Green Mountain College - Peaks Yearbook (Poultney, VT)

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M-, 1 . G. --,,.l Bouck Ross Eaton Parry Smithers Fish G. Hughes Kana Heffernan Vlfxggms Holman Chornyak Wolinsky MacArthur Wilson Hoey Sweeney Q. Hughes BASEBALL Bingles blasted from the bludgeons of the 1936 Green and Gold baseball edition as it smashed out a seasonal record of 155 runs in its fourteen-game schedule to snare honors in the won and lost columns with ten victories, three defeats, and one lone tie in a fracas that went only four frames. The trio of defeats were well spaced by the conquests chalked up by the Mountaineers, but despite all efforts, the Union College Frosh, Nichols Junior Col- lege and Albany Business College each marked up a win over the valiant Green Horde. With the exception of the U. V. M. Freshmen who had the count knotted at three-all in a fray that was called during the early periods, the remaining outfits to face the Mountaineers were mowed down by the booming bats and airtight defen- sive play of the I-leffernanmen. Wlith Coach Heffernan building an aggregation around the small band of surviv- ing veterans, midaseason found Wilson, Hoey, Ross, Chornyak, and WVilliams vying for the infield postsg Holman, Parry, VVolinskey and 'Wiggins in the outfieldg and MacArthur and Hughes as backstops. Comprising a flashy twirling corps were Eaton, Kana, Fish and Sweeney, who all contributed mightily to Green Mountain's seasonal showing. The Greenies slashed their way to victory in the initial game of the campaign, 9-1, against Albany Pharmacy as Kana and Sweeney alternated on the mound to allow the visitors but two lone base blows. Pacing G. M. Sluggers was diminutive Rabbit Hoey who slapped out a single and tagged one for the circuit in his three trips to the platter. VVith a brace of conquests over Granville Collegiate Center, and with overwhelm- ingly decisive decisions over the University of Vermont Frosh, New York Deisel Institute and the Union College Frosh, the Green Horde had run its string of victories to six before meeting with its first defeat. Three of the more important games during this winning streak were against the U. V. M. Frosh and both battles with Union. lVith their bats cracking out a savage thirteen-hit victory tune, the Green Galaxy handed the Union squad a 9--L T1

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-PH Gold while they thoroughly tronneed perhaps their bitterest rival, Nichols Junior College in Massachusetts, in the only fracas. Paced by the mammoth Phillips, the Green Galaxy opened its court season with a leisurely conquest over Castleton Normal, 6-L-24. Behind the redoubtable Phillips, who alone garnered enough points to have won the game, the Mountaineers turned the contest into a shambles with a veritable bombardment of counters. Granville Collegiate Center was the second five to fall before the prowess of the Green and Gold, succumbing by a 417-23 tally to the ravages of an offense too fast and too powerful for them to cope with. Against arch rivals U. V. M. Frosh, whom they had defeated in both hotly- coutested thrillers during the previous season, the Mountaineers keep their record clean by swarming over the upstaters to the tune of 24+-16 to annex a third scalp to their victory string. It was with these three victories beneath their belts that the Heffernanmen met their initial defeat at the hands of Vermont Junior College. In a lethargic contest the Capitol City aggregation broke Green Mountain's three-game streak by running up a nine-point lead. As the final whistle blew, they prevailed 241-15. W'ith its potent offense only momentarily damned, the pent-up power of the Green XVavc unleashed itself on the adversaries next to face it, and submerging all who stood in its path, rolled up a consecutive string of eight victories before defeat again resisted its turbulent onslaughts. Undoubtedly one of the most stiiiiy contested fraeases of the series was the Mountaineers' second collision with U. V. M. Frosh. Determined to avenge the defeat handed them by the Greenies only a few weeks before, the Vermonters gave them the fight of their basketball-playing lives during the early sessions before succumbing 32-25. The biggest upset came with Green Mountain's surprising fl-5-23 victory over a highly-touted Nichols Junior College crew. Setting the pace from the outset, the Green lVave was headed at no time, and forging into the van with a 28-10 lead at midtime, vanquished their bitterest opponent by the widest margin of any battle between the two outfits. As far as the final outcome in regard to scores was concerned, the tightest game of the season was the second meeting between the Golden Gladiators and Plattsburgh Normal, in which the locals eked out a bare 38-36 conquest. The final game of the season brought with it Green Mountain's second loss. As in their first defeat, it was before the driving offense and stone wall defense of Vermont Junior College that they faltcred, dropping the fray by a thirteen-point margin. 28-15, without once having snared the lead or spliced the tally. In spite of the duo of losses to that one aggregation, the past season's edition of a Green and Gold court squad will go down in the annals of the school as the most brilliant thus far of all Coach Heifernan's brilliant hoop teams. FROSH FLASH BRAND OF VICTORY BALL In Green Mountain's initial attempt at sponsoring a Freshman basketball squad, the experiment proved highly successful, with the cubs losing but one contest in their six-game schedule. Among their victims were Poultney High School Post Graduate squad, Poultney High School on two occasions, Fairhaven High School and Troy Conference Academy Alumni. The Italian Boys' Club of lvhitehall dished out the juniors' only defeat of the season by a one-point margin, 15-14-. CSM' page 66 for Iuzxlrzftlmll scmroiml recorrlj

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loss in their first meeting with the Schenectady outfit. Ace-hurler Eaton of the Green and Gold bowled a sensational four-hit contest. as Chitzi Ross headed tl1e slugging roster with three out of four. On the following week-end the Vermont Fresh fell before those same slaughter- ing bats. 5-1. as Eaton turned in another sensational four-bingle performance from the mound. lllith the second collision with the powerful Union crew came the Mountaineers' first set-back of the season by the lop-sided count of 11-5. In spite of the fact that their :adversaries notched only six well-spaced safeties from the efforts of mounds- men Eaton and Fish. Green and Gold blunders lost the day. Bunehing their counters in three innings. the Dorpians had little to worry them and were headed at no time. Blasting their way to a place on the heavy end of an 11-7 tally against Albany Business College to again enter the victory column, in the very next game the Heffernanmen met their worst route at the hands of Nichols nightmare contest of the year. Loose play typified a contest mound work. a varied assortment of hobbies and blunders, and most complete lapse in knowledge of all baseball fundamentals. innings of play. four pitchers toed the mound and ninety-six Junior College in the replete with mediocre ton both sidesj an al- In the nine lethargic batters strode to the plate. lVhen the final out at last terminated the dull contest, the count stood at 18-12. Recovering almost immediately, the Golden Gladiators fell upon New York Deisel Institute 19-5, shut-out Montpelier Seminary 18-0, faced a tie score against U. V. M. in a game that was cut short in the fourth chukker, ran rampant over the Poultney A. A. 15-7, and in the final contest were nudged out 3-2 by Albany Business College for their third loss. SEASONAL RECORD Green Mountain .. .. 9 Albany Pharmacy .. 1 Green Mountain Union Frosh .............. at Green Mountain Granville Collegiate Center 1 Green Mountain U. V. M. Frosh .............. 1 Green Mountain Granville Collegiate Center .. 0 Green Mountain N. Y. Deisel Institute ..,... .. 10 Green Mountain Union Frosh ............ .. 11 Green Mountain Albany Business College 7 Green Mountain Nichols Junior College .. .. 18 Green Mountain N. Y. Deisel Institute 5 Green Mountain Montpelier Seminary .. .. 0 Green Mountain U. V. M. Frosh ..... .. 'S Green Mountain Poultney A. A. .......... .. 7 Green Mountain Albany Business College .. 3 Green Mountain -1 Totals 71 'Game called in fourth inning.