The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 25, 1936 Page: 4 of 4
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THE TEXAS STEER
IT ALREADY HAPPENED
Electrician’s
This was
SEND THE STEER HOME
the,
the i
painted. It was clean last week.”
“I thay chief them’be body put
gate big crab in my hat. I think he
outh be put on report, That thing
liable to bith me. Ith afraid of tham
things.
On July 11th the Interdivisional
boxers and wrestlers entertained
the ship’s company with a series
of bouts in which there was more
action than in many professional
bouts for which you pay coin of
the realm to see.
In the first wrestling event
Keckler, 6 th division, pinned Hughes
of the 7th in 1 minute and 20
seconds.
“Red” McMillian of the 4th lost
to Harriman of the 2nd by a fall
in 1 minute 35 seconds, dropping
the middleweight event.
In the heavy weight, Reuber
finally downed Kapelzek after four
minutes of strenuous effort,
The feature event in wrestling
was a free for all between “Chesty”
Gustafson of the 2nd, “Pickles *
Hintz of the side cleaners, and
“High Compression” Horne,
speedy ex-mess cook from
Marines. This melee had all hands
in a hilarious uproar. Finally the
referee called it a draw and thus
ended a show that was worthy of
the news reels.
The opening boxing event was
between two light weights from
the 5th division: Peltier and Lucas.
This fight gnded in a draw after
three rounds of fast battling.
Utz from the Firecontrolmen was
all but taken to the cleaners by
Potempkin of the 7th in the welter
weight event. The first two rounds
were even but Utz took the deci-
sion by fast work in the third. This
was Potempkin’s first fight in this
class and we give him high praise
for a good three rounds of hard
fighting.
In the 118 lb. class, Marriott of
Our guess is that No. 5 turret
will miss their ex-gun captain. He
sure was fast; before the other
guns had fired three salvos he had
loaded and hollored “ready four”
(wonder who ?).
One question we would like to
find the answer to - JUST WHAT
DOES “DD” MEAN. Damp and
Dingy, Dumb and Dummer, or
Dread and Doubtful. On second
thought perhaps we had better ash
a certain boatswain’s mate forward
for “DD” could mean most any-
thing.
It is nice weather these days.
Nice days for sun baths for the
older people. It makes them feel
young. Who was the boatswain’s
mate in third division availing him-
self of the opportunity. Nothing
like a boatswain’s mate with a soft
tint of tan.
We hear one of our prominent
boatswain’s mate on starboard side
hxw been visiting Hollywood in ?
nice big limousine. We wonder who
owns it! Sweet violets.
We have heard of absent Blind;
professors, but we know of absen
minded coxswains on here; one
went on the forecastle to hous
awnings and forgot what he wen
for.
I only heard - There has bee>
lots of lolly giggling around th
master-at-arms shack lately. Curlj
hair and laughing teeth and whii
socks, I love you.
Yes, we are luckier on th
TEXAS than we will ever know
We are the only ship in the flee
who has a master rigger. I don’
believe we could get along withou
him.
We sure do miss the good o’
baseball games we had in Fricso
The only trouble is when you so
two games you’re awful tired. ?
bag-alley watch is most essential
Heard in the First Division “I
was this way sir, the fireman spill
ed this paint on deck when we
LAST SMOKER A SUCCESS the Electrician’s gang fought
O’Campo of “S” division to & draw
after three hard rounds.
a bout worth seeing. O’Campo
started off fast and hit hard but
the “Swede” managed to slow him
up with some fast ones to the hea l
and body. No one complained
about the outcome as it was an
easy draw and a good bout from the
point of view of the spectators.
Taggart of the 2nd tagged Bell
of the 7th in the middleweight and
to his suprise the newcomer to
the ship didn’t go down but kepc
coming. Taggart won the decision
by his hard hitting in the last
round. He apparently was in bet-
ter shape than his opponent who
was making his first appearance
in the ring. There is no doubt but
that Taggart knew he had been in
a fight after the last bell.
Monsimer of “B” division ran
into a tough one in the lightheavy
| event when he copped a decision
from Cappel of the Marine guard.
This was the Marine’s first fight.
According to Monsimer this
“Gyrene” can really take it and
dish it out as well.
“Bob” Briggs won the heavy
weight event in about ten seconds
flat after hanging a hard one on
“Deacon” Johanson’s button. The
“E” division sailor came up from
the deck in short order but he was
obviously out on his feet and the
referee stopped the bout.
The last fight was between Clark
of the Marines and Harkins of “E”
division. These two fought a draw
during the cruise from Panama and
this bout was looked forward to
with keen interest. The Marine
won two rounds by'y wide margin.
The first by a knock down and the
last one by aggressiveness and hard
hitting. We think a lot of welter-
weights in the Fleet will be meet-
ing this lanky Marine to their
sorrow during the coming year.
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Texas (Battleship). The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 25, 1936, newspaper, July 25, 1936; United States. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1218892/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.