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'6 The Gold Bug, Feb. 28, 1964 Gifted Tennis Squad Boasts Experience Plus ------- ------- Battleweary Fade Fast In The Finish Mason-Dixon Final Standings Conf. Pet. Overall P-rice. Linton . Winterling 1. Mount St. Mary's 11-3 .786 16-6 2. Catholic U. 7-3 .700 13-10 3, Loyola 7-7 .500 9-12 Combo Seen As Net Threat 4. Washington .. .... 6-6 .500 11-8 5. Baltimore U. 6-7 .462 8-12 6. Western Maryland ._ 5-7 .417 6-13 7. Towson 0-12 .000 1-15 8. Johns Hopkins 1-6 .143 4-12 Western Maryland's basket- excellent shooting eyes ballers closed out the 1963-64 Sam Leishure, Stan campaign la~t week losing to ~~:oJ~';es~~~nl,e~1ti~:f;;:o~r~ankd Mt. St. Mary s 95-63 and to Bal. Buck Kelley aided Ron Shirey timore University 83-70. Ending with the rebounding c h 0 res the campaign with a 6-13 record while Kelley also proved effec- the "Green Terrors" will appear tive in the back court. After in no post-season play-offs, but losing to three tough Middle At., even though the season was not lantic Conference foes, Franklin ~n~vi~~~!s O~~r!O~I:;ee? a;x~~ii :~~ ~a:fsS~~~: ~~~~~onre~:;~:d Gym. to the Mason-Dixon Conference The aeaaqn was a long and and took two straight victories tiring one for Coach Bragonier over Towson, 90-68, and Gal- and the team and it was marked laudet, 96-68. It seemed that the by several injuries and players team was at its peak at this having to miss games. It seems poi n t, however the two-week that just as the team was reach- Christmas vacation interrupted ing peak performance a vaca- this performance. tion, exams, or injuries Inter; The first two games of 1964 ~dividual Scoring F.G. F. T.P. Pct. L Rich Eigen 119 38 276 .402 2. Jim Shaw 106 41 253 .477 3. Sam Leishure 77 72 226 .450 4. Ron Shirey 69 47 185 .460 5. Stan Makcver 58 38 154 .379 F.T. Total \V.M.C. 334 1310 361 1579 Girls Travel To Hood ;~::."b~~:':;,uf.nj" Tomor-row a badminton team a position. Any and a bowling team along with if he runs the the girls' varsity basektball seconds, can be sure of a team will represent WMC in a position on the squad. Sports Day at Hood College. speeds at which races are Held annually, the competition in this conference are . is to give more girls a chance the reach of any able to participate in inter-school man. The records for Although the JV C'mon Fellas! team didn't have an . Basketball . record finishing 2-7 on some Cinder Berths they provided The two ball games. citing were games games with the Are Wide Open Frosh. In each the Green and The Western Maryland Col- had to come from lege Track Team needs men. hind in the second ~~~~~~ds.sOt::~at c~:t ~!r~~; ~e::~adrl~~v:n:g::~::d ",'P",,"" 0<0',,, II put one man in each event! high of 40 points. . NONE of last year's sprinters accomplished by have returned and at the team's 19 of 42 field goal first organizational meeting 2 out of the same only seventeen me,: showe? up. charity tosses. It is hoped group of men who practice their WMC, it carries more big There are /ortY-4UllC positions the JV players this year got sport from early October until schools than any other to be filled! valuable game experience which March. This group is the un- the Hill. The long This college can not expect a will enable them to be a big as- publicized, successful. yet seem- practice and the matches varsity squad to have a winning set to the varsity in the next ingly faceless rifle team. It is are nothing more than one season if none of the students- few years. Leonard this reason that the sports entries in the newspapers mean care enough to try and help. wound up the year as thinks it about time a lot to these men. They have Experience is not necessary. ing scorer on the the masks of uno- learned that a victory will Twenty-five per cent of last averaging almost 20 . disregarded and ade- never merit more .than a hand- year's letter winners had never game. achievements brought to shake from the coach.