1945 Varsity Baseball
(No names were available in the 1945 Artisan picture,
but team members included: Gwynne House, Fred House, Lloyd Coover, Stanley
Anderson, John Henderson, Donald Hann, Berwyn Snellbaker, Marlin Forry, John
Laudermilch, Jack Whorley, Don House, Dale Murphy, Harry Frey, Richard Stohler,
Quentin Getz, Robert Corbe, Verne Shur, Wayne Miller, Fred Hosler, Harold
Powell, Wilbert Kreitzer, Ramon Zinn, Robert Brandt, Lester Hess, Leroy Sholly,
and Paul Brandt.
In the beginning ….
M.H.S. Baseball Squad Starts Practice
The West Shore
Baseball League which has been organized this year includes the Camp Hill,
Lemoyne, New Cumberland, Boiling Springs, Enola, Carlisle and Mechanicsburg High
Schools. Although Enola was a member of the League last year, they did not
participate in the sport, but they plan to do so this term.
The business managers of the baseball terms had a meeting on Wednesday,
March 14, in order to decide upon the schedule. The season will open on April 3
and will close during the latter part of May.
The M.H.S. baseball team will begin their official practices on March 19.
Many of the boys who are interested in baseball have asked Mr. Davis about
participating. There will be quite a large squad this year.
The outlook of the team is not too discouraging since Spence House, catcher; Robert Brandt and John Henderson, pitchers; Leroy Sholly, Marlin Forry and Raymond Zinn, who were on the squad last year, will again make their appearance on the M.H.S. team during the season of ’45.
(March
30, 1945 The Torch)
Wildcats Have Early Good Baseball Season
The
Mechanicsburg High School Baseball team opened their current 1945 season on
Tuesday, April 3, with an 8 to 1 defeat at the hands of Lemoyne. The Wildcats,
although fighting hard, looked ragged in the field and seemed to lack punch at
the plate. Mechanicsburg’s lone tally came when Getz was hit by a pitched
ball, stole second and third and came home on Forry’s sacrifice. Bob and Paul
Brandt supplied the pitching for the losers while House was on the receiving
end.
New
Cumberland’s baseball club chalked up its second straight victory for the
season by taking the Mechanicsburg outfit, 7-3, in a contest at New Cumberland,
Friday, April 6.
In the third inning, Mechanicsburg began to click as House and Forry
brought in two runs. Holding the lead until the fifth, Anderson added another
one, making it 3-0. With the infield blowing up, New Cumberland started well on
the way to victory by getting 6 and 1 in the sixth to win 7-3.
Anderson and House were the big guns for the losers, while Dick Bowen’s
two-baser featured the uprising for New Cumberland, by brining home two men.
After losing the
first two baseball games the Mechanicsburg fighting nine, smothered the Boiling
Springs team, 15-8, in a game played at Mechanicsburg.
With the
Wildcats getting 6 runs in the first inning and Boiling Springs 7 in the second,
the game was off with a sweeping start. Mechanicsburg came back to take the lead
by getting 3 more in the second and 6 in the fifth to make sure of a victory.
Allowing the opponents to have one more run in the third, the Wildcats took the
game 15-8.
Pacing the maroon and steel were Bob Brandt and Forry. Brandt, playing a
nice game, pitched, while Forry posted a three-for-four.
On Wednesday,
April 11, the Wildcats of Mechanicsburg traveled to Shippensburg, only to lose
their third game of the season by the narrow margin of one run, 3 to 2. In the
last inning the Wildcats got a runner as far as third based but failed to bring
him home. Andy Anderson, who is generally regarded as one of the finest twirlers
in the West Shire League, did the hurling for the losers while House supplies
the catching.
With Bob Brandt
allowing only two hits and striking out nine, the Wildcats throttled Enola by
the score of 4 to 0. Anderson’s triple was the big blow of the game as the
winners finally found their hitting stride and produced air-tight fielding, more
of this type of baseball is what M.H.S. baseball fans want.
On April 24, the
Mechanicsburg Wildcats won over Camp Hill 4 to 2, on the loser’s diamond.
Anderson, the winning pitcher and the star of M.H.S nine, battled the
Camp Hill batters with 11 strikeouts and collected two solid hits of his own.
Good fighting was provided by the Wildcats infield and the winners showed
superior play at the plate.
On May 7, the
Boiling Springs High School tossers defeated the Wildcats of M.H.S. by the score
of 2 to1. With J. Wise pitching effectively for the winners, the bats of the
Wildcats were practically silenced. Anderson of the losers pitched a fine game
fanning 9 but received no support in the field.
(May
22, 1945 The Torch)
Team Statistics:
Final
record – 6 – 9
Hitting:
Team
Batting Average - .244
Leading
hitters: Stanley Anderson - .409, Gwynne House - .333
RBIs:
G. House – 9, Robert Brandt –
8, Anderson - 7
Home
runs: NONE!
Triples:
Anderson, Harold Powell, and R. Brandt - 1
Doubles:
Anderson – 3, P. Brandt and Kreitzer - 2
Stolen
bases: Anderson and Marlin Forry - 6
Runs:
Anderson - 13
We
averaged 4 runs per game, 6 hits per game and
.9 errors per game
Pitching:
Wins:
Anderson and R. Brandt - 3
Innings
pitched: Anderson - 59
Strikeouts:
Anderson - 77