PE-TI JEAN Wallis Beasley Robert Vonn Clyde Wotts Joe Lewis Leslie Infield Outfield Infield Inf ield Elwin Roe Norman Smi th Glennis Campbell Sam Bell Pi !cher Infield Catcher Outfield BASEBALL HARDING 7, 5, 13; BALD KNOB INDEPENDENTS 3, 1, 3 The 1936 baseball season opened with a game a t Bold Knob against the Bald Knob Independents, resulting in a 7 to 3 vic tory for the Bisons. Elwin Roe s to rted on th e mound for the Herd ohd al lowed only three hits In the five innings he worked, str ik ing out 10 men. Joe Spaulding, anoth er rookie, finished the game. In a return engagemen t a week la ter wi th this team the Bisons took a 5 to 1 t ussel. Roe agai n se t the visi tors down with four hits and struck out six men. The Bisons concluded their three-game se r ies with Bold Knob the following week by taking a 13 to 3 victory with Spaulding and Heffington dOing the pitching . HARDING 22; SEARCY INDEPENDENTS 0 An independent team from Sea rcy furni5hed Hardi ng 's next opposition and come out of the game on the small end of a 22 to 0 score Heffi ng ton a nd Ruppersburg did the hurling for the Herd, allowing five hits, while their team-motes collected 20. HARDING 12,3; ARKANSAS STATE TEACHERS 9, 4 In their firs t league games of the season, the B:sons spli t a double-header with the State Teachers team in Conway, winning the first game 12 to 9 and losing the night cap 4 to 3 . Roe was the winning pi tcher in the fi rst game, relieving Heffi ngton and J oe Spaulding, while he pitched the entire second game and was cred ite d with the loss. The first game was dotted with five Bison errors that kept them in hot water all o f the time and they were forced to score four runs in the final inning to win. Singles by Smith, S. Linn, Leslie, and L. Linn and a double by Lancaster produced the winning tallies. The Teachers hod token the lead in the eigh th inning on one hit and two errors. HARD ING 5, 3; ARKANSAS STATE TEACHERS 6, 4 In another tw in bill two days later, the Teachers took a pai r o f games from the Herd by winning the f irst 6 to 5 in 13 Innings and taking the second 4 to 3. Roe was again on the mound fo r the Bisons and pi tched mas terful boll for 13 innings but an error in the final round put the game on ice for the Teachers. Scattering 12 hits throughout the game, Roe s truck ou t 14 men and s tranded 11 of t hei r men on the bogs. The Bisons go t to Smit h , Teachers' pi t cher, for 13 safeties but were not able to make them count. J oe Spaulding and Heffington Yielded eigh t hits in the seven-inn ing night piece while the Herd was ge tt ing six . I { 7
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