Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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THE FIRST BASEBALL SQUAD Hack Row: Coach Gilliam, Manager Ntewbery, Myers, Tooker, Magnan, Chairman Gallup, Coach Nadal Front Row: Lambert, 0. Newland, Poole. Dcatly, Captain Nadal, Fearing, Miller, R. Newlancl, Cogan double which scored two runs. The losers scored in the seventh on a two-base error. • The final game away from home resulted in ancasy victory over Gunnery by a score of 10-0. Jack Miller pitched seven innings, and Dick Deatlv two, limiting the losers to eight hits. Poole led the attack with three hits. The closing game of the season on May 23 resulted in another victory over Hotchkiss by a score of 1 2-3. I)iek Deatlv and Kingman Lambert smashed home runs to lead the attack, while Dave Nadal had little trouble in setting the losers down. 'Fhe Second Team had a six-game schedule, winning two and tying one out of the games played. Victories were scored over the Hotchkiss Seconds and Forman, while the tic was gained with Regional High. while Newland hurled a five-hit game. Leading the Kent attack were Dick Drat-ly, with five hits, and Jack Fearing, with a home run and a single. On May 1 2. the team suffered its first defeat of the year when a superior West Point team triumphed by a score of 13-2. The Plebes blasted three Kent pitchers, as Nadal failed to finish his first start. A two-run rally in the ninth aided by Na-dal’s triple saved Kent from a shut-out. In the annual game with Taft, Fliess out-pitched Newland to gain a 4-1 victory. Kent assumed a 1-0 lead in the sixth, but a four-run spurt in the seventh clinched the game for Taft. The next day Nadal was outstanding as he pitched and batted the team to a 3-2 win over the Pawling Rehabilitation Center. The pitcher won his own ball game in the sixth with a long

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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

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At the annual picnic Jack Fearing was elected as successor to Dave Nadal. Letters were awarded to Captain Nadal, J. B. Fearing, G. Xewland, R. Ncwland. Deatlv, Tookcr, Miller, Poole, Cogan, Lambert, Magnan, Blaxill, Adams, while Myers, Newbery, and Captain Cady of the Second Team received their numerals. 'Phe batting trophy was awarded to Jack Fearing, who compiled an average of .801. THE SEi SON S RECORD Kent 9 South Kent 4 Kent 2 Gunnerv 1 Kent 4 Berkshire 0 Kent 26 South Kent 9 Kent 5 Berkshire 1 Kent 6 Hotchkiss 3 Kent 2 West Point 13 Kent . 1 Taft 4 Kent 3 Pawling 2 Kent 10 Gunnerv 0 Kent 12 Hotchkiss •» On looking at the record of the 1945 Tennis Team, it would seem that the season had only been mediocre. Out of the nine matches played, four were won. However, two outstanding feats were accomplished by this team. First. Captain Brud Humphreys climaxed a brilliant record at Kent by going through nine singles matches undefeated. Second, for the first time in twenty-one years, Choate met defeat at the hands of a Kent tennis team. Hopes for a good record were rather low at the beginning of the season. Of the two lettermen expected to return, only Captain Humphreys remained, as Jim Griffin had gone into the service in February. Green and Doornail had won their numerals last year, but the rest of the squad was made up of members of last year's second team. Fortunately the courts were ready in record time, so that by April 7 the team was having its first practice sessions. The first six for the Cheshire match on April 21 were Humphreys. Green, Gusliee, Dooman. Allison and Rankin. Cheshire did not provide too much opposition for the Blue and Gray, bowing bv a score of 5-1. Rain prevented the playing of the doubles and the finishing of two singles matches, both of which were split. Humphreys, Gusliee, Allison, and Rankin won their singles. 'I’lie team suffered its first defeat when it lost to Taft on an exceptionally windy day at Watertown. 6-3. Humphreys and Green were the lone singles victors, both triumphing in straight sets. Humphreys and Looram won a hard-fought doubles match from Phcnix and Govin 8-6, 5-7. 6-2, for Kent’s only other victory.