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Shaping Up Gold BugSports Prospects For Golfers Are Tennis Team Rapidly April 8, 1943 WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE Page 3 Are Good Mako.ky's Charge. Indude Will Start Season This Four Vet Linksmen Byham Works Baseballers Daily InPreparation Saturday At Loyola Hard bit by losses to the Armed Despite an unusually tough sched- Golf- For Opening Test Against Catholic University Services, and with the smallest sched- ule, Coach Frank Hurt expresses en- ule in years, the Green Terror thusiasm over the prospects of this ers under the tutelage of Prof. John year's edition of Western Maryland's D. Makosky, will open their season One OF Largest Squads Lodge To Handle Most tennis team, which opens its season against divot-diggers from Loyola on this Saturday, April 10, against Loy- Tuesday, April 13. The loss of Dick In Years Turns Out OF Pitching Assignments ola College at Evergreen. Hausler and Mike Phillips, two of the With four returning regulars from top three of last season, Bob Beg-lin, By Earl Schubert ready for an outstanding year. last Year's aggregation and two and Carl Mendel left a considerably The hurling department, as usual, promising newcomers to fill out the weakened team. - One of the largest squads in many has only Lee Lodge again this year Back from last year's squad, win- years answered Coach Byham's call for dependable service. Lodge has fifth and sixth spots, it is not hard ner of its own invitation tournament, for baseball candidates last week and been throwing them up in great fash- to understand why any coach would are Tom Lavin, Francis Cook, Paul managed to get in a full week of ion for three years,. now, and there look forward to a successful season. Brooks, and Fred Holloway, Woody practice before the cold weather re- is no reason why he shouldn't have The number one spot will be ably turned the past week-end. Preston, on the baseball squad last the same success this year. He pos- taken care of by Captain "Bo" Baugh- year, also plans to return to the links Among the' group were seven of sesses a sharp breaking curve, a fast er, who will be aiming for his fourth this spring. the lettermen of last; year, which is a ball, and a confusing side-arm deliv- winning season in this position. Lavin, playing his third year, had just cause to hope for a successful ery that really mows them down. Playing in the second slot is anoth- the best season of any member last year under the new coach and his However, that is the extent of 8y- er seasoned performer of proven abil- year while playing at number four, assistant, Ted Laux. This year's ham's experienced pitching talent to ity, Harry Yingling. This will be and is due to be moved into the top schedule, however, has been cut to ten date. Manny Kaplan, Sylvestin, and Harry's third season on the Terror foursome this year. Having played games due to the dropping of base- Nemo Robinson are also trying their varsity, and there is no reason why the game for only two years, Cook has ball in mallY colleges whom we for- hand at the hurling side of the game, he should not equal or surpass his shown vast improvement and will take merly met on the diamond. and, according to the coaches, have record of the past two years. This over a higher position. Brooks, Washington College, Towson, Mt. pair, Baugher and Yingling, should though only in a few matches last St. Mary's, and American University, real possibilities. What success the also prove a bulwark of strength year, will be celled- upon to play regu- among others, have decided to .confine trio have will soon be found out be- when they team up in the first of the cause the first game is next Wednes- lar at the fourth spot this spring. their baseball activities to intra- After several sessions of practice, day against Catholic University. three doubles combinations. Holloway is still a very doubtful mural programs because of transpor- Coach Byham has been experiment- Most of the offensive will be taken Victories for the opposition should starter. tation difficulties and loss of players ing with two infield combinations; his up in the bats of Kaplan, Barrick, The schedule this year is the small- to the armed service. However, tra- number one being hard-hitting Manny be as scarce as Dodger fans in the est in the history of the team. Most ditional opponents such as Loyola, Kaplan at third, Nemo Robinson on Robinson, and Lodge. They are the Polo Grounds in the number three po- colleges have cancelled their golf Johns Hopkins, Catholic University, short, Fern Hitchcock covering sec- boys who hit the long ball. However, sition. ,-Here Coach Hurt will put his schedules, making it very difficult to and Delaware still loom in the Green ond, and Woody Preston on the initial Terry and Hancock cannot be con- trust in Sophomore Kenny Volk, a arrange matches, Loyola will be met Terror's. path to the Muaon-Dixon sack. Kaplan, Robinson and Preston sidered exactly weak with the willow. first-class racketeer in any bracket. in at least two matches, and WMC championship. are lettermen. The club will play five home games Rounding out the first four matches will also visit Navy. Matches are Fort Meade has been added to the The number two combination in- this year, meeting Catholic Universi- will be the last of Western Maloy- also pending with Georgetown, schedule and _there is a possibility of cludes Chuck Godwin, Robinson, ty on Apri114; Fort Meade, April 25; land's veeterans-steady, dependable George Washington, Delaware, Hav- meeting the Coast Guard, Quantico O'Keeffe, and Buckingham. Curly Delaware, April 27; Johns Hopkins, Bill Baylies. This will also be Bay- May 1; and Loyola on May 13. erford, and Cornell. Marines, and Aberdeen. lies' third year as a regular. Coffman also worked out on the in- Games away will be played at Fort field but has been shifted into the out- Meade, Loyola, Delaware, Catholic The two newcomers to this year's Lodge And Baugher To (aptain er garden. Bull University, and Johns Hopkins. A squad are freshman Earl Morey and In the outfield are lettermen This Saturday's senior "Bud" Blair. game was scheduled with the Buffalo Varsity Baseball And Tennis Barrick in left and John Hancock in Bisons of the International League match will probably find Morey, who center. Several newcomers are try- (Cont. on page 4, col. 2) ing to break into the remaining slot but had to be canceled. Two seniors, Bo Baugher and Lee season Lee is looking forward to his in right, they being Hammering Gus Lodge, were named to captain the best year thus far. Gusgesky, Sylvestin, Pat Caruso, and Bachelors Down Preachers/ 9 To 7i tennis and baseball teams for the Baugher has also been a varsity Coffman. 1943 campaign by coach Frank Hurt regular for four campaigns and for The receiving department is being and Leroy Byham yesterday. Both the past two seasons has been in the well taken care of with the presence Bets/ Black-Whites End In Tie Baugher and Lodge have had promi- number one spot on the Terror tennis of letterman Tom Terry, aided by nent careers in their respective sports team. A Catonsville product, Bo Feldman and Arnold Hancock. With Although greatly hampered by ad- times and added four more runs in and both are entering into the fourth has gained fame on the court in both two years of. experience behind the verse weather conditions, the frater- the third, as they seemingly found season as varsity team members. college and outside ranks. plate to help him, Terry should be nity softball l~ague got off to a start the slants of Bill Lewis to their liking Lodge will be the starting Terror las Wednesday, when the Bachelors and lashed out four safeties in addi- tosser on the ball team when the Ter- downed the Preachers, 9 to 7, in the tion to a walk. In tbe Preacher half' rors entertain Catholic University in Lady Terrors Win Cage Crown afternoon, and the Black and Whites of the third, a triple by Fred Kullmar the opening game next week. Also a and Gamma Bets battled to an 11-11 and a play at first base led to the years From Six Other College Rivals fine hitter, Lee will probably bat in deadlock in a twilight encounter first Purple and Gold run, to which the clean-up spot. For four which was shortened to five innings they added three more in the fifth and Lodge has been on the Green and because of darkness. two more in the sixth on hits by Mar- Gold pitching staff and has played in Western Maryland's girl basketball Towson, and Goucher, the Terror las- In the initial contest, the Bachelors, lin Green and Ed Magowski and four both the infield and outfield when not team swept through three collegiate sies displayed talent offensively and behind the four-hit pitching of W. errors by the Blue and White ten. on the mound. Last season the right foes in rapid succession on Saturday, defensively to nab the title in three Cook and batting of W. Cook, Harris At this point the issue seemed handed elbower was chosen on the March 20 to take the first· Towson straight games. and Michaelfelder, jumped to an early clouded, but it was soon cleared by a All-Maryland nine as a hurler, and invitation sports day championship Paced by Captain Marie Steele, 7-0 lead in the first three innings and two-run double off the bat of W. Cook the year before was second team under the guidance of Miss Marie sharp shooting Terror forward, the were never headed thereafter, despite in the last inning. The Preachers choice at the same position. His best Parker. Invited to participate in the Green and Gold girls subdued Mary- a valiant comeback by the losers, threatened in the last of the seventh game last season was a 15 inning tie tourney along with Notre Dame, land, Notre Dame, and Frostburg In which several times threatened to re- when Jim Green walked and Bo against Syracuse University and this Frostburg, University of Maryland, that order. With Steele contributing verse the outcome. Baugher singled; but when the latter 14 points in the first game and MiIly was doubled on third after a fly ball, Hoke 8, the Terror gals hopped on In the first inning, by dint of three the game ended with the Bachelors Five Championships In Last Seven Maryland quickly and hung up a de- Preacher errors and a two-bagger by on the winning end of a 9 to 7 count. cision 26 to 6 triumph. Then Notre W. Cook, the Bachelors tallied three In the evening engagement, the Years Is Terror Tennis Record Dame offered the major opposition to Black and Whites and Gamma Bets the coming champs, but the Carroll County lassies polished them off 21 I Capable Mentor .•• came to no decision in a free-hitting, By Woody Preston and all of these will again be on nand and even freer-scoring, affair. Al- Five championships in the last sev- this year to carryon a more difficult to 14. The third straight win found though the Gamma Bets pumped Steele once again pacing the attack en years is a record for any club-and schedule. Baugher will again be in a 16 to 6 victory. Although the quickly into a 2 to 0 lead on safeties that is just what Prof. Frank B. slated to play number one post, but by Harrison, Lavin, and Williams, the Hurt's tennis team has accomplished the rest of the lineup is unsettled. game was shortened to ten minutes, Black and Whites wasted no time in the Western Maryland captain filed since 1936. Victors in the Mason- Last season Ken Volk and Bill Bay- thru 10 points. passing them by scoring four runs Dixon Conference for the past two lies ran streaks to eleven straight in their own half of the first inning seasons, Hurt's courtmen will once without defeat and will be out to set Defensively, the two Wentz twins- on hits by Bond, Gruel, and Schubert, again strive for another crown this another court streak in the coming Reba and Ruth-gave the opposi- a walk, and an error. And then they season in an effort to continue the campaign. tion plenty to think about. The main jumped into what looked to be a com- winning ways of the most victorious Blessed with tennis talent in the problem seemed to be in telling the fortable '1 to 2 lead by tallying three of Terror teams. years Prof. Hurt has been at Wes- two freshmen girls apart, and this more times in the second, although it Since 1933, the Green and Gold tern Maryland, the Terrors have nev- all tended to add to the confusion of only took one hit-a single by Skid- racqueteers have hung up 87 wins er had a losing year. Yet, a majority the enemy. Ruth Kittner and Snooky more-i-to do it. against 46 losses in winning the five of the credit must go to the coach Sehrt were also outstanding defen- However their apparently safe lead championships. In 1936 and 1937, the for his sincere interest and hard sive stars on the Terror's side and quickly deterioriated in the next in- Hurtmen won the Maryland Colle- work spent daily orr the boys. Al- Peg Thompson acted in reserve ca- ning under a fiverhit; barrage by the giate Championship, and in 1937,a1so though the clay courts will not be pacity as a forward. Gamma Bets, climaxed by a triple were Maryland State Champions. Af- available for the next week, the court- Miss Parker was especially pleased from the bat of Harry Yingling, ter a slight lapse in 1938 to '40, the men will continue to work out regu- with the play of .her charges. The' which resulted in six runs and an 8 Green team again returned to eham- larly in Gill gym in preparation for girls played an inspired type of game to 7 Gamma Bets lead. The fourth the Loyola test on Saturday and oth- and at all times were alert and ready frame saw the Gamma Bets score .: :!:::~p Mfao~.~rx:.:n;:w!h:n:e~~ ers in the near future. to take advantage of the opposition's Frank B. Hurt three times on two hits and the Black season reached their peak in winning Prof. Hurt also feels that this may mistakes. Especially sweet was the and Whites four times on five hingles, 13 matches while losing only one. be the last tennis season for the dura- sound drubbing handed to Maryland's Professor Hurt is the gentleman bringing the score to 11-11, where it High-lighting last year's champion- tion, and he is especially anxious to girls in the initial contest. who has coached Western Maryland's remained as both sides were quickly ship team were Bo Baugher, Bill Bay- make the season a most successful Perhaps Fergie sent the wrong tennis team to five championships in retired in the last inning, amid the lies, Harry Yingling, and Ken Volk; team to the play-off. the past seven yean. coming darkness.