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Saaeball SUmmit The baseball season of 1925 went down into Emory and Henry history, not with a record untarnished by the stains of defeat, but with one of every game played in true Wasp style; victorious in five out of nine starts, and keeping the home slate clean for the second consecutive year. Now, that those stirring times are over, memory cannot refrain from viewing again the beacon lights on that nine—Montie Weaver, premier Wasp slabman, and Captain “Pee Wee” Herndon, outfielder extraordinary, together with their teammates. The Wasp collegiate baseball season started off in an eminently satisfactory manner when they took Lenoir-Rhync into camp 2 to 1 in a nicely played game. It was a pitcher's duel between Weaver and Moose, with the former having the decided edge. The Wasp motindman was in fine form and had the North Carolinians biting at his assortment of curves. In addition to this, the big slabman had a great day with the stick, getting a double, which was one of the longest balls ever hit on the Wasp Field. His teammates accorded him almost perfect support in the field. Before a colorful Public throng numbering well into the hundreds, the Wasps took their second win from the Tennessee Teachers, 3-0. It was an exciting contest with Weaver hav- ing an advantage over Davis, the Teacher hurler. Weaver allowed but two hits, issued three passes, and sent ten men to the benches by the strike-out route, while Davis allowed only three clean hits, passed one, and struck out four ambitious Wasps. The next battle, with the Maryville Highlanders, was of that unforgctable variety. Both teams played a superior brand of ball and it was only after one of the most bitter fights in the history of Waspdom that Emory and Henry came out victorious in a 5-4 count. Weaver had the Highlanders at his mercy but his teammates could not bunch their eleven safe binglcs. Maryville led in the scoring until the last half of the ninth, when “Pec Wee Herndon’s single, enabled “Flying Dutchman” Horne, to make a sensational slide into home plate, for victory. The first game on the long road startled all Virginia when the Wasps played the Washington and Lee Generals to a standstill. An error in the last minute allowed the Minks to register a 4-3 victory. “Dick Cecil and Shufflcbarger were the batting aces for the locals. Both hit for the circuit, but Shufflebarger’s went for naught when he failed to touch third base in his race around the paths. Regarding the game, the Richmond News- Leader said: “There are few, if any, teams in Virginia capable of treating Washington and Lee as the Wasps did. Weaver outpitched the General luirlers allowing the Minks a scant seven hits, and striking out twelve, eight of them in the first three innings, but an error kept the game from going on possibly to a Wasp victory. On the following day the Wasps met the V. M. I. “Flying Squadron” with “Bostic” Likens on the mound. Nugent, assuming slab duties for the Cadets, gave up only three hits and the Wasps suffered their first shutout of the year. The game was played in a whirlwind fashion and lasted only seventy-two minutes. This is believed to have been the fastest college game ever played in Virginia. The game was featured by the beautiful air- tight work on the part of the outfielders. “Iron-Man” Hundley, Hampden-Sidney's premier hurler, completely subdued the Wasps to score a 7-0 triumph. Weaver pitched eight innings but the Tigers nicked him for nine hits while Hundley duplicated Nugent’s feat and allowed the Wasps a scant three. Captain Herndon secured two of Emory’s three safeties for the local scoring honors of the day. The Wasps then divided the remaining two road games between the Medical College of Virginia and Randolph-Macon. The former game was a good exhibition of batting, as both teams wielded the willow rather heavily. However, the locals had the greater success in bunching their stings and scored an 8-6 victory. The gruelling trip told on the Wasps in their encounter with the Yellow Jackets, which they lost 3-1. Neither team showed flashy work, but the Yellow Jackets’ stingers seemed to penetrate deeper than the Wasps’ when in sight of home plate. The last home game of the season, with the Birmingham-Southern “Panthers” was one of the neatest exhibitions of the great American sport seen here last year. Behind the sturdy pitching of Weaver, the Wasps held the Southerners in their power throughout the game. A thrilling ninth inning rally put two Panthers on the paths after Weaver had fanned the preceding two. The next batter swatted the ball into the deepest part of center field, but outfielder Horne saved the day when he snagged the horsehide with a super-human effort for the most spectacular fielding performance seen here in years. Page Eighty-seven
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