Le Roy Central School - O At Kan Yearbook (Le Roy, NY)

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Page Twenty T H E R E D A N D B L A C K Commencement Number THE ATHLETIC TEAMS 7 BASEBALL TEAM GIRLS' HA.SKlC'l'l1ALl, TICABI BUYS' BASKHTllAl.l, TEAM F01 ITHALL TEA M

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Commencement Number T H E R E D A N D B L A C K Page Nineteen If any one ever came to the bench. Of all the dumbell fools that evel' put the worst. Here you've been making a record all spring and now it's disappeared in the air. Cummings, warm up. yelled the coach. Rave on if you want to: but first take a look at this. snapped Barber. holding out his right hand. The coach looked. and then swore. Barber's thumb was swollen twice its natural size. That's what I got for stopping a liner with my right hand. growled the hurler, was bawled out. Red was when he on a uniform you're Serves you right. but what we goin' to do. Cum- mings snap into it. retorted the coach. Listen t'oach, pleaded Red. let me stay in for I think they're kinda afraid of me. Besides Gumings pitched Thursday and his arm's shot. The gang's been backing me up good. so I think I can hold it. All right stay. But if you lose this game, I'll breal: you're neck. he threatened. All right. I want to show those birds, I won't go out like I did last year. Better put some tape on my hand. Tape nothin'. snorted the coach. If they see it. they'll know so1netl1ing's wrong aml wait and let you walk 'em. Let'S hope for speed. and control for my curves are shot. Beverly was going fine and retired the side in short time. Just before Logan took the field, the players gathered around the bench and listened' to the advice of the coach. Look here. you wooden Indians. he said. We've got a crippled pitcher. so its up to you to do your stuf. Get out there. yon. and show some pep. Beat it. Barber calmed down aml allowed but one hit. How- ever one hit followed Sherman's drive. but a piece of luck and brilliant fielding saved the day. MacDonald, one of the most powerful fellows on the Blue and White squad, connected. with a fast one. It was a beautiful sky scraper. curving rapidly towards the fence. It would have gone over, but a spectacular catch of Wilson stopped it. An old wagon where the grass was drawn away, was standing alongside the fence. Since Wilson was playing deep, he just had time to climb on the wagon and get the ball. It was the sensation of the diay. It robbed Beverly of two runs and would have probably have saved the day for them. From then until the first of the eight, the game went quite smoothly. Both teams made a double play. and sev- eral spectacular ones. Barber was a trifle wild but he was backed by ai stone wall. Thus far. he had struck out sev- eral men. He added another run by driving a beautiful triple and scoring on a long fly to the outfield. He was the outstanding figure of the day. At the first of the eighth. the eruption occurred. Sher- man walked Sullivan. The next man drove a double. But in trying to stretch it into a three bagger. he was just put out. On the play Sullivan scored. the first man to bring a score for the Red and Black, and the Logan supporters nearly went wild. Only one man out. one run needed to tie the score. and Sherman going up gave the spectators material for comment. Catastroplles for Beverly still con- tinued to happen. Haines drove on a single. As he slid l1o1ne in close. 'The umpire gave him the mediatelj! came cries of protests. rotten. Go back to the woods arbitrator's ears. a neat double. and scored ar cloud of dust. it looked benetlt of the doubt. Im- Kill the umpire. Your and the like reached the At the same time. Logan nearly tore their stand down. The score was tied and only one man was out. And Boyd had reached second ill the confusion. The next man drove a sharp grounder to short stop. but being a trifle nervous, a costly error allowed Boyd to reach third. Un the next P12151 the man on first ambled down to second. That old trick of the double steal is so old that a catcher no longer pays any attention to it. It certainly looked as if Logan was going to squeeze in another run. Sherman seemed to lose his nervousness. and promptly struck out the batter. Jones sent up a high foul, which the catcher gathered. aml robbed the Red and Black of a necessary run. But that's the luck of baseball. Beverly came in, determined to do or die. It seemed likely that the would do it. for the tirst man cut loose with a double. Ba1'ber's hand pained him seve1'ely. He stuck gamely, but it seemed to no avail. He walked the batter and allowed the next one to single. It was a lucky thing Wilson was not out for he saved one run for the team. No outs and the bases filled! The least Beverly looked for was two runs. And it looked as if they would ,get them. for one of the most dependable batters stepped tothe plate. As Barber wound up, the runners started. Harrison hit the ball a terrific blow. It was a beautiful liner. and was almost a sure hit. But Sullivan. playing deep, jumped and just caged it. The run- ners whirled about and tried to retrieve their bases. A quick! peg to second put out the second man and then a re- lay to first beat the runner by a hair. A triple play! The rarest occurence in base ball. The crowd simply went wild. They carried on with such enthusiasm that it took Beverly's entire police force composed of f0ll-I1 mfen to restore a re- semblance to sanity. Balmer may have been unlucky. but Sullivan must have had a horseshoe in his pocket and a four leaf clover in his glove. Logan came in full of hope. It seelned as if hope was the only thing they would get, tho'. However. after strike ing out the first man. he walked the next. Frill tore off a neat single, pitch. he went allowing the runner to third. Un the next to second. The batter was retired by short fly. The crowd let ouut a roar as Barber advanced to the an ideal circumstance for the hero of the a homer, and win. plate. What team to drive Come on. Red. old Kid. win your own game. Knock'er over the fence. Drive that big bum off the box and munerous other pieces of advice were thrown to him. Red wasn't. destined to put the pill over the fence. but he did send out a nice single. Une man scored. but l-'1'ill anxious to cross the plate, tried to beat the ball home. You're out. shouted the umpire. as 'iFrill slid home. ifontinued on Page 22.3

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Commencement Number T H E R E D A N D B L A C K Page Twenty-one THE BASEBALL SEASON I BRI DCKPI IRT--LE ROY Bang! That's the way the season opened. And soon after the lid-prying process. Brockport Normal School fac- ed toward home with a 3 to 2 defeat as a memory. Le- Roy players and fans alike rejoiced because the team had started off' with the right foot forward. And results testi- fy that it has thus far been kept fo1'ward. But let us get back to this particular game. It was one of those close affairs with the outcome ever in doubt. Brockpo1't scored first, but Le Roy started in the same inning and evened things up. The score remained deadlocked at two all un- til the last half of the ninth. when the home team showed its fighting spirit and literally blasted in a run. With that lun came the end of the game.andvictory number one was chalked on the ledge. AQFINAS-LE ROY ' May Tth took the local team to Rochester for a'game with Aquinas Institute. Le Roy started right off in the first inning and went to the field with a two run lead. Not to be outdone. the fighting Irish came right back with the four. From that time on. the contest assumed a hit and run atmosphere. with Aquinnas having all the better of the argument until the ninth inning. Then the seige guns and heavy artillery of the Le Royans came into full play, and when the dust of battle had cleared away, the hated enemy lay stark and lifeless in defeat. The guns had scored four direct hits-enough to recruit the score L1 to 9 in our favor. Mark down victory number two for the hook. ST. JOSEPH'S-LE ROY The day following the hard Aquinas tilt, Le Roy play- ed St. Joseph's Institute of Buffalo on the home diamond. The locals did well in the field. but were kept perfectly tamed at the bat. We might alibi the defeat to the hard game of the day before, but the truth of the matter is that the Buffalo pitcher was too good for us. The victors scored two runs in the third and two more in the ninth inning. The. best we could do was t.wo in the ninth. There is no disgrace in defeat by a pitcher of this calibre. CANISIUS FRESHMEN-LE ROY Another team came down from Buffalo and proved its superiority by tronncing the locals to the tune of 7 to 1. This time it was the Canisius College Freshman, who turn- ed the tricks. They did it decisively and in a workmanlike manner. The team consisted of a bunch of hitters who simply would not or could not be stopped. They fielded almost as well as they hit and. in this way, kept Le Roy's score down. We have not excuses to offer. lVe were beat- en by a better team. Le Roy's lineup: Serusa, cf: Callan, lbg Boylan, 2b: Watts, ss: Tully, 2-Sb: Waldron. lf: Keenan, 1-fg Lapp, c: Maloy. p. ALBION-LE ROY Le Roy journeyed t.o Albion with high hopes of victory. but the old Albion jinx still worked. Everything went wrong. The pitching was poor and the fielding worse. Batting was a close third. The Le Roy infield was a patch- ed up one, owing to the fact that one of their number was ill and another drew down the pitching assignment. Lady Luck simply refused to smile on us. If there was'only one stone in the infield. the ball hit that with Le Roy in the field. If there was one hole ill the outfield, the Le Roy ont- fielders stumbled on it. In this way, Albion piled up a lead of 19 to 6. Thus the game ended and with it ended our string of defeats. ALBION-LE' Rf DY The return game with Albion followed the week after the first one. Le Roy was out for revenge and revenge they did- get. They hammered the offerings of four pitch- ers all over the lot. The locals started off in the first inning and made nine runs before they could be retired. That was only the beginning, and before the fun was over. we had amassed the grand total of twenty-five runs. The best the visitors could do was seven. CALEDONIA-LE ROY The Vlfednesday before the first Batavia game. Le Roy played Caledonia 011 the home diamond. The visitors put up a good game but were unable to cope with the attack of Coach Beebe's outfit. Hits flew to all corners of the lot in the first two innings and these were merged into ten runs for L. H. S. After those two bad innings, Caledonia played real ball and held the locals safe. All this time our team had been playing shut-out ball and the score at the end of the game was 10 to 0. BATAV IA--LE ROY Wow! Le Roy beat Batavia once more. And just to make it all the more pleasant, it took place on their own diamond, before their own fans. From the start. it resolved itself into a pitcher's battle between Maloyq of Le Roy and Sherman of Batavia. For the first seven frames, each side was blanked. The string of goose eggs made it look as though the break would never come. But come it did in the good old lucky seventh. Batavia's infield blew sky high and before it could, come back to earth, Le Roy had tallied four times. Batavia was lucky to score its only run in the eighth inning. a slight erron in the outfield presenting them their chance. Each pitcher allowed but three hits. Maloy had slightly the better of the argument, however. as he issued only one free ticket to first base as compared with SIlB!'l11ilIl,S four. Another great cause for Batavia's defeat was the fact that Le Roy's infield didn't blow.