Southwest High School - Roundup Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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. is-Rggggggs ' N. will 53592 ED WWNMER . Aisem-.rn e .poem BASEBALL Presenting the 1941 lnterscholastic High School Baseball champions of Saint Louis: the Southwest Longhorns! Profiting from their experience in the year previous, the determined Longhorns of last spring took six of their eight league games to win the championship. Under the expert guidance of Coach Young, the team brought home the bacon, that handsome trophy that graces the center showcase in the main hall. The squad has a right to be very proud of itself, for their trophy is the first interscholastic athletic championship trophy our school has won. The trophy stands over a foot high, and is gold plated. It is surmounted by a Greek athlete holding a laurel wreath in one hand, the symbol of victory. On either side of him, and below, are two baseball players, most appropriately finishing home run swings. Between the ball players is a plaque on which is inscribed, St. Louis Public High School Champions, l94l. Below this is listed the names of the squad members: Co-captains Cialimberti and George Kehm, Alber- ding, Danner, Davis, Heath, Bill Kehm. Mirrelli, Porter, Pozza, Seratti, Therina. Tomlinson, Ulrich, and Winkler. Under this appear the names of Coach Seventeen - BEN YHERLNA BOB B-EN:ON flux-108 ' X K b 9 P 9 X .BG

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Young and Managers Benson and Page, whose services were appreciated. At a special aud session for the presentation of the trophy, Mr. Sackett expressed gratitude on behalf of the school, and added that he hoped this would not be the last trophy to be won by a Southwest team. He promised that there would always be room in the display case for any trophies our team might win. Of the fifteen squad members, twelve were awarded letters. The basis for awarding letters was on the number of innings the individual played. Those awarded letters were: Tomlinson, Serrati, Winkler, Therina, Galimberti, Davis, Bill and George Kehm, Porter, Danner, Ulrich, and Mirrelli. Galimberti proved to be the star of the mound for Southwest, fanning 60 batters in the 64 innings he pitched. Johnny Davis demonstrated how to hit the apple to his team-mates by rolling up an average of .464. George Kehm was the next best swatter with an average of .4l0, while Tomlinson. Ulrich. Danner, and Therina all went over the three hundred mark. Galimberti and Nlirrelli, supplemented by Davis and Danner when not at other posts, divided the duties at the mound. Play ball, usually found George Kehm behind the plate, replaced a few times by Porter. Tomlinson or Seratti was on the first sack, while Therina and Winkler alternated at second and short. Danner occupied the hot corner, when not pitching. Ulrich and Bill Kehm covered the outfield, with Johnny Davis helping when not on the rubber. Few major league pennant winners wind up the season with an average as high as .700, and those few that do are very happy. Yet the average of the Southwest squad was .7401 By taking 14 out of 19 games, the Longhorns wound up with an average hard to beat. The boys opened the season by trouncing a weak Central team in a practice game, I2 to 2. Of two exhibitions with St. Johns', the Longhorns took one, the other having been rained out. St. Louis U. High proved to be a little too good in a practice game, and the Roosevelt Rough Riders roped us into the short end of a 10 to 8 game. The spirits of the team were revived, however, by a triumph over McKinley's Gold Bugs, followed by two successive victories over Cleveland in league games, 9 to 5, and 13 to 7. The Longhorns next revenged their previous defeat at the hands of Roosevelt by trampling those sad Rough Riders 12 to 4. Our supremacy in the southern division was now secure, and a defeat at the hands of McKinley was not disastrous. As Champions in the Southern league, we were to play Beaumont, the highly lauded victors in the Northern league, for the city championship, Beaumont was fav- ored by the critics and press, having won six -- and lost none, while we had won but four lfg X' and lost two. The two deciding games were ! played at Sportsman's park instead of at the Stadium. The Longhorns pulled the upset of Vi the season when the Blue Jackets went down vi fy in defeat 6 to 2 and 8 to 4. Galimberti's fine V 7 pitching plus some powerful Longhorn swats 1 did the trick. ' A HFZ Nineteen L, to W P QF 9' Q X B6