Leander Clark College - Cardinal Yearbook (Toledo, IA)

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JWPCE. 9 , y mf-1-M-ff A -M Cillmlggei. A by a 1-O whitewash. Cap donned his suit for the first time since the trip and held down the coacher's box while Ladd proceeded to show up our old friend Saur at the hurling game, ending up the ninth by whiifing the opposing slab- artist, and thus pulling out of a distressing predicament, so to speak. The game abounded in spectacular work, luck somewhat favoring the visitors. Fir- kins made his debut in the center garden and drove in the winning run with a clean hit in the fifth. L'Two, great, glorious, rip-roaring, swash-buckling wins over Coe , as the Record stated, furthered our happiness. The first game saw Ladd again in the box, and, after a hitting fest in the iirst few innings, Palmer replaced Dunlap and the game steadied down to an endurance contest. The Coe team was unable to connect with Deac's knuckle-drop with enough regularity to overcome the Clark lead and the score remained 7-5. Coe, in the return game, determined to take no chances and sent her best pitcher to the mound. Ladd, however, again demonstrated his superiority and allowed only one hit Ca tlukej to be registered in the entire session. There was never a time throughout the game when he was seriously in trouble. Barnes' triple and the ensuing errors in the second fur- nished the scores for the home team, while Repp received an ovation after a bril- liant catch in the sixth. The team certainly played air-tight ball during these games. The work of 4'Tuffy lXluirhead behind the bat left nothing to be desired -except a silencer. The first of June brought the long-deferred Cornell games in the form of a protracted sojourn in their fair city, where the team received the usual royal treatment. The first game was safely tucked away until the last of the ninth when an adverse decision gave us the small end of a 5-6 tally. The next game ended in worse luck yet. In both these games Allen showed his grit by pitching Without the use of his injured arm and, at that, would have won but for numer- ous boneheads and errors pulled off behind his back. The Alumni furnished the real battle of the season. Ladd opposed Allen and the game see-sawed back and forth until the fall of dusk and extreme fatigue induced the participants to bury the hatchet at the close of the twelfth, leaving the score one each in favor of both. As in all sports, the College is to be congratulated upon the showing made by this team. Give us a little material, a little incentive, a good management and we fight the biggest of them. The season would in all probabality have ended with Leander Clark in the topmost rank but for a few unfortunate ac- cidents to her players. Wlien the team won, it won by a good margin, and a .500 percent average is an enviable thing after all. B956 A