Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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BASEBALL Front Rau Hamershlag Perera D Amory W Buttrlck L Smlth Sprout Chrlds Semnd Rau Mr Ray mond R Green Buehler Alles Rogerson Roma1ne Pratt Ward Tl11rdRou Mr Farnsworth I Buttrxck The 1950 baseball team s retord was not the outstanding feature of the season They rolled up a drsappomtmg total of four wms agamst ten losses and a tle The team dld snap out of xts early season slump to mn three ofthe last hve encounters and played good enough ball to grve an only once beaten St George s squad a had scare rn the final game The Red n1ne rmproved ln Mlddlesex baseball tradlnon from an early season bunth of green and lneytperl enced players to a team VNlllLll perhaps tame Closer to upsettlng an excellent St George s squad than the 2 5 score would rmply The team dropped the season s opener to Waltlmam Hrgh 7 5 on Apr1l 17 rn a game Wllllll may have been declded by a HIS! 1nn1ng trlple play whlth snuffed out a Mlddlesex two run rally After th1s untrmely end to what had seemed a blg mmng we could get only five hlts gettlng only Dave Rogerson as far as th1rd after hrs s1xth lnnmg smgle Alles Buttrlck Smrth and Pratt handled the prtchmg holdmg Waltham to snt hrts but handrng the opposxtron a total of eleven walks On Apr1l 1 the team was held to two hxts a single by Rogerson and a double by Romame by Roxbury Latm s Vey and dropped the season s setond game 1 7 -l 66 I Q f l A 1 f ls' 'I f . , my 1.2 I .-+, ' , T A 4 . V.. A ' ' 1. - Y ' 3 3 I I 3 U ' l'. ' 1 , ' Y Hawks, Hammond, Thomas, Mr. Cutler, Pear. , . , , - , , 1 f 1' 3 . I Q ' r . , , , x , ,' . - - . , . y ' f f -, ' . , D ' 7 , , , , , A . - . , - z -- -, . l , . - - , , , - , , , 7 r 7 f 1 f ' ' 1 , ' -4 I f I I r , A ' 1 , ' - , H , L - s y ' .

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ort yee 111 Htrt ey e1eh r1eltel Ll w 150 wrn Potter 1nd Meier were the only losers of the Ll e we r w1s es wee11 sweet w 1s the only tune we hue exer lWL1ILIl I xeter on their home eourts n 1ry 78 le nequetmen rn 1 flll'16lTl1Il mateh luttled the State Guard to 1 I se 5 1 were y Brownell Potter M1 ton lhornis llltl Ahny were wrnners whlle the Crllifel proved too mueh for Iorlyee Meier Hlfflly lI1elR Brownell e e.m seored 1 e shut ou ox Groton rn a Fehru1ry 1 m1teh on the Mrdelle sex. eourts Brownell Potter Fordyee Mrlton Meler Hartley Almy 'Ihomas,and ROSCl'1Il1lll played dropplng only one game out of 28 to the opponents Pete Mnlton s raprel rlse to the number four POSIIIOH anel hrs sueeessful performance there eleserxe speC11l mentron On February 15 the team nosed out the Harxard 53 second squ1el rn a elose 3 7 m1teh Brownell Fordyee and Merer contrrbured the wrns, whxle Potter and Almy were overeome by the Crrmson players Pl1y1ng a group of graduates on February 19 the team guned another 5 2 vretory Brownell Iours Meflagg and George Nrehols respeetrxely ID 5 0 matehes Potter tlpped tl1e baltnee rn Mleldlesex s faxor with 121 I wrn overCh 1se Peterson 1nd Almy was hested hy ohn Srmonds 2 3 'Ihe r1equetmen faeed M I I tw1ee rn qulelt sueeesslon the V s on Februiry 70 and the 5s fC'1lU the 71st l teh eneounter w 18 1 4 l xletory for the Reds w1thFordyee dropprng a m1tel1 to the V s U1 l Potter grwng the 53 team their only wnn Desplte the sueeessful efforts of Brownell and Pete Mllton the team dropped the return mateh to Brooks 7 s Ftelng the Milton Cluh on our Courts on Fehruary 76 the racquetmen eased ahead to a 5 2 xlete ry Brownell Mllton and Almy eon trrbuted the neeessary wrns In the final match of the season the team put up a battle aga1nstSt Paul s but were noseel t 7 5 In eontrast to the hrst Sr Pau s mateh rn whleh we won no games Brownell and Potter were xxett nous and two ofthe other matehes went the hmrt of hte Mueh of the eredrt for thrs nmproxement goes to the exeel lent eoaehlng of Mr Briggs Larry Brownell earned a m1lor letter for the season Mrnor letters w ere 1w lfeltel to Potter Iordyee Almy and Pete Mrlton nest ye1r s e1pta1n -lfw F l 'Al tl l ll V t Q 4 ' 'K I K Y ' V- . . lr y. Th- 'to y 4. -fl lly J '-A, as it N h -1, - 1' ... ... ' O janur -.t1'r' l 1 7 eo: V mr. ' -, -, 'l . , ' 2 , - : L .' . Q V Th' t1'1 J K 1 rar- . - t 'cr 1 1 ' ' -2 ' . suffered one of his rare defeats at the hands ofjimmy Bacon, but Fordyce and Milton shut out . , . y , ou. --,. ' ' ' . ' l' ' , V i 'X , I Q . , rf 1-

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After a break ln the game to wart for falr weather Alles was unable to re gume hrs effective delivery of the first three lnnmgs and Pratt toolt over after the damagmg seven runs had scored The League play got off to a dxscour aging start as five errors cost the team an equal number of tallxes Thirteen hits excellent prtchmg by Alles and a valiant last dutch four run rally rn the mnth inning all avalled nothrng as bad luclc and four costly errors gave St Sebastlan s a 6 5 vlctory over the Red batmen on Aprll 18 The hlttrng spree agarnst Shea who last year pitched a one hitter against us was led by Ted Romame who col lected three hrts rn five trrps George Buehler Link Smith and Pat Pratt wrth two hrts each and Sprout whose mnth lnnrng triple clrmaxecl our desperate rally that just farled to galn us a tie Green Sprout twice and Hawks were robbed of hrts as St Sebastran s sparkled afi ld ohn Alles brrlhant three h1t prtchlng was rewarded by the squad s first victory an 8 3 wm over Boston Trade on Aprrl 22 Pat Pratt left the enemy lHl'lClLl dizzy as he beat out three bunts and rapped out a bases full lme slngle to rrght to letd the hut parade Whlle the Red mne prcltecl up erght runs and nrne hxts Alles fanned twelve Boston Trade batters rolllng up a fine all around performance On April 29 the team experlenced a serres of nrghtmares as If was soundly beaten 1 11 by Belmont H1ll on the latter s home field Whrle Belmont was rapprng out eleven hits rncludmg three doubles and a trlple the Mrddlesex group was helpless at the plate collectrng only two hrts one by Chrlds the other by Pratt The Red batsmen agarn met defeat when a powerful Nobles squad rolled to a 9 4 vrctory on May 3 Nobles Stlmpson blastnng a three run homer In the srxth put the game on 1ce desprte a three run Mlddlesex rally 1n the erghth Thls spurt came to a dead stop though when Buehler s bases loaded liner to first was speared and turned mto a triple play Bob Green and Bill Hawlts collected three hlts each to pace an erght h1t attack A tantalizing 1nab1l1ty to h1t wrth men on base was the main factor rn our loss to St Marlt s on May 6 We were shut out 4 0 A costly error rn the first gave the opponents an early never relrnqurshed lead Alles plftlllflg for a losing cause was the only Red player to hit After a 6 1 Mrddlesex lead had been washed out the day before the team had to settle for a 1 1 tie with Broolts on May ll The team collected nme hlts lncludmg a double by Pratt but slow base runnmg and three Broolts double plays cost us a vlctory Lnnlc Smrth pitched all the way dropplng only two hits for thrrteen strrke outs rn the short seven rnnrng game On May 13 the team took 1ts seventh loss rn a 8 O defeat by a strong Tabor nme We only got five hits and advanced one runner to thrrd whrle the opponents bunched their hrts IH two brg fourth and srxrh lnnmg rallies Phrl Perera led the hrttmg wrth a smgle and a double The team was agarn blanlted two days later thls nme by a 7 0 score at the hands of Groton We st1ll were rn a terrrble batting slump as we only could collect six singles two by Captain Rogerson and two by Pat Pratt Lxnlt pitched good ball until ti nmth when he tired -161 f 7, f, - - ' s s v 1 v ' v ' yf . . . , . 7 ' . 7 . v v v v , . - - - . f - f cr , , . - . .J ' I ' ' ' , , , , K , . , 'Y , , ' , v 4 x n a , , . . . . ' f 7 a - v Y . , , , - v s a - u . , . . . - ' v . v a ' - , . Y . v v , i . . I - I 7. , - , - y -, V , . , , . ' 1 ' - v a r ' f ' ' ' , ' ,' ' y v v ' . v ' - s V . , . . I . r . . 1 , . . 7 t . .i' '