Clarendon College - Wester Yearbook (Clarendon, TX)

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rxlgffat wi 'ii L-f IJARENDON began the baseball season with high hopes this year: Walker had all of his last year's speed and curve plus a wonderful controlg Smalley soon demonstrated hi ability to cut the corners in a mannr baffling to all collegiate Babe Ruth'sg and our pitching troubles dissolved into thin air when this pair of twirlers were joined by O. Close, our only southpaw. 'Taken all together our prospects were better than they were last year, and after the usual sprisg training a few easy games with nearby teams were played to arouse pep and to give the C. C. nine their first taste of blood. With the advent of warm weather the regular schedule was taken uP, and at present is about half played out. Games good and bad, tense and burlesque, rapid and slow, have been seen on the local diamond, but in all of them C. C. has shown up as having a real ball team, and in most of them has shown up -as having a winning team. To date C. C. has played ten games, losing two to Canyon Normal and one to the Clarendon Independents, and win- ning the other seven. An eleventh game was played with the Shamrock semi-pro team and resulted in a fourteen-inning tie, it being one of the best games played here this year. Other feature games were the game pitched by Smalley at Canyon in which he allowed only three hits, and the game in which Walker shut out the Clarendon Independents with but a single hit in the ninth innning. Games with Canyon Normal and San Marcos Normal are to be played on the C. C. diamond sometime within the first part of May. If C. C. wins two of these games she will have nine won and three lost: giving her a percentage of .750,g if C. C. drops both games to the visitors her record will be seven won and five lost, a percentage of 580, the same mark set by the team of 'I9-'20, PAGE ON! HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT

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bers of the club in preparation for their intercollegiate meets at Canyon, held 'A-pril twenty-ninth and thirtieth. By the time April had come around the best players among the students had shown up to be Crawford, Gordon, Stubblefield, Vaughter, and Smalley. This narrowing clown process endured from February, when the club was begun, to April twenty-sixth when the elimination contests were pulled off on the local courts to de- tennine the players to represent Clarendon in the track meet at Canyon. A half day of great playing resulted in Crawford, Stubblefield, and C-ordon being eliminated in the doubles matches by Vaughter and Smalley. The contest for the singles title in C. C. came to the doubles champions-Vaughter and Smalley-and was won by the latter. The results at Canyon probably will not be known in time to appear in The Wester. but from the exihibition put up by the players in the contests here we may feel confident of a good showing for C. C. STUBBLEJF' I ELD CRAWFORD VAUGHTER THOMASON PACE ONE HUNDRED AND '.WENTY SEVEN

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l JULIAN JOPLIN, Left Fielder,-Jop forced his way on to the regular nine by virtue of his throwing right arm, his ability to cover a lot of territory in the outfield, and a tendency to hit 'em at embarrassing moments for the opposing pitcher. He was always a heady player and made himself fit into the team machine. HARLEY T. BURTON. Coach-The coach from the early practice days began to show signs of fine generalship. The team's record and records of other athletic teams in C. C. as well show the value of that generalship, and make further comment super- fluous. However, as long as he remains at the helm and has as much as a smattering of material to work with C. C. will be represented well up toward the top in baseball. mcg omg HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE