Trinity School - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TRIVING to maintain the heights of the 1951 Championship Bas- ketball Team, the Varsity Baseball Team of last spring took the diamond with much spirit and turned out to be another one of Mr. Maxim's topfiight teams. In League competition they had a record of nine wins and three losses, tying with St. Paul's for the Ivy League Championship. ln addition, they lost two games in extra-league com- petition, giving the Varsity a season record of nine victories and five defeats. Bob Bean was the star player, both in pitching and in playing the outfield. Lou Magelaner at first, Tom White at second, Bruce Johnson at shortstop, and Don Hanak at third gave the infield a strong fielding team. Herc Segalas ably handled the catcher's posi- tion and the hard-hitting outfield of Bures, Cook and Bean rounded out the starting team. The team got off to a quick start by downing St. Paul's and Adelphi Academy, however, they ran into trouble with Poly Prep and suffered the first loss of the season. Through the rest of the season the Blue and Gold lost only two League games: a stunning I5-O loss at the hands of Poly Prep and an upset by Riverdale. As in the previous basketball season the championship was decided at the last moment. In the tense final game of the season the Varsity defeated St. Paul's to tie them for the l95l lvy League Baseball Championship. Uarjify Z?.mAJf 1951 f - tg' X i Seated-Carroll, Bean lCapt.D, H. Segalas, Magelaner, Cook, J. Minnis, Johnson. Standing-Mr. Maxim lCoachl, Kapp lAsst. Mgr.l, Hill, Bures, T. H. White, Hanak, Beattie lMgr.l, Mr. Groebli lAsst. Coachl. -,i-?-Q 45

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Seated-Babington, Hanak, Carroll, Hines, Bingham. Standing-Mr, Maxim lCoachl, Segolas, Hnat, Skae, ,I amify gaslwlgaf ,i.1.-- e 7' l. as 5 Bell, Shoemaker, Guild, Heriord lMgr.l. Absent-J. Minnis, Steinthal. HIS past winter the Trinity Varsity Basketball team was rather a disappointment when compared with the teams of recent years. Playing a total of sixteen games the team completed the season with a record of six wins and ten defeats, It compiled an Ivy League record of four and eight to finish in a three-way tie with Riverdale and St. Paul's for fourth place. One bright spot of the picture was thc sensational and brilliant all-around play of .lack Hnat. Jack proved to be the sparkplug of the team, scoring 249 points on llO field goals and 29 fouls. Also to be mentioned was Dave Carroll who, scoring a total of l 18 points, excelled at bringing up the ball and setting up the scoring plays. Finishing out the regulars in scoring, Dick Skae had 94, Bruce Shoe- maker l3l, John Hines 4l, Bell 55, and Ed Babington 27. The final record of Mr. Maxim's team was a little misleading as many of the games were hard, fast, exciting and close. One of these games was the opener against Dwight which Trinity lost by a score of 56-55. A last-minute basket and a perfectly executed freeze by Dwight gave them the slim winning advantage. This also was the game in which Jack Hnat scored 30 points. Other cxcitfng games were the closing game with Stony Brook which Trinity took, 60-49, and the game at Riverdale which they won, 55-50. 44

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Uaraify Um.-L 1951 Q c lga ll fl , I Q A OING through an unusually hard schedule the Varsity Track Team, made up mostly of green runners, turned in a record that ran the gamut from good to poor. lnconsistency marked the team's performance in four dual and two invitation meets. The Trackmen emerged victorious in but one meet, downing River- dale, 64-3l. Being cutclassed in the other three dual meets by vet- eran runners, Coach Ballentine's runners dropped the Hackley foray, 58Vg-55 ZA, lost to Poly Prep, 73-40, and were edged out by Trinity- Pawling, 55-49. ln the second annual Trinity Invitation Track Meet the cindermen showed their ability to break up the points in the big meets by trailing first place Stony Brook by only four points, to annex second place in the meet. The first four teams in the highlight of Trinity's track season were: Stony Brook 27, Trinity 23, Hackley 22112, and Millbrook l7V1. Performing hard but without much suc- cess in the Ivy League Meet, the Blue and Gold appeared on the tally sheet behind three other teams, scoring l3V1 points to Poly Prep's 52V2 points. Although there were no record-breaking performances this sea- son, many of the spiked-shoe club turned in good personal tallies. The team depended heavily upon Dick Taylor's consistent perform- ance in the l20-yard high hurdles and the 220-yard low hurdles. The only other power on the squad seemed to show up in the mid- dle distances with John Lamb, a constant point getter in the 440 and Peter Rogers and Bill Guild showing up well in the half-mile. Other mainstays of the team were Roy Schock, Spiros Segalas, Dick Heller and Ted May. Front row-McCulloch, R. Paul. Seated-Gross, Harrison, Taylor, Schock, Lamb, S. Segalas lCapl.l, Veprovsky, Heller, May. Standing-Pannbacker lMgr.l, Benedict, Krulish, Adams, Bell, Brothers, Loughran, Guild, Rogers, Mr. Ballentine lCoachl. Absent-Hamilton, Danzoll, Needham. 46