Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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BASEBALL TEAM TRACK TEAM

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20 THE PIONEER BASEBALL On Thursday, February 19, a meeting was called for the purpose of electing a manager of the baseball team. There were five candidates, from which Howard Mather was elected by a majority of 15 over his nearest competitor. Later on the candidates for the team elected Scott Osborne, our star pitcher, as their captain. Owing to the fact that there were no baseball grounds in the village, the boys were forced to practice and play wherever they could find a place to play one game, and then be evicted by the owners, all of whom happened to be unwilling to contribute toward the great national game. The season was opened at Chester with the Chester High School team. This was the first game of the Orange County Federal Interscholastic League, a league which had been formed among the High Schools of Goshen, Chester, Monroe, Warwick and Washingtonville. Our boys met their first defeat of the season at this game, the score being 8—4, in favor of Chester. This was the first time that the G. II. S. representatives had been on the field this season. The second game was at Washingtonville, where our boys were forced to play in the pouring rain for seven innings. The score was 8—2, in favor of the Red and Blue (G. H. S.) The third game was an exhibition game at Middletown, with the strong High School team of that place. As Middle-town was not in the league, they wanted to defeat Goshen High, as in previous years, but the score ended 5—4, in favor of Goshen. The fourth game was on the Cider Mill diamond, in this village, where Monroe tried to carry out their idea that they could defeat the G. H. S. representatives, but they found themselves at the small end of the score, which was 18—0. It was in this game that Scott Osborne, our faithful twirler, resumed his home-run slugging. The fifth game was in the rear of the High School building, a space just large enough to lay out an infield. A group of athletes from Warwick, known as the W. II. S. team, journeyed to this village, but went borne in the small end of the horn, which tooted 15—5, Goshen ahead. On May 13, an unlucky day to all baseball travelers, our team went to Middle-town, but was shut out by the score of 6—0. They reported the game as a nohit-no-run affair, but our players corraled 3 hits, two of which were made by our little centerfielder, Freddie Clayton. The fifth game in the Federal Interscholastic League was played on our diamond near the Interpines, at which time the Chester High School team, leaders of the league with a thousand per cent., tried to defeat us for the second time this season. The game was fast and exciting, Goshen winning by the score 7—3. The last game of the F. I. B. B. L. before this book went to press, was Monday, June 1, when Washingtonville succumbed to our mighty athletes by the score 20—2. This game gave Goshen High the lead in

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TEACHERS TRAINING CLASS