Washington High School - Memory Lane Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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In the field the Panthers were fortunate to have IDINC the crest of a wave of twenty-nine straight victories, the Panther nine approaches the end of the 1940 season' striving to win its second consecutive baseball championship in the East- ern Division of the Northern Indiana High School Conference. The sole obstacle between the green surge and its second championship is the game with Michigan City which will be played May twenty- ninth at the lake city. Win or lose the conference championship, the team has had another exceptionally good season. Coach How's charges have performed equally well on both the field and at the bat, Their hitting has been timely BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1940 April 16-LaPorte 0 Washington 10 23fRiley 3 Washington 4 24-Middlebury l Washington 5 26-Elkhart 0 Washington 9 May 7-Central Z Washington 15 10-LaPorte l Washington 15 ll?Winamac l Washington 14 ll-Winamac 0 Vlfashington 5 17-Riley , , Washington 18-'Culver Military Academy Washington 21-Elkhart , , Washington ,, 24-Nappanee , Washington 25-Riley , , Washington 28- 31-Central a. Washington aa June l-Kalamazoo W, Washington and their fielding good. Washington's pitching staff is the despair of the other members of the conference. Pitchers Junior Hecklinski, Jerome Strzelecki, Ed Talboom, and Sylvester Niedbalski are each good enough to rate the top pitching berth at any one of the other conference schools. These boys have started and finished their own ball games since the beginning of the season with very little need of help from Big Ed Hanyzewski, probably the best high school pitch- er who has appeared in South Bend in a score of years. Ed has had good seasons previou.sly but this year he seems to have absolute control of enemy bats- men: he has been able on several occasions to cut off incipient rallies by cutting down rival batters in one, two, three order without their being able to even nick his pitches. Clem Sobieralski on third base where he handled ev- erything coming his way in exemplary fashion and at the plate i.s maintaining a batting average of .47'5. At second base Zachery Dlugosz and Chester Sciba form an almost unbeatable combination on double plays. Rugged Pete Ratajczak, catcher, holds down his assignment in an errorless manner and manages to maintain a batting average of .375. Although there are many individual stars on the team. the general conception one gets from watching Coach I-low's baseball squad in action is that it is a smooth running and cooperative unit that plays hard, clean, and clever heads up ball.

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HIQRB XACKROCIQI Plflili RA'l'A.ICXAK DICK LiOl.ICHOXX'SKl HCONNIIY' IQACZMIIZRCXAK RNII1 Hl:Clil.INSliI .IOHN IUCKY ID 'I AIISOONI DOC I iXDlQXVSlil JUNIOR I'Il1Clil.lNSKl MZIZDAH HANYZIQXVSKI OACH .IDHN I-IDNV led his charges through another suc- cessful season. Playing a schedule of twenty games the Panthers established a percentage of 500. They won ten games and lost ten. thereby breaking even. which wasn't so bad at all considering that they played the toughest teams in the stat. After the regular season. the Panthers played in the sec- tional tournament of the N. I. H. S, C., defeating Vvlashingtonf Clay and Nlishawalta and going into the semi-finals before they were beaten by Central. In the manner of all Vshasbington teams. success was due to cooperative team work rather tlian individual ability. A special mention must be made on the line playing of Joseph and Ernest Heclslinslti at the forward positions. Edward Hany7ewski and Peter Rataczaln also turned in good performances at their guard positions. Peter Ratac7ak's value to the team was specially no- ticeable when he was unable to participate in the Wtishington- Central game in the tournament. At the pivot spot Clem I.a- dewslci and Ifdward Ialboom alternated. both doing very well. Credit must also be given to the second team composed of I,eon- ard Ka7mierc1ale .Iohn l.uclxey. Herbert Zakrocki, and Richard Ciolichowslci which was always read to go into the game should the necessity arise. 'lillli 'VJ - '40 RECORD Wash. Opp, December fJfArgos .. Z3 Z0 December ll'4Middlebury 26 25 December l5fNappanee 23 lo December I W- New Carlisle Z5 Z7 December ZZ- Iillehart C N Z-I December 27-Pekin tlllinoisl I3 l-4 December Z8 -- 'Clinton tlllinoisl Z3 V? .lariuary I Z-V Riley C Z5 Z-I .lanuary lb f-Central C l7 ll .Ianuary lil- Michigan City 24 ll .Ianuary 27--I alxeville 33 ll .Ianuary 30 --Knox -ll l-I lfebtuary l -Angola 34 2-I I7ebruary 3- Bremen Zo I tw lfebruary lv- Bristol -H ZX lebruary fl- Cioshen C 'I I6 Iebruaiy Ill--Hammond Iech VJ 45 l'ebruary lo- Mishawaka C 35 37 Ikbruary I7--North Side lliort XVaynel 35 -I3 lfebiuary 25 -V laPorte HC Zo H2 Sectional 'l'ournament- XVashington'Clay -ll 32 lVlishawaka . Z5 I7 Central 40 lo C Denotes Conference Games.

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