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CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY 119 Kruirnr 'nf Eaarhall, 1931 While baseball prospects were not brilliant this year, our chances looked considerably better than those in the previews of football and basketball. From last year's cham- pionship team, only three lettermen returned, a first base- man, Connors, third baseman, Harroun, and a right fielder, Bright--not exactly, one might say, a cause for ecstasy. However, when the first call for candidates was issued, it met the usual response that baseball receives down here. The squad that gathered for the first meeting was some twenty-five strong and was composed largely of last year's second team. Pre-Easter practice began in the uRec, and, due to an ill-mannered March wind, our hopes for better times outdoors were, so to speak, nipped in the bud. The initial outdoor practice was finally held on the eighteenth of the windy month. Things progressed nicely until vaca- tion time, but the marked lack of real practice made it neces- sary to postpone our annual opening game with West Phila- delphia High, usually played before the holidays. As it was, we opened with Germantown Academy, four days after vacation. And what a way to begin! The game ended 3-2 in our favor, but was so close that one of the team thought we had lost until he was enlightened as to the correct score in the locker room. We might as well say here that the honors of the season go to Happy Harroun. Never having pitched a game in his life, he took the mound duty, and turned in praiseworthy work the whole season, starting with Germantown Academy. Probably there is no pitcher in the League that pitches better in the pinches than Harroun. At any rate, he certainly was there that day, and with Captain Connors scoring two runs with a home run, we won the day. The next two games were rather poorly played. We hit through to a victory over West Philadelphia High, and in view of some mediocre playing, should be satisfied with a 2-l win from Episcopal. A crucial game with Haverford was just the time we picked to get all the bad baseball out of our systems. And since bad baseball and victories do not go together, it is little wonder that we lost a game, 6-3, which, barring bonehead plays, we might have won. However, the wind never blew so badly but that it did some good. It certainly exhausted the team of its misplays, for the very next week we went up against Penn Charter and played the best game of the year to date. The fact that we were beaten 3-0 does not alter things. The infield and out- field were Hheads up all the time. Harroun allowed only four hits. At the plate we were held to one hit, for the simple reason that the doctrine, uHit 'em where they aint, wasn't observed. Hillier pitched a good game, but, regard- less of our shut-out, he was hit hard-alas! in the wrong direction. lt was a good game all around, and everybody was pleased. As this must go to press now with other articles, we can- not tell you with any exactness of our future games. To be sure, we face one very hard contest when we meet Friends Cen- tral on Monday, May eleventh. There will be one outside game with George School, and then games with Montgomery and Germantown Friends will finish the season. Allowing Friends Central a toss-up result, we have high hopes, and not unwarranted ones, of winning the rest. Either way will make for a successful season. From a raw, untried collection of players, Mr. Shuttle- worth has made a respectable ball club. After him. we should commend the work of Joe Connors, an ideal leader, who played excellent all-around baseball, Bryant Harroun, and Forrest Pearson, who came up from the scrubs to plug in and plug in tight, the position behind the plate. Thus, all around it was a good year, and provided all kinds of in- te1'est for fans, as well as for players.
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