New York Military Academy - Shrapnel Yearbook (Cornwall on Hudson, NY)

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K , ga.. 1, if Wit M VARSITY BASEBALL Coach ...........,..........,...............,............... ....,......................................,..,.......... M r. Grow Assistant Coach ....,. ........ L ieut. Angello Captain ................ ........... A rmellino Manager ................. ............... B usto Assistant Manager .... ......................,.....,... ......... B u cci THE TEAM Armellino DeRonde Fiory, W. Lucarelle Stark Allen, A. Durwin Hamilton, B. McNamara Smith, G. Boucher Engelhardt Kinsey Nevins Tillman Depole, T. Finley Lindenberger O'Loughlin THE RECORD N.Y.M.A. Opponents Storm King School ...... ................................... ...... 1 2 8 Saint Agnes .............,. 0 5 Iona Prep .................., 1 10 Stroudsburg Frosh ...... 4 9 Irving School ............. 1 0 Admiral Billard ....... 16 1 Adelphi Academy ....,... 6 5 Mount Saint Michael ...... 2 11 l , Page One hundred seventy-four

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The Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament LTHOUGH we all were suffering with a desire to get home on Spring Furlough, no one can say that the Corps of Cadets did not enjoy the Golden Gloves Bouts. They were generally evenly matched and fairly fought. With three West Point dignitaries serving as judges and referee, the bouts were run off in good form and rapid order. Dunham, L., was the only combatant to repeat his victory of 1938. Fighting again in the Bard Hall Dwarfs division, he defeated Turner for the supremacy of the lightest-weight group. Ruzzo once again fought his way to the finals among the Bard Hall Middies, but this time lost, by a slight mar- gin, to Dunham, R. Fiory, who as a finalist in the Lightweight class, was defeated by Armellino in l938, this time faced Field in the final bout of the same division, and emerged trium- phant. ,U ,. ,.,......., .,-, LIEUT. KOHOUT PRESENTING THE GOLDEN GLOVES TO WINNERS IN TOURNAMENT The other winners-Daly, D., Steinberger, J., Peelle, Conner, Merz and Daly, F.,-were not only first-time win- ners, but also were finalists this year for the first time. Many of the decisions were extremely close, the reason for this being that the fighters-to the last man-put up a real and tough battle. As many have said, the Corps' spirit was really there. The boxers put every ounce into their punches and both Corps and fighters showed greatest courtesy. The awards were presented by the Commandant of Cadets, Lieutenant Kohout. Page One hundred serwzly-Ibree

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,lr W 9? ----- we 5,--.-, F-3 BASEBALL TRIVING to overcome a handicap imposed by dis- agreeable weather, the baseball team was somewhat doubt- ful as to the outcome of the season. Coach Grow, always optimistic, seemed to think that the season looked promis- ing with the return of six men of last year's team. Veteran players consisted of Captain Armellino, Stark, Boucher, O'Loughlin, Smith, G., and Lindenberger. Through the fine pitching of Stark, who collected ten strike-outs on his way to victory, the team started the sea- son by defeating Storm King, 12-8. N.Y.M.A. lost to St. Agnes in the second game of the year by a score of 3-0. St. Agnes held us to one hit, which was pounded out by Lucarelle. The following week we played Iona, and Stark again sent ten men down via the strike-out route. Iona scored eight runs in the first inning, which gave them an excel- lent start toward winning the game, 10-1. One can readily see, because Iona scored only two runs in the remaining six innings, that N.Y.M.A. played heads-up ball. The proof that Iona was a hard-hitting team may best be shown by the fact that one ball was hit well over four hundred feet. With a record of one win and two losses, N.Y.M.A. faced the freshman team of Stroudsburg State Teachers' College. Unlucky breaks and bad weather still trailed the cadets, so they reluctantly ended the game with the score 9-4 in favor of the visiting team. When Irving School faced N.Y.M.A. the following week, they found in us a worthy opponent. For seven inn- ings both teams were scoreless. On a perfect squeeze play in the last half of the eighth, N.Y.M.A. scored the winning run. The team then started to play real ball. They over- whelmed Admiral Billard 16-1, getting twenty hits to Billard's four. Six more days of practice gave the team that much needed confidence to win over Adelphi, 6-5. Considering that Adelphi had played twenty-five games to our six, we played a fine game. Then followed two weeks of scattered practice and rainy weather. Mount Saint Michael trimmed our unpre- pared team, 11-2. The final record for the year was four games won and four games lost-a good average in any man's league! Page One hundred seventy-five