Field Day 2014

TennisTitan continued on his roll this morning at Kinsley Park. Taking on the formidable pair of Bob 'Kraut' Kluge and 'Rockin' Rick Ricci the 'bloated behemoth,' with George 'Deli Man' Hauss providing ample support, erased a 2-4 deficit in the opening set to capture a (6-4) victory. Titan had pop on his serve and mastery of his ground strokes from the baseline, surprising 'Der Klugemeister' with nonreturnable serves, extended rallies and overpowering a defenseless 'RRR' at net. 'Happy Jack' Carey and Rich 'dozin' docent' Gerchak succumbed to a similar fusillade of precise power and surgical strikes from the baseline (6-2) in set two. However,the coup d' gras was the third set when Jasper classmates of 50 years ago, Gerchak/Briscoe, united for a stirring (6-4) triumph over the out dueled, out hustled tandem of 'Rockin' Rick and the 'Deli Man.' As the crew met at net for post match handshakes the Jaspers reminisced about that fateful day five decades ago. An irritated 'Rockin' Rick who had been abused terribly this week by the Titan scored big time with this observation: "I bet one of you had hair on his head in those days and one of you didn't have hair on your face. And you had to have been better looking then too."