Metamora Township High School - Parrot Yearbook (Metamora, IL)

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CAPTAIN DU BOIS pal;l dv Bins Paul DuBois, captain of the 1949-50 MTHS baseball team, has played third base en the team for two years. Paul bats third in the line up. and he estimates that his batting average is about .200. Captain DuBois started his high school baseball career as a freshman by playing on the Metamora team in a Peoria area league sponsored by the Peoria Journal- Transcript. The team, that year captured first in the league. One of the incidents Paul remembers most about high school baseball was bitting a double against Morton with the bases loaded and thus scoring three runs. Sixty-Nine

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BASEBALL TEAM -• e. j r r ' ™.n ' ' ' t- ' m- M SSL -s. ■]§ jf%.JPLS5|L : -Mias-j First row, left to right — Willis Bachman, James HiiKm. Janus Zimnu rman, James Seckler, Marvin Smith, Eugene Nauman, Jerry Broers, Eugene Schlabach, Milford Broers, Richard Dehority. Back row, left to right — Russell Fandel, Richard Goldsmith, Donald Halford, Paul DuBols, Bruce Seeber, Durward Guth, Harold Neumann, Marvin Elbert, James Wiltz, Jack Gaetz, Coach Roy Larson. BASEBALL The Redbird baseball squad under Coach Roy Larson opened the season with six returning lettermen. They were Eugene Schlabach, hard-hitting first baseman; Milford Broers, second baseman; Durward Guth, pitcher; Jack Gaetz, sophomore catcher; Paul DuBois, third base, and James Zimmerman, outfielder. The team wore new uniforms donated by the school board. The team was hampered by a lack of experienced players. The squad was made up mostly of underclassmen — only four seniors on the team. Some of the more promising pros- pects were: Marvin Smith, pitcher and outfielder; Eugene Nauman, a transfer from Benson where he earned his letter in baseball, catcher and outfieldor; Rich- ard Dehority, infielder and pitcher; Harold Neumann, outfielder, and James Wiltz. pitcher. The first three games were cancelled because of poor weather. The season opened at Eureka with Metamora taking a 3-2 loss despite Eugene Schlabach ' s home run. Seven Illio conference games were scheduled for this spring. Other games scheduled included games with Woodruff and the district tournament at Lowpoint. The graduating lettermen from last year ' s team, which won six, lost eight and tied one, included Donald Jenkins, honorary captain and pitcher; Gene Fehr, pitcher and infielder, and Richard Zimmerman, outfielder. This year ' s team, composed mostly of underclassmen should in a few years produce a good team. Sixty-Eight

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