Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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YYINTEII SPIIIITS Front Roux' Hailey, Taylor, coach Durgin. Morin, Goodwin. Second Ii0il'.'.'xl9X2ll11lt'I', Helsher, Harms, Ireland, Reiner, Purington. Third Roux' Hicker. hlCK96H,.'xl1lF6lIl, Hutchinson, Becker. Fourth Roux' f'urtis, Fisher, NYood. This past winter the direct antithesis of. the winter of the hlue snow, will probably he known as, the winter of hlue skiers. And so it was at Bates. The squad made up mostly of eager hut inexperienced skiers had hut few days on snow except during exam period. Luckily C'arnival fell in this snowy period and was completed successfully. We had hoped for some real competition with the other Blaine colleges hut the Dartmouth and Volhy C'arnivals. with invitations out hefore ours. prevented this. The Bates team was scheduled to compete at 1Iaine's Varnival. hut the snow did not stay and the events had to he cancelled. Perhaps the greatest damage done hy this mild winter was to prevent the development of our promising raw material. thus handicapping us in future years. for skiers cannot he Illilfltl without snow. However. in spite of the impending loss of George llorin and Norm Taylor hy graduation. prospects for another year are not too dreary. These two men have done much for our Varnival entertainments during their stay here. especially hlorin with his spectacular jumps through a paper hoop and excellent work in slalom and downhill events. Spud Goodwin. Fred Bailey. and Tom Reiner in the jumps. the slalom. and the downhill events: Boh Ireland. the hest freshman prospect in years. in the slalom and the downhill: Charles Alexander and Vurtis in the cross country. will continue their good work next year assisted hy Anirein. Foster. Helsher. Preble, Snowe. NYood and others who will develop if we are given enough snow. Pmlijf Ulu

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Y XRSITY CBQISS ITUUNTBY Nl in 1,14 r Nalley, YYallace, Du1Yors, Bridges, Danielson, Gould, Downing, Burnap, Voach Thompson. The running motif of the varsity cross country season was rain. Like farmers and fishermen. the cross-country men are especially concerned with weather. And Jupiter Pluvius showed rare change of pace. The brook was frozen solid in October and was a major tributary of the Androscoggin in November. It rained at the f'olby meet, and probably prevented the 16-41 score from being the perfect score of 15-42. The waters of the flood were upon the earth for the Northeastern meet, and the Boston boys showed the advantage of living near the ocean by win- ning, 26-29. Hawk Zanparelli was the chief fisherman that day and turned in good time for the conditions. It did not rain during the Blaine meet, but it had been raining for forty days and forty nights tmore or less 7, and the regular course was flooded out. The Blaine team won the substitute road race with 17 points. Bates 47, and C'olby 60. The managers had just cleaned the mud from the shoes for the New Hnglands. The team went down. It Knot the team J rained. but only the night before. Handicapped by the dry footing the team picked up a 11intl1. Don Bridges came in first among the Bates men in twentieth place. The winning team: Daniel- son '37 captain, 1Yallace Bridges '39, Downing '39, Burnap '38, Gould '38, l,llXY0l'S '39, A junior varsity team also crawled. breast-stroked, and dog paddled through a season. Farmington was its first race by a fraction of a fathom, 28-29. The boys also spliced that one. Bridgton, 23, won by a league over Bates junior varsity team, 41, and Gorham Normal 20. fugr om' I1 un frerl lllfrly-rlighi

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FII ESIIRIAN IIASKETIIA LL l runt lfou'. l'ar1liff, Raymond, Bullock, Kenney, Stover. Sri-um! Ron-: Voaeh Spinks, Daikus, Witty, Ilolehouse, flool, Lippner, Pellieani, lI.YXl'.N'ft1Ilf l'Ullf'll w7ll0l1 Basketball was recognized as an intercollegiate sport at Bates, a student desire. that had been brewing' for several years, was satisfied. Although there were some who hated to see Hockey go, their numbers were so few as compared with those interested in Basketball. that they were willing' to give up and support the Basketball movement. Immediately plans for the first team to represent Bates in Basketball for a period of sixteen years were formulated. It was decided to introduce the sport with a freshmen team one year in advance of Yarsity competi- tion. This, it was believed. would help somewhat to match the foundation work that had been accomplished by our neighboring colleges through the medium of freshmen teams. Twenty-five prospective Basketball men. for the freshmen team. reported to Coach Spinks after Thanksgiving' vacation. Uf this group some had valuable background experience while others were beginning the sport for the first time. From the beginning the one thing that seemed to typify the squad as a whole was an enthusiastic willingness to work and apply themselves. This trait, essentially desirable in any team, developed as the season progressed into team consciousness and an indomitable fighting spirit. Following the procedure instituted in freslnnen football several years ago. emphasis on fundamentals was paramount, in all the work. It was believed that development in individual skills was more important than stress o11 game outcome. That. this might not have been a bad policy for innnediate game results is supported by the fact that the freshmen team lost. only one game out of an eleven-game schedule. Page one lll1ll1ll'O'll for!-If