Potter School - Shield Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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'ri-IE POTTER SHIELD HITCHCOCK MILITARY ACADEMY 8. POTTER 7. On Wednesday, April 23rd, the team journeyed to San Rafael, to take on Hitch- cock Military Academy. It was an ideal day for baseball, except for occasional gusts of wind that raised the dust on the field, making it very disagreeable for the time being. W e got off at a great start, scoring three runs in the first inning, but Hitchcock came right back in their half of the inning and tied up the score. We put another run across in the third when Somers tripled to deep right and scored on the overthrow to third. Then two more in the fifth, on the squeeze play, and one more in the sixth. And now comes the tale. With the long end of a 7 to 4 score in our favor, we scrambled out on the diamond for the last of the seventh. Now, whether Lermen was rattled by the school support given these bonnie soldier boys or whether there was just a plain jinx on the seventh, we'll never know. At any rate, after holding these boys down to three hits in the preceding six frames, he surely did hit the sky in that unlucky seventh, and we came in one run to the bad. In the eighth inning Lermen settled down again but it was too late. Vettesen was invincible from the seventh inning on. ' Fuller deserves great credit for the way he handled his numerous chances at short, without a single boot. His throwing to first could hardly have been better. Sutton also starred on the field: ' The final score was: F R H E Potter . , 7 6 2 Hitchcock ...... , 8 5 4 Batteries: Potter-Lermen and Summers. Hitchcock-Vettesen and Kervin. VOCATIONAL HIGH 2. POTTER 13. X' On April 25th we met Vocational High of Oakland on our home grounds. From the very start the game was a slaughter, our team hitting just about when they pleased. Vocational got off to a great start, scoring two runs on two hits in the opening frame. But we came back so strong in our half of the inning that we took all the pep out of them. At the end of the first inning the score Stgod 3 to 2 in our favor. From that time on our opponents never got near the plate while We Scored 7 more runs, making the final score 13 to 2. 2 ' Harrell, Esberg and Doolittle each got two hits out of four trips to the plate while Tommy Newbauer cracked out two safe ones out of two times up , The final score was: vocmonai High of Oakland , , , , 15 Ig E Potter ..., , j j ' ' - - . . 13 11 1 Batteries: V ocational-Ruedy, J acopetti and Kokaries . 4 Potter-Grifhin, Howard and Summers. l Sixty-six 1 s - Ler!l1f'n' .Q I t-1 9' bbw' , thi-Tmagn i wnffoued S - thc ft Perlliilr WND' t To Jimi lwvemenfi has bf' in mi mfwffff W' an limi exccllf'U'- W por' - 1: Glover WUI' 8 pmui. 11 affgf the A at W' 'f'?mfQ didU11lYefSity High U! B ldon't ask -lflfk ai U dot? D4 Fat G 'tht hamlet H1951 if-'W' it at its a fum' 1' M01 and is not erm! M game, but :side im with He I 13951 pi'tf4tilU113l lots of credit: bf- has 21 ippointingtask of 3 pin-Q Prospects for a gt:-tg lmsingthe team this y tlllieltltr Stltwlt. ofasteady pitcher. and flifgrching mfr -in 0 Wi '1HPf0vvmem in tt With-ilu Sfqtlirws 1 ml' ht will 3190 lr- gi wtof the hmm muvh of . 3 Q53 mm ll- it mln: mm. If at ' th? M fatig- nm With tt, g . 'fmmdwh of Q, ,A With 1 xi mlb helflnmlsvid -3 1. ty uf Witty lllli din. Sting m bf' !'t'r' . ' bnfqtwnm W Wnliqm nniiqagfwi

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