NAVY BOOSTS BASKETBALL

Great Lakes Team Has Shown Value of Sport to the Service

 

FOREWORD — One of the greatest contributions
to the game of basketball during the current season
has been the fine showing of the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station passers. The showing of this team
and the fine reception it has received from coast
to coast points the way to the fine work which ath-
letics and basketball in particular can perform in
this time of crisis.

It now seems likely that other branches of the

armed service will follow the pace set by the Great
Lakes five. A tremendous growth in the number of
service teams is expected by: next winter when. still
more young men are expected to be under arms.

Lt. Cdr. R. A. Brown, Public Relations Officer of
the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, has been
kind enough to forward to the Bulletin a resume of
the accomplishments of the fine team representing
the Naval Training Station. This is of necessity in-
complete, for the team is still competing and doing
more than its share not only for the morale of the
station but to materially increase the funds of the
Navy Relief Society.

 

FRANK BAUMHOLTZ
One of Great Lakes "Big Guns”

HEADQUARTERS

NINTH NAVAL DISTRICT
GREAT LAKES, ILL.

LT. CDR. R. A. BROWN

GREAT LAKES ILL: March. The U.°S.- Naval

Training Station basketball team, one of the nation's

best, has almost completed its suicide schedule with
a snappy record of 28 victories and only five defeats.

Paced by Bob Calihan, Frank Baumholtz and Ernie
Andres, All-Americans all, the sailors have breezed
through one of the most difficult schedules in the
country in championship fashion. Their fine record
is doubly impressive because of the fact that only
seven of their 28 games have been played at home.

Only Ohio State, Michigan State, Creighton and
Notre Dame have been able to silence the Blue-
jackets’ big guns. Meanwhile, the tars have whipped
Milwaukee Teachers, Notre Dame, Scott Field,
Indiana, St. Norbert's, St. Joseph (twice), Purdue,
Central Normal, Butler, Western Kentucky Normal,
Calvin, Wheaton, Camp Grant (twice), North-

western, Chicago, Nebraska, John Carroll, lowa

State, Kansas, Wisconsin, Lake Forest and University
of Washington.

Creighton's fine team handed Great Lakes its
most decisive defeat. The Bluejays earned a 59-45
decision on their home court at Omaha, Nebraska.

Great Lakes has averaged 51.6 points in each
game against 39.6 for the opposition. The team’s
best offensive effort was a 68-point total against
St. Joseph's, while its season low was registered
against Michigan State when the Spartans scored a
33-31 upset.

The Navy team's longest winning streak, nine in a
row, was snapped by Notre Dame's Fighting Irish,
46 to 43, in a dramatic battle in the Chicago
stadium. Previously the Bluejackets had whipped
N. D. by a 52-46 count at South Bend, Ind.

Great Lakes has played only one overtime game
this season. It was forced into two extra periods
before gaining a stirring 49-44 nod over Camp
Grant's Warriors at Rockford, Ill.

Calihan, Baumholtz and Andres, the Big Three of
the Naval quintet, have scored more than 200 points
each. ''Cal,"' former University of Detroit sensation
and one of the best hook shot artists in the game,
leads the point parade with 252. Baumholtz, who
averaged 16.2 points a game during three years of
collegiate competition at Ohio University, has col-
lected 235 points, and Andres, who learned his
basketball at Indiana, is next in line with 202.