Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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THE PHILLIPIAN 19 BASEBALL AST spring Phillips won the North Franklin League for the second year in succession. This was the last year for Rus- sell, Stinchfield, Burnham, White, Badger, Art Blanchard and Dennison. Prospects for a winning team looked none too bright with only Toothaker and White left from the 1940 team, and nearly all of the other schools boasting a veteran nine. A squad of fourteen men answered the first call for practice. And it was very for- tunate for us that it was an early season. The boys were all very willing but the most of them lacked experience. ' The first game was played at Kingfield. We lost by a score of 4-2. Both teams made errors but it was a good game for the first one of the season. Toothaker pitched his first game for P. H. S., struck out ten men and allowed only five hits. April 26th-Stratton came to Phillips. This proved to be another low score game, our boys winning 5-2. Toothaker was at his best. He kept the hits scattered and struck out fourteen men. While our boys were still making errors the hitting and field- ing showed much improvement. May lst-Kinglield came to Phillips for the return game. Toothaker and Kirkwood engaged in another pitching dual. And this time we won 5-4. In the ninth inning with men on second and third and two out Bob Parker made a running one hand catch to retire the side and end the game. May 6th-We played at Rangeley. Our boys hit three Rangeley pitchers for sixteen hits and won 17-8. White played a great game in the field, and Morgan starred at bat, getting three singles and a double. Tooth- aker again pitched a good game for us, strik- ing out ten men. May 10 - Our boys entered the track meet at Wilton in the morning and played base- ball in the afternoon. This was the first game for Wilton, and outside of one bad inning the Wilton boys played good ball. In this inning Badger gave up six hits and walked three for eight runs. Curtis Smith pitched for Phillips and never was in any serious trouble. May 10-Strong came to town. For the first four innings neither team scored, but in the fifth Strong scored two runs and this looked good enough to win the ball game for Durrell was setting our boys down in one-two-three order. But in the seventh we got to Durrell for five runs and added two more in the eighth, while Strong scored once. In the ninth Strong scored four times to send the game into extra innings. In the tenth White doubled and Morgan singled to send White home with the winning run. May 16th-VVe went to Stratton for the return game. Toothaker pitched another fine game, striking out fifteen men. The final score was Phillips 16-Stratton 3. May 21 -Phillips 23-Wilton 3. May 24-Phillips 3-Rangeley 2, 11 in- mugs. TRACK T 5:30 the first Saturday inglune 1940, we find five boys gatherediin front of Mr. Haley's house. Why? Because they are going to Portland to show the other Class C teams in the state that Phillips really has a contending track team. Somehow we all six squeezed into Coach Kittredge's Ford convertible and after an un- eventful trip arrived safely in Portland about 7:15. After a short period of waiting, the entrance papers were ready and at 9:00 the meet was under way. When the hnal scores were tallied Phillips hadn't done too badly for herself, winning a total of 21 points, placing her third in Class Il C 37 Summary of points: - Shot Put ...... B. Burnham lst 41 ' 5 -- Discus ........ B. Burnham lst 106 ' 1 - 100 yd. dash .... Blanchard 3rd -220 yd. dash .... Blanchard 2nd - M1 mile ........ G. Wood 2nd - Mile run ...... H. Lovett 2nd Thus closed the Track season for 1940, with Phillips having a real team for her size. The prospects for next season are not too bad as quite a few of the boys will be back. .M When the roll-call was taken for track this season we found our losses have been greater than was expected last year. About ten boys reported at the First meeting but many were

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IS 'l'IIIi l'Illl.l.lI'l.fXN lfroiit row: XY. llinds, Cf lilzuiehard, M. llurnhaui. l'. Smith. R. Parker Seeoml i-ou : ll. l.oxett. N. Morfzm, li. liustis, 'lf fllasternizm ls Huck row: ll. lYoocl. N. lll00lllIlkE1' The highlights ol' the past season were undoubtedly the two games with liinglield. lloth teams were very evenly matched, King- lield taking the game at liinglield hy a score ol 3-il-,ll and our boys winning over here with a score ot Z5-ln. Both games were well played and provided a great deal ol exciting play. The North Franklin County Tournament olliered many thrill-packed games and it can truthfully be said that the games in which our boys ligured were among the best. Phil- lips drew Kinglield for the first game lost by the narrow margin ol' two points. The teams showed themselves to be very evenly matched and it was anybody's game till the final gun: even then it was rather dif- ficult for us to realize we had lost. Satur- day morning we faced Strong as our oppo- nent and won over them. This victory placed us in the finals for the consolation cup with Wilton as our opponent. Although the Wilton boys had beaten us twice before, our boys got an early lead which they kept throughout the game. The team merely re- peated its record ot last year when they came from the tournament gym with the Conso- lation Cup. Sllllllllllfy of QLIITICSI Pliillips IR Wilton 35 l'l1illips 738 Stratton 721 Phillips New Slmron Phillips lYilton Phillips lflagstall' Phillips Strong Phillips lfarmington Res Phillips Flagstall' lfliillips liingtield Phillips Raugzeley Phillips lfarmington Res Phillips Rangeley Phillips Kingfield Phillips Stratton Phillips New Sharon

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E20 THE PIIILLIPIAN lfi-out rovv: M. Voter, M. fiile. A. Torsey. ll. W'alker N. lidvvards llziek row: I.. Mehaughliu, D. Tootllaker, M. VVilbur, J. Boothby, D. Torsey green at the sport and they had to prove themselves. So far this year we have had one oflicial meet and at that the boys did very well for themselves considering the amount of practice they have been having. The above mentioned meet was held at VVil- ton on May 3rd with Wilton, Mexico and Phillips participating. Summary of the Phillips points: , ti. lllauchartl 73ml 7 lim Ml' ddih liiiiii Rl. llurnham -itll -- T220 clash . . .... C. lllzuiehartl Zlutl -- 440 dash . . .... Ci. XYootl 3l'Ll -- Mile run ......... H, l.ovett Qild - 'Q Mile run ....... H. l.ovett Find -TID yd. low hurdles. H. Lovett 31'd Q lf. lfustis Qnrl '4 Shot pm M. liurnham 3rd - Discus ' AII. li. Ross lSt li. liustis 3rd C. Blanchard lst - Broad jump ....... M. Burnham 3rd li. Ross 2nd -1 pole vault . . ' llll M. Burnham 3rd C. Blanchard 4th - Javelin l H .- li. Eustis 3rd Ross 4th QA triple tie between Ross, - High jump . . . . . Blanchard and a Wilton juinpeizj Alter tallying the points we Find Phillips in second place with 55 2-5 points. On May Z-l we go to Farmington to com- pete with the other teams ot Franklin Coun- tyg the meet should he of much interest and the points fairly evenly divided. The season will close with the State meet at Portland on May 31. Phillips will have a team there representing her, and whatever the outcome we intend to give the other Class C teams some real competition and make them work for every point they get. So, on to Portland and may the best team winl VOLLEY BALL OLLEY ball is new to the girls of Phil- lips High School, as well as to the girls of the other schools in Franklin County. It was started to take the place of softball which has always been the spring sport for girls, and a trophy is to be given to the winning team. Although the game is a good one for girls, because it is neither difficult nor strenuous there was the usual lack of interest among the Phillips girls. D