Benedictine College - Raven Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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There are matches and matches. Here are described boxing, swimming, tennis, golf, handball, and intra- mural basketball matches. by Thomas Morrissey, '37 The swimming team under the able tutelage of Wally Hausknecht progressed rapidly, and meets with various teams from this section of the country were scheduled when financial difiiculties entered the situa- tion and the team was disbanded. It was destined to go places and do things with such members as Gerry O'Shea, president of St. Benedict's Red Cross Life Sav- ing Corps, Quinlan, Malone, Busch, Maes, and Rea, of the same corps, and Meany and Faltysek of the Chicago Catholic League championship team. With the advent of warm weather there was not a favorable day during which the golf course was not crowded to capacity. The first golf tournament held here in recent years proved very successful. Play in this tournament began early in May and before most of us realized it, the finals were being played off. Tennis and handball again proved themselves popu- lar with the student body when, as soon as weather per- mitted, the courts were again crowded with lovers of the game. The tournaments were packed with thrill upon thrill, first a sophomore or a senior would be picked to win and then a dark horse in the form of a freshman would emerge to the fore and it was not until the final drive was made that anyone was assured of victory. In one of the highlights of the intramural sports schedule, the members of the high school defeated the freshman class in a football game that proved more interesting and exciting than some collegiate games. For several weeks before the contest the teams were coached by members of :the varsity. Gene Neff was the head mentor of the freshmen and Mick Cas- serly coached the high school. The game was given much publicity and articles appeared in The Rambler and the Atchison Daily Globe from time to time giving accounts of how the teams were rounding into shape. The play swung back and forth without a score being made until the fourth quarter when the high school, by a series of drives through the line, succeeded in mak- ing the touchdown. The try for the point was blocked. The frosh came back strong but time did not permit them to finish their drive which ended but a few short yards away from that long looked towards goal. 21 w 4 1 Upper picturehleft to right-Busch, Maes, Keim, Tarrant, Farrell. Lower pictureHSheehan, Veeneman, N. Thomp- son, Meehan, Ford. Opposite page, topkBoxing team-In ring, left--J. O'Don- nell, right-Briggs. Around ring, left to right- Garcia, O'Connor, Casey, O'Rourke, Schweiger, Dreiling, J. Thompson, Ferry, Welsh, E. Daly, P. O'Donnell, J. Donahue, Kenefick, Tarrant. Opposite page, center-Swimming team. Back row, left to right-Briggs, McNary, Hausknecht, coach, Hoey, McClure. Second row-C. Rohe, Rieke, Meany, Peter- son, Busch, Faltysek. Front row--Carroll, Kane, J. Quinlan, O'Shea, Malone, Fry, Daly, Garcia. Walter A. Hausknecht George Walsh Swimming Coach Boxing Coach

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Matches! HE field of minor sports at St. Benedict's during the past year was one of the most extensive that the school has en- gaged in. The repertoire included boxing, league basketball, swimming, tennis, golf, and handball. Boxing, though classed among the minor sports, for the past four years has supplied a varisity team ranking in caliber with the foot- ball and basketball teams, and whose members are rewarded with the varsity HB . During the past season the leather pushers met the ring teams of the Kansas Aggies, Haskell Indians, and Falls City, Nebraska, twice each, one card with Nebraska University, and three entries in the Kansas Relays, in which all three won their bouts. ,Public intramural bouts were also staged. The colorful Chief Garcia was the most outstanding member of the team, winning every fight in which he participated, Much credit must be given to George Walsh, coach and business manager, and to Smiling joe Casey, student-coach of the team, and his assistant Charlie Briggs, for the way in which they brought their charges to the fore. The basketball leagues had the support of over three-fourths of the student body as play- ers. League play began before Christmas and continued through the early spring months un- til the champions were decided. In the A league the team captained by Soup Maes was the victor. Chick Meehan's team captured the B league trophy and in the C division a team composed of high school students and captained by johnny Slayman emerged vic- torious. Gerry O,Shea captained the team that wore the laurels of the D division. The winners in each division showed that they were of championship caliber both in play- ing skill and sportsmanship. The twelve weeks of play was a gruelling test of -stamina while the excitement and strain of playoff s was a test of skill and tournament nerves. 20

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1 Upper picture'-St. J'oseph's Hall. Top row, left to right-Wanstrath, Sullivan, Peterson, Busch, Collins, Keim, Burns. Third row- Nadolski, O'Neal, Welsh, Schorn, Tarrant, Thompson, Burns. Second rowADawson, English, Farrell, Sullivan, Ekcler, Rohe, E. Daly. Front row-Mikesic, J. Daly, Seeger, Guillen, Ortegon, Keneiick, Stone. Lower pirture -St. Benedict's Hall. Top rowvwinkler, Sheldon, Elder, Zabel, Barr. Fourth ro'wfMullins, Westerhaus, Colgan, Mangelsdorf, Wolters, Smith, Nicholson. Third row-Botkin, Bailey, Carrigan, Horner, Thimes, Andrews, Haegelin. Second row- Schrick, Alberts, Kilkenny, Horan, Briggs, Shea, LeCompte., Front ro'wAMcNamara,Whitehead, Regan, Allison, Kesse, Hanny, McCarthy. Hall Bo T. Joseph's hall is the rooming building for upper- classmen. It was built in 1924 to meet the needs of the larger number of upperclassmen enrolling in the college. It is a fire-proof, brick-faced, structure of three stories and the newest college building on the campus. In this hall, as in the others, the students follow widely diversified activities, there are athletes of every type, table waiters, officers of the student council, some of the best students in the school. Such upperclass- men as jerry O'Donnell and jim Helmert, president and secretary respectively of the Student CouncilgAll- 14 Life in the halls told by one who has spent Jive years of high school and college at the Black and lfVhite. by Patrick Fitzgerald, '35 American Bud O'Nealg Willard Tarrant, Shakespearean actor, Chet Nadolski, captain of the I934 Raven foot- ball teamg Johnnie Beattie, last year's co-captain of the football team, and many other athletes and scholars live in this building. St. joseph's hall has always been noted for the spirit of camraderie which exists among its occupants. They co-operate in every activity of the school. No one of them tries to outdo or outshine his hallmate. It is the type of group which St. Benedict's likes to have among its students. Father Florian Demmer, O. S.B., is prefect and pal of all the boys in this hall.