The Dodgers may not need to "wait till next year," but the varsity golf team new might well sound the cry-truthfully.
After duplicating last season's record of six wins and three losses-including one to Yale, the team is consulting itself with dazzling prospects for next year:
Such as the fact that only one member, Captain Dave Hedberg, is graduating; and that the number one and two men, Ted Cooney and Brueo Thurmond are both sophomores; and the to performance of this season's freshmen team, especially Captain Brock Stokes.
Despite the lack of practice time and convenient facilities, the Crimson might defeat the Yale golf team next year, or even win the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament for the first time in the tourney's 16-years history.
This season's performance, however, has been far from disappointing. Harold Williams' team took from six straight matches, including a victory over strong B.U., before dropping its last three.
The Crimson lost to Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and then to Yale, 6 to 1, in the final match of the season. Newly elected Captain Jack Brophy posted the varsity's sole victory against the Elis.
Cooney, number one player, turned in the top individual performance for the season. He last only one season match-to Jerry Fehr, Yale's top golfer, 4 to 3.
Fehr downed Cooney in the EIC tourney, held this year at Princeton's Spring date Country Club, but this time by only a 1-up score on the 19th hole. The Crimson team finished in a tie for fifth this season, after leading at the halfway mark, no mean showing, since most other Ivy League schools participate. Fehr led Yale to victory in the tournament.
This encouraging record was compiled despite the distance of the Dedham Country, Club, where practice seasons and home matches are held. Since there was not even time to held a qualifying round for positions on the team, the top seven places and ratings of individuals had to be arbitrary choices from the ten men on the team.
The Colleges is the only Ivy League school without a course of its own, or an affiliation with nearby links. Brown, for example, has three courses close to its campus for student use. Dartmouth has two-an 18-and a nine-hole layout. Yale and Princeton each have affiliated courses adjoining their campuses.
The solution to the problem here, players feel, is for the College to establish a "loan-lease" arrangement with a closer course than Dedham-perhaps the Winchester Country Club would proves to be the solution to this problem.
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