Bay City Junior College - Crucible Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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THE CRUCIBLE Top Row— Milton Brown, Philip Patterson, Frank Tennant, Coach Hood. Bottom Bow— Lloycl McKay, Paul Harvey, John Ferris. Swimming The swimming team this season boasted a record of a victory, a loss, and a third place in the state meet. The Michigan State Frosh gave the Bay City tankers their defeat 49-27 at East Lansing, but the Blue Devils, led by Jack Ferris, trounced Flint in a dual meet 36-27. The regulars were Tennant, Harvey, Wallace, Patterson, McKay, Brown, and Ferris. Golf Bay City ' s golf squad finished a highly successful year with a record of three victories, one defeat, and second place in the state tournament. Flint was beaten twice by the Blue Devils. In the first match. Bay City won by 15 strokes. Stork leading the Bay City scoring with an 89. The Hoodmen barely won the second engagement, having a four-man team score of 359 to Flint ' s 362. Leesch was low with 83, Friers shot 88, and Stork 90. The Blue Devils lost their only match when they were beaten by Muskegon 111 2-V2- However, the divot-diggers secured revenge when they defeated the Muskies 7-5 in a return match. Leesch with 3, Cre- basse with 21 ;, and Friers with IV2 accounted for Bay City ' s points. The four-man team total here of 343 was good considering the fact that the match was played in a driving rain. The state meet was played over the hilly Muskegon Country Club, one of the toughest courses in Michigan. Bay City, in runner-up posi- tion, trailed the champion Grand Rapids quartet by 11 strokes. The state meet scores: Leesch 43-42-85, Stork 47-45-90, Friers 50-44-94, Crebassa 43-51-94. [29]

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THE CRUCIBLE Blue and White to the tune of 52-26. This year ' s squad was com- posed of Freidinger, Wood, Kruelen, Swanson, Belger, Muir, Barnett, and Orr. Ineligibility kept three regulars, Arndt, Mar- tindale, and Isaacson off the squad for the whole second semester. GOLF TENNIS Richard Packard, Robert Hughes, Francis Walsh, Donald Cakes Walter Leesch, Ralph Means, Robert Friers, Arthur Crebassa, Fred Stork An All-Junior College basket- ball team was chosen by the sports writers of the various J. C. ' s this year. Freidinger was selected for the first all-state team, while Wood and Kruelen were placed on the second team. Tennis After winning their first two matches of the season, the tennis team fell into a slump and finish- ed with two victories, one defeat, iand fifth place in the state meet. The first match saw Flint go down 4-2. Walsh, Hughes, and Packard won their singles while Walsh and Packard teamed up to win in the doubles. Superior strength in the doubles accounted for a victory in the next engagement at Muskegon. The Blue Devils won 3-2. Both doubles teams of Walsh, Packard and Hughes, Oakes were victor- ious. Walsh, however, was the only singles winner. A return match with Muskegon was rained out and a return match with Flint netted nothing better than a 5-0 defeat by a re- juvenated Flint team. Bay City finished in fifth plac e in the state meet, the champion Grand Rapids team holding their laurels for another year. CHEER LEADERS i le vell, n Inmierniaii, Edmund Arnold, Emery Glancz AY CITY ' S first squad of cheer-leaders was seen in action during the past bas- ketball season. Edmund Arnold, Emery Glancz, and Lleivel- lyn Immerman were the pep direc- tors. Ed, Amos, arid Ayidy stand firm in their belief that it was stu- dent cheering that boosted the Blue Devils to their high con- ference standing. The athletic and booster committees made the selec- tion of the yell-masters.

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THE CRUCIBLE I ntramural Sports Walter Hewitt, Robert Rush, Rex Bell Reginald Barnett, HE YEAR ' S intramural tumblers schedule started with a bang when the freshmen defeated the sophomores 7-0 in the annual interclass foot- ball game. Kenneth Richardson plunged over for the winning touchdown. Intramural basket ball was dominated by the Pre-Laws, who won their second successive title, being beaten only by the Soph General Academics. An all-intra- mural team composed of Ferris, Gakle, McNichol, Martindale, and Dardas was chosen by the referees and sports writers. The yearlings showed their superiority over the upper classmen once more when they defeated the sophs 19-8 in their wind-up basket- bail game played between picked men of the two classes. the Softball title that they held last year, but com- petition has been strong- er this season, and up to now it is anybody ' s title. John Cramer has serv- ed as Student Manager of Athletics, and the past year has seen the best in- tramural program in the history of J. C. Student cooperation and regular Crucible publicity was in a large measure, respon- sible for the season ' s success. Another branch of •sports was introduced in- mural sports Jay-Cee this year by a program must be given g oup of tumbling e n - to the athletic commit- f , tee in charge. Student thusiasts who organized Manager John Cramer a gym team. Very cre- has as student assist- d i t a b 1 6 performances A new intramural fea- t u r e was inaugurated when a swimming meet was held in the Central pool. The Engineers won the event with Bill Orr and Lyle Oviatt starring as high point men. At the time of this writing, none of the win- ners in the spring intra- mural schedule have been determined. The frosh-soph track meet and baseball game are to be held at the end of the year. Both individual com- petition and doubles fea- tured the tennis and horseshoe tourname n t s with mixed doubles in tennis as a new feature. .John Cramer U CH of the credit for Jay- cee ' s well - or- ganized intra- John Cramer, last year ' s Sa rll f K, and were made by this group tennis singles champion, is attempting to dupli- cate the feat this spring. The golfers are fighting for the intramural title with last year ' s champion out of the picture. The Pre-Laws are try- ing desperately to win Louis White. Varsity sports men act as offi- cials f 0 r inter-class events. Faculty mem- bers of the athletic board are Coach Hood, Mr. French, and Mr. Martin. Miss Royal di- rects the activities of the Women ' s athletic pro (I ram. [30] at their initial appear- ance during the frosh- soph basketball game and again at the Wo- men ' s League assembly. Women ' s sports receiv- ed great popularity under the capable direction of the Women ' s League.