The annual basketball tournament sponsored by the Navy Y.M.C.A. for local serv teams will get under vay today. A total of 17 teams have entered the competition and they are divided into two groups, the "A" and Colonel Cates will be awarded to the winning team after the meeting of the two strongest sides in the two sections There will be a series of three games in the play-off and they are scheduled [to be held on the 19th, 22nd and 24th of November, starting at 7 p.m. each night.
The Navy will be represented by two teams from the U.S.S. August and one from U.S.S. Isabel. "H" Company, champions of the past League, are in the "B" Division.
Tonight's schedule, beginning at 830 pin. will see "D" Company against Headquarters First, "E" Company against Cervice Company and Headquarters Second against Motor Transport Company. looks desolate," one sports writer observed, "but on Tuesday it flowered in five colours."
Plenty of Fun The girls started their practice automatically, without a signal from anyone. A pitcher tossed out a huge grapefruit-like ball and a comely batter smacked it. Instead of the usual sharp crack and a soaring fly to the outfield as.could be expected under similar circumstances with a regular baseball, there was a dull thump, like a pumpkin being whacked with a club, and the ball rose in a
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