US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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BASEBALL . ' IXTY FIVE candidates re- 'Yf I ported one chilly February '..N . QWIIQ , -. ,Aix 1 afternoon for their Hrst -fa hjlffwj. '-V 1 K H workouts for places on the varsity I baseball squad. Twelve veterans 2 , il , ' j ' it 9 ' xr and hfty three new men were pres- u i D ent and it was the biggest turnout Q u p 1 , 1 in the history of the School. En- thusiasm ran high and prospects were bright. Practice went along splendidly for the first ten days and then the weather man frowned upon the Blue. A bitter cold spell covered the erstwhile sunny south and played havoc with the daily workouts. To make matters worse it began to rain and for a week the big squad nursed stiff arms and hoped for a rise in the mercury and an outburst of sunshine. This delay caused a severe setback in the training and when seasonable weather arrived only a few days intervened before the op ening series with Auburn. How- ever the Infantrymen had pro- gressed very gratifyingly and al- though suffering from a scarcity of pitching material gave promise of developing a very strong club. This promise was borne out in the first Auburn game, a beautifully played affair which proved a pitcherls duel between Davis for the Infantry and lVIoulton, the Tiger ace. Auburn Won I to o but the Infantry came back the next day and evened the series. jones, one of the best Infantry slabsters, held the Tigers to seven scattered hits while the Blue pounded two Plainsmen pitchers for a total of eleven hits and bunched these so 1 if C7 51, well that they defeated Auburn by f..-f'tx N the wide margin of IO to 3. fw,, 'w,7Q Lwfxff-Xxx Georgia came next when we 1 f opened the Bulldog season at Ath- iig -1- in ens. In the first game Davis and

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Pantone, the Georgia star, fought out a brilliant ten inning twirlers' battle which finally went to Georgia by a score of 5 to 4. Davis pitched a wonderful game under most ad- verse weather conditions and with the spectators wearing overcoats to shut out the chilly blasts. The second game proved a replica of the first as far as close- w ' I U en ness was concerned. Jones and Sale, a newcomer to the Bulldog ranks, pitched beautiful games and the battle wound up in a I to I tie. The game was called at the end of the ninth in order to allow the Infantry to make train connections. Jones yielded but live hits while the Infantry touched up the Georgia slab artist for a total of eight but were unable to bunch these at crucial I'IlOIT1CI'lfS- V - -1 F ' ... , ' 'SJ' fi' ..,A'i -a- 4. 1-:IB F if-3 4 ,ll 'ffl iff. 4 lsxfqgg. r -'-.,,,.w- ---my 4 I . vzlwigi -- .,.-1--.xml ' .Ai .1 . I 'f'3K'Ef'? 'kv Y. 1--gf -Q.- Q cgi ,W A ,Y -,Q .. it-wif! H f ,- Q P- A 1' .f ' LY:-'-V 5 'U ,, ,C .1 w v 'L eg, - in f 48,3 14 Cl But the Auburn and Georgia series were costly. Half the team, including Jones and Davis, two of our pitching mainstays, carried lame arms for several weeks as a result of the wintry weather. The home season formally opened with Auburn on lVIarch 24th. As in the previous series the 'Tigers romped to a victory in the first game taking a rather one sided contest by the tune of S to o. The Infantry pitchers were hit hard for a total of fourteen hits, a decided factor in the Auburn Victory. But it was a different story the next day. Finnessey went on the mound for the Blue and pitched us into a brilliant 8 to 4 victory. lVIoulton, Auburn's pride, was hit when hits meant runs, and Tiger errors were costly. Oglethorpe came as the next home card. Rain prevented the first game so a double header was booked for the following day. The twin bill was split, the Infantry taking the first game 5 to 4 and the Petrels the second 4 to 1. Bill fzfssiiliiilie ggi' fix,