La Farge High School - Memories Yearbook (La Farge, WI)

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1956 Memories

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33333333 1 956 Memories ga!! Qasegazl---1Q55 Front Row: L. Chadwick, J. Thompson, R. Kennedy, R. McNatt, D. Steinmetz, B. Kennedy, G. Hodge, L, Parr, Mr. Popenfus. Second Row: 0. Howard, T. Howard, M. Harris, K. Leiurance, M. Clark, E. Clift, C. Stout, K. Steinmetz. West Lima tHereJ On Sep'teu1ber 20th, West Lima journeyed to La Farge to play our first game of the year. We managed to 'beat them by a score of 2-1. The leading hitter for La Farge was Thompson with 2 for 3. Robert, McNatt was the winning hurler while .lim Rabata received the loss. Readstown iHereJ La Farge won their second straight game by one run in a 3-2 win over Readstown. Readstown took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning when they collected -all their hits off McNatt. La Farge came back to tie the score in the t'hird inning. Tlhatis the way it was up to the last inning when McNatt led off wtih a hit, stole second and scored on Chadwickis hit to give the YVildcats the win. Viola lThereJ For the third game of the year the Wildcats journeyed down to Viola, The Wildcats outfought t'he Bluejackets and beat them by a score of 11-2. Rod Kennedy came up with a game saving catc'h with Viola ahead 2-0, then, in the 5th, we tied it up, added 2 more in the 6th and let loose with a 7-run rally in the 7th, Chadwick was tfhe leading hitter, while MoNatt notched his 3rd straight win in a row by pitching a one-hitter. Seneca fThereJ La Farge traveled to Seneca to chalk up their fourth straight wing the final score was 9-5. The Wildcats were led by two reserves-Tom Howard and Carmen Stout. Rod Kennedy, the regular cen- ter fielder, pitched the entire game and was credited with the victory. We traveled to Wauzeka on Friday, October 7, to play them and came home with a 3-3 tie. We were ahead 3-1 going into the fifth inning of play, but then a cru-cial error was committed by one of our players wihich eventually allowed two runs to score and tie it up at 3-3. At the end of 7 innings it was still tied. Then it started to rain, which delayed the game for ap- proximately 10 minutes, after which time play was resumed, and tihe game went on until the end of 9 inningsg the game still tied and the weather too wet to play, we quit and agreed to play the game over this spring. Oflilcially it was not called a ball game and does not go into the record books. Steinmetz, McNatt and 'Chadwick were our leading hitters in this game. This year they are trying something new. 'Dhey are playing so many games in the fallg then they finish the scfhedule in the spring, and the champion is crowned then. Our schedule this spring includes 2 games away and 3 at home. They are as follows: West Lima there, Readstown there, Viol-a here, Soldiers Grove 'here, Gays Mills there. The standings as of tlhe end of this fall are incomplete, but the first tlhree places are: W L T Gays Mills 4 0 0 La Farge 4 0 1 Soldiers Grove 4 1 0

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1956 Memories