Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
hits. LeClaire pounded out the first hafsna ,s,,n of thH saasaYl

home run Of the season. A Company l. 15 to 7--This soldier ag- gregation of semi-pro stars failed to find Stanley and were vanquished in seven innings. Stanley got hold of fast one and sent 1t into deep left for a homer.
 M Westerly, 10 to 7----Shea who started for the Academy was easy picking for Westerly and had be relieved by1 Stanley. Ten Westerly batstaen batted the first inning and they got an early lead. The Academy staged an eleventh hour rally in the ninth inning and put across five runs. This was the first league game.
 Wheeler 10 to IA weird exhibition of baseball with total of 25 errors. Purvis pitched a good game, but re- ceived poor support. Stanley made his debut as a first basenhan. Stanley got three bases on bur1t by the simple expedient of keeping on running after touching first base.
 Stonington, 10 to 6-The, Academy piled up an early lead and then Stanley loosened up. Stonington put across five runs in the seventh but when Stanley frightened up they ex- pired. This was the second league game
 Company I, il to 7-Purvis pitched good bail and held the soldiers safe at all times. LeClaire was out with an injured ankle and Stanley tried to play shortstop with but mediocre suc- cess. s''
 Bulkeley Alumni. { to 74This was
 the first and only defeat of the season. | Stanley pitched good bah but the team play was #retehed. Nine errors were made by the Academy. The game was | replete with bonehead plays on the , bases. The Academy also showed an 1 inability to hit in the pinohes. I Westerly to 04The third league game of the season was d lifeless af- ] fair. Stanley pitched for the Academy who showed woeftil weakness at the bat. Stanley held Westerly to thres hits and famed IS.
 | 2Stonington 15 to fine Southern di- vision season closed in a blaze of glory with the Academy knocking Massy to I all corners of the lot. Stonington l could not connect with Stanley, eigh- l teen batters retiring via the strikeout route.
 l Chums' Country Club, to 5-The
 much -vaunted Jack Taylor and com- pany proved easy in the face of Stan ley's benders and the timely hitting of the Academy coupled with the fins pitching by Stanley. who struck out Is added another scalp to the Acade- Imy's belt E@ :
 Bulkeley Alumni, 10 to 9AThis ganas
 was the second half of a double head
 CT and Stanley did the twirling again It was a hard fought battle in which
 Stanley had a. slight advantage, fan.
 ming eleven, making a total of g! istrikeouts for the day. but the Acade.
 my had to fight desperately to stavt
 eff defeat in the last innings with Stan.
 ley all but exhausted: That they dit
 so reflects great credit on. LeClaire fol
 his brilliant. defensive work and timely
 hitting. ~..z
 Southbridge, 2 to 3-This was tn, i first game of the -interdivision champ
 ionship series. Although Southbridg,
 go away with a small lead early in tn,
 game, they went up in the air in tn,
 fifth inning when the Academy uncork
 ed the squeeze play. Five. runs wer
 put across in that inning before a re
 lief pitcher stemned the tide. Stanle 1 held the Massachusetts boys to thre
 hits and whiffed fifteen of them.
 Southbridge. g to 2-This was tn
 last game of the season and settled tn
 league championship in Norwich fo
 the first time since. the reorganiza
 ton of the league -Southbridge neve
 had a show. being held to two scratc
 hits by Stanley, who playing his las
 game in Academy uniform, pitche
 superb ball. He famed eleven of tn opposing side and got four hits in fou
 ! times at bat. The entire Academ
 team collected twelve hits at the ex
 pense of two Southbridge pitchers. For the first time in over fiv . years the financial end of the spoi
 showed balance on the right side ( y the. ledger Great credit is due t Manager Clinton $. Jones. Andre
 Sullivan was appointed manager of tn U 1918 team, according to the mer n system while Carl Parker was electe e captain, defeating Counihan by sing }. vote.
 Football.
 e Taken as whole the Academ e football season was not as much D a success as: the 1918 season, but cor . siderable of this is due to the coach d ing and part of 1t also chargeable |, S the war. Eddie Mckay was the cuac d for the opening games and then Pet
 took the job. During the last of tf
 season Harold Hull instructed tf A team. When Mckay took the: job ,, had 0at- and Parker ends, Kosfowsl y guard, Eastwood center, Graham ful i' back of the 1916 eleven, also J. Wi . COX, who had played both on the liI 'f and in the backfeld. Rieketts, hal " back, Sears and Ferguson, subs, hs enlisted, and Graham, who had bee j elected captain went to z anoth, u school. Eastwood was elected capta II and shifted to halfback. Parker W: et placed at flllback for the openif ,,I games with Koslowslli. at guard ar u Wilcox at tackle. Couuihan at en J" Tdrrell, tackle, Philliprs, center Wilcox, guard and Brewer quarte :, d back were the new men on the tear II Bennett a sub on the -1916 tear ,, ,a played a stellar game at haifback.
 Changes had to be made during ti . season on account of the sickness Parker and lack of skill of some the players so that the lineup for u season really was: Ends. Oat al Counihan: tackles, Tirrell and Ko lowgki; guards, Suplicki and R.. Wi cox; center, Covello; quarterbac Brewer; haifbacks, Bennett and Eas wood; fullback, J. Wilcox The team was powerful as a sco ing machine, but was weak -defensiy, ly, as shown by their score of | against their opponents S2. Benne led in individual scoring by 8 lar, margin, having scored eight toucl downs for total of As points. O. was second in number of points score with 27 from three toucfdowns al nine goals. The scoring:
 I Player T. D. T. D. c. Tot l Bennett ...........s 8 O. ! Oat ................s 5 \ Brewer; ............. O.