1938
May 18, 1938
Yaphank Takes a 4-1
Victory From Hagerman on Latter's Field
Supplementing a
three hit game with ten strikeouts, Mervin Tillinghast, Yaphank twirler
enabled the Yaphank nine to score a 4-1 victory over Hagerman at the
latter's diamond Sunday and entrench themselves more firmly in the tie
for first place in the Brookhaven Town Firemen's league.
It was the third
straight victory for undefeated Yaphankers. Tillinghast, who pitched the
Yaphank aggregation to the league pennant last year, limited the
Hagerman batters to three singles, with Yaphank helping itself to eight
safeties, four of them two-baggers.
Yaphank's base
running in the game was of the type that would have done credit to the
Brooklyn Dodgers. The feature of the game was a catch against the fence
by Hagerman's centerfielder, C. Stephani.
Even though Middle
Island and Coram did not play in the Firemen's league at this time, they
played sandlot ball. The Middle Island team was called the Eagles. On
May 18th they played a game against the Brookhaven Highway
team and lost by a score of 8 to 5.
May 25th
1938
Yaphank Takes
Fourth Straight Game Beating Holtsville by 6 to 3
Winning its fourth
straight game in as many starts, the Yaphank nine took undisputed
possession of first place in the Brookhaven Firemen's Baseball league at
Yaphank Sunday by whipping Holtsville 6-3
With Mervin
Tillinghast on the mound, the Yaphankers took the lead with a two run
rally in the fourth, and held the lead throughout, despite belated
attempts on the part of the Holtsvillagers to come back in the latter
part of the game.
Joe Scesny hit a
homerun for Yaphank.
May 25th
saw the Coram Juveniles play their second game of the season versus
Miller Place. Coram won by a score of 11-10. Joseph Risley of Coram
pitched a one run game until the seventh inning when the Miller Place
boys went on an eight run rally. Risley regained his control in the
eighth to finish the game in a Coram victory.
June 1, 1938
Yaphank Remains
On Top Defeating Bayport by 8-6
Bunching its hits
off Vignato in the second and fourth innings, the Yaphank nine continued
its march toward the Brookhaven Firemen's league 1938 pennant at Bayport
Sunday by defeating the home team 8-6
On June 1st
the Coram F.D. nine played a ball game with Nature's Gardens at Selden.
Coram won by a score of 12-6
Bing Miller pitched
for the Nature's Gardens while George Gehrig and Ted Risley pitched for
Coram.
A return game was
played between the two teams on Memorial day and Coram was again
victorious. Nature's Gardens was ahead 11-8 until the ninth inning when
Coram went on an eight run rally. The final score was 16-12 for Coram.
June 8, 1938
Yaphank's
Perfect Record Intact As Blue Point Is Defeated 7-1
"Red" Tillinghast,
catcher member of Yaphank's famed brother battery walked off with honors
at Blue Point Sunday, when he accounted for three hits, three runs and
three stolen bases to help his team extend its winning streak to six
games by scoring a 7-1 victory over Blue Point.
As a result of the
game, Yaphank took a firmer hold on first place in the Brookhaven Town
Firemen's league with no defeats in six starts this season. Mervin
Tillinghast, on the mound for Yaphank allowed the Bluepointers six hits,
all singles.
Coram Weasels
defeated by Holtsville Cards by 8-2
The Holtsville
Cards Baseball team continued its winning streak by defeating the Coram
Weasels Sunday at Holtsville, scoring 8-2
June 15, 1938
The Medford nine,
victims of a series of heart breaking games so far this season, added
another such contest to their discouraging record at Yaphank Sunday,
when they lost to Yaphank for the latter's seventh straight victory of
the season. The score, 2-0
The Yaphankers
scored their first run in the second on a double by E. Glover, who
scored a moment later on a single off the bat of Zebrowski. In the fifth
frame, Zebrowski reached first on the only error in the game, stole
second and scored on Hoeffner's bingle.
Mervin Tillinghast,
Yaphank twirler struck out nine. The Yaphank nine with seven victories
and no defeats, holds undisputed possession of first place in the
Brookhaven Firemen's league.
June 22, 1938
Yaphank Garners
Eight Straight, Whips Hagerman
A home run by
Scesny, Yaphank third sacker, over the leftfield fence, and the fielding
of Ed Glover in center featured a game at Yaphank Sunday, when the
undefeated home nine extended its winning streak to eight straight by
overwhelming Hagerman 6-1.
June 29th 1938
Yaphank upsets
Holtsville 6-3
In an exciting
game, in which it appeared several times that fists would fly, the
Holtsville nine, closest contender to Yaphank in the Brookhaven
Firemen's league, went down to a 6-3 defeat at the hands of Yaphank on
the Holtsville diamond Sunday. The victory clinched the league's first
half title for Yaphank
Even if Yaphank
loses next week, it will still remain in first place position and will
play the winner of the second half-season for the league championship.
Sunday's tilt was
also the ninth straight victory for bespectacled Mervin Tillinghast,
Yaphank hurler. Active in both offense and defense, Tillinghast
accounted for three of his team's 10 hits.
July 6, 1938
Yaphank's
winning streak broken by Bayport Sunday, score 7-1
After winning nine
straight victories, Yaphank lost to Bayport with a score of 7-1 Sunday
at Yaphank.
Orville Meyer,
former Patchogue High school pitcher, was in the box for Bayport,
playing a splendid game, and receiving fine co-operation from his team.
July 20th,
1938
Yaphank Whips
Blue Point nine
The Yaphank nine,
title winners for the first half-season in the Brookhaven Town Firemen's
league, started the second half-season last Sunday by applying a
generous coat of shellac to Blue Point Sunday on the Yaphank diamond.
The score, 17-2
August 10, 1938
Bayporters Lose
to Yaphank, 3-2
In one of the best
games of the current season, Yaphank nosed out Bayport at Bayport
Sunday, 3-2. Mervin Tillinghast, Yaphank twirler, and O. Meyer, Bayport
pitching ace, engaged in a mound duel in which the former allowed eight
hits, against six given by Meyer. Each was credited with nine
strikeouts.
August 24, 1938
Yaphank Blanks
Medford Nine, 1-0
Hits were scarce
but there was an abundance of good pitching and fielding at Yaphank
Sunday, when the local nine continued its relentless drive for a perfect
record in the second half-season, was played in one hour and 25 minutes.
Each pitcher
allowed but two hits, and had five strikeouts. Yaphank scored its lone
run on an error, a hit and a wild pitch. Each team got only four men on
first.
August 31, 1938
Yaphank Takes
County Baseball Series at Fair- Wallops Sayville
As far as the
Sayville nine team is concerned, it probably was a cross between a
tornado and a cyclone that struck them Friday afternoon at the County
Fair Grounds diamond, Riverhead, but the scorebook shows it was merely
the fast traveling Yaphank team battering its way to the 1938 Suffolk
County title. The score 9-1.
Battering is a mild
term. The Yaphankers hit Sayville with everything from the water can to
the planks in the grandstand.
Johnny Kashata, who
less than a month ago brought honors upon himself by hurling a no-hit,
no -run game, at West Patchogue, took the mound for Sayville. At the end
of nine innings, the Kashata pitching reputation was slightly tarnished
and well bruised. In fact it was suffering from a possible fracture.
The Yaphankers
garnered 12 hits, including four doubles, off Kashata's deliveries.
Meanwhile Mervin Tillinghast, Yaphank's ace was limiting the Sayvillains
to a well scattered seven hits.
In the first game
of the elimination series for the County title, Yaphank defeated
Huntington, 9-8 at the Fair Grounds. The game was played last Tuesday.
The trophy that
went with the county title, won by Yaphank, is now on display in the
show window of Brall's Stationery store on East Main street, Patchogue.
August 31, 1938
Yaphank Blanks
Hagerman, 12-0
Two homers by J.
Scesny, Yaphank third sacker, air tight pitching by Brown, Yaphank
twirler, and all around good fielding combined to heap humiliation on the
Hagerman nine at Yaphank Sunday, when the local nine walked off the
field at the end of nine innings with a 12-0 decision and its winning
streak intact.
September 7, 1938
Revenge is sweet
to Holtsvillains As They Whip Yaphank, Co. Champs
Whatever defeats or
other setbacks were encountered by the Holtsville nine during the past
season were offset on their home diamond Sunday, when they handed
Yaphank, the Suffolk champs, a three hit defeat, winning by a score of
3-1.
Until the eighth
inning it was a pitchers battle between Mason and Tillinghast.
Yaphank's only
score came on a Scesny home run.
September 14, 1938
Yaphank Placed
On Goose Egg Diet as Meyer Hurls Bayporters to Victory
The Yaphank nine,
Suffolk diamond champs, took their second consecutive licking and their
first shutout on their home diamond Sunday, when Orville Meyer, Bayport
ace twirler, held them scoreless for nine innings and made the hit that
sent Bayport's only run across the plate. The score 1-0.
September 28, 1938
Hagerman Trims
Yaphank by 4-0 Makes Triple Tie
A triple tie for
first place in the second half-season schedule of the Brookhaven Town
Firemen's league was created at Hagerman Sunday, when the local nine
shellacked Yaphank, winner of the first half-season's pennant. The score
4-0.
The victory placed
Hagerman, Yaphank and Holtsville in a tie for top honors and will
necessitate a play off series, the winner which will meet Yaphank for
the season's pennant.
October 19, 1938
Holtsville Beats
Yaphank 8-4
Takes League Crown
From the Former Firemen Champs
The Holtsville
nine, winners of the triple-tie playoff series for the pennant in the
second half-season added the leagues crown to their laurels on the home
diamond Sunday, when they waged an uphill battle to defeat Yaphank,
former league champs, in the season's deciding game. The score 8-4
And what a game it
was!
Starting off with a
two run score in the opening frame, the Holtsvillains dropped behind in
the next stanza, when Yaphank, which had scored one in the first, came
back to score three more runs. The best Holtsville could do until the
seventh was to score one in the third and another in the sixth to tie
the score at four all.
Then came the sad
seventh. A couple of bingles brought in one run across to put the home
team in the lead, then with two mates aboard, Jimmy Hope, blasted one
out of the park. From then on Yaphank was an also-ran.
The 1938 Yaphank Baseball Team
1939 Season
Feb. 22 1939
Joe Scesny of
Yaphank signs contract with Florida league.
May 8, 1939
Five homeruns as
Yaphank Team Lose to Blue Pt.
Four home runs, one
of which by McMahon came on the first ball sent across the plate by
Tillinghast, Yaphank ace, were included among 15 hits with which the
Manatasquott nine of Blue point upset Yaphank 13-9 in the opening game
of the season Sunday on the Blue Point diamond.
Before the game,
the two teams led by Perry Smith's Blue Point Community band, marched to
centerfield for the flag raising. They spent the rest of the afternoon
marching around the bases. Even the Yaphank fans cheered Blue Points
quartet of four baggers, although Albin, Yaphank's catcher, helped
himself to a homer too by clouting a wallop into Hen Swezey's cornfield.
Tillinghast pitched
good ball, but Blue Point bats were too hot to be stopped.
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