Wheaton Academy - Compass Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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v Tom Buis steals home against Latin as Chuck Hogren bats. P:-me u Chuck Hogren gets a hit against luther. Tom Buis pitches u perfect strike in the St. Charles game. We won the game by a score of 13-8. I' 1 ,Q ' 5 Q Q o J. X ' l- . 'X ,4-Us 5. ,., +- 5 'ag if ' .bp-new 'Wa-f ,ig ...ff-. a Q 02

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Q.. 893 Baseball team kneeling Tenney Slxrudland Walles VonBergen McNlcol Ed wards Hogren Cole Gardzuella Mr Williams Standing Reed Evans R John son Beveridge Penn Buns Palmer Gale Erickson Neff Hoppe Pollard Poole Basebull Following the example of the football and basket ball teams the baseball squad got off to a poor start before endmg up hot They lost 7 of their first 8 and then won 4 in a row to close the season with 5 wins and 7 losses The only Academy team this year to end their season with a percentage in conference games below 500 the practically all lunnor team did a fine 'ob The first victory was over Immaculate Conception Following that there was a 5 game drought before the team beat Luther St Charles Geneva and North Park, all in a row. Jay Hoppe led the batters with a percentage of .345 and Leigh Beveridge, with a 3 win, I loss record, was the top pitcher, followed closely by Tom Buis. Next year's prospects are great, with all but one first stringer returning. 108 Lake Forest Christian Immaculate Conception St Charles Immaculate Conception University High Latin Todd Luther St. Charles Geneva North Park

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5 l Track Team Row 'I Coach Claussen Coach Hohm Kwong Gale Oury Matthews Tarbutton W Smith Meyer Garber Oury Row 2 Hanchett Gerstung Kay Groen Frost Adolph Hearn Klnsler Hurlburt S Sm th Guth Skoglund Horaldsen Ferguson Lundberg Knapp HIC Depending on the Lord In each meet and led by a group of topnotch run ners the 1953 track squad turned in a terrific 'ob throughout the season In the first two meets two of the biggest in the world the Oak Park and Wheaton High School Relays the team did amazingly well as they placed third at Oak Park in the sprint medley relay and took two thirds and a fifth in relays at Wheaton The Warriors walloped Geneva In the first dual meet as they swept every running event as well as winning the high hurdles high rump broad lump and discus The relay team composed of Lindberg Kay Hanchett and Fikels triumphed In the last event in the pouring rain against West Chicago to win the meet for us ln the meet George Fnkegs also broke the school record in the 220 yard dash We took second an our own invitational behind a strong Lake Forest team as George Fikels tied the school 'IOO yard dash record Dave Lund berg set a new school low hurdle record Jim Hanchett won the quarter and half mile and Bob Adolph won the high lump In the conference meet, we took second, as Jim Hanchett set new school records in the 440 and 880 and a new P.S.L. record in the 880. Bob Adolph won the high iump and took third in the mile, George Fikeis placed second in both sprints, Dave Lindberg placed well in both hurdle events and the 100 yard dash, and Scott and John Oury placed in the pole vault.