University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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- FRESHMAN BASEBALL SQUAD Ptfetz. Milan. Tiinim. Watte. Drcr-Boatt. O ' Lory. Web OT lc. First Rw: TniMu. laucti. H FRESHMAN SEASON B WINNING twelve out of seventeen games played, the Freshmen completed an early season successfully. De- feats were administered by St. Ignatius High. Roosevelt High. Mission High and Richmond High. The other defeat was a last inning nose-out to Matin J.C. on Edwards Field. In the first game with University nines, California was defeated by a superior St. Mary ' s team 4-3. The defeat was not vindicated in the second meeting of the teams, however, for the Cubs again bowed to the Gael yearlings, this time by a 3-1 score. A-ainst the Stanford freshmen the Bears fared better, defeating them in the first encounter 8-2 and in the sec- ond 9-0. In the initial contest Roll, freshman strike-out artist, fanned thirteen men. six of them in succession. In the entire game Koll allowed only five hits, three of them being collected by the Indians in the first inning. Captain O ' Toole took batting honors by gathering three hits in four times at bat. The second game was a replica of the first, California winning 9-0. Koll struck out nine batters and pounded out a home run. The Bear hitting attack was led by Scudder who collected three hits off the Papoose pitcher. Thompson. The third game had not been played as the book goes to press. 297

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STANFORD SERIES OPENING the forty-seventh consecutive base- ball series with Stanford in the last lap of the race for the C.I.B.A. crown, the California Bears created the biggest upset of the season by dropping the encounter to the Indians 6-3. The Bears were completely baffled by the work of Lazzarone, the Indian hurler, who yielded only 10 well ' scattered hits. Coffis of Stanford proved the hero of the day, driving in the two winning runs in the second by a well placed single. Bear pitcher McNeil was replaced in the fifth by Priest, but the Bears could not overcome the lead. The Bears recovered their old form in the second encounter with the Indians to hand them a decisive 12-1 shellacking. The massacre was started in the first inning with five runs crossing the plate. Three more runs were scored by the Bears in the next inning. In the seventh inning Devaurs slashed out a home run over the right field wall, accounting for three of the inning ' s four runs. Priest pitched his best game of the season, allowing only two hits throughout the contest. The Bear victory was aided in part by the poor playing of the Redmen. The win put California more se- curely in the league lead, a win in the third of the series being sufficient to clinch the championship. Lazzarone snags hot one for put-out at first. - -- -- n 1 1 i 296 Firpo drops the ball in attempting to catch Stanford runner off first.

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