Proctor Academy - Green Lantern Yearbook (Andover, NH)

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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.

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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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.- iran- P A VARSITY TENNIS TEAM Left to right: Moritz, Stewart, McLain, Captain, Wright, Heckel. In front: Mr. LaCasce. Missing from pic- ture: K. Weeks. T 67'l1'll:l' The Proctor Tennis Team has done it again - gone through an eight game season without losing a match. They beat K.U.A. twice with scores of 6-2 and 6-3. Next fell New Hampton with scores of 5-4 and 6-3. We were unable to play Holderness twice but we did manage to beat them once 9-0. QOf course we have not forgotten the two informal matches we had with them last fall, where we beat them both times by the 9-0 score.J Vermont Academy gave us quite a time, but we won 5-4. We played Tilton twice and again won by scores of 5-4 and 7-2. The first four men traveled to Exeter to play in the Eastern Interscholastics. This was a hard test, and we did very well. Captain McLain made the third round, which is a good showing for the number one man from such a small school as ours. This Exeter trip was the biggest event of our season. The team left early Friday morn- ing in very good spirits. We arrived at Exeter at about nine in the morning. john Wright was the first to fall. He was quickly followed by Moritz and Weeks in that order. That left our reputation up to Captain McLain who got a bye in the first round. George won his first match quite handily and was automatically put into the third round. The team waited expectantly while George went into play. It was a good light, but George came out on the short end of the match. We then left Exeter very full of tennis and food. It was a good trip, and we had a good time. The j.V.'s had an impressive record under the able leadership of Captain Peter Elbow and the new coach, Mr. Hatt. They won live matches and lost only one. They will be send- ing much good material to the varsity in the near future. Next year's team is going to have to be good, because we are losing two of our best players: Captain George McLain, our num- ber one man, and Dick Moritz, the number three man. Captain McLain will be a big loss. He is one of our finest players and has had a good season. Dick Moritz has also played well and has an impressive record. Next year there is going to be a light for number one between Kirk Weeks and john Wright. The other four places will be filled by such campus notables as: Dick Heckel, Skip Stewart, Pete Elbow, and Dave Kittell. With such a line-up Proctor should have a strong team.