Spencerport Central High School - Panorama Yearbook (Spencerport, NY)

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The following players represented Spencerport High on the court, during the season of 1913-14: Lester Welch, captain and center, James Lapp, right forward, Ben Everett, left forward, Leo Goodridge, right guard, Willis Dimock and Harold Dunn, left guard. The High School students are just as proud of their baseball team as of their basketball team. Baseball started its season against W'est High. This game was lost by a I2-4 score. The next two games were victories for the nine, both games being played with Holley, but the third game was lost to Albion. On May I5 we encountered our old enemy, Cathedral High, and fought a sixteen inning game with them, in which we lost out, 6-5. In the ninth inning our boys came to bat with the score 5-2 against them. Lapp, first man up, n1ade a hit and was advanced by a hunt, which Welch laid down the first base line. Dunn hit safe and put Lapp on third, while he him- self trotted down to second, True struck out. Thus, with two men Ollt and two on bases, Goodridge, who hits like an old leaguer, drove out a two-bagger wl1iel1 sent Lapp and Dunn across the pan. The next man to face the Cathedral pitcher was our little right fielder, Peachie, who drove in the tieing run. Taylor fanned, thus ending the -inning with the score tied. The remaining innings saw some classical baseball, played by both teams. The pitchers allowed only a few hits. In the first of the sixteenth, Cathedral put a run across, by means of a wild throw over first. Our nine came to bat determined to tic the score again, but all three men who faced the Cathedral pitcher were easy outs, and the game was over. This is an undisputed record for a baseball game among high school teams, and Spencerport and Cathedral can easily hold it, for no sixteen inning game has ever been recorded in this section of New York outside of- the leagues. The Spencerport team possesses the following members: Infielders: Welch, Dimock, Everett, Dunn. Outfielders: Allen, Taylor, Goodridge, Sackett and True. Batter Sweeney and La . F. L. W. y: . PP f , K, I ,X .iv-J-vrrivhlt., y . -. .uu1nnm.,,., if 'ti 244

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I OUR TEAMS. Our basketball and baseball teams were both of extra fine calibre this season. Our basketball quint proved to be a tartar to many of the best high school teams in the vicinity. The only five to defeat them twice was Pittsford, who had an exceptionally strong team. Our boys defeated some of the best teams, including Newark, which met defeat twice, and Cathe- dral High, which met defeat once during the season, and that at the hands of Spencerport on January 23, 1914-. The Cathedral game was one of the best games ever seen on the Masonic Court. The Cathedral representatives came out from Rochester in a large body, intending to do the town before the game, but decided to wait until their team had won. AFor some reason or other they did not possess that feeling after the game had been played, and the score read: Spencerport 446, Cathedral 26. This must have been the reason for their case of blues. ' The teams took the floor with determination, Spencerport to get re- venge for a recent defeat at the hands of their opponents, Cathedral to prevent the string of victories from being broken. It could be plainly seen after ten minutes that Cathedral was out-classed, for our quint had ten points chalked up against zero for Cathedral. However, the city five soon overcame their slackness and began to score, but it was too late, for Spencerport was leading and was determined to do so throughout the game. The first half ended with Spencerport on top, 17-13. 1 The second half started like a whirlwind. Evidently the Cathedral coach had been expressing his feelings, for our enemy began to score from the start, and gained the lead for the first time during the game. But their sprint soon ceased, for the heavy men on our team applied their weight to full advantage, and it could be seen that the city boys were tire- ing, for their liveliness gradually vanished, and the points began to pile up for Spencerport once more, almost at will, until the whistle blew and the game was over. The crowd was very much excited, for it did them good to see Cathedral trounced. The final score was indicated as 4-6-26, Cathe- dral trailing. as

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