Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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BASEBALL On April 3, the day after the Easter vacation, Coach Pepper issued a call for candidates for the Milford 1939 baseball squad. The outlook this year was far less hopeful than at the same time last year, when a powerful aggregation of Pepper, Zanolli, Kupec, and Newell gave sure promise of the successful season to come. This year, however, there was a great scarcity of competent and seasoned material. joe Boyle, in the outfield, was the only 1938 letterman to return, and every other position had to be taken by relatively inexperienced men. Bob Yocher, hailing from Hillhouse High, Al Roller, Bill Wilson, and Dick Fegreus composed the hurling staff. Harry Shendell, behind the plate, proved to be an excellent batter ,as well as a fine catcher, and was elected captain. Jim Curren at first, Tom Conine and Frank Coppola sharing duty at second, Kelly Dant at short, and Bill Thomson holding down the hot corner completed the mfield. Haggerty, Boyle, and Frechette made up the outfield. The Milford squad traveled to Wallingford on April 15 to meet Choate in its first scheduled game of 'the season, and came out on the underside of a very lopsided score, 10-1. It was clearly Choate all the way through, in spite of the splendid hurling on the part of Bob Yocher and the work at the plate by Curren, Yocher, and Shendell.

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I 1 Again, on April 22, Milford tasted bitter defeat, this time at the hands of a first-class Yale Junior Varsity. The Elis garnered 9 runs, while all the efforts of Coach Pepper's men were unable to score. Poor fielding Q11 errors in allj was a deciding factor in Milford's 9-0 defeat. But things took on a somewhat different shape as, on April 27, a powerful Yale Freshman team scarcely eked out a meager 6-5 victory over a fighting, hard- playing Milford squad. Fine pitching on the part of Bill Wilson, and superb support both at bat and in the field by Shendell, Curren, Thomson, and Boyle accounted for our fine showing. On May 1, Milford came out on top of a slugging, high-scoring free-for-all against Bridgeport Trade School, 12-11. By the seventh inning a succession of hits by Joe Boyle, Harry Shendell, Jim Curren, and nearly every other man on the team had combined to give Milford a nice lead, 9-1. But within the next two innings things changed considerably, and in the ninth, with the score 11-11, Bob Yocher was called in to pitch Milford out of a hole. He did it very well, and in the tenth inning the winning run was pushed across. X