Amana High School - Bugle Yearbook (Amana, IA)

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Sports AHS FALL BASEBALL The AHS fall baseball season was opened on Fri- day, September 4. with a game played at COI1I'0y- Amana took the loss 18-3. The Rockets led during the first inning 3-1 but in the second Conroy scored seven, and in the third inning, 10. Amana failed to score during the rest of the game. G. Ruedy took the loss, and Jeck did the catching. The next game was against Victor and was another loss for Amana, 23-4. Many costly mistakes were made by the Rockets during the game. They made rnne er- rors and hit rather poorly. Gaddis was the losing pitcher. Trumpold was the catcher for Amana. The follnowing game was played with Immaculate Conception of Cedar Rapids, who also broke Amana for a 14-4 victory. The losing pitcher was G. Ruedy with Trumpold handling the chores behind the plate. However, luck was with Amana at the tournament played in Blairstown on September 15. Here the Rockets outslugged Tiffin in a wild game, 26-18. Her- gert led the field by getting three hits, one of which was a home run. Foerstner was the winning pitcher while Trumpold caught. The second round of the tournament was played with Oxford with Amana losing 10-0. The winners scored their 10 runs in the last half of the third in- ning on some good hitting and Amana fielding mis- takes. Gaddis took the loss for the Rnockets with Trumpold catching. Conroy took the next game away from Amana 14- 11 on the home diamond. Trailing 14-5 going into the seventh the Amana boys scored 6 runs before the Con- roy pitcher bore down and struck out the last two hitters. George Ruedy was the losing pitcher. With some heavy hitting Ladfora threw Amana over 20-11 at the former's diamond. During the game Rot- ter got three hits, including a home run, and Foerst- ner got three, including two doubles, to lead the Amana team in hitting. As pitcher Foerstner took the loss for the game. 'Trumpold did the catching. The last game of the season was played at Tiffin on October 2 when Amana won from Tiffin 8-7. It was a game marked by many errors on the part of both teams. Gaddis took credit for the win with Trumpold catching. -Roger Gaddis SPRING BASEBALL The Amana spring baseball season was :opened on April 9 in a game with the Immaculate Conception Greyhounds of Cedar Rapids. The Greyhounds beat Amana 17-0. The battery for the Rockets was Roemig, Dickel, Hergert, and Jeck. Amana took another loss against Ladora, 4-2, in a well-played game. Although Laduora got only one hit, there were errors and walks on the part of the Rockets that enabled Ladora to win. F. Ruedy was the loser. Amana won its first game of the season against Tiffin by a score of 5-2. Tiffin got only twvo hits, Amana, three. The last game played by Amana was at Oxford with the Rockets losing 27-7. This was the first game of the sectional tournament and took place on May 3. -Roger Gaddis AHS JOINS THE PIOWA On January 13 at a meeting at Zuber's Dugout Amana and Chelsea High Schools were voted into the PIOWA Athletic Conference. This league at pre- sent, schedules only basketball games,-and tourna- ments. However, next fall baseball will also be in- eluded. The league is made up of schools from three dif- ferent counties in Iwowa. The schools are Amana, Con- roy, Ladora, Millersburg, Parnell, and Victor from Iowa Coutntyg Chelsea from Tama Countyg and Hart- wick fnom Poweshiek County. All of these have new or almost new gymnasiums. Every year the conference awards several trophies. They consist of a boys' first place trophy, a girls' first place trophy, and a sportsmanship trophy. -Raymond Rotter PHYSICAL EDUCATION Because the Amana Schools now have a gymnasi- um, the junior high and high school curriculum for the first time included physical education courses. All the students that passed a physical examination by their family doctors were required to participate in in the class. The course is offered twice a week, and one-fourth credit a year is given to all high schoolers that take phys. ed. During the fall and before the completion of the gym the activities in this class were softball, archery, and playing various games with the vnolley ball. The boys also participated in f-ootball and calisthenics. These classes took place outside, -on the north side of the high school building. No phys. ed. took place fnom November to February bef-ore the completion of the gym. After February 1 the class was held in the gym. Calisthenies, games with the basketball, and foot races were the activities engaged in here. The boys also enjoyed relay races. -Roger Gaddis and Raymond Blotter BATTING AVERAGES hits B.B. O.A.B. Ave. 0 2 ooo Metz ......... ....... 0 . Roemig ..... ..... 0 4 6 .000 Dickel .......... ........ 1 3 8 .125 Foerstner ........ ...... 1 0 2 25 .400 Jeck .............. ..... 7 8 16 .437 Hergert ........ ...... 1 0 2 27 .370 Hopp ................ .... 3 2 15 .200 Ruedy, Fred ....... ..... 3 1 18 .160 Ruedy, George ...... ..... 1 4 10 .100 Neubauer ........ .... 1 5 9 ,111 Gaddis ............. ........ 3 3 11 .272 Trumpold ........ .. ...... 2 6 15 .133 Rotter .......... ........ 4 8 16 .250 Williams ...... .... 1 3 5 .200 H-oehnle ........... ..... 0 0 0 .000 Baumgartner .............................. 0 0 0 .000 PITCHER'S RECORDS W L Ruedy, Fred ...... ,,,,,,, 0 2 Gaddis ............. ,,,,,, 1 2 Roemig ......... .................. ...... ........... .......... - - Foerstner ..... ......................................... . .................... 1 1 Hergert ..... ................................................................ . 0 1 -Roger Gaddis and Raymond Rotter