Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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In last year's campaign, Fred Leary was a coach's dream come true as he ran up eight straight victories before losing a match. In addition to his fine season play, Fred also led the Green and White to the Metropolitan Championship by registering a low 85 score. The sextet will have a tough twelve match schedule to con- Downing drives a long one. tencl with as they meet some of the East's top collegiate golf teams. They will wield their clubs in a home-and-home series against Bridgeport University and the Cadets from West Point. The local foes they will face are: Violets of New York Uni- versity, the Fordham Ram, the St. John's Redmen and the consistently tough Hofstra Iinksmen. The season will climax with the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Golf Championships. Nerz lines up the green with a practice swing.

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The 1955-56 Golf Team. GOLF TEAM The golf team for the 1956 season is expected to remain the top team in the Metropolitan area. Coach Ken Norton has five good reasons for an optimistic outlook for the campaign. They are: Joe Damore, Ray Darmstadt, John Downing, Fred Leary and Don Nerz. These are the returnees from the Metro- politan Intercollegiate Championship squad of last year. Manhattanfs sextet will be led by Captain Ray Darmstadt, who has developed into one of the finest golfers in the Green and White history book. His fellow teetotalers will include the veterans, Damore, Downing, Leary ancl Nerz. The sixth starter and the two alternates will be selected from the lead- ing intramural cluHers. Couch Norton and Dick Hall. 235

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To home for the double play. It's a hard hit down the third base line. BASEBALL TEAM In early March the 1956 Manhattan baseball team was going through their drills in the Alumni Gym. Coach Dave Curran was surveying his squad with an optimistic smile. Here he was moulding a squad which was hoped to be the team that would bring the Metropolitan Baseball Conference Championship to Manhattan. No other Jasper nine has been able to bring this coveted title to our campus since the league's inception in 1941, but this squad has the determination and ability to capture the Ioop's crown. Captain Bob Coccodrilli will lead a squad of more than twelve veteran performers in this campaign. Bob has been a stellar member of the Jasper infield for the last two campaigns as a steady man with the glove and the bat. The pitching corps will be headed by veterans Jim Clark and John McCoy. These two righthanders were the mainstays of the twirlers during the 1955 season and mentor Curran expects them to retain this top rating. Jim looks like the top hurler be- cause of the knuckleball and slider which he has added to his repertiore. McCoy should remain one of the most feared pitchers in the league because of his blinding fastball and his recently developed change-of-pace and curveball. Gerry Markey and Marty McGuire should provide the mound staff with a solid secondary line. With righty Rich Mannello and southpaw Dick Bryson working from the bullpen, the corps should be a tough one to beat.