Western Military Academy - Recall Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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COACH HOLMES Baseball 1925 1 1 1 his team may be truly called Captain Holmes’ prize “NINE” because they were a prize team. The team was headed through this last season success- fully by Captain Torres. He helped his team much by his pitching as he held the highest percentage of any pitcher in the league. He also held a high place in batting average. Crumpton and Chappel also helped Torres in making a win- ning team. Lampton our first baseman played fine ball all season and helped many times with home runs. Next comes Viviano on second and Korach at short stop. They both did excellent fielding and always hit in a pinch. At times Anderson substituted for Viviano on second. Collins, although handi- capped by a weak wrist caused by a break, was sixth man in hitting average in the league and was our champion base stealer. Price, the catcher, played well all season and was one of our strongest hitters. Our outfield was almost perfect, since very few errors were caused by them. The outfielders were Kuhs, Macke- vich, Stine, Anderson, and Crumpton. The whole team had a fighting spirit although sometimes games looked pretty disastrous for them, Western usually came through with a victory. It was this fighting spirit that won the league championship from McBride. W. M. A. 15 Blackburn o 20 C. B. C. 0 3 Eden 4 3 McBride 4 3 Eden 1 1 i St. Louis H. 0 tt ft if TO Country Day 2 7 Chaminade 4 ft ft ft 9 McBride 5 7i 30 1’iige Twenty-One