Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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THK SEASON'S RECORD South Kent one length ahead of Kent bow four. Time 3 :0( . South Kent Seconds one length alietd of Kent stern four. M.I.T. six feet ahead of Harvard: Harvard half a length ahead of Kent. Time 7:27. Kent First Crew five lengths ahead of Shrewsbury. Time 5:08. Kent Second Crew two lengths ahead of Shrewsbury Second Crew. Time 5:28. Salisbury First Crew three lengths ahead of Kent Second Crew bow four. Time 2:55. Salisbury Second Crew three lengths ahead of Kent Second Crew stern four. Time 8:01. Kent First Crew one length ahead of South Kent. Time 1:55. Salisbury First Crew half a length ahead of Kent Second Crew. Time 4:32. Kent First Crew two lengths ahead of Browne and Nichols First Crew. Time 4.29. (New course record.) Coach Bill Nadal may well be proud of his 1945 Baseball Team. Faced with an imposing schedule of thirteen games, they established an outstanding record by winning nine games while dropping two. Two contests were called on account of inclement weather. Guy Newland was the team’s outstanding pitcher, winning six and losing one. Prospects were bright at the beginning of the season. Returning lettermen from last year were Captain Dave Nadal, Guy Newland , Jack

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lengths to their opponents. The stern four field their opponents even until the half, but the how four was behind all the way. The return raee with South Kent was held in eights at Kent. With Whitelaw in the number four position in place of Esmond ,thc lllue and Gray jumped off to a quarter-length lead which they held until the three-quarter mark despite several sprints by South Kent. Then the smoothrowing Kent eight sprinted until they gained a one-length lead as they crossed the finish line. Kent's time was 1:55 and their opponents in 4:59. On May 19, the final day of the crew season, the Second Crew raced Salisbury in eights while the First Crew was pitted against Browne and Nichols. Salisbury jumped into an early lead at the start but Kent whittled this down to nothing and flic two crews matched stroke for stroke until the three-quarters when Salisbury pulled away again to win in 4:32, break- ing the official course record. Kent’s time was 4:35. Flic First Crew got the jump on their opponents and held a one-length lead until near the end of the race, when they put on a determined sprint which added another length to their lead at the finish. The course record was broken again, as the Blue and Gray shell covered the distance in 1:29. Browne and Nichols's time was 1:36. In the annual form regatta the Fourth Form won, bv virtue of a five-foot victory over the Third Form, in the exceptionally good time of 1:55. At the annual picnic on the Monday after tin season’s finale, lettermen met and chose Esmond and Wick wire co-captains for next year. Captain Worthington, Barnwell. Iglehart, Seymour, Nilsson, Whitcford. Esmond, Wick wire, Wheeler, Whitelaw. James, Bullard, Fox, Malloeh and Mercanton received letters, while Huffman, Wall, Biddle and Chapman were awarded K’s with crossed oar. THE FIRST CREW Chairman Mercanton, Wickwire, Whitcford. Captain Worthington, Whitelaw. Seymour, Iglehart, Barnwell, Nilsson, Coach Butterworth Kneeling: Coxswain Westerlund

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Fearing, and Mickey Morchcad. Altliougli Morchcad went into the armed services before tlie beginning of the season, replacements from last year’s Second Team seemed more than adequate, because of an early spring, the team was able to begin practice well before the end of March. Although a pre-season game was lost to New Milford, this contest sharpened the squad for the opening game against South Kent. The season's opener fulfilled the hopes of the team, as they rolled up a 9-4 victory over South Kent. Guy Xcwland pitched the whole game, being deprived of a shut-out by unearned runs in the last two innings. On Saturday, the twenty-first, the team beat Gunnery in a game which was called after five innings because of rain. Newland pitched a no-hitter, the one Gunnery run being scored on an error in the first inning. Al Poole singled home the two winning runs in the fourth. The Loomis game was rained out, but on the following Saturday the team tri- umphed over Berkshire 1-0 in the first game on the road. Newland allowed three uts and struck out nine opponents. In the return game, with South Kent, the ?cam finally found its batting eye, and routed its opponent by a score of 26-9. Dick Death' and Boss Newland led the attack with four hits apiece. Twenty-three hits and eleven errors by the losers contributed to the debacle. The last inning saw Kent push eight runs across the plate. The Blue and Gray’s streak reached five games as Newland again beat Berkshire, this time by 5-1. Nadal's single in the fifth drove in the winning runs. The outstanding fielding play of tin year was made when Cook of Berkshire was cut down at the plate after attempting to make a home run out of a tremendous blast past the flag-pole. Hotchkiss became the sixth straight victim of the team as the Blue and Gray won bv (i-.'f at Lakeville. Thirteen hits were collected from two Hotchkiss pitchers