Western High School - Occident Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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Eaarhall Owing to the 'fact that the Annual goes to press before the season closes, we cannot state its outcome, but at present our chances to win the championship are good. The line-up this year is: Fullen, catcher: Pacynski and Shaver, pitchersg Vvoods, first baseg Hershey, second baseg Parsons, shortstopg Soderstrom and Pitts- ley, third base: Tyson, left tieldg Shaver, center fieldg Miller, right fleld. This year, because of the increased number of games, due to the fact that each valley team has to play two games with each school in the valley, we had to start the season early in order to play the games before school was out. The base ball field was in such a muddy condition that the team could not practice until a week before our first valley game with Saginaw Eastern. In this game we were defeated by a score of 6 to 1. This game was a poor exhibition and neither team deserves much credit. Our next valkey game Was with Flint and was played on their grounds. Ow- ing to the large number of errors made by our team and a little hard luck in the ninth inning we lost the game by a close score of 3 to 2. Stanley pitched Well and deserved a victory. Our next game was to be with Bay City Eastern, but because the students of Eastern voted to do away with base ball we were without a game that week. NVe secured a game with Midland, however, and beat them in a close game by a score of 6 to 4. Shaver started this game a.nd pitched six innings and did well. A week later we played our third valley game with Arthur Hill. VVe won the game, the score being 3 to 1. The game was very exciting and a pitchers' dual took place between Brooks and Pacynski, with Pacynski a shade the better. The following week we again played Saginaw Eastern and on account of the way the field was laid out we were defeated. The pitcher's box was 554 feet too far and Pacynski was unable to throw as we'l as he generally does. The game wail protested by Coach Morris and is going to be played over and the other game will not be counted. This makes it possible for WVestern to win the championship. The only valley games yet to be played are with Arthur Hill and Flint. Next year we will have practically the same team with the exception of Fullen and Tyson, and our prospects are bright for a championship team. it X A V T: 'TNXYX S XXXNXNX XX 'ol W .W vlllllwf I V m . 5' amp .. ' ' ' PY' 1 mf near' 'fi C' fy 171' . I--'fa A' t 'f 't i 'Z M, W Y ' Q, ' ,,. v I fit i , y 7' . . N 5 . V 1 zd i f, , , , , , T c -' ' ' . ,7 f A, -- 12.0 ,. an 'Vt Fon .5-AL:-cuflv c f 5r:c0N0 HIND BASE-BRLI. ourFH 1 concn Rl rum: 68 l .

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