Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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E I TEAM l Hopes for a successful 1937 season for Loyola's ten- nis team have been brightened considerably with the addi- tion of one of the nation's ranking tennis coaches. George O'Connell, to the Loyola stall. lVIr. O'Connell has merited national recognition, first as a player and then as a coach, and already has proved to be an invaluable asset to the team. The tennis season started early this year with the added facilities of indoor courts offered by lVlr. O'Con- nell. first call for candidates was issued in the middle of February. Only two veterans returned from last year's team, m,,mX ' Tibor Beresky. who was elected captaing and Don Swaf- ford, who has acted as manager, scheduling all the meets and taking care of the other tasks that are placed upon a manager. However, capable replacements have been found in Gene Dubay, captain of Loyola Aeademy's team last year, and in Bill Lynch, Len Kaplan. Norb Hruby and Bill Janik, all of whom have progressed exceedingly well under lVlr. O'Connell's tutelage. Loyola's first match was a practice match played against Armour Tech at the 108th En- gineers armory on April 13. Loyola must have been well up in their practicing for they admin- istered an 8 to 0 drubbing to the helpless Engineers. For their first match away from home, the Ramblers journeyed to Naperville to meet North Central College but received a heartbreaking 4 to 3 setback. Beresky, Dubay, and Jauik gave Loyola an advantage in the singles, but this lead was erased by two defeats in the doubles matches that followed. 267 TENNIS TEAM. H l'ul by, Lynch, Sivrks. Coach 0'Connell, Stratford, Dubay.

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THE WIMMI TEAM Loyola was represented this season by one of the most spirited, if not one of the most successful swimming teams, in its history. Coach Alex Wilsoll, in his fifth year as tank instructor, whipped a small inexperienced squad into good enough shape to maintain a .500 won and lost average. Bill Spoeri, who performed on the crack aggregations of former years, was elected captain at the start of the sea- son. He, together with Mortimer Joyce, Ken Kruckstein and Bob White, swam in the free style sprints. Marty Oishaughnessy and Bob Evenson splashed in the distance crawl. The hreastroke was handled by AI Burke and Chuck Jasiel. Everett Ross and O'Shaughnessy worked William Spovri can-rar N The results of the season are as follows: Milwaukee State Teachers' paddled to victory on in the backstroke. with Ross also doing the diving. a Hood-tide, 53-13. The Ramblers came hack to notch up their Hrst victory over North Central, 49-17. George Willialiis College, one of the strongest tank aggregations in the Middle ivest, sank the Loyolans' raft to the tune of 51-15. Armour Tech won the next meet, 4-0-35, at the Techawk pool. The powerful Illinois College squad inflicted the last defeat of the season on the locals to the score, 48-16. Wlieatoii College next fell foe to the Loyolans, 56-19, with the Ramblers sweeping every first. ln a return meet, Loyola avenged an earlier defeat when they sank North Central, 4-2-26. In the last meet of the season Loyola triumphed over Armour, 383,Q-3615. Letters were awarded this year to Capt. Spoeri, Ev Ross, and M. J. Joyce. Freshmen Al Burke and Marty O'Shaughnessy were given numerals. 268 ?v'lMMlNG TEAM- Ffflflf FOIU, ROSS. JOYCS, Spneri, Jnsicl, Coach Wilsong rear row, Burke. 0'Shaughnessy, White, uwnson.

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CROSS CUUNTRY Coach Alex Wilson greeted the large and promising group of new cross country men, at the beginning of the season, with an enthusiasm a trifle restrained by mem- ories of large and promising squads of other years that did not keep their promise. However, all in all, it looked as though Loyola would have a representative team 011 the field to do work to rival that of teams of past successful seasons. Captain Bernard Brennan, veterans Bob Hayes, Austin Walsh, and George Tittinger, augmented by a seemingly capable group of new men, Dave Toomin, Dominic Lo Cascio, George Doyle, Leon Anderson, and Ed Stokes, made up '4 Yi'I1Tz:I5h the squad for the early days of fall training. After a short period of conditioning, Loyola took the field against Milwaukee State Teach- ers hut were hopelessly out of their class as four of the Milwaukee men came in hand in hand with the fast time of 16:01. Leon Anderson was the first Loyola man to cross the finish line and he was closely followed by Tittinger. The score was 15 to 40 in favor of Milwaukee. Loyola showed a slight improvement in their next meet with Wlieaton College, to whom they lost by a score of 19 to 39. Dominic Lo Cascio was the first Loyola man to finish and he was followed in order by Anderson, Walsh, Tittinger, and Campbell, all of Loyola. The high point of the whole cross country season is Loyola's annual Invitational Meet, and it has come to he recognized as the outstanding cross country event in this part of the country. The teams that participated this year were: Notre Dame, Milwaukee State Teachers, Wabash College, Armour, Wheaton, Wesleyan, and Western Illinois Teachers. It was a cold and windy day when the teams lined up for the start but it was not long after the race began that Notre Dame demonstrated its superiority with a number of men in leading positions. Steve Szumachowski and Greg Rice finished first for Notre Dame over the 311 mile course in the time of 18:13, a new record. When the scores were totalled it was discovered that Notre Dame had beaten Milwaukee State Teachers, the defending champions, by two points, for the team championship. Loyola placed seventh with a score of 17016 having beaten Wabash and Armour, the latter having a score of 218 points. Leon Anderson was the first Loyolan to finish, followed by Walsh, Lo Cascio, Tittinger, and Toomin. Cross country at Loyola has never been very successful but in the last few years the results have been very discouraging. Whe1'e the fault lies is hard to say but perhaps the remedy would he more student participation. 266