The Gunnery School - Red and Gray Yearbook (Washington, CT)

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HALE SCHERESCHEWSKY l KELLOGG '27, PULLEN WALTERS I952 VARSITY BASEBALL REVIEW With a defensive finesse and offensive power which few teams were able to override. the Varsity Baseball Nine copped the Connecticut Prep School League pennant for the second time in as many years. The season's count stood at 12 wins and three losses, when Coach Ed Buxton received the final congratulations on june 4th. In the opener on May 2lst jay Hale and Pete Pullen combined efforts to thwart South Kent, 3-0. Played at South Kent, the game proved little encouragement to Coach Buxton, as the Big Red itself received only two hits. April l6th found the club at Ken1 for its initial League contest of the season. jay Hale wrapped up a neat six-hitter, a: Gunnery nipped the home nine, 3-2, on nine hits. Fortune again smiled on Coach Buxton in the third contest on April 19th, as Halt and Pullen worked alternately to subdue Canterbury, 6-l. Tom Kearney led the offensive with a double and a single in three ofhcial trips. Rain fell literally and figuratively a Wooster on April 23rd, as the home club outlasted the Red and Gray, 7-6. Kellogg ant Schereschewsky shone in a losing cause with two hits apiece. April 30th marked victory number four, as Hale pitched a 7-0 no-hit, no-run contes at Salisbury. Tom Unsworth held hitting honors with two hits. On the home field oi May Day Pete Pullen, because of a three-run eighth, lost a 6-5 game to Trinity-Pawling The Gunnery outhit Trinity-Pawling 14-7, but to no avail. Stars in the losing cause wer- Hale and Schereschewsky with three hits each. South Kent journeyed to Barnes Field on May 5rd and absorbed a 16-5 shelling bj The Gunnery. Kellogg fired an effective five-hitter, and breezed easily to his initial triumpl of the year. Twenty hits were amassed by the relentless Red and Gray, Kearney, Walters, ant Lash setting the torrid pace. At home again on May 7th, Gunnery trounced a hopeful Taf nine, 6-2, on a Hale three-hitter. Lash again led the offensive attack with two hits. Amid the cheers of the Senior weekend crowd on May 10th, Choate succumbed, 2-l to the Red' and Gray. Captain Rog Walters belted out a double and a single to lead th hit parade. Racking up his third victory on May 14th, Pete Pullen threw a four-hitter 2 Canterbury, surviving a threatening seventh as he whipped them, 7-4, on Canterbur territory. On May 16th a heart-breaking 8-7 defeat, inflicted by Westminster on Barnes Fielc marked jay Hale's only loss of the year, and Gunnery's only League loss. Schereschewsk led the losing hitters with four hits in four trips.

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Back row, left to right: Mr. Golembeske, Kruchten, Fisher, Sparrow, Chess, Hoyt, Hamilton, Lewin, Manager. First row James Millinger, Page, Jones, Frey, Krasow. .IUNICR VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM C apmin and C oach PAGE, MR. GOLEMBESKE Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery 76 SCOREBOARD 5 Canterbury Wooster 5 Trinity-Pawling 3 Salisbury 6 South Kent 7 Canterbury 2 South Kent 1 Salisbury