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

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.. . ...,, yy - x-magna --.qnwrigr-.T g,.,.4,,.,,e1,,.,.. . .,,,. A 44++++++++++ U Baseball HE baseball team this year had few prospeettsaat the beginning of the :zea- son, but many things happened between that time and the first game. The call for candidates brought out the following veterans: Captain Hoft, White, Craig, Wilkenson, Snyder and Jones. The new, material con- sisted of Skirm, Hoover, Reid, Boger, Dettry, Purdy, Sagendorf, P. Hoft and Meehan. This squad showed a decided weakness in the pitching line, so Coach Hartley took Craig and made him into a pitcher. This proved to be a good move, and as there was a surplus of catchers, no loss was suffered. The var- sity line-up, which played through most of the games, was as follows: Boger, catcher, Jones and Craig, pitchers, Captain Hoft, first base, Hoover, second base, Wilkenson, shortstop, White, third base, Snyder, left field, Reid, center field, and Skirm, right field and shortstop. I , ' w .J i 'ls e , 5 I .. The team suffered a severe set-back in its first league game, because of rotten playing all around, costing many runs. The score was Chestnut Hill 22, G. A. 12. The team came back with spirit the next Week to defeat Penn Charter 6-4 by an eighth inning rally, featured by some brilliant pitching on Craig's part. This kept our major sport record clean against Penn Charter this year. Hoft's double with two on base, followed by Skirm's sacrifice and White's double supplied the winning punch. Two costly errors cost the team the Haverford game 4-2, but they played good ball all the way through. The Episcopal game was one of the most poorly played games ever seen on a diamond, our team losing 33-4. They made errors faster than it seemed possible, and played without any spirit at all. The next game was with St. Lukes, which the team threw away by com- mitting some errors with men on base, the score being ll-5. ' With three defeats staring them in the face, the team pulled itself together and in a brilliantly played game defeated the league leaders-Chestnut Hill-by a score of 5-2. This saw Jones pitching one of his best games. Boger's double with two on pushed over the winning runs for Old G. A. The team next went to Wayne only to suffer another defeat at the hands of the St. Lukes nine 14-5. However, they were not to be denied, for three days later they defeated Penn Charter? 5-3 in a breath-taking twelve-inning fray. Skirm featured for the Academy in this game, for it was his triple in the first which scored two runs for the Old School and then in the twelfth with the winning run on third, he laid down a beautiful bunt on which White scored and he took first, scoring on a wild throw by the catcher. Jones pitched a perfect game, allowing them four hits in twelve innings. This ended G. A.'s major sport's program with Penn Charter for this year without a defeat in any major sport. , With two more games left to play, the team has a good chance to finish near the top of the pile. Next year should see them there from the first game to the last, because only Boger, Hoft, Snyder and Skirm are graduating. THos. H. SKIRM. 75

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I +444-+L4ei.a-+++ Track x V ,G HIS year's track team was, without a doubt, one of the best G. A. has ever had as far as individual erformers o. ust this however has been the ri- . . P . .g . f f cause of 1ts downfall in the ma orit of its dual meets this ear. The If - I .l Y Y quality of the first place winners was far above any of their competitors, fx 5 ti: but the lack of reserve material to take the all-essential seconds and thirds X q p tripped the team in nearly every meet. The following letter men reported to Coach Roberts: Captain Henkels, Caveny, Truitt, Cooney, O'Neill and Schuman. The new material consisted of the fol- lowing: Boyd, Schell, Skirm, Dripps, High, Brush and Gardiner. Henkels ran the half and mile in every meet and won these two events each time, setting up n splendid example for the rest of the squad. jack Caveny high-jumped and ran the high hurdles, in both of which he won a place, winning the high jump in every meet. His splendid showing at the Princeton Inter-Scholastics, in winning the high jump from a strong field of competitors, marked him as a winner. The fol- lowing Saturday jack went to the Harvard Inter-Scholastics, defeating the cream of the New England prep schools. This shows that he will undoubtedly break the Inter-Academic mark for this event. Truitt ran the quarters and half, placing himself consistently in these events. Cooney was unfortunate in the first meet, being spiked in his first race, but he came back and won several places in the mile and half mile. O'Neill was a little off form this year, although he ran well in the dashes at times. Schuman was the weight man, as well as pole-vaulting and high jumping in a few of the meets. He has the distinction of running up the highest individual score on the track team, with a first and two seconds in the Girard College meet. Of the new men, Boyd showed up well in the high jump. Schell and Dripps divided the dashes between them with High a close third, lacking only in experience. Skirm ran the low hurdles and in one or two meets the high hurdles, doing very well considering the fact that he was playing baseball at the same time, allowing him little practice. Brush broad jumped with Schell, but through lack of experience was unable to do much. Gardiner ran the low hurdles, but, because of his age and lack of stamina, he did not show up so well. He should develop next year. Our relay team consisting of Charlie Schell, Charlie Truitt, Tom Skirm and Dick Henkels, running in the order named, were only able to pull a fourth. A bad start coupled with some exceptional competition from Haverford caused their downfall. The results of the dual meets were as follows: George School SO, G, A. 285 Germantown High 67, G. A. 32, Girard College 49, G. A. 415 Penn Charter 67, G. A. 32, Episcopal Academy 5412, G. A. 44M5 Chestnut Hill Academy 30, G. A. 59. Prospects for the Inter-Academic meet at Haverford College are indeed very favorable, as the seconds and thirds will be well scattered there. With many of the younger members of the team back next year under the able leader- ship of Captain Caveny and Coach Roberts, better results should be obtained. 77