Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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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

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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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lylipDLEsEx SCHooL CONCORD, MASS. ting in the pinches. All of C1roton's runs were unearned, and Middlesex en- joyed its first victory over Groton in three years. Again the same inability to score that had marked the second St. Mark's game seized us against Concord. Going into the ninth inning with the score four to nothing we suddenly broke out with four consecutive hits, giving us the needed four runs. and in the tenth we scored the winning run on three more hits and a hit batsman, winning 5-4. The following game with Browne and Nichols was perhaps our worst played game of the season. Scoring Eve runs in the fourth inning on seven walks. an error, and a f1elder's choice, we were able to neutralize their early lead, and in the tenth we pushed one more run across to win 6-5. Recovering from the discouraging play of Wednesday's game, the team played its best game of the season in defeating Milton by a score of ll-10, to give the school the second shut-out over Milton in its history. and the team its second of the season. Able to hit whenever it seemed to want to, the team picked up three runs in the third, three more in the Hfth and five in the eighth. while Clay held Milton to three scattered hits, only two runners ever reaching third. All the team except one hit safely, Winsor leading the batting with four, Clay next with three. followed by Hallowell with two. The second game with Belmont Page Forty-six