Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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J J I ITH the familiar sound of 40- I ■ love, deuce, and add out the Jfc Georgetown Tennis team once again was revived after having been dis- continued during the past four years like so many Hoya activities. Traditionally tennis has al va s been a big sport on the Hilltop, and this year it has certainly li ' ed up to all traditions. When the call went out for Racket men in the fall of ' 4b the outlook wasn ' t too good, but by centering the team around Philippe Neff, who won all his scheduled matches, by the end of the year Father Gilee, the coach, was able to look back over a successful season. Phil surpassed all expectations and hopes when he reached the quarter finals of the N.C..A.,A. tournament held in Chicago. He and his teammates, Captain Charles Hagan, Tom Reynolds, Harry Kearney, Wally Sawch, l rank Cantwell, and Gordon Ryan, at the end of the fall season turned in an admirable record of wins and losses against teams along the Eastern Seaboard — Nine matches won; Four lost. This year while the netmen lost Captain Hagan, Phil Neff, and Gordon Ryan, their ranks were strengthened by the return of Joe Tewes and Charles Palms, well known on the Hilltop from pre-war teams. These men faced Yale, Princeton, Penn State and 12 other teams to really give punch to the call that tennis has returned to GU in great tradi- tional style. JOE TEWES and GERRY DWYER, Co-Captains 171

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Spirit of the Reason Ml IKti long-imprisoned men releasei.1 I from the gloom and chill of winter ' s l -M dungeons, Georgetown students awake to the mood of spring. Overnight the dark cast of the March sky begins to reflect the light brilliance of the budding lilacs. The threat of choking snow is replaced by nourish- ing rain ; galoshes are replaced by rubbers, tubercular hacks b - buoyant shouts, the mo- rose trea l of class-bound students by an en- li encLl race for the baseball diamond and the track. .Alongside the eternal stone of Healy ma - be heard the varying bounce of tennis balls, and time-pressed day-hops spare a heart-balming moment to rest in the spring restored benches beneath the ancient trees on the lawn. Even the sombre cloaks of the Jesuits cannot restrain them from stealing a grateful glance at nature ' s rebirth as they pace the walks and read their daily office ; and as the days advance into ever-lengthening warmth, even the cloaks join the topcoats and snowfall of an unlamented winter ' s memory. Tennyson ' s young man ' s fancy dresses him in colorful and light regalia in these . ' pril and Ma - days, and bends his attention not only to the fields of sport but also to the fields where dandelions and poppies grow. Along the student footpaths of the Chesapeake and Potomac Canal students stride in dreamy exhilaration with girls who suddenly appear in spring at the same time as the budding on the maples and elms. %tm Dyer, Tcwcs, Reynolds, Father Geib, SJ., Wilson, Palms and Kearney

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failing on the potomac O ' NE of the most colorful sporting highlights of this year was the or- ganization of the sailing team at Georgetown. The sport is not new here, how- e er. having been inaugurated back in 1937 when Georgetown participated in its first inter-collegiate sailing race. The pre-war Hoya teams were gaining national recognition when the war broke out; and the 1940 team lost only to Yale. Early this spring, a group of sailing en- thusiasts, an.xious to take advantage of the College ' s location on the Potomac, held their first meeting. The Georgetown Universit - Sailing Team was formed, and plans were made to purchase a fleet of eight new boats. The inexperienced racing members were later trained as crews on these boats. Before the ice had disappeared from the Potomac River, the Sailing Team had alreadv scheduled regattas for itself with such inter- collegiate sailing powers as Boston College, Holy Cross, the University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., Princeton, the Midshipmen from An- napolis, and new team at George Washington. A regatta of ten races was held with George Washington University in March, and from those results were determined the skippers, all of whom had previously built up excellent racing records. B - the niiddle of May the team had out- sailed all competition; and, due to this fact, and the ' excellent teamwork of the skippers and their well-practiced crews, the George- town Sailing Club is considered as one of the top contenders for the National Intercolle- giate Yacht Racing Championship. The Moderator and experienced advisor for the future Commodores is Father Richard Law, S.J. 172