Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Z, I' ... If nf. ls .K There was no doubT as To The superioriTy oT The Jaspers over The VermonT Team. The Green baTTers pounded The piTc:her oT The Green MounTain boys To The Tigura- Tive pulp, driving ouT sevenTeen saTe hi+s oT assorTed varieTies, and chasing an equal number oT runs across The rubber. The lions oT The Lehigh piTching sTaTT were similarly TooThless beTore The merciless slugging oT The hiT-crazy Jaspers. The Pennsylvanians were also bombarded by an assaulT +ha+ neTTed a ToTal oT sevenTeen hiTs and TourTeen runs. WALT DEVANEY TOM GARRISON MORSE REIDY T 282 91,2 5 , if l 1 ' i 3 -1 l l l 1 1 P1 395 5: , Ma., as Bla whi inni are piTc 'Q sf' , . MQ T i nj ,4x yy ,, :Tw ZW

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43 'si T. J, F211 ff We '-1 1 5--T , R' i. l Y ' ,Li:sL. T LEE ff f-Ziff l , l l l , . xxx XX T X N 05 OT i E si LLI l- ' CAPT. JOT-lN McCORMlCK COACH BERT DANIELS MANAGER GEORGE DAVIS A 1 if SS BASEBALL i952 LD ff l-lEN TaTe casT BerT Daniels in The direcTion oT lvlanhaTTan lasT year, The T' T Te was Taken Toward reesTablishing The baseball pr'esTige which once f mrs s p was The leading aThleTic disTincTion oT The college, Tor under The TalenTed guidance . . . . d T oT The colorTul ex-big league sTar, The Jasper nine is developing in Tull accor ance A wiTh The oTher branches oT varsiTy sporTs. i Old lvlanhaTTaniTes delighT in hearkening back To ThaT Time when The Jaspers l L sTood supreme in collegiaTe baseball circles-in a class by Themselves-wiTh serious ,ggj compeTiTion Tor Their loTTy honors noT TorThcoming even Trom The leading universiTies if y oT The counTry. Modern ManhaTTaniTes are beginning To delighT in spinning yarns I' abouT The sTrengTh oT The currenT nines wiTh as much relish as did The old grads when ,' making Their boasTs. T l I ATTer a long series oT dismal seasons, baseball came really back inTo iTs own lasT it spring when The TirsT Daniels-coached Green nine rolled up a record oT ThirTeen T vicTories and eighT deTeaTs, upseTTing among oThers such Tormidable rivals as Colum- bia, CiTy College, Providence, SeTon l-lall and Villanova. E From all indicaTions The splendid record oT The l93l Jasper nine is due To be l surpassed in achievemenT by iTs successor. The currenT ball Tossers auspiciously in- A auguraTed Their season wiTh decisive vicTories over VermonT UniversiTy and Lehigh. sl -i f ,Nan ,mf -,,,,,, ,,,,, ,.,,--,J..,,.,,,,w.,,- ' ,J T'F31?l2i'ilfjT5ff5fff'T77Q5i-fill:-5Exgigiczxiifz.LgE:p::E.: :.:Li..7,...l. -S1 'filifLlI 1TEI1-'-iii Qi T 'llllllbfilglQf'WlUl1ES'CUElUl2A 28l 1

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The superlaTive baTTing Torm oT The Green in iTs Two TesTs Thus Tar is so brillianT ' ' B'll as To overshadow commendable piTching performances by Tom Garrison and I ' h'T over The Tull rouTe, Bl ke. Garrison deTeaTed VermonT, I7-l, allowing only seven I s a while Blalce helped earn The I3-3 rouTe oT Lehigh wiTh a Three-hiT game Tor The seven innings oT play. WiTh a baTTing order ThaT is packed wiTh punch Trom sTarT To inns are sure To malce Trouble Tor every Team They come againsT This year. Even The piTchers like Their hiTs. T' ' h, The Jaspers i l TlP O'NElLL BOB LEONARD HAL KEEGAN 283