Southside Catholic High School - Clarion Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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41 3 fx I Y france laux trophy France Laux, popular KMOX sports announcer, has offered a huge gold trophy to the Prep League baseball cham- pion. Brother Dan has a freshman employed steadily, keeping a spot in the Athletic office dusted to receive it. cardinal prospect Bob Wagner, Dragon third' sacker, has attracted the at- tention of Charlie Barrett, famous St. Louis Cardinals' scout, who is very much in- terested in him as a Bed Bird possibility. Bob, a junior, is the fourth varsity player with professional prospects. Page Forty'Scvcn Njf iayvees o The junior varsity baseball squad, which should furnish the bulk of next year's varsity, has been entered in the Spalding-South Side Intermediate Muny League, where it will play as the Carl and Ruby Markets team. loe Brueggemann '39 will manage the nine in the league. Long-range hitting and plenty of it is this teams trademark. ln three games it has banged out a total of ninety-seven safeties, making thirty-nine in a single contest. Brother Dan, the iayvees' coach, attributes their terrific punch to the fact that they spend hours in batting practice while other teams are devoting these same hours to fielding grounders. But his team doesn't hit many grounders, so the opposi- tion gets little chance to use its fielding skill! First row: K. Speckart, R. Morrcc, R. Fuchs. Fccond row: J, Bishop, L. Groth, R. Gsllnck D. Eckrnch, J. Gillick, A. Bieg, V. LaHay, J. Schmidt, Brother Dan. Third row: W. McGoogan, R. Niehoff, T. Hannon, A. Feld- meier, T. Oldenburg, E. Wechsler, J. Lewan- dowski, R. Mcrsmann, W. Guilfoy.

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.ll clmrm . L...l..ll 0 league champions As the baby of the circuit, South Sides baseball squad was generally expected to serve as the Prep Leagues doormat for a season or two before it got down to business. But evidently you can't keep a good dcorrnat down, for the Green and White upstarts tripped veteran Prep nines with monotonous regularity, and now have a strangle-hold on the title in Missouri'S strongest high-school league. Ed Rudd, Brother lames Powers' veteran nurn- ber one hurler, is the chief projectile which little David South Side used to floor Goliath Prep League. He mastered Western twice, 10-2 and 9-U, handed C.B.C. a double dose, ll-lO and 74, and laid St. Louis among the sweetpeas, 4-2, on one hit. Rudd, catcher Larry Schulte, shortstop Red Travis and third-baseman Bob Wagner have professional baseball prospects ees graduating champions o 'Left to right on page 46: Red Travis. captain inf: i:urQe er shcrfstfp. is :Le-en sailed one of 'Eze '.'j.'s finest high scnccl gL1:yers. He pl iys lffiinjr Lergue hall and his keen ig2g2rr,fr r.ed ftp' 1 L' .Lis Browns' scout, Larry Schulte. the 27: guns four cell catrier, cis: payed lffuny tall. :yrs been cffereii 1 cnante to jcin the Brzwns' ifirrr. stub at Mayfield, Kentucky, after gradufricn. Paul Zimmermann, three years 'J regular twirler '.'.'i'n plenty of um5 n find beautiful pitching form, rests on Sundays by hurling in a Muny circuit. Frank Moeller, regu rr zirsi-sucker for the past seasons, is the terms only southpaw and ine if i's mast pcfent rafters. He, too, spends Sundry in the lvluny Lerfguos. Ed Rudd. 'hirrl r,f thr- fr.ur-yr- rr trim, Sf f5T'l'IllZEES in srrigkf-iyrll pitvlnna. He iris teen risked 'o report T': the Brooklyn l-lf i'7Ff'TS' ffrrrn tit Pine Bluff, Arkrnsfis, in lune. lim Oldenburg. ri pitcher '.-:ith ri avod first ball, is playing his first season on the varsity. Like all the other seniors on the team, he plays Muny ball in his spare time, Ears Rotermund. talkative outfielder, is likewise playing his first varsity season, but has batted his way to a regular berth in left field. He doubles as a Muny Leaguer over the week-end. NIJ' ill' I 'S 3 V Back from lclt. A. Schmittgcns, R. Wagner, J. Moran, W. Kenncaly, D. Sc?1u'tz, A Bonfantr, J. O'Meara, Bro. J. Powers, coach. Front, from left H Travis, J. Oldenburg, F. Moeller, P. Zimmermann, L. Schulte, A. Rotcrmund, E. Rudd,

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Ralph Kuefhe Paul Zimmermann ,-'Xxx 9 S I lx Cliffe Fitzgerald lx , f'Cs . C S I tx- .w X, ' Ken Dietz XR league record S. S. 25 Perryville C S. S O Sf. Louis U. ZS S, S. 33 St. John C S S. O Western M. A. t3 9. S. '4 CentralCafhoIic T 9 S t2 Central Public 7 S S. 6 C. B. C. 25 S S, 7 Crystal City O S. S O McBride 25 0 llW63 C 0 IOTOD 0 varsitye ee ee e eeee e Vfhile undefeated in five non-league gariies. South Side failed fa win a single tilt in the Prep League football race. The Dragons' poor showing in league play was generally attributed to the fact that they were playing their first year in the big time. St. Louis U. High defeated thern 25-O in the circuits cur- tain raiser. Western Military Acadeniy took a 73-O decision. C. B. Cfs early scoring gave the Brothers a 256 win. l!lCBride's 26-O victory ended the season. The non-league story was entirely different and in- finitely brighter. Central, of the Publi: High loop. dropped a l2-7 night game to the Dragons. Crystal City bowed in a 740 floodlight contest in which the downstaters were Clearly outplayed only their ex- cellent punting saved thern from being swamped. Perryville, southeastern Missouri squad, wound up on the short end of a 25-U score. St. lohn's, former mate of the Catholic League, could not ward off a 33-U shellaclcing. Central Catholic of East St. Louis was beaten by the kind cooperation of lcismet a weird South Side pass wandered off the reservation and found its way across the goal line, to give the Dragons a l4-7 victory and a Clean non-league slate.