Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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TENNIS fl953t-First mic. from left: Austin. Fields. Ahranns, Nlr. Gruhill, ll. Hoffman, Ewing, Carl. Second fll1l'.' Schlosshcrg. .lunta teaptain l, Yan Atta. Kerin, Straushaugh, l'1ry'ing. Tliirrl fllll'f Jaeger tnianagert, tfounolly, Pittock. was certainly' ahoye average this season. The TENNIS squad. mentored hy Mr. Norris Grahill. had won one of three April matches tst. Francis. 7-2:3 hut had dropped the other two to Wood- herry' lforest 6-l. and Baltimore City College Hb. 5--1-. Meanwhile the hasehall team lost their hrst game to St. lfrancis 6-tt. hut made up for it hy' winning the next contest from Baltimore City tlollege 5-I in hack of the superh pitching of Big Bill Ward. Then Nlercershurg tied Saxton- l.iherty HS. 5-5. to hring the win-tie total to four against one loss. At l'hiladelphia. on April 25. li. Garcia. Boss. Schulz. and Hyland copped the American Prep- School quarter-mile relay' championship in the l'enn Belays with a time of -1-1.6. The tennis team hounced hack on the win list with a 6-3 triumph Plehes B-l. It seemed the Navy' hrst classmen hoasted good athletes in the track field also. for the Plehes overpowered the Mercershurg tracksters 89-28 at Annapolis. Altoona was the next victim of the hasehall team. losing hy a score of 6-l. However a great Baltimore Poly Team defeated the Academy' Ut-I. ln the next games Merccrshurg played a good hrand of I-all against Nlassanutten to win 3-2. hut were toppled hy' the Navy Plehes 7-l. St. Francis was walloped in two sports hy' Nlercers- hurg in hasehall lil-5. and in tennis 7-2. llale Junta was the only undefeated player during the racket season. The JX. tennis team won hoth of its ofhcial contests. defeating St. James and St. Francis hy scores of 7-2 and 7-2. The drive-and-putt aggregation tithe GOLF team! dropped one of their matches lol: mer the Baltimore l'olytechnic Institute. hut to 1013. The golfers played under the watchful they' dropped their next encounter with the Navy' eye of llr. Lewis Hitzrot. and frequently' on Satur- tLUl.F tl953t-Ifirst mug from lejl: Loughran, P. Kern. Jamison tcaptainl, Fujardo. Griley. Nuwnl mn: Ilr. llitzrot. Walser. Lopinsky. Nlr. Scharnlann. Sealed: Linn. TRACK tSl'RlNll 1953!-First mir. from left: Wirtz tmanagerl. Spiel, Yodrey. Frankhouser. Boss ff-aptaint. Gould. Turpin. lf. Garcia. Nlr. Curran. Seeoml mum' llorelield. Scholes. Whiteomh. l.eekley'. Gourley' IJ. Johnston. Hahn. Yiuhr. Thin! mum' Willems, Yanlleusen, Croye. fionhoy. Hyland. Randall. Morgan. Fourth mir: Leyshon. Stone. Foedish, Hugh, Bird, lf. Garcia. BA5l'iBAl.l. fl953l-fin! rote. from left: Xlclflelland. Xlowry. Paulin. Xlr. Kuhn. Reiss fcaptain t. BTZITIOIIPY. T. Kern. .Neennzl rout D. Nliller tnmnagerl, lfyler. Hohhs. Weaver. Pettit. Carroll. Kaiss. Slayer tmanagerl. Tlzinl mu J lfith- horn, Snyder, l'er-ler. Ruth, B. E. Davies. Nloriarty, Castor. Fourth fllIl'f WY. Ward. Bream. Delwiler. li!