wimbledon with Bobby Riggs in 1939; Lieut. William F. Kern, form- er head mentor at Carnegie Tech and West Virginia University, and Lieut. (jg) James J. Yeager, ex-Uni- versity of Colorado coach. Lieutenant Cooke was runner-up for the Wimbledon Singles Cham- pionship in 1939. With his wife, Sarah Palfrey Cooke, he won 11. national championships throughout Europe in mixed doubles competition. The Cookes were also runners-up to Bobby Riggs and Alice Marble in the Nationals at Forest Hills and later defeated the same pair for the Pacific Southwest Championship. Lieutenant Cooke has been stationed at NAS, Pensacola, and has been assigned here for temporary duty. Lieutenant Kern had been serving since last August at the Del Monte Navy Pre-Flight School, where he piloted the Navyator football team to-the Service Championship of the Pacific Coast. His charges included such stars as Len Esh- mont, Parker Hall, Paul Christman, Ed Cifers, Bowden Wyatt and Jim Mc- (CAST TO STARBOARD) Junkers 88—66 Captain Hanrahan Iowa Skipper, Dies Captain David C. Hanrahan, com- manding officer of the Iowa Navy Pre- Flight School, died last Thursday after a brief illness. He had been stricken two days earlier with pneumonia and failed to rally. He was 68 years old. The Spindrift, station newspaper, eulogized him as follows: ‘Captain Hanrahan was the soul and the spark of the Iowa Pre-Flight School ... He was one of the few men God ever cre- ated who at once commanded the fear, respect, and unlimited admiration of every man who served under him. If a fellow man could be worshipped by the men who worked under him, Cap- tain Hanrahan was worshipped His spirit will live as long as the American Navy flies the skies.”’ They are Senior Hop Tomorrow Night in Dahlgren Members of the 38th, Batts and their dates will dance to the tunes of Chief Maser’s orchestra at the graduation hop in Dahlgren Hall tomor- row night at 2100. Buses will make their usual rounds Jackets in Perry at 2000; Broscoe Brings ‘Sparks’; Double-Header Sunday (THE powerful Georgia Tech Yel- low Jackets who trounced the Skyerackers last Friday will face the Pre-Flighters again tonight at 2000 in Perry Gym to open a busy weekend of basketball for Lieut. “Chuck” Finley’s charges. Tomorrow afternoon at 1500 a quin- tet from the Navy Radio School at Gainesville, Ga., will also meet the Sky- crackers in Perry Gym. The Navy “Sparks” are coached by Lieut. (jg) E. M. Broscoe, former member of the athletic staff here. Sunday afternoon the Pre-Flighters will play a double-header in Perry be- ginning at 1500, facing in succession the ‘Atlanta Boys’ Club and the local A.S.T.P. basketeers. The Boys’ Club lost to Lieutenant Finley’s charges last 39th, and 40th | weekend. | Record for the Skycrackers thus far |this season is four victories and four | defeats. First to take the floor tonight against Tech will probably be Kissell and Quinn, forwards; Snyder, center; and ‘Lawrence and Winkler, guards. [Fy Skycrackers lost their carly sea- of University dormitories and Sorority | son starters and three first-string subs Row, leaving Operations at 2030, and; will deliver the ladies after the dance ends at 2400. Liberty for upperclass- men expires at 0045. Taps at 0100. on Monday when the 37th Batt depart- ed for primary bases. They were: Dil- lon, Doyle, Altman, Von Bulow, Kluck- man, Barker, Dooley, and Stewart. Hand-to-Hand Proves Handy To Ex-Cadet in Wild Taxi Ride When Cadet Wayne L. Dunean, formerly of the 34th Batt, learned the tactics of hand-to-hand combat here, he never expected to use it before his first encounter with the Japs. The opportunity came much sooner, however. Last week during Saturday night liberty from NAS, Olathe, Kan., Cadet Duncan escorted his date from a Kansas City night club and ushered her into a taxicab at the curb. The cab driver immediately roared away at high speed, ignoring three straight traffic lights and careening wildly around busy street corners. Ca- det Duncan realized something unusual was occurring when bullets from pur- suing police cars began whizzing by. Cadet Duncan pushed his date to the floor of the cab and tried to reason with the driver to stop. When words failed, Duncan employ- ed tactics prescribed for dispatching a Jap, whereupon the driver slumped un- conscious over the wheel. The cool cadet then switched off the ignition and brought the cab to a jolting stop. The cabbie was booked on tentative charges of theft, drunken driving, care- less driving, resisting arrest, operating a taxicab without a license, without dis- playing his picture, and working at an- other job while classified by selective service as 3-C, a farmer. Navy Manpower Group Surveys Station Personnel A Navy Manpower Survey group came aboard Wednesday to study the distribution of officers, crew, and civilian personnel at the station. Group is headed by Captain P. R.. Glutting, USN, director of training for the Sixth Naval District. Serving with him is Commander George Griffin, USNR, executive officer of the Naval Training Unit at Georgia Tech; Gen. Sandy Beaver, onetime chief of staff to the Governor of Georgia and now president of Riverside Military Acad- emy, Gainesville, Ga.; and William J. Green, of the U. S. Civil Service Com- mission. The group expects to complete the survey this week. Warhawk—37 Regimental Review Approximately 1,000 cadets of the. 38th, 39th, and 40th Batts will par- ticipate in the Regimental Review at: 1515 in Sanford Stadium tomorrow.