Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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MIDDLESEX SCHooL CoNCoRD, MASS BASEBALL lfmnl Row: Emmons. Hallowell. Stodghill. Huidekoper. Childs. Middle Row: Howard. Ellis, Capt. Clay. J. Winsor. Mead. Back Row: Mr. Farnsworth. Lee. Thorne. Mr. Raymond. Ba- ton. Dempsey. Reynolds. Barely missing being one of the truly great Middlesex teams. the team this vear was potentially strong and spasmodically brilliant. With no outstanding players. its strength lay in its spirit and its usually attendant luck, which to- Qether enabled it again and again to snatch victory from out of defeat. Once more Mr. Raymond was able to transform an eager, willing group of boys into a team that had its moments of actual greatness. Page Forluafour

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1 x EEE1iE.Z4lQQE. C . . -t-CQN9QQ,NlQ?- in the season. We met a dehnitely inferior Nobles team and easily won, 14-O, on touchdowns by Winsor and Lennihan, with placements by Mead. The score by itself does not give a good indication of the play, for we were definite- ly superior during the entire game, and should have made better use of our scoring opportunities. The last game of the season, with Belmont Hill, was definitely our best. Here we displayed the offensive drive that we had so sadly lacked earlier in the season. Belmont was good, but only once did they even threaten. Middlesex scored almost immediately on a blocked punt which Freeman grabbed and ran for a touchdown. Before Belmont could recover, a second period drive cul- minated in another touchdown. with Lennihan crashing over from the six-yard line. Mead's placement was blocked. By now the long slumbering Middle- sex offensive had come to life and before the game was over, Winsor and Trues- dale had each scored, Mead adding another conversion, making the score 26-0. At the close of the season, letters were awarded to Captain Nathanson, Captain-elect Hartwell, Winsor, Barron, Lennihan, Bigelow, Clay, Sundback, Parsons, Little, Freeman, Childs, Thorne, Truesdale, Mead, Draper, Midden- dorf, Brown, Foster, Howard, Wade, and Manager Reynolds. Page Forty-three

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MIDDLESEX SCHOOL -- CONCORD, Mass. The season was opened on April 19, by a 5-3 victory over St. Mark's. Middlesex scored two runs in the Hrst inning on three consecutive hits, and St. Mark's got three in their half, but we tied the score in the third and added the winning runs in the sixth. Clay holding St. Marks scoreless for the rest of the game. The Groton game the following Saturday was a pitchers' duel, we get- ting two hits to Groton's four, but Clay weakened, and Groton scored the win- ning run in the ninth on a walk. Breaking out of its hitting slump, the team blasted two Nobles pitchers for thirteen hits and twelve runs, while Ellis and Clay held them scoreless. A hard-hitting Boston Trade team next defeated us 7-3, in a game marked by our inability to capitalize on our chances. The team then launched out on a seven-game winning streak by smother- ing Belmont Hill 21-2 on nineteen hits. Suffering from what seemed a re- lapse after the Belmont game, the team was trailing St. Mark's 6-1 in the sev- enth when suddenly it burst forth with five runs on six hits, and added one more in the eighth, to snatch the game away from a cocky St. Mark's team. Making up for its previous inability to hit Grey, the team came from be- hind to beat Groton 12-6 in the second gfme, scoring on his wildness and hit- Page Forty - Hue