Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 22, No. 06 -- August - Archives ...
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ATHLETICS By<br />
The <strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong> <strong>Alumnus</strong> II<br />
BILL WAODINGTON. '46<br />
<strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong> Wins National Golf Title; Ties in Tennis<br />
<strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong>' <strong>Dame</strong> won unprecedented national<br />
honors in both tennis and golf<br />
early this summer, tying for highest<br />
intercollegiate ranking in tennis and<br />
winning the intercollegiate golf tournament.<br />
In addition, a <strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong> man,<br />
Charles Samson, played in the finals of<br />
the tennis tournament against the renowned<br />
Francisco "Pancho" Segura.<br />
Details of the notable victories follow:<br />
•<br />
TENNIS<br />
Coach Walter Langford's tennis team,<br />
after gaining the right to western supremacy<br />
during the regular spring<br />
season, dropped in at the National Intercollegiate<br />
meet at Evanston, 111., June<br />
Charles Samson<br />
2 6-July 1, and brought further glory<br />
to <strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong> by copping a share of<br />
the team title along with University of<br />
Miami (Florida) and Texas.<br />
Sending a four man team to the<br />
event, headed by Capt. Chuck Samson,<br />
a V-12 trainee and a transfer from<br />
Ohio State, the Irish quartet was able<br />
to garner three points, two in the<br />
singles event, and one in the doubles.<br />
Samson, was denied a "seeded" position<br />
when the tourney pairings were announced<br />
despite his standout play<br />
during the regular card, but he battled<br />
his way to the finals where he was<br />
defeated by Francisco (Pancho) Segura<br />
of Miami, 6-0, 6-4, 6-0. Segura, presently<br />
ranked <strong>No</strong>. 3 in the United States,<br />
proved more than Samson could handle.<br />
In attaining a spot in the finals, Samson<br />
defeated Phil Glotzer of Chicago, Robert<br />
Lewis of Utah, Howard McCall of<br />
Georgia Tech and the "seeded" <strong>No</strong>. 3<br />
man, Harry Likas of Gonzaga.<br />
Jerry Evert, a V-12er and brother of<br />
last year's captain, Jimmy Evert, <strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong><br />
<strong>Dame</strong>'s <strong>No</strong>. 2 man, was pitted against<br />
Harry TuUy of Chicago in his first<br />
match, winning handily, 6-0, 6-4. His<br />
second tussle with Stan Clark of California<br />
Tech was his final try as he lost,<br />
6-1, 7-5. <strong>No</strong>. 3 man Bill TuUy won his<br />
first booking from Elden Yeck of Bradley,<br />
6-2, 6-1, but found the Naval<br />
Academy touch too much as E. A. Davis<br />
of Annapolis eliminated him from play,<br />
7-5, 7-5. The last member in singles<br />
play, Jim Griffin, an NROTC trainee,<br />
was pitted against <strong>No</strong>rthwesterh's <strong>No</strong>.<br />
2 man and beat him, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3, but<br />
the stoiy saddened from that point on<br />
as Nick Buzolich of Pepperdine came<br />
through with lop-sided wins, 6-0, 6-1.<br />
The luck of the Irish did not hold in<br />
the draw for the doubles competition as<br />
TuUy and Griffin drew the "seeded" <strong>No</strong>.<br />
2 team, Willett-McCall of Georgia Tech,<br />
as their opening opponents, the Techmen<br />
winning, 6-3, 6-2. The pairing of<br />
Samson and Evert subdued Crawford-<br />
Davis of Annapolis in their initial outing<br />
and slammed home another win in<br />
the quarter-final round over Druliner-<br />
Beisser of College of Pacific. Their<br />
semi-finals opponent, Hickman-Kelly of<br />
Texas, bounced them out of the competition,<br />
7-5, 6-2, 6-3, the Longhom<br />
duo going on to win the doubles play<br />
with a victory over Pepperdine.<br />
In annexing three tourney points, the<br />
Blue and Gold added more prestige to<br />
their already established one point<br />
toward the Garland Bowl, a trophy<br />
presented in 1942 that will go to the<br />
first team to attain 25 points. The Irish<br />
institution is the only midwestem school<br />
that has been able to acquire any" ]^iits<br />
toward the trophy; and also <strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong><br />
has been the only middle-western school<br />
that has sent a mail past the quarterfinal<br />
rounds in the last two years.--''--<br />
At the outset of the semi-final rounds,<br />
<strong><strong>No</strong>tre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong> was the only team with<br />
contestants left both in the doubles and<br />
singles events. - • •<br />
Coach Langford scheduled an informal<br />
summer session with varioiis<br />
town tennis clubs and a few colleges.<br />
Among^ the teams booked, are the River<br />
Forest Tennis Club, near Chicago,' and<br />
Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., possessors<br />
of a strong spring record. Sam-<br />
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