Gordon State College - Taps Yearbook (Barnesville, GA)

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Review of 1917 Baseball Season The outl-ook for the season was not by any means the brightest at the begin- ning, in spite of the tact that more men reported at first call th-an had done so in the past. The last of February saw the usual preliminary work well un-der way. The weeding out soon began and by the time all had the kinks worked out, the squad was cut down to a workable size. There was only one lettered man and two scrubs back, around whom Coach Mosely had to build a winning team to keep in accordance with the past Gordon aggregations. This he did and did it mighty well. The prowess of this squad was talked of far and near. They proved to be a big stumbling block to every team whose chance it was to meet them. They cared for neither rank, reputation nor newspaper dope. They all looked alike to this bunch. and they were always eagerly awaiting the time to lock horns with the next doomed victim. They opened the season by easily defeating the Gth District A. X M. School, then came the two games with the fast L. G. I. Team, a team which was rated with the very best preps in Georgia. Gordon won the first of the series by a. good mar- gin, but the next day '4Toby', had the Gordon nine and the end of the ninth inning found the count was against them by one run. This never worried them because they knew that they had far the best team. And as a revengeithey overwhelmingly defeated the Tech Hi Team from Atlanta. in both of a two-game series. Three days later found them still in their angry state and they next handed the Dahlonega nine a defeat in two consecutive games. lt was here that they secured four circuit drives olf the delivery oit the Dahlonega Coach who -went to the mound to try to check the Gordon rush. The real thrill of the season, the time when the local lads were put to the severest test. was the eighth game ot the season. when they met the fast Stetson University Team from DeLand. Fla.. The game was fast and exceedingly spectacu- lar. This team had just received a. dubbing at the hands of the Tech Yellow .Tackctsv on two days previous. But we base our claim -on the fact that we defeated them to an even larger score than the Tech Team did. This game brought sweet remembrance back to the old Gordon Stars who have retired here in this quiet little town of Barnesville. They could easily remember the time when Gordon, ai prep school, used to defeat Clemson, Sewanee, Tech and Georgia.. the Southis leading universities. Next came the game with Gritlin, Ga.-Ala. League, and split even in a two-game series with them. Then the other two games with L. G. l. came, the Battalion went over in a body to help the Gordon nine win, but as before, they broke even. Efforts were made t-o have these two teams meet in Griliin tosettle the count, but the L. G. I. otlicials declined. Then, as Lanier had defeated the L. G. I. Team twice, Coach arranged games with them to prove that he had the better team and the result was that Gordon piled up a large score and thereby won the State Prep Championship. ATHLETIC Eorroiz.

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8 l 3 l 5 l l l l i 5 l 1 W 1 ' l Y l Baseball Team, 1918 - 1 L L MEMBERS OF TEAM , F. L. Ashley, CCaptai'n,j. . ........... . Pitcher , R. W. Jenkins. H. . ..,. . Pitcher 3 S. D. Wilkes. . . Pitcher ' E. H. Spivey . . . . Catcher , S. A. 'Pierce . . . First Base T l ' M. Appleby. . . . .Second Base Q P. L. Solomon. . .Short Stop l i M. H. Faulk. . .Third Base j J. G. Miner. . . .Left Field u I J. N. Willis. . Center Field L E. L. Evans. . . . . ..... .Eight Field SUBSTITUTES Bush, R. H. ' Greene, W. L. Kibler, R. E. - Strozier, F. C. O'Quinn, O. W.

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