Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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Record Breakers The track team got under way early in the year in spite of weather and Uncle Sam. Gradually, day by day, more and more prospects came out and a track squad was being whipped into shape for its first meet with Morton Junior college. There weren ' t too many veterans out, but fellows like Koshewa, Jans, Mernitz, Clevenger, Beecken hod all seen action in previous season ' s and could be counted on again. With fairly good freshman prospects the hopes for the season seem pretty bright. The Jays won easily over the first opponent, Morton, and immediately start- ed to work for their next meet. Th IS was a triangular meet with Wheaton and North Central at North Central. The boys must have had an off day or the prospect of Easter the next day was a demoralizer because they seemed to have to work hard even for the third place they received. Just in passing I will mention that Wheaton won the meet. The weather man again played a big role in the development of the track squad. But barring future snow storms or zero weatrier in May the track team will run through its schedule: Wheaton, North Central, Concordia, and Elmhurst at Wheaton, In spite of the adverse conditions brought on by war and the various schools dropping sports and losing players because of it, Elmhurst has decided to go through with the now traditional Elmhurst Intercollegiate Invitational. Al- though the field is expected to be smaller Pete has indicated that there would possibly be fourteen or sixteen schools entered. As yet the definite schools entered are not known nor ore all plans completed but on May 8 the Ell will go on, rain or shine and let ' s hope it isn t snow!

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kave a komer Before winter had even begun to think of stopping a few enterprising fellows started to warm up the arms and legs in preparation for the coming baseball season. With Coach Langhorst as a sort of guiding hand, the team, riddled by losses from graduation and from the men who had left for the armed services, started to round up. With a few old hands like Capt. Abele, now squatting behind the plate, Pfautsch, coming into the infield, Bizer out in center, and Gregson on the mound the Jays hope to pull their woes out of the proverbial dumps . A fair amount of good material was found in the freshman class and a couple of seniors finally found out that they could play ball. The boys were all set and rarin ' to go but it seemed that old man weather was agin ' em. Not until just a few days be- fore the scheduled opener were the Jays able to get any outdoor practice sessions in. The opening game with Lake Forest was cancelled, again because of the weather. Then some snow popped up in the middle of April and again the ploy was stopped. About this time Pete found the duties of trying to coach three different sports at one time and then trying to keep up with the physical education classes just a little bit strenuous so the baseball team went under a new coach, Mr. Tiedemann. The Jays finally got in some games and the first couple showed some weak spots but weren ' t too discouraging. Playing DeKalb first there and then here Elmhurst dropped the two contests 8-2 and 8-7. The next team to meet the blue and white were the boys from Concordia college who visited our campus and were defeated 10-6. Prospects look brighter and hopes are up for the rest of the season.

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Left to right: DeRose, Laning, Le Gros, Kucera, Wentzel, Coach Arends. Across tke net After the usual tussle with adverse weather conditions the tennis team got to work with the old master. Prof. Arends, whipping them into shape. There was plenty of material to work with, surpris- ingly enough, and the prospects for the tennis squad are brighter than those of any other spring sport. With two regulars back from lost year, Plesscherand Wentzel and a good crop of good steady solid players like Laning, Kucera, Le Gros, De Rose, Noffke, a veteran of three years, and Magnall the Joys look like a pretty good bet for the year. Schedule — De Kolb, Wheaton, Illinois Normal, Illinois Wesleyan, Wheaton, there, two games each. Probably the most hard hit team from the standpoint of losses of men is the golf team. Every man of last year ' s regulars is gone. Haefner is in the army, Klose is at another school, hHermonn is in the service as is Pelcher. The only man who sow experience last year and is returning this year is Ev Seegers, a junior. Ev not only has the job of playing but also of managing and sort of coaching the boys along. So far all the boys out for the team ore juniors and according to Seegers look like good material. There ore the Shall- cross brothers Ray and Kenny, Bob hHunt- sha, Joe McKay, and Seegers. As yet no matches have been played but several are scheduled with DeKolb, Northwestern, Bradley, Chicago University, and Illinois tech. 87