Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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1949-Since 1859 when Am- herst beat Wfilliams in the hrst intercollegiate baseball game, the -lehfs have had an enviable record. Especially since Paul Eckley took over as coach four- teen vears ago, Amherst has been able to hold her own with K N any team in the East. The 1949 team lived up to tradition, out ini 55, , .fum mm of sivteen games the team won eleven, including victories over Dartmouth and Columbia. One of the main reasons for the successful season was the pitching of Charlie Murphy, one of the Amherst baseball stanclouts ot the post-war era. Behind Murphy, Coach Ecltley had an airtight infield consisting of Ez Bowen on first, Dave .NlcNeish at second, Ivar Rosendale at shortstop, and Bill Genovese at third. The hitting and lielding of these veterans formed a nucleus around which Ecltley built one of his best teams. Catcher Dave Cold and outlielders Moose McGrath, Sam Crowe and jake ,lordan were good defensive ballplayers and provided extra punch in the batting order. 1949 llifvtiiiii Rosenii,-xLi3 . liiilierst w 12145 l SCORES Hjvlvoiiciit 4 A.l.C, 2 I2 St, rXlichael's 1 22 Trinity fi rw Bowdoin 4 U XVesleyan 7 n Springiield 9 I6 XVestover Field 2 I tw Tufts fa 5 Wesleyan 0 5 Trinity 1 3 Dartmouth 2 3 Colgate 14 4 Harvard 5 2 Columbia 1 5 Williaitls 7 IH Vililliams I FIRST Row Smith, Cmperiim, flliller, Diinluzr, Qeizuwese, Hergiri, Yordizn, 'H'ucliiliii, Barry SECOND Row Sclelev tfuntlih, 5lltQmIli, 'Wviq I Dinqley, 'l'i'il5on, Cliristeiisoii, Htirnx, Pierce, Cummings, Fisher, Tllillevtflltzmzilerl. THIRD Row: ML' tfmirierk, Burnett, Lcqilctl, Reviiolrls, Ltmq lmitscr, Dammit, Tunes, Crowe, HtlIl'klIIX Miss t flfqi' l. Page flue fhliiiidrvii flci t

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. ix luilterwt ODD TU Univ. of Mass.. 34 425: Springfield Coll. . 521.1 4213 Univ. ot Conn. 6213 Q4 , V. sf A 2 t I ., .. A A 1 , ' i 1 3 1' 'Q Y f .liiilneisl ODD. ' ., i, 2' 1 -' EQ A 1 ii ',,1, 1 Hmefd 3 ' f 5 ' Q 1 '14 A 1--i' Q -,jp 3 Deerheld . 6 ' 1 . 'V ., B i ,, 51 , M VIVU Vlqb - 7 XVesleyan 1 W ' ,T T. ,I V ,. 2 2 Deerfield . 7 ' , 5 ' 4 :Q 215, -4: ' -' z 5 . 'gy-X 'V tt.: ,, -1, ,f -',. ' .11 U Q-42,553 5, ,A.-- -E x.. .. is g -,., vw .2 . 2 xxlillialns t 7 1 yt . , . 4. - .. , ti - . 1 Q ,Y qi , J , , Q.. L -. ... 3 ,,,, ,. , . YN-1 W -- . .. .. . . . . We . ,,... ecsifg -- .- -5 , ,..-ty -1 -Y... FIRST Row 7f'xmIow, Cronlcliife, 'll'elIs, Stzvres, 'li't1lcefielii, Qurlmtv, Foster. SECOND Row: Selcultz, Behmitm. Sinitm, 'l!'tmIriit1vi, Suthcrltlnti, Shapiro, Richardson tfotlclwl. tpllespic ttftmtlvl. 'H'iiIter, 'll'fiite, Netzle, Ltznilwrfmi, flleslcer, Butlen, Btuil-'s, Crutleslulnle, Long, Cuts lllltl, Tl'lM'Cle'Y f,CtlPf.l FRESHMAN RELAY - TRACK Losing but one first place, the freshman track team swamped the University of Massachusetts freshman by a 70-34 margin in their first outing. Hank XY'uulinan was the high man for the meet in points, capturing 1713 in winning both hurdles and high lump and taking a third in the dash and running in the winning relay, Dick Talmadge placed first in the quarter with a time ot intl. Nurin Corhatv in the dash and Dick Catlett in the pole vault also won forthe vearlings. llank XY'oolman set an indoor record in freshman track of 'flip in the high hurdles, while the -left team lost 52 1 3 to 42 2 3 to the Springfield fresh. ln addition he tied the high jump record with 5 feet lil inches and the low hurdles mark of 5.5 seconds. C-orhatv tied the dash record of :ll-LS and won the hroad iump. XY'oolinan again led the ,leffis as Amherst was defeated, 6213 to -1213 hy the University ot Connecticut. XY'oolman took first place in the high hurdles, while Dick Catlett took firsts in the pole vault and shot put. Hank Xvoolman, Norm Gorhatv, and Dick Catlett are among the freshmenls brighter prospects for next year's varsity, Ptlflt' One fHitiitireti .Teil FRESHMAN SQUASH Coach Frank Gillespie opened the freshman squash season with only two experienced men, Pete Cruikshank and john Wfheeler. The squad, thus handicapped, managed to win but one meet for the entire season. The Little Three victory against Xliesleyan at the Davenport Courts saw jack Wfalter, Bob Boden and Cruikshank spark the Amherst team in its win. Only eight matches were played against the W'esmen, since one of the mem- bers of the Cardinal team failed to make the trip. In the initial home match of the season Ed Neale, Boden and XY'alter registered victories for the frosh, each going four games. in what turned out to be a losing cause, as the jeffmen lost the first of two scheduled contests to Deerfield. The finial meet of the season saw a strong XVilliams team, fea- turing Dick Squires, National Junior Tennis Doubles champion, lead the hovs from Billvtown to a Little Three freshman crown. The two matches credited to Amherst in the meet were victories hy Dave .Xlesker over Evans, and Ed Neale over Sargent in the minimum number of games. Amherst's top man, Cruikshank, bowed to Squires. john XVheeler, jack XValter, Bob Boden, Bill Banks, Dick Cutting and Dick Lamberton also competed for the ,leflmen against XVilliams.

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fi- fiiiijr is 4 iiplinu LJlYt1Ylsl, t oath ht lil.l 1, flliiiititlei .Xl11.1.1 1: Tl1e Sahrinas opened tl1eir season witl1 a sl-2 win over A,l.C, Cl1arlie Murphy pitched tl1e full nine innings, letting the visitors down with only six hits, while striking OLII fifteen. His team- mates hacked him up bv pounding out four consecutive l1its in tl1e sixth inning after two were out. Against St. Michael's in the second game the jelfs collected twelve hits while pitcher Don Dunbar allowed the .Xfikes six for a I2-I victory. The l1o1ne team scored twelve runs in the first six innings before Ecklev pulled out all hut two of his starters and finisl1ed tl1e game with the reserves. Trinitv came to .Xleinorial Field to he the victims ol the third Amherst victory. ln a wild scoring contest tl1e home team won, 22-11, behind tl1e pitching of Murphy and reliefer .lohn Bergin. Tl1e ,lefls notched three runs in the sivth inning hut sealed their victorv in tl1e seventh with a nine-run outburst topped with a grand-slam home run hv Captain Rosendale. Two unearned l'llIlN in tl1e eighth inning hroke a -f--l tie to give Amherst a triumpl1 over Bowdoin. Xvith two on and two out the Polar liear leftfielder dropped Nloose .NfcC.rath's fly into short left to let in tl1e tie-breaking win and a moment later llarrv Nliller stole home to insure tl1e jeff run. Don Dun- har and -lohn llergin handled the pitching for Amherst. The XY'eslevan Cardinals finally hrolte the jeff winning streak with a 7-fl victorv at ,Nliddletown Charlie .Nlurphv suffered his first defeat though striking out eleven men, ten in tl1e first four innings Rosendale and Dave .NlcNeish were the only visit- ing hatters to hit the pitching of XVeslevan's Frosty Francis. W'ith ,lohn llergin making his first Amherst start on the mound, the team lost its second straight to Springfield hy a 9-3 score. All but three of the Springfield runs were a result of five consecutive walks isstICt,l hv tl1e Amherst inottnd staff in the seventh inning. The ,lefTs got hack on tl1e winning track against Wlestover Field, highlighting the sports of Prom Weekeiitl with a lo-2 rout of the visitors. Charlie Murphy retired after four innings with a ten run lead to 111ake wav for Dave Hunter, who held Page Une Htnidred LTiuel11e Fssafs the soldiers scoreless for three frames. Ned Barry finished tl1e game, allowing only one hit. For the fourth titne Amherst went into douhle figures to heat Tufts, lfi-lv. Tl1e ,leffs totaled 13 hits while the losers con- tributed seven errors and ten walks to the Sabrina causei Bill Genovese who had previouslv heen hampered by a bad ankle went the full nine innings at third, celebrating his return with a grand-slam homer in the first inning. Charlie ,Nlurphv limited Xvesleyan to four hits as the ,leffs avenged their earlier defeat with a 5-ll triumph Dnlv three Cardinals reached second hase as .Nlurphy outpitched XY'es- levan's Francis all the wav. lvar Rosendale scored E: Bowen on a long triple in the third inning. The ,leffs exploited XY'es- levan's defensive weaknesses in the fourth to add three runs to their total. The Lord ,leffs slapped out nine l1its to heat Trinitv, 5-1, for their fourth straight win. Don Dunbar pitched shutout ball for six innings before giving wav to .lohn Bergin, who allowed only one hit and a single run. .Nlaking it five in a row, the Amherst team edged ottt highly-touted Dartmouth by a 3-2 score. The lndians tallied twice in the first two innings to take a OflC'l'LlH advantage hut the ,leffs came hack in the fourth to win the hall game. Charlie Murphy, who allowed Dartmouth only three l1its after the lirst two innings, singled in the tieing run and Dave .NlcNeish drove l1i1n in to clinch tl1e victory. Against Colgate the Sabrina squad suffered a complete re- versal of form and fell by a count of 14-3. Four jeff hurlers received little or no support as the Red Raiders scored seven unearned runs in the first inning and went on to an easy triumph. Harvard edged the jeffs, 5-4, in a tight game at Cambridge. Charlie Murphy had a bad day as he issued nine walks while striking Ollt three. Don Dunbar did a line iob on the mound as the ,leffs con- quered Columhia, 2-1, in eleven innings. lt was a pitcheris duel all the wav with each moundsman allowing only four hits and one l'l.Il1 until the last half of the eleventh, Then an error hv .Yr ,A ..-f' ,tgt-nip gn' 'C - '-N 5 -sw- if. ' l.,., 'f- 5 , . 'nz . . - -'-rw-, -rv , , .---'lee 1 R .a1,.7 f:.ts --'..' -. - A Y - '- - -, sf -,-t J's::g,1-s,- ,gs ,- - J A , seg: ---- s : -1- W. 4- .x-.:i.,,.-,a,4--x- -w f ,- .., . sew., L V,-.4-.'-r' - ' -, , :. t--1 'i'15ef'sQ4- YT' -- . ..gw5.'.' .-1 -.',..Qf....,.- ' lf