Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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VARSITY TENNIS DespiTe losing all oT lasT season's leTTermen, The I938 Bengal Bombers, more gen- erally known as PaciTic's Tennis VarsiTy, won Tour ouT oT six maTches againsT Top-TlighT compeTiTion. Gone were such aces as BrighT, CorTez, Beck Parsons. Taking Their places were hi+herTo unTesTed guT-wielders I-lellman, Sapiro, McBride, and The new- comers delivered sTirringly in The major wars. VicTories were regisTered in maTches wiTh Two oT The ToughesT Jaysee neT squads in The sTaTe, SacramenTo J. C. and San lVlaTeo J. C. Scores were C. O. P. 4, Sac- ramenTo J. C. 2, C. 0. P. 6, San lv1aTeo J. C. l Remaining Two Triumphs were gain- ed aT The expense oT The CaliTornia Aggies in a home-and-home series, 6-I, 5-I. Only seTbacks suTTered by The remodeled KieldseniTes came when The Tigers ran inTo The Tough Tommy Wilson-coached San Francisco Jaysees, 6-I, and when San MaTeo upseT The dope, 4-2. A sevenTh dual maTch, wiTh Far WesTern Comference champs, Fresno STaTe, was called oTT aT The elevenTh hour when The downsTaTe school was unable To send a squad To STockTon. Final TabulaTion revealed ThaT The Tiger Tenniseers garnered a ToTal oT 24 indi- vidual maTches To Their opponenTs' I5, prooT enough ThaT PaciTic, Though rep-resenT- ed by a comparaTively inexperienced squad, more Than held iTs own on The courT. ln The Far WesTern league championships aT Davis, The Bengal rackeTeers were noT aT Top Torm, did IiTTIe To prevenT anoTher Fresno STaTe vicTory sweep. In singles play, Jack McBride, Seeyopee's lone enTranT, Tell in The opening round beTore PeTer- son oT Nevada, 6-I, 6-4. The doubles combine oT Francis I-lellman and I-lerman Sa- piro breezed Through The TirsT round, handing The Aggie Twin sTrokers, Lomkin and WaTerman, a neaT sTraighT-seT pasTing, 6-2, 6-3. In The Tinals, however, The PaciTic Team Tell beTore The neT wizardry oT Fresno's ace duo, Dunkin and Bloyd. Scores, iden- Tical, were swiTT, decisive: 6-I , 6-I, 6-I. H II n Fuller Dahl Pugrnire WenTz Sapiro Moen MaTTh il76l

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ff-'W-fr' -,,,-5-ah-bl ,g--- ,rf .,.-'S'-7-i fu ull Pugmire Sapiro Wenfz McBride D VARSITY TENNIS Besf individual record of fhe season was furned in by shorf, smoofh Francis l-lell- man, who won fwo-fhirds of all his singles mafches, as well as feaming up wifh Sapiro fo form Pacific's mosf formidable doubles feam. Thelaffer, freshman ace of fwo years ago, also showed greaf improvemenf, was a consisfenf winner. Pofenfially powerful nefman was Jaclc McBride, whose record was nof so impresive as fhe frail-blazing pace of l-lellman and Sapiro, buf who showed enough fo be delegafed C. O. P.'s besf singles bef in fhe conference fourney. Russell Pugmire, affer a slow sfarf, came like a Red- wood blaze in fhe closing sfages of fhe season, displayed definife promise of becom- ing a fufure nef sfar. These four, l-lellman, Sapiro, McBride and Pugmire, received fhe orange Block P on a whife sweafer, fhe fradifional varsify fennis award. Ofher members of fhe i938 Varsify volley'n'fhunder squad were Earle Dahl, Gene Fuller, Bob Wenfz, Dave Maffhews, Gabriel l-lausladen, Barney Moen. From fhis group should come winning maferial for nexf year's baseline encounfers. Coach Chris Kieldsen did a good iob in developing bell-ringers from fhis spring's green, willing bunch and should experience less frouble in building a conquering crew in l939. lI77l Ili' S1