Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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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-

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HOOl R E E D COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 cellence, however, largely because little time is given to practis. The Multnomah Clubis fast diamond was available the first year, and tho there wer only about twenty-four men in college that spring, two ful teams wer pickt up and many contests wer puld off between these scrub nines. With the start of the next year, the Clas of 1915 pickt out a team and proceeded to win from both the freshmen and the faculty, who had by this time added enuf members to make out a formidable nine. Some exciting, if not weLplayd contests wer puld off, the sofomores only winning the cham- pionship by making a ninth inning rally of four runs against the faculty, while the faculty took thirteen innings to win from the freshmen. Last year, the permanent athletic held was available for the hrst time and a fairly good diamond was made by the combined efforts of the college and the students. The grounds wer a great improvement over those of the previus year, and an improved brand of ball was the result. The juniors again won the Championship, tho not without the timely aid of the sofomores. The latter defeated the faculty about the middle of the season in one of the best playd contests of the season. The juniors broke even with the faculty in their two games, and, by winning the remainder of their contests, finisht at the top of the list. The faculty wer second, the freshmen third, and the sofomores fourth. The following men wer pickt for the all-star positions: Jenne, catcher; Sabin, pitcher; Webster, hrst base; Rittenberg, second base; Grondahl, third base; Jones, short stop; Sechrist. left field; Trousdale, center field; Zabel, right field. This year the grounds ar in better shape than ever be- fore. MINOR SPORTS Minor sports, such as handball, cross cuntry runs, squash, boxing, restling and soccer, ar not on the official list of Reed athletics, but interest is taken by the students in each of these branches, handball being the most popular. Other sports wil probably spring up from time to time, and when interest warrants, they wil be placed on the official list. In handball, several turnaments for men hav been held. During the second year a round-robin turnament was puld off. Runyan being pronounst the singles champion, while in the doubles the freshman team, Webster and Norman, wer the winners after a hard contest with the upperclasmen, Runyan and Redman. Runyan again won the singles championship the third college year, tho Mr. Weber, assistant gymnasium instructor, prest him closely. The doubles championship was not de- cided. About fifty students enterd the open singles turnament this year; several of the faculty wer also among the entries.