The years
1936-1937
1936
May
6, 1936
Yaphank firemen
beat the Bears From Center Moriches.
On Sunday
afternoon the Center Moriches Bears traveling to Yaphank for their
second exhibition game baseball game against the powerful Yaphank Fire
department team and lost out 4-3 under miserable weather conditions.
Joe Scesny twirled for Yaphank the entire game and turned the Bears
down with five hits. Johnny Glover with two doubles starred for
Yaphank.
May 13th
The 1936 season
began in a big way as the Yaphank team defeated Medford to open the
season. Yaphank pounded out a lusty 14 to 5 victory over Medford
Sunday afternoon in a Fireman's league game at Medford. The Yaphank
team was in a heavy hitting frame of mind and slammed out 19 safe hits
…all which indicated that Yaphank has plenty of power this season.
Mervin
Tillinghast was on the mound for the victors and struck out 12 of the
Medford batsman…
The game
presented Yaphank with an opportunity of trying out all of its first
team and some of its subs, 13 of the visitors being used in the
lineup. Both teams were a bit ragged in the field, as may be expected
in an early season game. Medford was credited with a half dozen slips
and Yaphank with four
May
20th
Yaphank rolled to
its second victory. Continuing its heavy hitting tactics, Yaphank shut
out Hagerman, 4 to 0, Sunday afternoon at the Hagerman field. It was
the second straight victory for the Yaphank nine, which appears as one
of the strongest teams in the league at this early date.
J. Scesny,
pitching for Yaphank, held the Hagerman batters to one lone hit while
Yaphank collected eight well-placed safeties off Kulick. Three of the
Yaphank swats went for doubles, Scesny, E. Glover and Dobrie pounding
out the extra ply hits.
May 27th
Yaphank Spurt
fails to save it from Bayporters.
Despite a spectacular ninth inning rally that netted four runs,
Yaphank lost to Bayport 8-7, in a Fireman's League game on the Yaphank
diamond Sunday afternoon. It was Yaphank's first defeat and the game
ended with plenty of exciting moments for both teams.
Bayport was the
first to score, putting over two runs in the third, but Yaphank tied
things up the next inning…
Leading 6-3 as
the ninth came up Bayport went to bat and scored two more runs and
then the home team came up with a determined air. Combining timely
hits with heads up ball playing the Yaphank team scored four runs but
there they stopped.
June 3rd
Yaphank played
two games, one on Saturday against Southampton, who they defeated 10
to 9. Coming through with a powerful scoring punch in the final inning
that netted six runs, Yaphank squeezed out a narrow 10 to 9 victory
over the Southampton Pirates Saturday in a special game at
Southampton.
The home town
team put it over on the visitors until the last two innings and
appeared to have the game pretty tightly sewed up until Yaphank went
to work in the eight inning and continued its rally through the ninth.
With the count 6
to 0 against them the Yaphankers went out in the eight and brought in
four runs and Southampton added one. In the ninth Yaphank showed more
dash and added six runs, only to have Southampton come back with two
and for a time threatened to tie up the score.
On Sunday The
Yaphank Firemen beat Brookhaven. The Yaphank F.D. playing at home won
a victory over the Brookhaven Tigers Sunday 8 to 5 as the latter team
went up in the air for one fatal inning, the fourth. A hit, a base on
balls, a man hit by the pitcher and four errors gave Yaphank four
bunched runs.
Despite this
defeat, the first of the season, the Brookhaven team is all prepared
to slash Bayport out of first place when they meet next week.
July 29th
Yaphank
defeats Hagerman by 6-1
Yaphank continued
its string of victories in the Fireman's League Sunday afternoon when
it beat Hagerman 6 to 1 at Hagerman.
The game was
featured by a home run by Glover and also by the wholesale base
stealing activities of the Yaphank men who set something of a league
record for the season by the manner in which they sneaked along the
lines under the noses of the Hagerman nine.
The home team was
pretty much off form Sunday after having shown some winning class
during the past few weeks. A total of five errors was credited to the
losers, a few of which aided the Yaphank nine to a degree.
Tillinghast
pitched for Yaphank striking out five and allowing but five hits.
August 5th
Yaphank beats
Bayport to Gain First Place Tie
By defeating
Bayport 8 to 2 Sunday afternoon, Yaphank gained a tie for first place
with Brookhaven in the Fireman's league, the important contest being
played on the Yaphank diamond where the home team was playing the same
championship brand of ball that it has been during the past few weeks.
The Yaphankers
were in a heavy hitting frame, collecting 13 good ones off Albrecht,
three of them being doubles, and one triple, the latter hit by J.
Glover. Tillinghast managed to keep the Bayporter's hits well
scattered..
August
19th
Playing errorless
ball Sunday afternoon, the Yaphank team defeated Holtsville 6 to 3 in
a scrappy game played on the Holtsville diamond with Tillinghast and
Meyer opposing each other on the mound and dividing the honors about
evenly, each of them scoring nine strikeouts.
Yaphank was
longer and heavier on the hits than the home team and it was this edge
on the batting that gave them the victory.
August 26th
With Tillinghast
allowing but three hits, Yaphank scored a 6 to 1 victory over Medford
Sunday afternoon in a Fireman's league tilt on the Yaphank diamond.
The game was one of the fastest of the season, being played in one
hour and forty minutes.
Yaphank hit its
winning stride in the second inning and played a snappy brand of
baseball all the way through with J. Glover starring at the plate with
three hits, one of them a triple.
September 2nd
Hagerman Beats
Yaphank 7 to 6 As Team Lets Its Pitcher Down.
Tillinghast's
brilliant performance on the mound for Yaphank Sunday was all in vain,
for his teammates gave him miserable support in the field and did some
boners along the baselines, so Hagerman won 7 to 6. The game was
largely attended because both Tillinghast and Palermo, the Hagerman
hurler, had each pitched a three hit - hit game the previous Sunday.
Palermo proved
himself no match for Tillinghast Sunday for the latter struck out 11
Hagerman men while Palermo was able to send but four back to the
dugout and Tillinghast allowed one less hit than his teammates
collected off Hagerman's pitcher.
The Yaphank team,
after playing heady baseball for several weeks, went into a decline
Sunday and made eight errors, Several of the home team also took long
and unnecessary chances on bases with the result that three of them
were nipped at the plate.
October 21,
1936
Hagerman Downs
Yaphank by 4-3 To Take Twilight League Title.
The young
Hagerman Fire department team, which had been surprising people since
their former manager took them over at mid season, startled the
baseball fans again Sunday by coming out of three weeks retirement to
clip the Yaphank Fire department for the Twilight championship by the
tune of 4 to 3 in one of the best games of the year.
Yaphank
threatened several times but to no avail.
Star hitting for
Hagerman was by R. Stephani; for Yaphank by Dobrie and Neuss.
1937
May 5th
Elementary
Baseball league of 20 schools was issued today. Yaphank and Middle
Island were placed in Section (League) 5.
May 5th
Fireman's League
Errors sprinkled
through an otherwise tight game brought defeat to the Holtsville nine
when it met Yaphank on Holtsville's diamond Sunday afternoon, the
score being 3 to 1. The winners got only three hits.
May 12th
Yaphank Trounces
Brookhaven Nine
Aided by 11
strikeouts by Tillinghast, the Yaphank nine got off to a good start in
the Brookhaven Fireman's Baseball league on Sunday, when they walloped
Brookhaven, 13-4 at Brookhaven
Yaphank's 13 runs
were the result of 12 hits, while Brookhaven was unable to get any
better than four runs on eight hits.
Two baggers and
longest hits of the game were made by J. Scesny Cornell, Gelfer, and
J. Glover who produced a pair of them. Manck umpired the game.
May 19th
1937
Yaphank Winner At Holtsville 3-1 In
Sunday Game
Errors sprinkled through an otherwise
tight game brought defeat to the Holtsville nine when it met Yaphank
on Holtsville's diamond Sunday afternoon, the score being 3 to 1
July 7, 1937
Bayport Climbs in
League Score By Beating Yaphank Leaders 7-4
Bayport outhit
league leading Yaphank when the latter went visiting the South Shore
team Sunday- result a 7-4 victory. Albrecht and Newham shared the
pitching honors for Bayport, and the hitting of Suda, Perry, Manton
and Beebe showed up well in the result.
Bayport claims
the pennant is in the bag after trouncing the strong Yaphank team
twice, but there are no admissions from the latter. They are still
going strong.
July 14, 1937
Yaphank Outhits
Hagerman Nine 4-2
Reopening its
relentless rampage over opposition, the Yaphank nine took a tighter
grip on first place in the Fireman's league on Sunday by clubbing
Hagerman into submission on the Yaphank diamond. The score, 4-2.
Besides keeping
the Hagerman bats under control throughout the game, Mervin
Tillinghast, Yaphank twirler, helped himself to three bingles out of
four times at bat and scored one of his teams four runs.
Scesny who covers
the hot corner for Yaphank took the batting honors for the day by
belting out two triples. John Glover, Yaphank's right fielder, the
only other long distance hitter, clouted a beautiful triple.
July 21, 1937
Yaphank Starts
off Second Half With Victory Over Brookhaven
Having won top
honors for the first half season in the firemen's league, the
galloping Yaphank nine resumed their roughshod ride over opposition to
start the second half on Sunday, when they triumphed over Brookhaven
on the Yaphank diamond. The score 5-2 Mervin Tillinghast, Yaphank
twirler, held the visitors under control, limiting them to six hits.
Fireman's League
Arranges Schedule Post - season Series
Splitting up the
current schedule of the Fireman's league, the winner of each half-season
to battle for league championship and plans for a series between the
winners of the Fireman's and Huntington-Smithtown leagues, were decided
at a meeting of officials of the two circuits on July 12th.
The results of the
meeting, in which Mr. McDonald, president of the Huntington-Smithtown
league took part, were announced on Monday by Justice of the Peace
Gustave Neuss, of Yaphank, Fireman's League President.
Under the plan for
dividing the Fireman's league schedule, Yaphank is declared the winner
of the first half-season and will engage in a championship game at the
end of the season with the winner of the second half. The winner of this
game will be pitted against the champions of the North Shore circuit in
a three game series.
August 4th
Unbatted Hit Gives
Yaphank Two-run Victory Over Medford
Scoring two runs
on a freak play, the first of its kind to occur in the history of the
Fireman's league, Yaphank defeated Medford 6 - 4, at Medford Sunday and
retained its position alongside Hagerman in a tie for first place.
The odd play came
in the ninth, with Brown at bat. Tillinghast, Yaphank's catcher and
Scesny were on second and third, respectively.
In an effort to
escape being hit by a pitched ball, Brown fell. The ball hit his bat and
bounded off past the first baseman in fair territory.
As several of the
players stood by dumbfounded, the umpire called it a fair ball.
Tillinghast and Scesny were homeward bound, As Brown scampered down to
first Hudak, Medford's Keystone sacker got the ball and threw it toward
the plate to help nab one of the runners.
The ball however
went over the catcher's head both runners scoring and Brown reaching
second on the miscue
Honors for the
game's outstanding play went to C. Glover, Yaphank's centerfielder for
his diving catch of a fly in Medford's half of the ninth. Glover landed
in a heap, but came up with the ball in his mitt.
W. Tillinghast
scored four of his teams six runs. Scesny accounting for the remaining
two. Mervin Tillinghast, Yaphank's twirler struck out seven Medford men.
Yaphank went on to
win the Fireman's league in 1937 and faced St. James in a three game
inter-league series.
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