Bremerton (CA 130) - Naval Cruise Book

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X- x v- , Ac' ,S Xx x xx .RNSA . . ,wg ,X Www MMA , A, .V x,,,.M,,., . .,..,., -V.-.ww ....,... ,..-. - . .. .. -YY-V - P03 T FRONT ROW lleft to rightj : Colwell, J.L., Street, L.H., Chief H.H. Olson Lawrence, M. A., Hill, J.L. BACK ROW: Hone, J. L., Ooodson, J. L., Cochran, K. S., Winium, L. C., Nichols, R. A., Pettigrew, P. E. l Winding up the i956 summer season with an even T2-won, i2-lost record, the Bremerton softball team found few opportunities to play until the ship reached Subic Bay in February. ln a i2-team double-elimination tournament there, the softballers wound up in third place, headed only by shore-based teams more familiar with play under lights. ln the opening night game of the tourney, the USS Piedmont stumped the cruisermen, 3-O. Bremerton roared back behind timely hitting, a steady defense, and the pitching of Miguel Law- rence, to trounce the USS Pollux and the USS MacOoffin, before gaining revenge over the Piedmont, 6-l. Moving into the finals, Bremerton was eliminated in a hard-fought night game by the local Seabee nine, 7-3. During the ship's stay in Honk Kong, the team defeated the USS Floyd's Bay, 8-5. No less than five members of the starting lineup were from Foxtrot Division, which pretty well explains the Firecontrolmen's sweep of the intramural tournament. Lawrence was aided in the pitching department by Paul Pettigrew, Bones Aines, and L. A. Grossi. L. H. Street acted as team captain. The baseball team found playing opportunities scarce during the cruise, but were loudly lauded for their demonstrations of our national pastime in Australia. Playing three times down under before large crowds, the cruiser nine won once over the local teams. The Mayor of Geelong presented our team with a big trophy after one of the games.

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STANDING lleft to rightl: Rowberry, W. L., Williams, M., Smith, M. R., Mercer, J. G., Regan, J. M., Bremer, R.J KNEELING: Christopher, O. S., team Captain, Newman, C. A. Jr., LTJG F.J. Conklin, Heeter, Highlight of the cruise for the basketball team was the game with the Latvian- Australians on the same court used a few nights earlier for the Olympic finals in Melbourne-even though the speedy Latvians outpointed our unpracticed blueiackets, 7l-50. The Bremerton five swung into action in Yokosuka in January, winning two games out of four against other Navy teams. Playing opportunities became less frequent thereafter. They played in a tournament in Subic Bay, and in Hong Kong met the Meteors, a crack local team, before a big crowd. H. L. 3 or ia D The intramural bowling tournament, which lasted from December to April, kept Bremerton's bowlers pretty busy, but a few of them found time to enter a tournament in Subic Bay in February, along with over a hundred Navy men from other ships and stations. So thoroughly did the Bremerton kegmen dominate the tournament that they swept top honors in three out of four events and walked off with over 55325 in prizes. N Paul Pettigrew llefti, leading scorer in the intramural tournament and captain of the Foxtrot Division team, placed seventh in the singles event at Subic. J. K. Skiles lsecond from lefti, won the singles championship, with Hank Amptman right behind him in second place. Amptman and J.M. Rogstad lrightl teamed up to win the doubles title. Skiles' total pin fall won him the all-events individual trophy, with Amptman again in second place. Nearing the finals of Bremerton's private tourney, CR and F divisions led their respective leagues. f D it i..,. .fri I . if ,,..... Q' Y , sir? iii' D I i AN