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

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to I. Finnessey and Davis worked in the last game which proved to be a hitfest but we outhit the Tigers and took the big end of a 9 to 4 score. Our fielding was splendid in both games. . A road trip followed which completed the season and which proved very successful, for three out of five hard games were won. Vanderbilt came first and the Infantry won the first of the two annual games in Nash- ville. Davis and Richardson engaged in a pitching duel and the former claimed a shade the better of the argument. The game was close throughout but the Infantry batted in the winning run in the eighth. Score: 6 to 5. The Commodores evened the series next day when Greek kept our hits scattered and enabled his teammates to win a 4 to I battle. The Infantrymen hit almost as hard as Vandy but not at such opportune moments and we had ten men die on the sacks. 'mm lim lmsm A double booking with Sewanee followed on the Tiger campus. Lee pitched the Doughboys to a 3 to 1 victory in the first game While rain prevented the second. The team was showing its best form of the year and was ready for the return series with the brilliant l,l15I'T. IIoXN1-:N lVIercer team at lVIacon. Sweet revenge was taken for the defeats at Columbus when the In- fantry hit three Baptist pitchers at will and won by the healthy margin of I2 to 5. Davis held Nlercer to seven hits -.im but the Infantry infield accumulated seven Y: blunders and these materially helped to 1-A gg- ' give the Baptists their five tallies. Our Q P I R sluggers hit for the healthy total of eigh- W gy H teen hits and nine of our twelve runs were - AL ML N L earned. .ff- The second game proved to be a weird 4 mm battle. Pitchers were hit hard and a startl- ff y ing total of runs accumulated. The In- iy x fantry established a record by scoring ele- ven runs in one inning but they were not , 'J sufficient to win because Nlercer finally gl 5 ,I nosed out a I3 to I2 victory. Ragged field- f'i.'y WFJYA, ing materially helped to drop the contest.

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held the Tuscaloosa lads to a few scattered hits while we took the long end of a 7 to I tally in the first game, and Lee scored a victory the following day when the In fantry won a ' slugging match by the big score of I3 to 7. ' Batting had improved in the Alabama series and the or T ..-4 fielding was much better, particularly in the infield. ln- -. L fantry twirlvrs were getting rid of sore arms acquired early V I in the season and were working with more stuff on the ball. ' As a result the Infantry again scored a victory the fol- lowing week when the North Georgia Aggies were defeated in a close and exciting game. The visitors staged a great 1 rally in the last two frames but were nose-d out by the close - ' l 'X'f-'N g V gg margin of 6 to 5. Rose and Davis did the pitching for provement. us in this game and the entire team showed marked im- The Aggies evened matters the next day when they staged an eighth inning comeback and won 9 to 8. The Infantry held a four run lead up to this time but the visitors went wild and put over four runs in the eighth and won the game when they pushed over another in the ninth. The game was featured by y hard hitting by both teams when hits meant runs. Georgia came down for a return series the follow- C 'e'Nm' IIUNM ing week and proved a powerful dose. The Bulldogs were running on high, and hard hitting coupled with splendid pitching by Thomas, Dekle and Pantone gave them both games, I4 to 2 and ro to 3. The Infantry was held to five scattered hits in the first game and six in the second. Georgia showed a marked improvement over the Athens series and was without doubt the strongest college team we faced Y, ii:'j , ' ,'i... V, N last year. W Q , - 'ti' V' . -' +L .ea Q-xii. But revenge came for these gag QT, two losses when the Infantry ff 'fy cleaned up the Sewanee series. ,H ' . agp 5 - -. : ---. --W-H ---A' -1 --. Three games were booked with the Purple Tees but i ggs prevented the second game- - - - .. '1'. '. 1 JOHCS let the Vlslfofs down Wlth - - ' - 1ef foul- hltg in the H1-St battle Wh11e J,:,.eem:.dfnmf,..,,...at-taai., 1.ff...e-.1-ts...t..e.s as -..:13ma.:.e-a..t.Qwf-gf: the Infantry hit hard and won 6 Ur. LEHAIAN, Con. IIANNAH

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