Florida Agricultural College - Pinakidia Yearbook (Lake City, FL)

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Baseball in the F. Baseball is probably the most popular of all out-door sports among the American people and it is always true that in a community where nine boys can be gathered together that there is some kind of a baseball team organized . Every true American is a lover of baseball, for is it not our national ga111e and did it not originate on our soil? So it cannot be expected that an enterprising educational institution of to-day can get along without a baseball team. As in years and everything else though, the F. A. C. is young in baseball. It has always been a diliicult matter for our boys to induce the Faculty to allow them to go away from Lake City to play baseball because it was thought that it broke into the regular military routine too much. However, as far as we have gone, we have always held up our side of the argument pretty well. The first time the F. A. C. distinguished itself in the baseball wo1'ld was in the fall of '97 when under the management of Lieutenant E. N. Calhoun, and with the well known fre Xlhrrf!! as captain, our team played a series of games here with the Roselands-, of Jacksonville, winning from them three times in succession. This was during the Tobacco Fair held here at that time, and it is said that the boys of the jacksonville team have refused to smoke cigarettes from that day to this. During the same season, in the spring of '98, a war broke out with Spain and many of our boys being resolved not to be behind in helping Uncle Samf' enlisted in the army and thus our baseball strength was sadly diminished, and as a result, only one more game was played, but in that one, the East Florida Seminary met defeat on our grounds. During tl1e next school year, in the fall of '98, very little was done in the way of organizing a baseball club, but in the spring following, the old F. A. C. came out with one of the strongest teams they have ever had. XVhen the team was first organized, it seemed that we were short a pitcher, but after a little experimenting, Rogero, of St. Augustine, a man who had never played in the in-field before was put in the box, and truly he developed into a latter day wonder. The first game of the season was played late in April in Tallahassee. We went to the Capital expecting to play the West Florida Seminary boys, but the fact was we played Leon County. The NVest Florida Seminary boys acknowledged that we were their superiors and so, rather than come home without a game we consented to 69

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OFF ICERS. SESSION, '98-'99. SESSION, '99-'00, ED. H. CLUTE, . . . flhvlagvr. S. JEWETT, ...., 1ltlIIr'IIg't'1'. A. LIVINGSTON, JR., .flssisfazzl Xlfazzagzv. L. NV. NIORGAN, . .wlxxzkfmzl ,lfam THOS. C. THOINIPSON, . Ctlpfdllll. M. PRICE, . Clclfftliill, J. FINLAYSON, jR.,c. B. HARRISON, 3b. W. E. HENSLEX', c. J. M. PRICE, 3b H. F. ROGERO, p. L. B. COLEMAN, S. S. N. P. IVES, p. M. M. BROWN, S. S, ED. H. CLUTE, 1 b. T. C. THOINIPSON, 1. f. C. O. FINCH, I b. T. C. THOMPSON, 1. t'. J. H. GIRARDEAU, 2b. O. M. KINNISON, c. f. ED. H. CLUTE, 2 b. B. HqXRRISON, c. f. W. E. HENSLEY, r. f. W. B. CONE, r. f. S11bxl1'i11lcs. Szzbsiilzzffs. T. GUTHRIR, N. IVES, VV. CONE. A. B. BROWN, B. H. XVAUGII, 15. POR' Mascot, E. KINNISON. H. A. L.-IYCOQR, Mascot, P. M.xRzON1. YELL. Hippity hus I Hippity hus ! What in the world's the matter with 115 ! Nothing at all I Nothing at all I VVe're the boys who play baseball. 68

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i l k n 'Some ofthe spectators attempted to count the number of men they playecl that ' 1 play any team they coulc ma 'e p. , . day but most of them lost count somewhere between eighteen and twenty-five. Of course our boys became tirec out, playing against fresh men all the time and finally Tallahassee won the game. One of the most hotly contested games of the season was between the F. A. C.'s and Live Oak, which resulted in a score of 3, to 1 in our favor. just before commencement our team went to Gainesville to play the East Florida Seminary team, and here. as in Tallahassee, less than half of the men belonged to the Seminary. Their pitcher was a player from Chicago and the catcher was one known as the best amateur in the State. In this game We lost to Gainesville in the ninth inning. tt' into shape lately and the general public may expect to hear favorable This year our team has been ge ing reports of our prowess before tl1e season is over. W: aif wiiw iif T Na . Q- 1. its , 3 .. e C'F . . X rpg., 1 -s,. Q 'it' 70