Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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1961 REED first annual contests of the day-dodgers and dormitory, the dodgers won by 27 to 4 and 38 to 27. The all-star team for this year was: Irle and Zabel, gards; Willman and Rittenberg, forwards; Runyan, center. This first regular season was quite successful and aroused much interest in basketball. The last season, however, has done the most to promote activity in this sport. Twelv teams wer chosen including every man in college, and regular games scheduled during the gym- nasium hours. In this way practically two-thirds of the men playd in from two to six games, many taking up the game who had never had a chance before. Many good men wer thus developt for the regular series which came later and included the four Clas teams and the faculty team. The Clas of 1917 again won the championship, tho not without several close games. The last game was won from the juniors by one point, the deciding basket being thrown by VVilIman in the last few seconds of play. The dodgers wer unable to keep up their record of the previus year and wer defeated in a wel-playd game by a score of 26 to 13. The all star team was pickt as folloes: Lancefield and Zabel, gards; Rittenberg, center; Norman and VVillman, forwards. TRACK Track work, tho one of the major athletic activities, has not receivd as much attention at Reed as at most colleges. This COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 is due largely to the amount of time taken to develop athletes for special events. Training, as such, has not as yet been intro- duced to Reed students. However some attempt is made to hav meets merely as a means of arousing interest. Such meets, both indoor and outdoor, hav been held for the last three years. There hav been three indoor track meets which included such events as the high kick, high jump, twenty-yard dash. dip, pul-up, broad jump, shot put, pole vault, hop-stepwjnmp, and relay race. The first year the freshman-sofomore tug-of- war was also included, but this was later made a special event. The sofomores won the hrst meet by a score of 58 to 23, the freshmen the second making 35 1-3 points to the juniors' 32 1-3 and the sofomores, 29 1-3. This year the meet was again won by the Clas of 1917, who made 53V2 points. The seniors wer second with 31, the juniors made 16 and the freshmen V2. Two outdoor meets hav been held, one the second year, on College Day, and one last year, in the latter part of May. The Clas of 1915 won the hrst meet easily, but wer de- feated last year by the present sofomores, who made 66 points against 56 by the seniors and 9 by the juniors. The college records set in the meet last year with their holders follo: 100 yards, Lancefield, 15, 11; 220 yards, Shagren, 117, 25 2-5; 440 yards, Brace, 15, 59 2-5; half mile, Miller, '17, 2:23 3-5: mile, Miller, 17, 5:38; 120-yard Io hurdles, Lancefield, ,15. 15 3-4; discus, Lancefield, '15, 86 ft. 5 in; shot put, Trous- dale, 15, 35 ft. 1 in; javelin, Brace, ,15, 123 ft.; high jump,

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1981 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 Boyrie, ,17, 5 ft. 2 in; broad jump, Brace, 115. In comparison with other colleges these records fall far short; they merely 5110 what average ability combined with no special training wil accomplish. TENNIS Tennis has always occupied a prominent place in Reedis athletic activities. Two cement courts which wer redy with the opening of the college on its permanent campus, hav been largee 1y responsible for keeping tennis to the fore. With these courts it has been possible to play tennis during every month of the scool year. With the completion this spring of four new cement courts, tennis has been given another material boost. With such complete equipment in tennis there hav been turna- ments of every kind. The first menis turnament, open singles only, was held in the spring of the second college year. About twenty men, in- cluding members of the faculty, enterd. In the finals, Lance- field won the championship of the college by defeating Sabin in four fast sets. Early the next fall an open singles handicap turnament was run off with thirty entries. After close matches thruout the turnament, Dr. Torrey was the final victor. No regular turnaments wer held the remainder of the third year, but clas series wer playd off between both singles and doubles teams. The representativs of the Clas of 1915, Sabin and Lancefield, won this series with a clean sheet of victories. The freshmen wer second with four points out of a possible ten, while the sofomores secured but one victory in their ten matches. Willman, Larrabee and Riddle represented the freshmen, while S. Smith and Buland composed the sofomore team. Last fall an open singles turnament was held, but the winner was never officially decided. Forty-eight men en- terd the turnament, which was playd off in two weeks. Owing to rain on the last day before he left for the East, Dr. Foster was unable to play the final match with Dr. Rees. A ranking of the men players made on the basis of this turn- ament has run thruout the year. About fifty, nearly half of the college men, wer rankt at this time. This spring the ranking was made the basis for a handicap turnament, run off during April. Later, open singles and doubles with clas turnaments wil wind up the season. BASEBALL Baseball has always been one of the most, if not the most, popular of sports at Reed. Altho the game has been more or les handicapt by the uncertainty of diamonds, it has reniaind the most widely supported of the spring athletic activities. The game has never been developt to any great degree of ex-