Germantown Academy - Ye Primer Yearbook (Fort Washington, PA)

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THE BOXVLING TEAM

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BOWLING TEAM This year was rather a bad year for our bowling team. The best the team could do was to take the seventh place in the Scholastic Bowling League. The bowlers were all young and inexperienced, and none of them had ever been on the team before with the exception of Gruhler and Maxwell. Holton, one of our best bowlers, left school in order to attend Lawrenceville, so it was a comparatively weak team which represented Germantown Acad- emy. Nevertheless, the boys tried faithfully, and deserve much credit for their efforts. VVe wish to thank Mr. Charles McCarty for working so hard with the team, and are sure that our team would have headed the list if he had had the material. William Gruhler, who managed the team so well, deserves much credit also. The following are the averages of the members of the Bowling Team: 6 No. of games. Average. Gruhler . . . ...... 67 149 9-67 Maxwell . .. .... 66 152 21-22 Riley .... .... 6 o 148 3o-6o Schaefer ... . .57 139 41-57 Graham .... 52 ISO 19-32 Keefer .... 51 145 18-31 Tissot .... I7 144 7-17 Potter .. 8 118 3-4 Peck ...... 5 133 Holloway .... .. 3 115 2-3

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BASE BALL TEAM VVith but one man left from last year's championship team, the base ball team began practice the last week in March under the most unfavorable conditions of any team that ever represented the Academy. Nevertheless, Coach McCarty, by his untiring efforts and great patience, succeeded in getting second place in the I. A. A. A. League. The boys were green and inexperienced along the lines of base ball, and it was precisely the same con- dition under vvhich the football team was forced to work. The time was too short to learn the game properly. Lack of material was another obstacle which we had to over- come. John Graham, our veteran third baseman, was elected Captain, and Ralston was selected to manage the team. The hrst I. A. A. A. game was played on our grounds at Limekiln Pike, Episcopal Academy being our opponents. It was a very hard struggle, but we won the game in the tenth inning. The next game was the Penn Charter game, which was played at home also. Ogden was in the box for Penn Char- ter, and While he held the boys down to a very few hits, the Penn Charter team hit Graham freely, and we lost the game by our ovvn stupid playing. The last game was the De Lancey game at Wfestmoreland. Wfhile our team was not in the best of condition, we succeeded in defeat- ing them by a score of 5 to 1. As Friends' Central had not been offic- ially admitted to the League, and Cheltenham Military Academy forfeited all their games for the season, this gave us second place. VVhile it is true that the team did not play good base ball, yet some of the players deserve mu,ch credit. Captain Graham was our strong point. As a pitcher he did very well, and there is little doubt but what we