Trinity School - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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,Q X wi ef Q x X ski 'CJ unior Uardify gajedaff 1951 HE 1951 Baseball Team was a better one than its record of no wins and seven losses indicates. Opening its season against Horace Mann the team lost, 4-3. Be- cause of the closeness of this score Coach Holmgren felt that the team would have a good season. Unfortunately the boys never again played as well as they did against Horace Mann. Crushing defeats by Poly Prep and Barnard, followed by a close 7-6 loss to McBurney, eliminated the team's hopes of even a .500 percentage for the sea- son. Defeats by Riverdale, Horace Mann and Trinity-Pawling fol- lowed, thus ending the season. One of the main shortcomings of the l95l J. V. was its failure to turn in good pitching and fielding iobs on the same days. lf the pitching was good the fielders couldn't do anything right. If the fielding was good the batters either walked or hit a home run. The main pitching prc-blem was, of course, control. All too often bases on balls got the team into trouble in an inning, which it easily should have gotten out of. John Locke, Pete Smith and John Buckner han- dled the hurling chores and did a fairly good iob. Newman, Steller and Kirkendale held down the infield posts and Paul and Jackson roamed the outfield. Much credit should be given to Coach Holmgren for his hard work during the season. He deserved a better fate. Seated-P. Sibille, Jackson, Souval, Steller, Locke, Nussbaum, Kirkendale, P. Paul. Second row-Mr. Holmgren lCoachl, R. E. Lawrence, Newman, Logan, Smith, Fink, Ludlow, Buckner, Koch lMgr.l. 50

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unior Uardify gaJLefLa!, UFFERING from a lack of height and experience this year's J. V. got off to a bad start, losing six games before getting a win, and turned in a record of six wins and ten losses. Mr. Nevin's squad looked good in the first half of the opener with Hackley, but the superior Tarrytown team played a strong second half, beating the Blue and Gold, 27-i6. ln the next game Adelphi got going in the later stages of the first period and romped over the struggling Jay-Vees, 53-40. The Poly Prep game was the first show- ing of the J. V. that amounted to much, but still the opponents managed to hold a three-point lead to win 38-35. The squad finally came to life in the seventh game of the season and defeated Mc- Burney, 55-35. Following closely after this was a 66-34 crushing defeat of Barnard. The most spectacular game of the season came with Riverdale. At the end of the half the visitors were ahead by a twenty-three point margin, however, the scrappy J. V. battled to a one-point vic tory during the second half. ln the final game the squad closed out the season by defeating Stony Brook Most of this year's squad is in the sophomore class and so should be around to play ball next year. With the three l00-point men all returning, Coach Nevin can look ahead to a brighter season next fall .f 'i, at 1 -il s f' X l l I Seated-Tank, Nussbaum, Nerhood, Buckner, Scully, Jackson, K. Hill. Standing-R. E. Lawrence lMgr.i, Benedict, Nelson, Long, Branagan, Ludlow, R. Paul, Daly lAsst. Mgr.l, Mr. Nevin lCoachl. 49

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