Sewanee Military Academy - Saber Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

Page 84 text:

CAPTAIN TMORT GOLD AlThough iT is yeT early in The season, The Sewanee lv1iliTary Academy Tennis Team, com- posed oT lv1orT Gold, Jimmy Funlchouser, Clyde Fasiclc, Sammy Van Leer, and Jimmy Edmondson, is proving iTselT a deTiniTe conTender in Mid- SouTh compeTiTion. The number one doubles Team, Gold and Funkhouser, has been highly successTul Thus Tar, having dropped buT one maTch in six sTarTs. Playing in The number Two doubles sloT are Fasiclc and Van Leer. WhaT These lads laclc in Tourna- menT experience is made up in deTerminaTion and The will To win. AT any raTe, The squad will lose buT Two oT iTs members: lvlorTy Gold, and Jimmy Turnbull. manager, Through graduaTion, and plans an even more successful schedule nexT year as addiTionaI experience and new Taces on The squad serve To malce This hope an acTual realizaTion, Through The eTTorTs oT Colonel Fasiclc, coach, our courTs were selecTed as The siTe oT The I95O SouThern Junior Lawn Tennis AssociaTion Tourna- menT and The Mid-SouTh PrivaTe School Tourna- menT, To be held here May 4-6. Van Leer, Funkhouser, Gold, Fasiclr - S T ' ' - c vi-

Page 83 text:

BaTTer up were going To be a ThreaT. The scrap Tor posi- Tions made The errors aT pracTice sessions Tew and The Teamwork keener. Slowly The squad Tilled in-Bobby HughsTon swiTched To caTching, Don Ewing Toolc over shorTsTop, Buba Broussard held down leTT Tield, Barry ThaclcsTon scooped in The cenTer Tield sloT, and Charlie l-lix compleTed The ouTTield aT righT Tield, The TirsT nine were ready now To hear The playball shouTed Tor The Mid-SouTh game. The Jus? a few of our sfars .HE . 'F!Yi4'WsF F35-x'iQ'S I5W Who said he was ouT Tigers TirsT game was wiTh Their local rivals ST. Andrews. The SainTs, wiTh a condiTioning game under Their belTs, nosed The Tigers ouT in The lasT inning. The deTermined spiriT only made The boys eager Tor Their nexT Mid-SouTh game wiTh CasTle l-leighTs. The game was TighT and close all The way and The Tigers came Trom behind in The lasT inning To ncse ouT The T-leighTs bunch 7-6. The Tielding was almosT perTecT in This game and The hard pracTice sessions showed Their worTh, SwaTTer ThaclcsTon came Through wiTh a homer and a double. The infield and ouTTield had Their play and pegs down To perTecTion. The nexT week-end The Tigers husTled again when They journeyed To Franklin, Tenn., To play B.G.A. Again The cadeTs came Trom behind and Toolc an 8-6 win. Clare and Thacl:sTon boTh con- necTed wiTh several good hiTs ThaT made The diT- Terence. Bob WaTson, a sophomore showed The needed scrap To help wiTh The caTching aTTer Gilmer dropped ouT wiTh a heel injury, John T-lagedorn, a junior, showed The promise Tor a ThreaT aT righT Tield. Our haTs oTT To This slugging Team and if iT can be had, They will bring home The bacon

Page 85 text:

6-' ax srl: W ix E vxxleehfpxxlafllffrlm lu ' A4At2 0:N flI- w,,..:v I if . I MCORGANIZATIUNS ui