1950 Cedrus Yearbook

OHIO NORTHERN FINDLEY ASHLAND CEDARVILLE BLUFFTON DEFIANCE 344 350 370 372 398 402 CEDARVILLE FRED LONG Tom WEBSIER DAN WEBSTER DON STRAUSBURG AFTER LOSING EARLY.-SEASON MATCHES TO WITTEN. BERG COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, THE YELLOW JACKET TENNIS TEAM HIT ITS STRIDE ON MAY 6TH AT BLUFFTON, AND WALKED AWAY WITH THE MID- OHIO CONFERENCE TENNIS TOURNAMENT, BRINGING CEDARVILLE ITS FIRST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP. THE JACKETS, LED BY RUBEN (PANCHO) PADRO AND GORDON (CRACKER) WILLIAMS, WON FOUR OF THE FIVE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND TOOK THE TEAM TROPHY BY COMPILING A TOTAL OF 8i POINTS, COMPARED TO 4i- FOR SECOND-PLACE BLUFFTON. WILLIAMS WON THE NUMBER TWO SINGLES TITLE, WITH PADRO TAKING THE NUMBER THREE CROWN. THE TWO THEN COMBINED TO OUTLASTNFIVE OTHER TEAMS IN WINNING THE NUMBER ONE DOUBLES. DON STRAUSBURG AND CLAY COTTLE COMPLETED THE NEAR SWEEP BY ANNEXING THE NUMBER TWO DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP. STRASBURG SCORED ANOTHER POINT FOR THE CEDAR- VILLE NETTERS BY REACHING THE SEMI-FINALS OF THE NUMBER ONE SINGLES TOURNEY BEFORE BEING BEATEN BY CHAMPION DALE DICKEY OF BLUFFTON. IN LATE SEASON MATCHES THE BOYS MADE A GOOD SHOWING, BUT WERE HELD BACK SOMEWHAT BY THE FACT THAT SOME OF THE BOYS WERE WORKING AND WERE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN ALL THE MATCHES. VARSITY TENNIS AWARDS WILL BE GIVEN TO DON STRASBURG, RUBEN PADRO, GORDON WILLIAMS, CLAY COTTLE, AND JIM WAGNER. NEXT YEAR ONLY ONE VARSITY NETTER, JIM WAGNER, WILL RETURN. SCORES 82 91 99 too qoff THE SECOND ANNUAL MID-OHIO CONFERENCE GOLF TOURNAMENT WAS HELD AT THE FINDLAY COUNTRY CLUB ON MAY 17. THE ENTIRE SIX CLUB CONFERENCE WAS REPRESENTED AT THIS MEET. SEVERAL OF THE CLUBS HAD MET IN DUAL COMPETITION PRIOR TO THE TOURNA- MENT SO THAT IT WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT FINDLAY AND OHIO NORTHERN WERE THE TEAMS TO BEAT. EACH CLUB WAS REPRESENTED BY FOUR MEN; THE CLUB THAT COMPLETED THE TOUGH 18 HOLE COURSE IN THE LEAST NUMBER OF STROKES WAS DECLARED THE WINNER. As IT TURNED OUT THE RESULTS WERE AS EXPECTED. OHIO NORTHERN AND FINDLAY BATTLED DOWN TO THE WIRE WITH OHIO NORTHERN WINNING BY A CLOSE MARGIN OF SIX STROKES. ALTHOUGH CEDARVILLE AND ASHLAND WERE NOT IN CLOSE CONTENTION FOR THE TEAM CROWN THEY WALKED AWAY WITH SOME LAURELS. FRED LONG OF CEDARVILLE AND W. ACKERMAN OF ASHLAND WERE AWARDED CO- MEDALIST TROPHIES FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL SCORES OF 82. OHIO NORTHERN GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED THE TEAM TROPHY DONATED BY THE LEAGUE THROUGH CEDAR- VILLE COLLEGE. WE BELIEVE THAT GOLF IS A PERTINENT PART OF CEDARVILLE'S SPRING SPORTS PROGRAM AND HOPE THAT NEXT YEAR WE MAY FURTHER STIMULATE INTEREST BY SCHEDULING SEVERAL MATCHES WITH THE CONFER.- ENCE AND OUTSIDE TEAMS. LETIs BRING THAT CHAM- PIONSHIP TROPHY BACK TO CEDARVILLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. FRED LONG 5 ennii