Proctor Academy - Green Lantern Yearbook (Andover, NH)

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scholastics and the meet preceding and did amazingly well. In the meets following Car- nival the Green team was not so green any more, and in spite of the absence of their captain and best skier, they came back to win over Deerfield and to take decisive victories from New England College, Holderness, Har- vard Frosh, Exeter, Vermont Academy, West- mount, Tilton, Brewster, Kimball Union Academy, and New Hampton. At the Tilton Carnival, where we skied against the last four teams and Deerfield, Proctor took all the laurels of the day and came away with three out of four trophies. The lnterscholastics this Mount Moosilauke in just there were about sixty in necessitated cutting a lot closely in the running of year were held at one day, although every event. This of corners pretty the meet, and, in addition, just about every Proctor man had a had day. Consequently the results for us were rather poor. ln a 15 team meet the big Green took fifth place, winding up behind KUA, V.A., Putney, and Exeter. In addition to school-boy meets, members of our team ran in many individual races such as: the Easterns, the Sap Run, the Hockfleiger Slalom, the Gibson Trophy, the Annual Black- water Slalom, held here at Proctor on April 13th, and many others. These boys have done exceptionally well at these races, giving Proc- tor a real place in the skiing world. The B team has not had such an impressive record, but, as always, they have produced a new batch of competent skiers for the A teams that follow. They had some of their own meets such as those with Kents Hill, and Golden Rule Farm, and they skied in many varsity meets. With their new coach, Mr. Fisher, they expect to maintain the high standards set by Mr. LaCasce. The Varsity this spring has lost Farrell, Beattie, and Yandell by graduation, but with underclassmen like johnson, T. Gilbert, Kit- tell, Green, and Ludwig left as material for captain-elect Peter Elbow, they have hopes of maintaining the school's good record. J l 1 5 fs., i ...arf

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VARSITY SKI TEAM Back row: M. Green, Manager, Johnson, Farrell, Captain, Elbow, Mr. Camp. Front row: Kittell, Beattie, T. Gilbert, Yandell. tfleiin With the biginnins of cold weather, ac- tivities for the ski team were rapidly gotten underway. Boys were working out for cross- country and all were getting their equipment in shape. With good snowfall over Christmas vacation, a pre-arranged ski camp was held five days before school started, to really get a good start on the season. Quite a few boys attended this camp, as did Charlie Gulick, providing a great deal of moral support. The team was ready, with a redhot captain, Farrell, fresh from a session with the Aus- trians at Stowe. In January, he rode over all competition to win three events and lead his team to its first victory over the University of N. H. Freshmen. After winning at Vermont Academy, the Proctor skiers, who were this season literally a green team for the most part, learned the hard way the necessity of team action in a ski meet. At Holderness in a quad meet a few of our men took bad spills in the first event, and, fighting des- perately to retrieve those lost points, Proctor got within 1.6 points of Deerfield, to take second place. Following was a close meet with Hanover High and Lebanon High, and Hol- derness, one of the toughest meets on the schedule. All the teams were within one or two points of each other all day, but with Proctor's Carnival dates to cheer them on, the Proctor team came through in the last event, slalom, to take the meet. This meet need not have been so close, had it not been for the fact that just a few days previous, Dave Farrell was struck by an acute appendicitis. This ruined the rest of the season for him, for he never got back into real shape again, as well as writing in a question mark after all the coming meets of the season. In spite of weak- ness, he skied the Alpine events of the Inter-

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VARSITY BASEBALL T EAM Back row: Reading, Manager, Casten, Chambers, Noll, johnson, Patten, Batal, McFadden, T. Gilbert. Front row: Beattie, Farrell, Cozier, Riley, Gates, Captain, Moore, Mancoll, MacColl, Mr. Camp. In front: Jeff Camp. Missing from piclure: Putney. Baseball Having lost the first game some members of the school thought that we might be going to have a pretty ineffective team. But soon they were jubilant to find that with hard practice the team improved and was a team that could- n't be beaten in fight and spirit. Proctor won seven games and lost three. Each school that we challenged we played twice to give both teams a second chance. As the season progressed our boys found their batting eyes and, in the second K.U.A. game, one of our sluggers, Chuck Riley, hit two home runs and two doubles. Other de- pendable and timely hitters were: Farrell, Gates, and Beattie. The lielding of the team was excellent, many balls hit being turned into outs and double plays by the speed and accuracy of the infielders. Our pitchers were good in most of the games. Ken Cozier pitched a shut-out against Tilton and also pitched winning ball in the 2nd Holderness game. Capt. Gates did well in the Clark School games and in the lst Holderness contest. Southpaws Bobby Batal and Harry johnson both turned in good games against Kimball Union. We are going to miss our captain, Fred Gates, and the rest of the seniors next year, but I think we have some fine players com- ing up from the jV's. The first string seniors were: jack Beattie, Chuck Riley, Tony Moore, Fred Gates, Dave Farrell, Ken Cozier. Substi- tutes were Harry Mancoll and Alex MacColl. The varsity underclassmen are jesse Putney, Capt. Elect and catcher, Dain Patten, infield, Bobby Batal, infield and pitcher, and Harry johnson, infield and pitcher. The varsity team is grateful to Doc Camp for the wonderful coaching we have received this year. We not only worked hard but we had a lot of fun. All of us that will be back are looking forward to next year. Next year some replacements will be com- ing up to the varsity from the jV's who were under the good coaching of Spencer Wright. The jV's had their share of wins and showed some good baseball in many of their games.