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Hats off to Prt. Charles Gordon Stucker, who is now at Camp 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 TylereSmith County tank championships, The
men's 400 yd, free style event, which usually takes a back seat to the shorter
dash events, was a highlight of the first two nights of the tournament. A large
crowd watched Pvt, Charles Gordon Stucker fall behind Pvt, Richard Hinze in the
gruelling 400 yds event. By th» 12th lap Hinge 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. nag

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

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

I received a fine letter from Bill Huggins, 709 West 6th Sto, Coffeyville,

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

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

in Englend 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

team. 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 ell my life, Good luck and best wishes, Bill.

| When Marine We Le "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
many 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, ©
Galif., 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 EB, Allen (405 Soe 40th St.,
Philadelphia 4, Pa.) and Jean McFarland Allen, who are laboring to extricate an
M.D. 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 end much fairer then the Chinese, but not nearly so progressives 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 garagemens You Jay-
hawif Rebounders perpaps remember Bob's Oldsmobile job that war given him as a
present by his parents for not indulging in the nasty nicotine habit before he _
arrived at his majoritye Bob's car most of the time has been interned on the two
gallons of gasoline allowance plus the extra embargo placed in the East against
unnecessary driving, The car was shiny, spice and span, but along came @ harmless