Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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22 THE PH aker a second in the mile, a second in the javelin, third in the discus, and Art Blanchard a second in the broad jump. We still watch with interest the running activities of Monty and Macky Toothaker. In the Patriots' Day Marathon at Portland this year, Monty, after a winter of hard work and no training, finished fourth amid keen competition. We expect to hear more from these speedy twins before their track careers are forgotten. Our own track season is getting off to a late start this year. King Winter has been reluctant to leave the park and baseball gives us a lot of competition. A triangular meet with Wilton and Mexico scheduled for May ll had to be postponed because of a very muddy track. If all goes well we shall meet our first test on May 25 in a quadrangular meet with Wilton, Farmington, and Mexico. Then, if our performance warrants it, we intend to enter our proven stars in the state meet at Portland, on Iune 1. In the dashes this year we are expecting to see some speed from the Blanchard broth- ers and Bill Burnham. In the middle dis- tances and distances we are placing our hopes in George Wood, Harvey Lovett, Lester Cof- fren, and Earl Eustis. Burnham and Stinch- field should be sure point winners in the field events. Broad jumpers include Art Blanch- ard, Bill Burnham, Blynn Ross, and George ILLIPIAN Wood, and high jumpers, Ross, Burnham, Wood, Lovett, and Bunny Blanchard. Pole vault possibilities are Don Dennison, Blynn Ross, and Bunny Blanchard. Bill Burnham claims to be a qualified timber topper, and we shall soon find out. P. M. Kittredge. GIRLS' BASKETBALL Tms year there were fourteen girls who responded to the call to practice. Our first game was with New Sharon. We got beaten pretty badly, 39-9. After that we got back in our old positions and for a short time did much better. We wish to thank our coach, Miss Morrell, for her help. Following is a summary of our games and SCOFCSZ Anson Academy Kingfield Phillips Phillips Stratton Rangeley Phillips Phillips Rangeley Strong Phillips Phillips Strong Kingfield Phillips Phillips F lagstali' Stratton Phillips Phillips Flagstaff Anson Phillips Phillips Weld Weld Phillips Phillips

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THE PHILLIPIAN 21 HASEBALI, Front Row-C. Blanchard, A. Blanchard, D. Dennison, li. Russell, N. Toothaker. J. NVhite, C. Smith Back Row-H. White. li. Burnliani, B. XVing. M. Stinchfield, R. Badger. E. Russell. K. Smith Absent-T. Thompson, Morgan, Eustis. Lovett. Parker May 2-We played our first game at Wilton. The diamond looked fairly good at the start of the game. But evidently the frost was not all out of the ground, and before the end of the game the mud was ankle deep around third base. Burnham pitched a good game, striking out fifteen Wilton men. The Final score was Phillips 15, Wilton 6. May 7-lay won from us on their home grounds, 8-l. Stinchfield pitched a good game, but lay was a better team. May 8-We won from Kingfield, l0-l. The Kingfield boys could do little with Burnham's fast ball. May 13-Dixheld won 14-7. Stinchfield pitched a fine game and deserved to win, but the team made too many errors. Stinch- field was the leading hitter with a single, double and a home run. May 15-Phillips played the first home game with Strong, winning 23-2. At the end of the fourth inning the most of the regulars left the game. Curt f' Smith held the Strong batters scoreless during the last five innings. It was just one of those days when the Strong boys couldn't do anything right. May l7-The Iay pitcher fanned 23 of our batters and won an easy victory, l0-2. May 18-ln the first inning our first five batters connected for two singles, two doubles and a triple, giving us four runs. After that first bad inning the Kingfield pitcher settled down and pitched good ball. We won this game, I3-5. TRACK IN the state meet of 1959 Phillips l-ligh's track ICZIIU came out not far from the top, with 24 points. When all was over, Maurice Toothaker had taken a First in the mile and a second in the halfq Bill Burnham had taken a first in the shot putg Malcolm Tooth-

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THE PHILLIPIAN 23 llll'lu1i-i... .. LITERARY j llff llllllllll llll ll I ll THE FATE OF TOMMY IONES OMMY IONES, a poor boy, lived in the big tenement house on Morse Street. His mother was dead and his father earned a bare living for his eight children by work- ing in one of the large sulphur mills of the town. Mary, who was fifteen, cared for her seven brothers and sisters, the eldest of them being Tommy, who was nine years old, but for all they were poor they lived happily in the three rooms of which their apartment con- sisted. This, however, could not have been accomplished without Mary. She made most of the children,s clothes from remnants which she purchased at a low price from a near-by store. She watched the sales of the food stores and bought food on sale prices and cared for the children as well as any mother could, considering the few things she had to do with. Although the Iones family was poor, they very seldom had to run up bills, as they spent their money wisely and saved all that was possible. But one day Mr. Iones was hurt at the mill where he worked, and be- cause of this he was unable to work for several weeks. Fortunately the company gave Mr. Iones accident insurance and be- cause of this Mary, who was indeed saving, managed to keep within the father's means with the exception of one thing. She had run up a grocery bill of ten dollars. VVhen the other children found out the bill could not be paid without extra help they determined at once to help earn the money. They saved all their pennies and did odd jobs, so in two weeks they had sufhcient money to pay the bill. The change was exchanged for a ten dollar bill and this was put into an envelope. Tommy was chosen as messenger boy and so he started out for Hardy's Store to pay the bill. On the way to the store Tommy had to pass his friend's house, the rich, young Spaulding boy. The boy lived in what might be con- sidered a mansion, on Elm Street but the part Tommy liked best was the beautiful flower garden, so instead of going straight to the store and back as he was told, Tommy lingered to look at the garden. As he was still gazing in wonder he heard a cheery voice say, I-Iello there Tommy! How are you? H Tommy was surprised to find his old friend, Ioe Spaulding, coming down the steps to greet him. Hello, Ioe! I thought you went to Boston with your father yesterdayf' No, we were unable to go, because dad had to go to Kingsborough on business,- Would you like to have a bouquet of flowers? I certainly would appreciate them, but you had better keep them for yourselff' Oh, no. I have many more. I'll get the Hower shears. Ioe hurried into the house and in a few minutes returned with the shears. He cut Tommy a beautiful bouquet of flowers and after many thanks he hurried on, only this time he hurried faster because