LHS Baseball Team, 1922-3

First Row -- Neil Bahr, Elwin Love.

Second Row -- Joseph Kanarr, Claude Hayden, Ernest Wooldridge, Frank Einsphr, Leslie Bruce.

Third Row -- Mr. Lansford (Faculty Manager), Glen Kelsey, Harold Trump, Raymond Kimmet, Elton Little, Sherard Henry, Milton Kenney, John Larson, Mr. Botkins (coach).

Schedule
April 7 -- Goodland there.
April 14 -- Emerson (Gary) here.
April 20 -- East Chicago there.
April 21 -- Jefferson (Lafayette) here.
April 27 -- Emerson there.
May 9 -- Froebel here.
May 12 -- East Chicago here.
May 19 -- Austin (Chicago) here.
May 22 -- Jefferson (Lafayette) there.

1922

In the spring of 1922 Lowell High for the first time in the history of the school put in the field a baseball team. With Bahr as captain, the team was very successful and won the championship of Northern Indiana. The team won seven out of eight games.

Lowell-Emerson
The first game was played with Emerson of Gary.

Emerson got the start and remained ahead of Lowell until the sixth inning when Lowell tied the score. Emerson scored in the next inning making the score 7 to 6. In the eighth inning Lowell went into the lead by one rum. Then Perk and Tripp, our reliable battery, held the visitors in the ninth inning. Sturtridge starred for Emerson, knocking a home run. Love and Bahr also knocked a home run each.

Lowell-Whiting
The following Wednesday Whiting razzed in on us and received a good drubbing. The day was cold, the crowd was small, but our team forced Coach Hart's men to witness a 6 to 0 shut out.

With his old pep, Perk fanned out thirteen of oily city's sluggers. Walsko showed up best for Whiting while Perk and Tripp were Lowell's strong points.

Lowell-East Chicago
Next East Chicago was the victim to the tune of 6 to 5. Lowell took a four point lead in the first three innings, Bahr and Hayden scoring all four runs. Lowell's score was never headed until the last inning when the score stood 6 to 3 Zenich made an attempt to win the game by getting hit with the ball. He scored on an error by Lowell and a sacrifice by Mosney. Kolena hit the ball and got to first, then to third on Burrill's out. Challman made a safe hit past Kimmet scoring Kolena. Burns hit a weak grounder and was out at first and so the game ended.
Score -- Lowell, 6; Chicago, 5.

Lowell-Froebel
It took Lowell eleven innings to put it over Froebel and make it four straight. Froebel was off like a shot and scored shortly after the game started. At the end of five innings the score was Lowell 2, Froebel 5. But after the fifth inning Lowell never gave Froebel a chance to score. Lowell managed to tie the score in the eighth inning. The score stood 5 to 5 until the eleventh when a hit by Little put Tripp across the plate. Tripp was Lowell's stellar player by getting on base four times out of five at bat. Love made a good record of seventeen strike outs and only two walks.
Score -- Lowell, 6; Froebel, 5.

Lowell-Emerson
In the return game with Emerson, the battery for Lowell was Love and Tripp; for Emerson, Wallace and Sturtridge.

Emerson proved themselves to be real sports by their treatment of the Lowell team.

Lowell failed to score in the first inning, but Ruman of Emerson knocked a home run.

In the third inning both teams scored two runs and in the fourth Emerson scored again, putting them two ahead of Lowell. Lowell tied the score in the sixth inning.

Emerson took the lead in the eighth inning, but Lowell was not to be beaten and they scored two runs.

Emerson had their last chance in the last ninth inning. They filled the bases, with only one out, then Love caught a fly and threw it to Kimmet for a double out.
Score -- Lowell, 6; Emerson, 5.

Lowell-Whiting
On May 15, the Lowell team traveled to Whiting for the return game. The baseball field was on the shores of Lake Michigan and was not in the best condition.

Lowell started with a whiz in the first inning, scoring two runs.

For five innings, Lowell held the lead, then the Lowell team failed to support Love and Whiting ran in five scores.

Neither team scored in the sixth inning. Lowell rallied in the seventh, the last inning, but lacked the final punch.
Score -- Lowell 2; Whiting 5.

Lowell-Froebel
Wednesday, May 17, Lowell's baseball gang went over to Gary to meet the Froebel aggregation.

Kelsey and Tripp started as Lowell's battery, while Polk and Smith were Froebel's battery. This was the first game Kelsey had pitched and he did good until the fourth inning. Things became a little shaky, so Perk went in for Lowell. Perk soon tamed Froebel's sluggers and everything from then on was easy.

In the seventh inning, Lowell broke loose with several runs, Polk was knocked out of the box. Lowell held Froebel in the rest of the game and won easily.

Kimmet and Love were Lowell's sluggers, each knocking a home run.
Score -- Lowell, 16; Froebel, 4.

Lowell-East Chicago
For the last game of the season, East Chicago came to Lowell on May 20th. Although the field was wet, the game was called promptly.

Love and Tripp started as Lowell's battery, Bender and Cook as East Chicago's.

East Chicago never came near scoring. Perk pitched one of his best games.

During the game Lowell accumulated a lead of six runs.
Score -- Lowell, 6; East Chicago, 0.

1923 Baseball Prospects in Lowell High

The prospects for a pennant winning baseball team in Lowell High are the best in the history of the school and probably will be for years to come, with the great record they made last year under Coach Botkin, with practically all new men, winning seven out of eight from the strongest teams in Northern Indiana. The game was lost due to catcher Tripp and outfielder Little's wildness, while the rest played air tight.

Lowell has one of the greatest batteries in the state in Love and Tripp, both stars from last year, with Trump as a relief hurler. This great pitching and catching staff will be supported by errorless Kimmet at the initial sack and Kanarr probably covering the keystone while Trump will take care of the short field and Bahr the hot corner. The outer lawns will probably be taken care of by Elton Little in the right field; center field will have several new tryouts, which are Sherrill Hayden, Manford Pattee, Glen Kelsey and possibly one more and left will be covered by "sure mit" Claude Hayden. This great line-up with the exception of one or two graduates put Emerson in the dark twice when they were claiming to be champions and also did the same to East Chicago sluggers who wanted to own the title, not mentioning the victories over Whiting and Froebel.

This year Lowell has come out to make a greater showing than they did last year by scheduling games with Austin High (champions of Chicago) who were beaten by Washington High of New York City by one point in thirteen innings. They have the best pitcher in Chicago high schools in Alexander Black but Lowell is confident of a victory. Jefferson, the great high school of Lafayette, also, has been signed up. They boast of beating Culver Academy, but -- bring them on. Michigan City, LaPorte and possibly South Bend will be taken on with our next door neighbors, Emerson, Whiting, East Chicago and Goodland. Goodland, who boasts of not losing a game, will be Lowell's first victim at Goodland, April the seventh. Lowell's schedule, as it stands, is a very hard one. Coach Botkin, who is coaching the team with the greatest ability possible, is almost sure his proteges will take almost every opponent into camp. Mr. Botkin also boasts of having a great slugging outfit as well as a great fielding team. The team put out by Lowell High, if given the proper backing by the students, will surely win their share and possibly the title for old L.H.S.

Ernest Tripp