University of Manitoba - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

Page 159 text:

B Glad Standing-Arch. McKnight, Jim Humphreys rSec.-T1'eas.l, Syd Jackson, Jim Clark, Art Hill, Walt Rempel, Sol Prasow 4Vice-Pres.l, Ernie Haskell, Bill Boone 1Champ,J Seated-Wilma Radcliffe, Fraser Campbell, Doug MacFarlane, Winnie Ross, Peg lvloorhouse, Ken Hodges, Sheila Blackie lPres.J, Marg. Thompson, Eileen Winters. H Di XINTV N A UNIVERSITY Badminton Club was in- augurated this year, and established a mark of progress for the Athletic Board of Control. The site chosen for the operation of the club was the Wildewood Club. The Uni- versity took over the Wildewood Club one night a week and carried on a very active organization with about 50 different students taking part. Round robin tournaments were held throughout the term, so as to aid the members in acquainting themselves with one another. At the close of the Badminton year, tournaments were held and club champions established. The Dorsey Cup, emblamatic of mixed doubles winners, went to Bill Boone. of Engineering, and Anne Blackie, of Home Economics. These two shuttle stars also won the singles and doubles titles. being three- way champs. in each case. Boone beat Find- lay Thomson, a fellow engineer, in the men's singles event, and Anne Blackie defeated Peg. Henderson, also of Home Ec., in the ladies' singles final. The club was very suc- cessful in every sense and will most likely be carried on and improved next year. The club oflicers included: President, Sheila Blackie: Vice-President, Sol Prasowl Secre- tary-Treasurer, Jim Humphreys: Social Rep., Peg. Moorhouse: Executive. Fraser Campbell, Shirley Herbert, Syd Jackson: Tournament Committee, Bill Boone CChairmanD, Winnie Ross, Doug MacFarlane. 237

Page 158 text:

SOL PRASOW, Racquet Co'nUeno1'. . :.-f, '- . U 5212 'W . 1 ,l Q Ti-.NNIF QENNIS is one of the most popular fall sports in the University. Each fall about 200 students take part in friendly contests, and the better players compete in a University tournament which is held about the first week in October. This yeai about 36 men and 28 co-eds entered the Varsity tournaments. All competitors co- operated well and the matches were run off in two weeks. Senior students were drawn in one half and Junior students were drawn in the other half: this was done to facilitate the running of the tournament, as the Senior students were thus able to complete their matches on the Fort Garry campus and the Juniors played their sets on the Broadway and United courts. Every faculty was well represented in the original draws. Alec Miles, Senior Science student, retained his Varsity title by defeating Don Leyden of St. Paul's in a five set tinal match, which included everything in tennis from pat ball to beautiful placements, cross-court drives and brilliant net play. This is the Hrst year that a cup has been presented to the winner, but it is the fifth year that Miles has been tops in U. of M. tennis. In addition to Miles and Leyden. other players to reach the semi-finals were Sol Prasow and Sam Boroditsky, both of Science. A The women's tournament was won by Margaret Nugent, of United College, who defeated Polly Harris, of Arts, in the finals. The four years previous to this year the cup has gone to Janet Rossini, former Western Canada Ladies' Chapmion. but Janet was not back this year to defend her trophy. Semi-iinalists of this tournament included Chickie Hooker, of Home Ec., and Rosemary Townend, of Science, in addition to the aforementioned Nugent and Harris. Kay Gillis, in charge of Womens Tennis, did a fine job of handling the tournament so well: there were 28 entrants. University of Manitoba did very well in tennis circles the past summer. Some of the students who were more prominent included: Alec Miles, who won the Clear Lake championship and was a finalist in the Provincial Tourna- mentg Don Leyden, who won the Provincial Junior championshipg Sol Prasow, who won the Waterton Lakes Tourna- ment, Sam Boroditsky, who won the Winnipeg Junior trophy: Dennis Roberts and George Eakins were also right up in the final brackets of many tournamentsg Laurie Cohen and Gordon Bragg, of Science, were prominent in doubles com- petition. On the whole, tennis at the U. of M. proved to be very successful this year from a female as well as a male outlook. PING PONG ING PONG has long been the most active game on the Manitoba campus, but this year was the First that a Univer- sity Tournament has been organized. Entries were received from every faculty on the campus, including Home Eco- nomics. 'Ihere were 98 students who entered, with high aspirations of being the ultimate victor. This honor went to Jerome Cohen, of Commerce. After cleaning up the Fort Garry campus, Cohen took on the Broadway champion. Sid Weidman, Arts, and defeated Weidman 4 games to 2 in the best 4 out of 7 series. There was no cup to be given Cohen for his excellent play, but the A.B.C. awarded him a bronze medal. This will be a great incentive for ping pong players in the future and next year's matches should be bigger and better. In the Senior division Final, Cohen beat Sol Prasow, of Science, 4 games to lg in the Junior Final, Weidman defeated Don Leyden, of St. Paul's, 4 games to l. The majority of the contests were very close and the final matches attracted large galleries: some of these galleries were larger than those at a few rugby games. Cohen's method of retrieving everything overcame Weidman's brilliant offensive game. Ping pong is on the way to becoming a major sport at the University, and, given the proper support it will hold its own with many of the older sports. 1. The leading co-ed tennis , fi players in the University. ,. Left to vtght-R, Townend, X -Eg P. Harris, K. Gillis 1Con- wx venorl, M. Nugent tCham- pionl. C. Hooker. Xt! - 2 2. S. Prasow, D. Leyden and S. Boroditsky, three semi- Hnalists pose for the camera- man. 3, The champ., Alec Miles, retained his championship for the fifth straight year. i i.- 236

Page 160 text:

flf. Q x X . 4,, r D I I I Q , ' i Q-wg REPARE budget . . . See board . . , Call up Osborne and Black . . . 1 e ' Make posters . . . Call up Faculty Reps .... Nobody home . . . Hold we meeting to form teams . . . Nobody there but Warrington . . . she Wants ----. mixed league, has 146 girls: we have no men . . . First night . . . Wild scramble . . . Everybody wants place for friends who may be out 3 A weeks from tonight . . . we hope . . . So on for first week . . . Try to .,,. draw schedule from thin air and hope of those who said they might asm. be out next week, but want to come on a different night . . . Where can ., -.fm-3, . . I bowl? . . . Joe, make me a team . . . On through first term building up ' T .ss if . . ' 5 :gf?5'Aj'iff3,t5... ,QQ . . t. , ax- xii .W-' :3 X? V-.nV.,,,.,,.,g ,.., as .. AX 5 1. .-,gsvx SN ky, JOE GRIERSON, Bowling Comienor a few more teams each night . . . Find scorekeepers-nobody wants to keep score, but everybody wants handicaps ready to start with each night . . . Then come the real angels-Hall, Cohen, Roche, Rich. Kowch. . . . Committee has to keep rest of books itself . . . Queer questions people ask . . . It's all a great game. Second term . . . Board has authorized six more weeks . . . Try for pins . . . what a laugh . . . We had all of 10 people one night . . . Cham- pionships . . . A,B.C. easy . . . Inter-faculty drags on . . . Prasow buzzing around like he was grooming a team for American Bowling Congress . . . Science won anyway . . . Womens Interfaculty prac- tically all confined to teams at Fort Garry, yet nobody can tind anybody . , , They got it played at last . . . H. Ec. won . . . and so to spring. To anybody who likes people and can spare a few hours a week, the Bowling Committee is certainly the place to work. Here they come from all years and all faculties milling around, enjoying themselves, each with his or her little ideas, prejudices, fancies, If we had it all to do over again, we would go to bowling again. And even this year it is still the biggest thing on the campus. An aver- age attendance of 275 students per week for 16 weeks. It would easily be 400 a week it that queer thing known as a student decided to go and bowl. We hope you all had a good time in spite of our blundering and wish next years committee the same happy hours watch- ing the genus homo sapiens at its play. MEN-SCIENCE: Left to right-Alec Miles, Laurie Cohen. Sol Prasow, Max Chmelnitsky and Zeke Ferley. CO-EDS-HOME ECONOMICS: Left to 'right-Isabel Hedy Stokes, Doris Blondal, Maybelle Campbell, Vivian Aik- ins, Kay Munn. fwfeafacaffy ls, Gfzampiand V ...as..........r.. 't ' 'f Q33- 1 tw C .- . K. - H Phi' .- ei . xg x 238