St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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 ATHLETICS “Joe Canary was captain of the baseball team in the spring of 1916. The season marked the debut of a youngster, “Pug” Dowling, who was the best college catcher in the west. Pike Sipes, Everet and Reardon composed a trio of pitchers, that baffled Kansas University, Haskell and the “Aggies.” Floyd Hemp, who died while serving his country in France, played a wonderful game that spring at short. Griffith at third, “Shorty” Siefrct in center and “Hook Ganey on second, were the others who assisted Canary’s team to win the first conference championship under my reign as coach. Circumstances—to be explained by the editor—limit me in time and in space, or i could review the athletic teams of other years in a similar manner. 1 place particular stress on my first year because, as 1 said, these teams of T5 and TO displayed a true St. Mary’s spirit, a spirit that was followed in other years. My teams from the fall of 1910, to the spring of 1921, were largely made up of students who were in the Small Vard during my first year at St. Mary's. They were greatly influenced by the examples ot suen men as Gat , Conrad, Kigali, O’Toole, Ganey and the others; and when they assumed the role ot Varsity athletes, they imitated to a great extent the men on the teams mentioned above. beginning with the fall of 1V16, the Small Yard” athlete guided my Varsity teams. Students of the present day remember the names Curran, orone, Dearborn, Redmond, Morrison, McGlynn, Porter, Shields, Kirk, Chi-cione, bussey, Munalls, Gavin, Dan Malone, Circus” Walsh. These and many others helped to make the athletic years of 1910-191 successful in football, basketball and baseball. Conradt, captain ot the football team, which lost only two games out of nine played, and Kigan, again captained the basketball team, which finished the season witn thirteen wins out of titteen games played. The succeeding years were more conspicuous than ever for the Small Yard athlete. Lew Lane, tom Kelly, Joe McGmley, Tom Boland, Bergman, DeNoya, Dearborn, Rousseau, Carry Magner, Nip Dunn, Mitchell, Rose, Faby, McGlincney, Jack Boland, Gannon, Vinnie” Burns, John Forter, Bud” Luepke, Haskins, vaulted tne small lence and immediately made names lor themselves not only as athletes for St. Mary's, but, by tneir ail around athletic ability and wonderful sportsmanship, gained recognition throughout the whole Kansas conference. All of the above mentioned made one of the Kansas Conference mythical teams, while Lane, Kelly, Boland, Magner and Dunn were placed on both football and basketball teams, the league sponsored by the rrcfects produced the other Varsity athletes during those years, and these athletes rose equally to the heights of the Small Carders. Kamacciotti, Batson, Kelly, Slattery, Mahoney, Finnigan, Regan, Bret , Brown, Fife, McAvoy, McAllister, Korth, jaines Bannantinc, John U Connor, Joe O’Connor, Casey, Clavin, Carlin, Chicoine, Fisher, McNcivc, Oxly, Doc” Miller, Bill” Hogan, DuBrouillet wore the colors of the Blue and White gloriously in victory and defeat and these, too, had among their number many who were placed on the all-state teams of Kansas. There is an atmosphere about a St. Mary’s boy that makes his presence felt regardless of what he is doing, whether at play or at study. He loves to play, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth when recreation is at hand. In study periods he displays the same earnestness toward his books that characterizes his work in hours of leisure. The student body of St. Mary’s know the traditions of the school, they delight in rehearsing them, and the new boy at the college invariably is carried right into this environment, and loses no time before he, too, is a follower and an important cog in the mighty student impetus that backs up all activities at St. Mary’s. I could enumerate many things that impressed me during my coaching days but one—outside of their profound attention to religious duties—stands foremost: the fact that all the athletes from the time of Conradt to the days of Kelley, Lane and Boland, were just St. Mary’s boys, never displaying the so-called College Swell-Head, a fault often found elsewhere. DIAL ANAIUAL One Hundred Forty-Two

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ATHLETICS REMINISCENCES By Mr. S. O'Rourke As I travel the road of Yesterdays and find myself once again a lad in grammar school, I can recall very graphically the manner in which I used to digest Father Finn’s stories about old St. Mary’s. Even as a youngster in an Eastern city, the Blue Grass, the Small Yard; Pawnee creek and “Stay Ups” were mystic and magic names to me—and the St. Mary’s of “Tom Playfair,” “Percy Wynn” and “Harry Dee,” was my dream school. My grammar school days passed away and, with youth approaching, the elders at home directed me to other scholastic fields—yet my early impressions of St. Mary’s, gleaned from the pages of the famous Jesuit author, always lingered with me. Hence, when I began my career as coach of athletics at the dream school of my youth, 1 was a stranger to St. Mary’s—but St. Mary’s was no stranger to me. In September, 1915, when I took over the coaching position, the names of Mat” Carpenter, Jimmy Bray, Pough Walsh, “Tommy” Burns, Ray Dockery, “Shorty” Bennett, Eddie Murphy, Paul Kistner, Percy Burns, Langhoff and a host of others who contributed much to the athletic tradition }f the Blue and White were still on the lips of the students. The feats of these athletes and the excellent record of all of Mr. Quigley’s athletic teams seemed to be beacon lights—inspirations, as it were, for the students to follow and to be guided by. 1 was enthusiastically received and that enthusiasm, that genuine old St. Mary’s spirit, helped me miraculously in my pleasant associations with the St. Mary’s students during my six years as coach of her athletic teams. Yet here, I must say, that the little success obtained by the teams during my administration as coach was due, first to the old traditional spirit of the school, and second to the wonderful assistance, cooperation and suggestions given to me by the First Perfects—viz: Mr. Walsh, S. J., Mr. Petit, S. J., Mr. Holton, S. J., and Mr. Bennett, S. J. These four Jesuit scholastics always had the interests of the St. Mary’s boys at heart. They anticipated their every want and in victory were the first to congratulate. In defeat, their words of counsel and good cheer were incentives to overcome defeat’s sting. Conrad, Gavin, Gancy, Bannantine, Gatz, Smith, Lamb, Devitt, Sipes, Kigali, Armstrong of the football team of 1915 can well remember our campaign of defeats. A rift in the skies did not seem possible, yet that 1915 knew the meaning of the St. Mary’s spirit, and guided by that, possibly the most enjoyable victory during my stay there as coach, was gained on Thanksgiving Day of that season. The students of that year can recall the Doane-St. Mary’s game. With the Nebraskans leading 7 to 3, and out a minute to play, Kigali caught a punt and ran sixty yards to a touchdown and a victory. This was our only victory of the year, yet the fight, the determination, and the spirit displayed by the 1915 squad in defeats became a tradition for the following football elevens. In the winter of 1916 St. Mary’s Basketball team for the first time entered the Kansas Conference with a standing of seven wins out of fourteen games played. Old boys of that year can remember our first conference victory. Fairmount College was our opponent. The Wichita quintet was leading 24 to 23 and as the timer’s whistle announced the close of the game, “Marty” O’Toole’s shot from the center of the court, was sailing majestically through the air. The proverbial hush was in evidence, and as the ball glided gracefully through the net, giving the Blue and White a victory by one point, even Father Louis O’Connor S. J., then Prefect of Studies, momentarily forgot his dignity and joined the pandemonium of the crowd by boisterously slapping Father Kuhlman, S. J., on the back. Marty O’Toole—how well the old boys of 1916 remember him—a true type of the real St. Mary’s boy, whom God called to His Home, while in our midst. 5 DIAL ANNUAL il 1 One Hundred Forty-One

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ATHLETICS C3 = My coaching days at St. Mary’s, though not characterized by any brilliant successes, nor by any championships in football or basketball, yet were successful from my point of view, owing to the wonderful support at all times given to the Varsity teams by the student body and the faculty. Here, too, the people of the City at St. Mary’s responded most faithfully in backing up all college athletic activities, by giving their support financially and morally. And finally, Mr. W. E. Miller, lamented editor of the St. Mary’s Star, an ardent fan and rooter for all St. Mary’s Varsity teams, gave his time and much space in his newspaper to assist in creating a real, live, city interest in all St. Mary’s College games. This work of Mr. Miller, more than anything else, helped to create a better feeling between the College and the people. ‘ATHLETIC BRIEFS’ (1915-1921) Do the old boys remember------- Rigali’s sixty yard run in the Doane-St. Mary’s game of 1915? The famous toot ball play that began— Look out for 90—”? Austin Gavin's galloping runs on a play called 19? Heine Crone's famous kicking? John S- Conradt s wonderful offensive and defensive play at guard? lhe Coach’s question— Has everyone here got shoulder pads?” The way in which Nish” Speers and Circus Walsh would play Redmond? The May Veranda Tarty— Crone and Walsh the principal guests”—that was interrupted by Mr. Walsh, S. J.? Tug” Dowlings home run off Ed Walsh—the day St. Mary’s played the White Sox? Magner’s wonderful work on the basketball floor? Nip” Dunn’s graceful way of playing second base? Scotti’s catch of a forward pass in tne Hays game, 1919, that gave St. Mary’s her first victory over Hays? Jira Gatz’s farewell speech in the squad room? Jordan's daily cramps in football practice? Haskin's line plunging in the Washburn game of 1917? When Kimball Luebbe was bat-boy for the Varsity? D. J. Lane called a third strike on son—Lew? Chicoine's debut as a full-back in the St. Mary’s-Fairmount game of 1916? Tom Kelly’s ninety-yard run in the Kansas Wesleyan game of 1916? Pike Sipes’ one-hit game with Kansas Wesleyan in spring of 1916? “Bill” Redmond’s forty-eight yard drop kick against Ottawa in 1916 that gave St. Mary’s a tie? Tom Boland’s—(who afterwards was All-State center for two years)—debut as a dashing end? The Ring ’Round Rosy Play of the football team? Joe” McGinley’s superb generalship that won the York-St. Mary’s game Thanksgiving Day—1917? Lew Lane’s all-around play in all branches of sport? Tom Kelly’s work at end that made him All-Kansas end for three consecutive years ? And, Say----------- Do you remember when you were a boy at ---------“Old St. Mary’s”-------- JZ 55 DIAL ANNUAL One Hundred Forty-Three