Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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VARSITY TENNIS vw 1- 'Z' , I .FJ .V B , 'l Front Rolf: Reed l'capIa1'n l, Castiline, Canavan, Nixon. Back Rozr: Coach Buschmann, Dankner, Kenney, J. Leard, mgr The 1936 Varsity Tennis Team lived up to its early season promise by losing only one match to Bowdoin at Brunswick, 2-7. RIaine l1ad to yield twice to tl1e Garnet, 5-4 and 6-3 in hard fought sets. Keen competition. fine sportsmanship. and hard play, together with the feeling of friendliness between the two teams made these matches outstanding. A weak Colby team succumbed twice before the hard hitting Bobcats. In the state tournament at Urono. Nixon '39 was runner-up in singles, but he and Burt Reed '38 won the doubles title. Captain Howard Buzzell and Coach Busclnnann had a difficult task in selecting the number one man from among the hard hitting trio of Reed. Caster- line,Carter and that clever court N apoleonf, Nixon. Carter was too erratic to maintain the chief position. How evenly Reed and C asterline were matclied was demonstrated at the state tournament in the quarter-Hnals when Reed finaly over- came C asterline, 7-5, 7-5. In the dual matches with 1Iaine both Reed and Nixon lost to Brooks by the same score, 7-5, 7-5. Reed and Nixon, Buzzell anci Carter. and Revey and Casterline all played good doubles during the season. Eight letters were awarded: Howard Bailey, '36, manager Howard Buzzell '36: James Carter '36, Lewis Revey '36g Norman Dankner '37g Arnold Kenseth '37, Donalc Caster- line ,38g Burton Reed '38, BIilton Nixon '39. Unless all signs and omens fail the next few years will be known as TEN N IS years at Bates. Last summer Burt Reed won the Jarvis Field and the Fair Haven Tournaments. Nixon was the winner of the South Portland Purposduck Club Tournament. C asterline won the Tournament at the lIeadowbrook Country Club. In addition to last year's letter men Canavan. former Captain of the BI. C. I. tennis team, Kimnach, number o11e at Cushing Academy in 1935. and Libby all of the class of 339 and Howland, Sutherland, and Kenney of the class of '40 have come out for the team. 'Q -I Page our llllllI1V'Udf0I'fy-StlFII

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UNE XII LE IIELAY x il' 4 .1 ,N -VW.: . r -1'-X, 'AFM 'MQ' ,E .... - X is Q. Coach Thompson, Luukko, Danielson. Lythcott, Howard, Learci, nzanugvr. I'uy1' our l111f1rlrr1l forty-.x-1'.1' TYYO RIILE RELAY LSI Nm, Waillucc. Bridgn-s, Burnap, Danielson, Pierce, Leard, managrr.

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VARSITY BASEBALL i 4 qiziurun-zu. gall 5 I'- ml Ii, l. lll 'I 5 I Q .- -i .-s 'p' . r 2i in faesw 5' USA S .J i -in EM .Jn Q iff ' B sy Frou! Roux' Foach Morey, Malone, Gillis, Dunlevy, Marcus, Bergeron, McDonough, Nims, mgr. Sertrnul Hou-: Stover, Vooke, Johnson, Morin, A. Briggs, Hutchison, Thompson. Third Ron-: frosby, Simonetti, Mcfobb, 'l'ardif'l, Healey, Haberland. 1'lIJII7'fll lion-: Mazzerella, u.s.s't mgr., Ladd, Vonnon, lvilson, hloran, Gilman. 'Defeating the strong Boston University nine who beat Harvard the fol- lowing week. the Bates team under the coaching of David B. hforey got off to a good start after having been rained out of five contests. In the opening game of the State Series against hfaine they played to a SP9 tie after an afternoon of heavy hitting with scattered errors. A real set-back hit the team in the Bl' game when Bonnie Gillis. a veteran senior catcher. broke his middle finger on his throwing hand to put him on the bench for the rest of the season. Batting in third place a11d playing center field for his fourth year. Barney llarcus therefore became the ranking senior o11 the nine. Bill Dunleavy, an- other fourth year man, played in right field. Bill Johnson. a sophomore who did some heavy hitting a year ago, lost his starting position in the other field to Nor- man Tardiff, a freshman from Lewiston who knocked a two bagger in the BU game. C'oach Ray Thompson's freshman son. Hasty, was lead-off man and looks like a good fielding hot-corner man. In the first game he lnade 3 put-outs and 7 assists without a single error. Stan Bergeron. a letterman in his freshman year, again covered first base for the team. Hfike lk-Donough was brought into the line-up after the loss of Ronnie Gillis behind the plate. Bill Crosby was assigned as general handy man around the infield taking his turn on second as well as catching. The pitching department consisted of two sophomore lettermen. Austin Briggs and Bob lfalone. They took the biggest assignments in the Illflllj' games wl1icl1 were played i11 a comparatively few days. Charlie Cooke, giant end and weight man. was the other man to make the pitching squad. Puff' nm' llllmlrfvlfnrly-cfglzl