13.

Hats off to Pvt. Charles Gordon Stucker, who is now at Cemp Fannin,
Texas. Gordon added to his laurels won on the gridiron and basketball court by
winning the Sharpshooter Medal, with the highest score in his battalion, shooting
149 out of 150, Yet his eyesight was the thing that failed him in his Annapolis
trye A clipping from the Tyler, Texas, newspaper says that two contests stood head
and shoulders above the rest in the Tyler-Smith County tank championships. The
men's 400 yd. free style event, which usually takes a back seat to the shorter
dash events, was « highlight of the first two nights of the tournament. A large
crowd watched Pvt. Charles Gordon Stucker fall behind Pvt. Richard Hinge in the
gruelling 400 yd. event, By the 12th lap Hinze was almost a full lap ahead of
Stucker, but a burst df speed in the last four turns gave Stucker the victory.
Gordon also won the men's 50«yd, free style.

Re We Farris, Phi, writes from Seattle - "I was quite surprised but
pleased to learn of Quigley being made Director of Athletics at Kansas, I am
sure he will be a fine man for the jobs"

Good luck when your new ship comes in, Dick - the one you are waiting for. |

| I received a fine letter from Bill Huggins, 709 West 6th St., Coffeyville,

Kansas. Bill is a number one sports enthusiast of the Sunflower statee Although
an illness has kept him bedridden for a number of years, he knows every athlete

and the athlete's record in this country of ourse Bill is a brother of "Teady”
Huggins whe played on Frosty Cox's championship teams at Colorado. He has been

in England since spring, just after he finished the basketball season playing

in the National A.A.U,. tournament in Denver as a member of the Buckley Field

teame When I spoke in Coffeyville last fall at the allesports dinner given by

the classification clubs of that city, I stopped in to see Bill. I had never

met a more cheerful shut-in in all my life. Good luck and best wishes, Bill.

When Marine w, L, "Bill" Winey, Jr., former caddy at the Lawrence Country
Club and a friend of all the players there, visited us in Lawrence Iwas dis-
appointed in not having a longer time to visit. But from all I hear, Bill, your
friends were delighted to see you and were impressed with your golf game.
Bill has returned from Australia and is now at the Yard Dispensary, Mare Island,
Calif,, where they are trying to get the rest of the malaria out of him before
he reports for active duty.

This is a short story about Pfe, Robert E, Allen (405 So, 40th St.,
Philadelphia 4, Pa.) and Jean licFarland Allen, who are laboring to extricate an
MeD. degree from the University of Pennsylvania as soon as possible. You will
remember what I once said about the Philadelphians, As a class they are much
taller and much fairer than the Chinese, but not nearly so progressive. But in
the City of Brotherly Love an accident happened on Market Street that cost Pfc.

Bob and Jean better than $500, ;

Bob had taken his car down to have it washed ~ not by a garage but by
some energetic colored boys who would do it cheaper than the garagemen, You Jay-
hawk Rebounders perhaps remember Bob's Oldsmobile job that wag given him as a
present by his parents for not indulging in the aasty nicotine habit before he
arrived at his majority. Bob's car most of the. time has been interned on the two
gallons of gasoline allowance plus the extra embargo placed in the Bast against
unnecessary driving. The car was shiny, spic and span, but along came a harmless