Luther Institute - Voyageur Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Caught in the Act

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Wildcat Ballplayers Luther's baseball Wildcats of 1944 might be termed the hard luck team of the Private School League. For the Cats began the season with a brilliance that foretold of championships in the olfing. An entirely unexpected loss to North Shore. however, started the team on the downgrade. and two games with two tough teams, Latin and Concordia. on two succeeding days continued the decline. Although holding a good non-league record, those three losses, all league affairs. were enough to wind Luther up in fifth place one game behind the four teams tied for first. With a heavy bombardment of extra-base hits. the Cats opened the new season by romping over University High after thoroughly annihilating Harvard. And things looked well for the Wood St. Warriors until the very last inning of their game with undefeated North Shore. But good things were no longer to be for after leading at one time by five runs the Heavies were forced to accept a 7 6 defeat at the hands of the big boys from Winnetka Last place Francis Parker then bowed to our men but because of a misunderstanding of he infield fly rule Luther was forced to duplicate the feat to Chicago Latin in the last inning of a close game The field day crowd viewed a disappointing dull and uninteresting contest from which Con cord a emerged victor by a four run margin Finishing the league season with a victory the Cats whacked Wheaton in revenge and rt seemed as though they had regained their hitting form In the following game at Culver Indiana against famed Culver Military Academy however the Heavies although gathering eight runs could collect only four hits STANDING LEFT TO RIGHT Hoffmann Greismg Knoll Hellstrand Paradies lCaptainl Rhode lrsch Voight Schech KNEELING Hecht Stortz Palu' Hoppensteadt Menlnng lCoachl To finish the season the Cats took a one run loss from Pullman Tech on a last inning squeeze Play P this seasons Wildcats When the boys were at their best it is doubtful that any other team in the P S L could have taken them A close batting race between Captain Louis Paradies and Pitcher Fred Stortz resulted in he latters winning out with a 424 average while the Cap n hit at a 387 clip Runs batted in champ was Howie Vorght driving ten across Pitcher Stortz won five games while losing three Hoppe Hoppensteadt filled in on the mound losing one game and alternating that positron w1th center field Ioe Pahr proved himself up to the task of catching by alternating with Howie Voight The regular infield consisted of A1 Hellstrand Ronnie Schech El Rhode Captain Paradies with Stortz and Pahr filling in when no other chore was left them Glenn Hoffmann and Hoppensteadt were regular outfielders while Ray Irsch Rhode and Voight shared the duties of the right field post Bob Greisrng and lose Knoll were around to plug holes where needed and should do well in later years i ' - ' . I I I - I : . ' ' . . , ' ' . . . ' , . : . , , , ' . I . . . I Occasional la ses in fielding and inconsistent hitting might be termed the weaknesses of X N X

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Blue and Gold Staff Teaching co-operation and journalism, work on The Blue and Gold staff is as helpful as a course in English. Over headlines and by-lines, news ar- ticles and feature stories, friends are made who won't be forgotten soon. From the editor-in-chief down to the circulation department. co-operation is the chief keynote. And so, from a few short months of working on a school paper the staff learns one of the most important lessons of life- TEAMWORK SEATED LEFT TO RIGHT I-Iaupt Irsch Hoffmann Gabel Landrebe lEd1torl Brexhan Klopke Noftz Welm SECOND ROW Lermer Uldvxserl lunge Hempel Iohns Schwandt Buettner Teqeler Moos Bosse Pfotenhauer Rmne Knaak Uxdl THIRD ROW Hecht Meyer lannusch Fleiner Diehl Kwxrant Iohnsen Sxegert FOURTH ROW Paradres Meyer Knop FIFTH ROW Cimaqho Iannusch Kreuger Israel Kehe Department Heads Editor in Cluef Donald Landrebe Associate Editor Sh1l.'leY Gabel Assistant Editor Robert Brerhan News Editor Ruth Klopke Sports Editor Glenn Hoffmann Feature Editor Audrey Noftz Business Manager Ray Irsch Circulation Manager Fred Kwtrant Faculty Advisor E. A Lexmer I 1 : . . , . ' . ' . . . '. : ' ' . . , . . . , , ' . .' . : ' . . . 2 '. A '.', , .-.L I e