Harpster High School - Crusader Yearbook (Harpster, OH)

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Baseball Team 2nd row 3rd ro Max Walters, Zane Cox, Connie Walcutt, Dean Waggy, Craig Swibart, Dwight Shumate, Roger Criswell James Rish, Roger McAlpin, Ronald Rish, B111 Sanderson, Eddie Jury, Robert Lewis, John Beaschler, Sam Prater, Bill Swartz, Mr Dunbar. First Nine ,J V T r ' A lst row: Bob Hawk, Mickey Snyder, Robert Smith, Stanton Swihart. w: A .

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Track Team lst row Eddie Jury, Dwight Shumate, Connie Walcutt, Craig Swihart, Dean Waggy Mickey Snyder 2nd row James Rish: Mr Dunbar, Roger Criswell, Zane Cox, Bob Hawk, Bill Moses, Max Walters, Ronald Kummerer During the 1953 track season Harpster took part in four meets, winnixg but one of tne four Our win coming against Larue 67 1 2 to 32 1 2 Our mile relay team won in all four meets and placed second in the county track meet, losing to Nevada by a half step Membe s of the successful relay team iere Conrad Walcutt, Dean Waggy, Max Walters and Craig Swihart We are looking forward to a much brighter track season in Sh with all members of the S3 team returning Letter winners, their events and points scored are as follows Craig Swihart High Jump, 100, LAO, Mile Relay 26 3fh pts Conrad Nalcutt High Jump, Discus, M e Relay f12 pts Dwight Shumate 220, 0 Relay, Shot, Discus pts Max Walters 880, Mile Relay pts Eddie Jury ile, 880 pts B111 Moses Pole Vault s Bob Hawk Shot, Discus pts Other veterans returning are Zane Cox, discus and shot Roger Criswell mile and high jump Mickey Snyder 220, 880 relay and broad um? 2. ' . f I . ' 205 I Dean Waggy 100, 0, Mile Relay ' 19 3fL pts. 17 . O 1 . ah' 3111, . 9 Pt - 7 . J. ' ' !

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We opened our baseball season on August 22, with nineteen candidates reporting for practice After two weeks of practice we opened the season at Morral on Sept ember the sixth Trailing by three runs going into the sixth inning, Mickey Snyders double paved the way for a four run rally that saw us come from behind to win 6 to 5 On September the eleventh we played our first league game at home against Wharton Dean Waggy carried a big stick for the home club banging out a double and triple Conrad Walcutt put in his peek performance of the year striking out seventeen Wharton batters in six innings Our top performance of the se son was against lcCutchenville on Sept ember 22 The game was an extra inning affair in which we scored four times in the eight to win Craig Swiharts diving so mersolting catch in the eight inning cut short a McCutchenville rally We won our third league game and our fourth game of the season against Marseilles on September 25 Dwight Shumate carried the big stick for the home club, connecting for three hits Robert Smith slapped a double and triple and Bob Hawk helped the home teams cause with a bases loaded single Buzz Swihart turned in a fine defensive job at shortstop We won handily going away 15 to 6 Our first loss of the season was at the hands of Nevada on their field September 29 Walcutt held the opposition well in check but we were able to collect only two hits They scored in the fourth inning to defeat us 1 to O Our final home game of the season was against Green Camp on October 2 We put on our biggest rally of the season in the sixth inning, scoring eight runs to come from behind to win the free scoring game 14 to 10 Dwight Shumate connected for the only Harpster homer of the season in the a bases loaded single in the big inning On a cold rainy October the 6th we lost our ch nce to gain a berth in the district baseball tourney by losing to winless Salem 8 to 4 A ad first inning proved our downfall Max Walters our leading hitter singled with the bases loaded, but we were unable to overcome the big first inning lead We closed the season on October the 9th against powerful Sycamore Roger Criswell our dependable catcher turned in a fine defensive performance even though we lost by a score of 10 to O The leading hitters for the season were Max Walters and Dwight Shumate who finished the season at a 320 clip Max Walters also led in the runs batted in with 8 and the most hits 8 Dwight scored the most runs 8 Zane Cox was the leading fielder handling 37 chances without an error for a lOOO average Conrad Walcutt, our regular pitcher averaged 9 2 strike outs per game and had a earned run average of 1 76 Although we ended up in a tie for third place we feel that we gained some prestige by defeating both Morral and Green Camp The winner and runners up respectively in Marion County big inning. Zane Cox scored three times for Harpster. Ed Jury whacked U . b