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Abel ll. Gent, ’29, regular third
baseman for the last three years, has
been elected captain of Armour
'l‘cch‘s 1929 baseball team. Al-
though never a spectacular player,
Gent‘s steady and consistent fielding
together with his timely hitting have
contributed greatly toward the suc-
cess of his team.

Gent received his first training in
baseball at the Carl Schurz High
School, where he played on the 1924
city championship team. The Schurz
team of that year was also victorious
in the intercity game with the New
York High School, and thus auto-
matically carried off the Eastern
championship.

The 1928 season of the Armour
Tech baseball team, which terminat-
ed on Circus Day, May 19, with the
annual Alumni game, was a decided
success, the team turning in ten vic-
tories against five defeats. The Bat-
tling Techmen demonstrated their
ability by downing some of the
strongest college aggregations of this
section of the country.

Three of the defeats were by the
close score of 2—1, one of which was
received at the hands of Luther Col—

lege, iowa State Champions for the

last three years.

The. outstanding feature of the
season was the spectacular pitching
of King Simpson, who is credited
with eight of the ten victories reaped
by the team. The climax of his hurl-
ing- was reached when he pitched a
brilliant no-hit, no—run contest
against De Kalb Normal. Other out-
standing players, all of whom are
back in the fold this year, are Ros-
setti, short stop and last year’s cap—
tain; Robin, first base, and Stehno,
pitcher.

Jorgensen, Formerly
of ’28, Succumbs

Edwin C. Jorgensen, an architec-
tural student, formerly of the class

of ’28, died Tuesday, August 28,
after being ill for more than
a year. Jorgensen was born in 1906

in Joliet, Illinois, where he received
his grammar and high school educa‘
tion. He entered Armour in 1924,
and attained a high record in his
studies. His ability as an artist was
recognized when he was elected to
membership in Scarab, honorary ar-

 

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Thirteen games on a tennis sched-
ule may be an omen of ill portent,
but be that as it may, it didn't phase
the team one bit last season, for out
of the thirteen games they emerged
victorious in ten. Grinnoll College
of Milwaukee, led by that shining
light of tennis, Harris Coggeshall,
scored the only defeat that really
hurt, since the other two failures, re—
ceived at the hands of Marquette and
Lake Forest, were balanced by wins
later in the season. Triumphs were
also chalked up against Michigan
State, U. of Louisville, Detroit City
College, Hillsdale, Wheaton, and
Loyola.

Much of the credit for the remark-
able showing of the team naturally
falls upon George Jennings, who 'was
serving his second term as captain,
and who, as usual, held the greater
part of the attention, due to his mas—
terful handling of the racket. After
the completion of the season for the
school team last spring, Jennings
proceeded to tour the country pick-
ing up cups and trophies wherever he
went, and in so doing has brought
much glory to Armour. He is now
both singles and doubles champion
of the National Public Parks, singles
champion of Wisconsin State, and
Beverly Hills, and runner up in Illi-
nois State, Michigan State, as well
as for the Lehigh Valley Champion»
ship. A complete story of'his achieve~
ments, along with his picture, will

appear in the next issue of the Alta

MOUR TECH NEWS.

With Ray Stellar as captain, and
with several of the old regulars back
in the fold, the 1929 Armour Tech
tennis team should harvest an even
greater number of victories.

 

 

‘ William C. Kraii't will direct the
destinies of the Armour Tech Bas-
ketcers for the coming season, suc~
cesding Milton Romney as head
coach. Mr. Krafft is well known to
both alumni and students, having
been associated with the Institute for
the: last six years as Director of Phys-
ical Training, and also serving in
various coaching capacities during
that time.

Each in 1922 and 1923, when Mr.
Krafit first came to Armour, he was
coach of the basketball team, and
performed the job with a high de-
gree of success. However, just at
that time the seriousness of the base-
ball situation became such that it was
imperative that a man be delegated to
devote most of his time to training
men for better work on the diamond,
and Kraii’t was given the job. In
1923, with no coach, the baseball
team won only three games out of
fifteen. The next year, the same
team, after a few of the niceties of
the game had been drilled into them
by Bill Kraiit, won exactly half
of the games on a difficult sched~
tile. The following year the team
won eleven out of fifteen games and
since then has consistently finished
every season with at least two-thirds
of its games chalked up as victories.

Mr. Krafit graduated in 1920 from
North Central College of Naperville,
Illinois, known at that time as North-
western Goilege. That he was active
in sports at his alma mater is evi-
denced by the fact that he possesses
nine major letters, which he won in
basketball, baseball, and football.

Following his graduation, Krafft
spent a year as coach of basketball,
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chitectural fraternity. The initials
“‘E. C. J.” were familiar ones to read-
ers of the Cycle and of the Engineer,
who observed them affixed to many
of the plates and cartoons in those
publications. He was also a member
of the Phi Pi Phi fraternity.

Just before the close of the se-
mester in 1927, he was compelled to
lay aside his studies because of his
health, and since that time he has
not returned to classes. He was ap-
parently regaining his health at the
tiirne of his decease, however, and
his sudden death was unexpected by
his parents and friends.

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year he assumed the position of Di-
rector of Physical Training at the
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Thirtyat ree students of last years
ireshman Ciwi Engineering is
were in attendance at the arsenal
Civil Summer Camp: at Trout Lake,
Wisconsin, from June 3’? to duly 26.
Three members of the faculty, Pro»
fessors Wells, Smith, and Placid,
were in charge of the classes “while
William L. Hafner, ’30, was the stow
dent assistant. The courses taught”
at the Civil Summer Camp are part
of the regular curriculum of the Civil
Department, and attendance for at
least one summer is compulsory ii a
B. S. Degree in Civil Engineering is
desired.

The course includes instruction, in
the use of the transit, laying out of
curves, leveling, typographic surveys
ing, railway and highway location,
triangulation, and practice with the
sextant.

Trout Lake is located about eigh-
teen miles north of the town of lili-
nocqua, Wis, and about thirty miles
from Brule, the town near which
President Coolidge spent his race.—
tion. The camp is part of a Wiscon—
sin reserve called the Northern State
Forestry Park, and because of the
fact that the purpose of the reserve
is to encourage the growth of pine,
the students at the camp prohibited
from cutting away any of the small
trees and brush which gradually aea
cumulate. It is said that the prob—
lems assigned in field work are be-
coming more and more difficult be»
cause of the existence of this brush.
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Frank J. Urson, in, ’09, a guild-
uate of the Department of Civil En-
gineering, was accideutly drowned in
Indian Lake, near Niles, Michigan,
on August 16. Urson was prominent
in the movie world, having been, up
to the time of his death, a film direc—
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