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Friday, May 18, 1962 LUMBERJACKRecord Breaking 750 MenParticipate In IntramuralsBy SONNY McDANIELeventual winner. Tom WiskowPage 7Axer Courtmen, ASCrs MostOutstanding1961-62Picking up where Inter-Col-legiate athletics have left off this year's Intramural Program spearheaded by Coach Bill Pres-son has offered many students a chance to try their hand at many various competitive sports.A record breaking 750 men participated in this year's program. The program has offered everything from flag football to handball giving the men students of ASC a chance to let off a little steam and compete in Inter-school athletics.The first of the many sports offered by the ASC Intramural Program was flag football. A total of nine teams were involved composing a total of 110 men. League champs and winners of the 1961 flag football competition went to the “Six-Packers,” boasting a record of seven wins against one loss. The “Six-Packers” won in over time defeating the “Boiler Makers”12-6.Next on the agenda was the table tennis tournament which was open to any male or female student. The matches were played off in the student union building game room. A ladder type tourney was held. Twenty-four students participated with Jerry McCantey taking top laurels.The tennis program was rather dampened by the foul weather earlier in the school year. A total of fifteen men and women students entered this event. Due to the inability of the participants to get the games under way a winner - could not be chosen. The scheduling of games was up to the students at their own convenience.Mid-way through the Intramural program the gymnastics meet was held. The meet consisted of eight events, with a total of ten men competing for top honors. Judging was in accordance with the difficulty of the stunt and the displaying of form and body control. The winner of each event is as follows: Horizontal Bar, Ralph Kosoff; Parallel Bars, Mike McAllister; Tumbling, Andrew Dayton; Side Horse, Richard Erwin; Free Exercise, Mike McAllister; Flying Ring, Steve Cline; Still Ring, Mike McAllister; and Trampoline, Andrew Dayton.Badmiton competitors were 32 strong entered in a Pyramid type of tournament. Jim Tucker was the winner with a two way tie for second place between Joe Livesay and Way-mon Darnell.Free-throw shooting was next which saw a total of 53 men competing. A qualification plan was used to reduce the field of contestants to theASC Go-eds Place In New Mexico Women’s SportsdayThe Women’s Physical Education Department is entertaining the graduating women PE majors and minors at a dinner tomorrow at the Gables Restaurant.Miss Vera Badorek, Miss ! Helen Oswalt, and Dr. Alyce Cheska will host Virginia Martin, Roberta Bond, Nancy Nelson, Jean Mulera, Mrs. Thelma Sandlin, Mary Ellen Covington, Alberta Carpenter and Gloria Turlay.Eight ASC co-eds representing the Lumberjacks at the recently held sports day for college and university women in Albuquerque, New Mexico, placed well in the sporting events.Joan Hammes won all of her games in singles intermediate tennis while Virginia Peterson won all but one. Joan and Virginia also won all of their doubles games in tennis.Anne Welhener competed in form swimming and tied for second place in the side stroke. ASC split their two bowling matches.shot an amazing 80 out of 100 for the first place position.Handball was another one of the numerous sports offered by the ASC Intramural Department. Again a ladder type of tournament was used with 13 men entered. High man on the ladder was Ross Townsend Jr.Intramural Basketball was hailed the biggest and most successful sport of the year consisting of 225 men combining into 25 teams. The 25 teams were divided up into three leagues and the champion of each league competed in a tournament at the close of the season. The top three were the Knobs representing league 1, the Chams league 11 and the Koshkas of league three. After two hard fought games the Chams came out on top to take the 1961-62 Intramural Basketball Championship.Two sports are now in progress at the present time and the time this paper went to press the results of both the softball and volleyball teams were not available. The softball program has 13 teams consisting of 149 men and the volleyball team is 70 persons strong representing 7 teams.In conclusion, coach Bill Presson should be truly congratulated along with his student assistant Ross Townsend Jr. for the fine work they have done to promote the Intramural Program. Another thanks goes to all the men who have helped officiate the games throughout the year.Lumberjack Nine Close Out Season With .500 RecordThe Axer nine closed out their 1962 baseball season with a .500 season record by taking the double header win, 12-8 and 17-2 over Nevada Southern University, on the Axer diamond Saturday afternoon. May 12.The wins over the Nevada Southern Rebels gave the Axers a clean sweep of the six games with the Nevada nine, and nine wins out of their last twelve games.In the opening game of the double-header Axer Bob Panek on the mound, had a 10*2 lead with three hits up to the sixth inning, when a couple of Axer errors started a rally for Nevada. The Rebels picked up six runs on only three to narrow the gap 10-8 for the Axers. In the lower half of the sixth inning the Lumberjacks forged ahead and gained two more runs. Panek gave up only one hit in the top of the seventh to give the Axers the 12-8 win.The Axers shattered Lee Syp-hus pitcher for the Rezels and ASC picked up runs by Glen Clark and Les Federson. Zeke Jaquez and Federson had triples along with doubles by Ray Mo-lera and Manuel Rodriquez for the Axers.In the night-capper Lumberjack pitcher, T. C. Richardson, had a one-hitter and no runs going into the top of the seventh, when Nevada threatened a rally by gathering a single, a walk, and a hit batter to load the bases. With one away Nevada’s pitcher, Jerry Goyenche, hit a single to drive in Nevada’s onlyLumberjack sports got off to a slow start as the Axer gridmen were chopped down by one of the most lopsided scores in ASC history, 56-6, in the opening football game of the 1961 season.The following week the Lumberjacks again fell, this time 14-6 to the Adams State Indians of Colorado. The Lumbermen tagged their first win off the young season a week later when they slipped past Redlands Bulldogs 13-10.Undefeated Idaho State Ben-gals shattered ASC’s homecoming hopes 27-0. The Axers split the bill the next Saturday, tying Highland University 21-21.In a last minute rally, Santa Clara University tumbled ASC 20-ID. Before a capacity “Mom and Dad's’* night crowd, the Axers rolled over favored New Mexico Western 35-13.The Axemen finished their grid season on a very happy note as they romped over the Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico University 33-14.The Axer football squad was coached by Max Spilsbury, Ted Sorich and Red Ettinger.two runs with two outs.ASC catcher, Rodriquez, hit a homer in the third inning for two runs batted in. First baseman, Hank Tester, of the Axers, ripped off a double and a triple. Axer Ed Lewis had three for three for the Axer nine including a double. Rich Hood smashed a double and a single in his three trips to the plate.Coach Herb Gregg s courtmen were ASC's 1961-62 outstanding contribution to the sporting world, placing among the top eight teams in the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas CityThe Lumberjacks wound up regular season play by defeating St. Michael’s College 92-67. giving the Axers an overall season record of 15 wins and 8 losses and a 5-1 Frontier Conference record.In the Lumberjack’s first game of the national tourney, they bounced Iowa’s 11th ranked Buena Vista College 95-73. ASC edged Savannah State of Georgia 95-91 in their second NAIA tus-sel.Then ASC's 'Cinderella' Axers hit the end of the line in the tourney when they fell to second-ranked Prairie View ASM of Texas. 86-48.Ce.ite? Don Eurtrum and 23kc; jaquez were named on the all-co.iference first team.S peed / freshman forward gjioru. Bill Boyd, was named to the 7-man second team.Buttrum was given special mention on -the 1962 NAIA All-\merican basketball selection. Dave Boyd was chosen as the Axer’s Most Inspirational Player’ by his teammates.The Lumberjack wrestling, track, golf and tennis teams, all had a fairly good season while building for next years’ squads.The baseball nine finished the season with a win-loss record under the coaching of Aaron McCreary.‘Tareyton's Dual Filter in duas partes divisa est!says Publius (Boom-Boom) Aurelius, Coliseum crowd-p leaser.Says Boom-Boom, “Tareyton is one filter cigarette that re i!! y deli vers de gustibus. Legions of smokers are switching. T v a couple of packs of Tareytons. They’re the packsRomana!. ■ . ■ . . ~■ ••.•••• - •••••*Cv.yivy v »-•m • ««• ••** •V. ■0 9 • .. ■ .... ...a. . a. .... 0 0WHITE OUTER FILTERA. A’.'.V.'i'.V.w ..a. V.-/ACTIVATED CHARCOALINNER FILTERmmDUAL FILTERTareytonProduct rf u omr middlename C lt;r o*
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Flagstaff Lumberjack
Flagstaff, Arizona, US
Fri, May 18, 1962
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