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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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Jim Bessenfelder. lack FitzpairidE, Father Holderith. Bob Teny and Copt Mel Wlke.

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