Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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TENNIS Sfanding: leff fc righf: Coach Bill Carr, Robert Wagner, Francis Sherman, Kaye Palmer, Don Gillard, Ed Owen, and Bruce Kane. May May May May TENNIS SCHEDULE 5 ........ ...................,,.,....,...,,. .,..... C e nfral Michigan 7 ,..,.... ..,............,.. O live! 13 .....,., ............,..,..,.... C enfral Michigan 2'I-22 ...,,,, A ....,. MIAA Field Day at Kalamazoo 62

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The 1941 golf team was the strongest in Alma's golfing history. Well-rounded in performance, and shooting consistently good golf, the team played its way through to the golf championship of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in the Field Day Meet, in which the golf matches were played on the Battle Creek course. Theff title was a vital factor in the Scots' winning the All-Sports Trophy in 1941. lt was the first time that Alma has won the golf crown. The championship team was composed of Ted Welgoss, Bert Katzenmeyer, Robert Phillips, and Cyril Firth. Other members of the squad were Richard Krall, Sidney Kane, .lack Lea, and Don Peters. Although all members of the title team were eligible to return, Uncle Sam has taken Ted Welgoss from this year's team. 1941 GOLF CHAMPIONS Left to right: Cy Firth, Robert Phillips, Albert Katzenmeyer, and kneeling, Ted Welgoss. 6'I

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This year's tennis team faced a big task in connection with the MIAA Field Day at Kalamazoo held on May 2I-22, because they, too, had the responsibility of trying to see that the All-Sports Trophy returns to Alma in 1942. .lack Howe and Francis Sherman remained from last year's squad which placed Third at the Field Day in Marshall. This year, the squad will be bolstered by Robert Howe and many candidates for the other berths on The tennis team. I Again this year, the Kalamazoo netters were rated tops in the league, especially after the showing of the Hornets on their spring tour of the south. Alma, however, may be rated a strong dark-horse contender for this year's title, and will give both Kalamazoo and Albion strong competition for the net crown. SPRING SPORTS Owing to the national emergency, competition in spring sports-tennis, golf, and track was somwhat curtailed at Alma this year. Fewer intercollegiate matches were scheduled, and intramural and inter-class competition were used as conditioners for the MIAA Field Day this year at Kalamazoo. In spite of The curtailmenf, however, there was not a decrease in the enthusiasm in these departments, as may be noted by the largest track squad in Alma history. These athletes and Coach Macdonald were all determined to do their utmost to see the return of the All-Sports Trophy to Alma this year. It was necessary to abolish intercollegiate baseball from the ranks of the spring sports for the duration of the present emergency. However, Coach Gordon A. Mac- donald and the Alma Administration both assured that'it would be returned as a spring sport as soon as conditions make its return possible and advisable. In The meantime, an extended intramural softball program was substituted in this department. 63