United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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tit Front Row: Douglas, Cole, Paul. Second Rowi Lt. Comdr. Santmyers, Cassidy, Johnson, Clark, Stevens, Peat, Lewis, London, Gunther, Grosskopf, Coach Williams. 7rom Zee to Qreen Pre-season workouts were held daily in the third battalion basement. Coach Bob Williams. OfFicer Representative Lt. Comdr. E. S. Miller, U.S.N. Manager Russ Croft Our Navy golf team, always dependable to show a good season, came out way on top last year by winning six out of seven matches. The last game of the season was an exciting victory over the Army strokers who have never over-run the Blue and Gold. Fine work by a fine team. Navy Opp. April 4 Cornell 9 April 18 Penn State 6 3 April 25 Univ. of Pitt. 7K IK May 2 William and Mary 9 Navy Opp. May 9 Univ. of Virginia 4 5 May 16 Univ. of Penn. 7 2 May 23 Georgetown 1% ] i May 27 Army 5 4 Left to Right: Grosskopf, Peat, Douglas, Croft, Coach Williams, Clark, Boyd. J™ Sir™ 150

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- ' ifMtw V. T- - ' ■ ' .S ' i» v ' A = ( 1 -- .o— - - ;;;;::= ■ ' Husky Bill Boyer throws the discus. We lose fo Army by a Vt point margin. y ' isTANCE runner prospects are very good with harrier captain Jack r Creamer, plebe Curran Dempsey in the mile. Academy plebe two § r mile record holder Walt Barry will lead the way in the two mile backed by Bob Coogan and Ed Wilson. Charlie Miller and Spike Turner of the first class, Hustad and Sessions from the third class, and plebes Curren and Riehl will fill out the pole vault roster, Curren also being an important man in the broad jump. The weight events will be manned by a team of which any college would be proud. George Moran in the discus, shot, and javelin, George Brown, Bill Boyer, Wes Bauman, and plebe Ben Chase in the shot, Hoke and Rhees still there in the javelin will all add up many points for the Blue and Gold. A strong hurdle team led by Bob McDonald and Stribling will vie with the best. Geiger and plebe Banks, with Reynolds Gambolic Bob McDonald shows his perfect form. Manager Ben Parks Tom Rhees, the javelin thrower. Shot putter George Moron Hilly Sherman brood jumps. A broken tope, another win. and Longnecker doubling from the high jump to the lows will complete this hurdle team. Captain Chuck Hayen and Jack Creamer will run the half, Hayen doubling also to the 440. Hank Cutler, le Bourgeois, Royalty, and Lockwood will complete the middle distance team. With a heavy schedule and, at the climax, the Army-Navy meet against an expected strong Army team, the track men are going to have a hard season. Prospects being what they are, however, these men should form one of the strongest track teams that Navy has ever had. 149

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Amateur Champ. Stevens fell one behind on the twentieth hole, giving Virginia their one point win. Peat and Barrow copped their matches with Peat taking the best ball. The Middies worked hard after this and gained a 7-2 victory over Penn. This was followed by a 7 -lM win over the Georgetown boys. The whole Navy squad made a good showing in both these games and nearly all came close to par. On May 27th our most important match rolled around — the one with Army. This also turned out to be our most exciting match. Things were running neck and neck until there were only two holes left. At this time Clark and Grosskopf were two down to the Army ' s best ball. They both took the seventeenth leaving them only one down. The eighteenth, which ended up hill after a four hundred and thirty-seven yard run, had to be won in order to keep from having to play off a tie. Clark was the first to get to the green. His second shot landed about forty feet from the cup. With the ease of an expert, Gib Clark sunk the ball and that, along with Grosskopf ' s par four, gave the Navy their one point margin to beat Army 5-4. Jim Stevens and Jack Peat, the men who were al- ways quiet during the match but managed to turn in the low scores, summed up the successful golf season by playing in the National Intercollegiate Matches at South Bend. Captain Jack Peat Professional Gene Sarazen and Admiral Wilson play a friendly match. Lou Grosskopf Jim Stevens Bill Barrow Gilbert Clark Harry Gunther Dove Paul rHE team started the season with a bang by giving Cornell a 9-0 shell- acking. Grosskopf, Peat, and Clark gathered low scores of 78 ' s out of the tough 72 par course at the Naval Academy. A shut-out like this boosted morale for the following encounter with Princeton at Princeton. The middies were playing on a new course at the Springdale Golf Club with a strong wind to add to their troubles. They showed the Princeton squad, how- ever, that sailors could do more than sail a ship in strong breezes, and they returned to Annapolis with a 6-3 victory. Jim Stevens, playing the number one position, was the low scorer of the day with a 76. The University of Pitt was the next team to fall before the Gold and Blue. Whitey Grosskopf burned up the course with a par 72, followed by Barrow with a 73. This all adds up to the fact that we defeated Pitt lyi to 1 . Fol- lowing this, the William and Mary group was blanked with a 9-0 score. It began to look as if nothing could stop the Navy. But, alas, the Navy linksmen met their equals. University of Virginia came up to offer Navy their only defeat of the season. The 5-4 score showed a close game. Things were pretty well tied up near the end of the match, so Jim Stevens had to continue play with Virginia ' s Murray, former Panama 151